"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

My mom is mad at my dad because a feral peacock keeps coming to their house and staring through the glass door into the kitchen and it turns out it's because my dad has been secretly feeding it

🎶 Working on my night moves. Cause the weather in the daytime is much to hot 🎶

Jason Isbell morphing from a genius shitposter to a frequent foodgrammer was not on my bingo card but I’ll take it?

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

SAME AND I END UP DISAPPOINTED EVERY TIME

it’s better to have loved and been blocked than never to have loved at all

I just thought “Pivot to Audio” would be a good band name but also maybe I am too old to name bands

I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.

Generally I try to be pretty healthy these days, but sometimes I splurge on a rack of pork ribs at the Dubuque Farmers Market, do em in my slow cooker, finish them under the broiler, and serve them with coleslaw on the last Sunday in June because Iowa

campus 'civility' is just 'don't yell at me while I fire you, get rid of your program, and continue to fund the university's investments'. it's training in smug comfort for the comfortable

How long does caffeine last? I'm freaking out

I watched a short form video featuring a person wearing glasses and I was like ooh I like those glasses and then the ad I got next WAS FOR THOSE GLASSES. Did capitalism just SEE INTO MY BRAIN!? I didn’t even click on anything I swear I just thought it

I live in a walkable neighborhood for the first time since 2013 and it makes me SO HAPPY

Holy shit moving is exhausting

I bought some trail mix that turned out to be mostly peanut butter M&Ms and as it turns out I am not upset about that

"we have bluesky at home" bluesky at home:

who publishes weird outraged poetry successfully falling short of its own esoteric ambitions? i need a list.

Overnight, I successfully uploaded 50gb of mp3s I burned from my cds years ago to the cloud and then successfully transferred those files to my iPhone. Peak xennial behavior

There should be emojis like 💯 for all the percents

I fucking love scholarship

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Happy Bloomsday! There should be a day for The Magic Mountain, too, but that would take seven years.

This is my plan for irrational vengeance Every academic department shut down for reasons that pretend to be “about economics” = one car dealer sacrificed to Carvana 6 departments = 6 dealerships

Packing up my physical media, I am struck by 1). what a pain it is to move physical media and 2). how very attached I am to it

The Simpsons

(before the invention of tongs) hot hot hot hot hothothot

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

Wait! It wasn’t supposed to reflect the rot in my soul -Don*ld Tru*p

Just personally, I’m not a fan of reading digital texts if I can get a physical copy. That is, until I have to move all of my physical books from one place to another

think of the ratings for fascist tribunals!!!

It’s weird that we called him Donald Dump from 2015-2024 and it didn’t do anything

Since I was hired we have lost 8 TT English faculty, not one of whom has been replaced by a TT faculty member. So yes a v ignorant person could walk thru my dept & say, “hmm a bunch of old farts hanging onto their jobs!” rather than, “the state & admin are killing the English dept thru attrition.”

getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know

they should invent a focus that

This whole SpaceX thing makes me ill.

It’s cool how one fucking guy is worth a trillion dollars. What a great achievement for society

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

Hey have you noticed that if I made Jeremy Strong get a bad haircut he would look and act exactly like Mark Zuckerberg? -Aaron Sorkin

too late for signal

Hopefully soon a website will roll out a group chat feature for unpopular people

Incidentally, this is why fascism chases and valorizes an imaginary ideal nuclear family. These are the dynamics that exist within patriarchal households and they want there to be no distinctions between State and Family institutions.

This is why chasing reactionary male voters is a dead end. It tells women, queer people, immigrants, racialized constituencies, public workers, and loyal Democratic voters the same thing as ever: keep absorbing betrayal while we perform endless sympathy for the people most excited to abandon you.

I’m not super interested in a sequel to THE SOCIAL NETWORK written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, but I just saw a clip of Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg and holy shit just give him the Oscar right now

Does anyone know of good resources for putting together video lectures for flipped classroom teaching?

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Jared Leto.

Malignant Narcissist Who Accidentally Becomes President After a Lifetime of Never Facing Any Consequences for His Actions, Revealing the Rot at the Heart of the Country that We Always Knew Was There but Tried to Ignore Until it was Too Late and Next Thing You Know it’s Been Ten Years

The Big Lebowski