King: honestly i feel like all we ever do these days is talk about elon musk
King: instead of horror
King: which, technically, is the entire reason de existence for this whole thing
Mary Shelley: ooo look at john barth over here
King: i'm not being john barthy
Shelley: you're being real john barthy
NYTimes excerpt: "The more technologically sophisticated ware becomes, the more dangerous it is to place it in the hands of people untrained in irony"
very true
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author
Poe: what do you think, mary
Shelley: death of the author eh?
Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea
Rowling: i
Rowling: i have to go
"With humanities degrees under threat, education takes on the texture of luxury. On TikTok, being “disgustingly educated” is, for want of a better word, the hot new aesthetic...if the robots are coming for the jobs, perhaps it is logical that we reclaim our brains for our own use."
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
i mean if you buy tickets to see that fascist you deserve to be dare I say it cancelled
I am almost at the point at which it would be better to sit humanities students down with a pile of paper journals in a field and ask them to find articles relevant to their topic rather than letting them use digital databases. Search is broken to the point that I don't know how to teach it […]
Kind of expensive, so if you are interested in reading What Has Been (1801), a feminist Minerva Press novel edited by Elizabeth Neiman and I about a woman who attempts to survive as a writer, have your library order it.
#c18th #c18 #18c #18thc #Romanticism #Gothic #FeministSky #Minervapress
"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...
putting AI in ms paint... these are sick, dangerous people
May every day be another wonderful secret.
This is the series of posts in that hack, so it is not really funny.
This is what was posted on the hacked Elmo account so maybe stop reposting the second one like it is hilarious.
"the two communities got along swimmingly and ended up starting their own spinoff website to discuss ponies and fascism in harmony".
not to me; what could be more white than my little pony?
A garbage can that has the label "please use me".
Seen in a Philadelphia restaurant.
"Revisiting Richardson"
Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rev...
Published by Bucknell University
#LiteraryStudies #18thCenturyStudies #18thCentury #SamuelRichardson #Gender #Sexuality #Race #Religion #BucknellUniversityPress
May Liberty meet wi’ success!
May Prudence protect her frae evil!
May tyrants and tyranny tine i’ the mist,
And wander their way to the devil!
Maybe they will get stoned with their AI girlfriends.
This student has exactly the right expression
Graphic of popular vote of Canadian election showing Liberals with 42.8%, Conservatives with 41.7%,, Bloc 7.4%, NDP 5.8%, Green 1.1%, PPC .8%.
[Canadian Election]
My riding flipped from Bloc to Liberal & I am semi-relieved, but it will be a minority government that will need Bloc support so very skin-of-the-teeth since almost as many people voted Conservative.
Has it really come to this, Gray Lady
Maybe someone could explain to David Brooks that Achilles never ran a cryptocurrency scam 🙄
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...
I like Tesla destruction but there are no penguins in Canada.
This dude is currently live on Tik Tok protesting. I’m telling yall, the waters are churning more and more out there.
