make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent
The deadline for this call has been extended to Monday April 27th.
Early-career scholars interested in #DH, #NLP #fandom and #fanfiction, take heed!
And as a reminder to our #undergrads, for the 2nd year in a row we are running our Undergraduate Showcase at the 2026 FSNNA #FanStudies Conference!
✍️Due: Abstract, Refences, & Bio
⏰Deadline: May 8, 2026
You can find more info at: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Wait until you hear how much free public roads lost
I redrew the classic comic book spinner rack topper placard with Richie Rich, Spider-Man, Archie, and Superman. text reads "Comics Read One Today!!"
Tried to have some fun by drawing
Did you publish an article in TWC from 2023-26? We're seeking entries for the Fans of Color Prize, which recognizes peer-reviewed research about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years. There's a $500 cash prize!
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This is the point. Make universities uninhabitable for the people that make universities wonderful.
Texas Tech faculty are “close to the brink,” Schiller said. “It’s a nightmare … Tears are commonplace. I have a colleague who told me recently that going to campus felt like attending a wake.”
the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
A wild turkey prowling around the exterior of the glassed-in lobby of the National Gallery of Canada.
Art is for everyone, even turkeys. @gallery.ca
Pippin, un très beau chat, est sur une bande dessinée.
On lit « Paul à la pêche » ce soir.
A white garment with some kind of food stain. Humiliating.
A pair of dirty hands rest on a car engine. Rough, tough, cool.
Here is an easy solution:
Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves.
Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled.
Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.
samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta
Marvel™: Screwing over its artists in baroquely humiliating ways since 1939
Oh, so *that’s* what “elbows up” meant.
PANEL 1: MATTIE at a bar. Next to her, a GUY is looking up at the tv. MATTIE: Watching the game? GUY: Yeah! I've got a 12-way parlay, a couple of props, and of course the straight moneyline. PANEL 2: MATTIE, talking to SOMEONE ELSE. The TV GUY is now in the background. MATTIE: Woof. That's a lot of betting. He should maybe get some help. GUY 2: What? Sorry, I was placing my bet on the two rats over there fighting each other. PANEL 3: MATTIE talking to A THIRD GUY, peering over at the SECOND GUY in the corner betting on rats. MATTIE: Am I the only person not gambling constantly now? GUY 3: Shh! We've got a bet on what that guy is going to bet on next. PANEL 4: MATTIE falls to her knees. In the close foreground, a FOURTH AND FIFTH GUY converse. MATTIE: YAGGHHH!!! GUY 4: Told you she'd lose it. Pay up.
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The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella
Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban Had a great meeting today with @IDUAlliance Chairman @stephenharper. International cooperation between right-wing, conservative parties is more important than ever. Chairman Harper is a great ally in this respect. Thank you for your support, Mr. Chairman! Orbán Viktor
It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years
Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍
The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.
Image: A small, angry boy stands in front of his parents. They are in modern clothes, but he is dressed as a regency gentleman with top hat, breeches, cane etc. He says "No title, no estates, and less than a thousand a year! How am I ever to find a wife!" Caption: Noah's parents realise that he has been drawn into the manorsphere.
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere
Liberals adopt policy to restrict kids from social media, but AI for all. Do these ppl hear themselves? 🤡
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YOU (a fool engaged in folly): a Notion subscription allows me to backlink my personal knowledge into a second brain and then query it with an LLM!
ME (a sage): MASTER'S SCRIBE.
Artemis II mission capsule floating in the ocean
Well well well look who’s come crawling back
why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'?
because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance
Ah, yes, the two genres
Photo of a passage from a book. Hand-drawn squiggly underline draws attention that the typesetter hyphenated “LinkedIn” as “Linke-din” like a maniac.
Pronouncing it “lin-kuh-din” from now on.
the coyness of calling Trump’s profanity an "f-bomb" in a message where he’s threatening to LITERALLY bomb civilians and civilian infrastructure is honestly offensive, I think! there’s only one kind of bomb in this conversation, and it’s not the word "Fuckin'". it’s the kind that murders people.
At best, this is selling functional literacy while trying to borrow critical literacy’s halo to placate critics.
