This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

That's literally the job. Not to read *every single* book/article but to have read enough that my thinking brain can figure out the contours of the conversation, identify gaps, look for other voices to fill them, discern how mine might be one. AI-invented sources can only slow not aid my work.

2024's word of the year was 'enshittification' was and 2025's is 'slop'. Either next year the word is something like 'encrusted' or we figure out a way to bury the garbage or use it as fuel for something more productive

A non-existent paper attributed to ‪Ben Williamson‬ has already been cited 42 times. It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it. @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

Ovitz’s Library by Jonas Wood, 2013 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137759

Just closed out a tab of Rilke poems to google “2005 furby”

Just wrote this very metal sentence: The imago dei is a black hole.

I have an urgent need for some cheesecake

My colleague is curating a collection of CCM magazines and adding them to the Internet Archive and I am very excited about it. Here's a fun pic of Relient K from 2004 archive.org/details/ccmm...

People really don't know what happens in universities and that's why it's so crazy how TPUSA et al. are trying to regulate it

This is so good. "AI citations are suspiciously convenient. They appear right when you need them, saying exactly what you need them to say."

Fit check

This is the best compliment I've ever received

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

The vibe

Just tried to light a candle and the flaming head of the match broke off and fell to the floor???? And I had to stomp it out????

My yoga class playlist has been complimented three weeks in a row y’all can’t tell me nothing

🚨Apparently the narrator of the Heated Rivalry audiobook was formerly a bible professor 🚨

I was just reminded that women didn't receive formal education for like a huge chunk of human history, and as a woman who has never NOT been in formal education that is so wild to me.

I am truly on the brink and this saved me for 55 seconds.

Actually to come up with ideas you need free time, which means you need enough money to have free time, which means jobs need to pay more

I'm doing Philosophy

Would y'all consider a hole to be underground? I feel like my brain is broken

Washing my sheets always feels like the sweetest gift to myself ❤️

Bird's Flight in Moonlight https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/bird-s-flight-in-moonlight

Upon further reflection this is indeed psychopathic behavior and I deserve better because I am a sweetheart and a lover girl and my love is a gift to be treasured

Good evening

This is, above all, what it means to be A Writer.

I regret to inform you I Googled an extremely butchered line of poetry I was trying to find and the AI Overview delivered me the poem I was looking for 😔

a seasonal research query: does anyone know of any sources on the cultural history of snowmen? what's the earliest reference we have to temporary snow-sculptures? (humanoid especially, but also more generally!)

I just used the phrases "death of God" and "live, laugh, love" in the same sentence

Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ...

Re: getting hot

My book has also sold 1200 copies where's my Forbes article

I am also trying to attract pollinators by getting hot

icymi @sunypress.bsky.social is having a holiday sale!! 50% titles pub'd from 2020-2026 with code SHDAYS25 through Dec 31. that includes preorders! here's but the smallest smattering of all on offer sunypress.edu/Subjects

Reading Timaeus and I have to keep stopping because I'm so moved by the fact that I can read (in translation, granted) words written by someone over 2300 years ago.

Will someone remind me to drip my faucets

If I was a worm I would definitely be a sour gummy worm

I ate too many sour gummy worms

Tonight at the bar my friend said he gets a lot of bedding ads and I was like me too been seeing a lot of Brooklinen lately and he was like No, B-E-T-T-I-N-G

Me and who

3 of my last 6 posts start with "Man," and I'm sorry I don't know what's going on

Man you know I've been writing today bc I have 34 browser tabs open

Can someone who knows classical Greek tell me why we transliterate χώρα with a KH rather than a CH?

Me and who

Man, don't make me cape for Calibri

Thomas Merton, drip unmatched, ora pro nobis

Man sometimes store brand pasta, jarred sauce, and shakey cheese just hits

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