Yeah. They are proud of stealing stuff and getting away with it.

I just bought Edger of Space Time as a birthday gift!

MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy The MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy, supported by the Mellon Foundation, offer targeted training to graduate students and early career instructors to help ensure that students’ early encounters with the humanities provide a transformative...

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This pendant world, in bigness as a star/ Of smallest magnitude close by the moon

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

Stop callinge them "data centers" and start callinge them "slop peripherals"
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no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

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The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Major yn Englisshe:

• Focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• Research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet
• Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• It ys awesome
• Bookes!

I felt similarly about RSA last month. It was such a RELIEF to be with colleagues who are all going through it.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

I do like the shirt, but for some reason I thought the second pic would be of the book you read.

RIP, Einstein bot? companion.ai/einstein

very important video please watch

Evergreen skeet

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Good luck 🍀

I think if there are details about how you will use the fellowship—libraries, sources, methods, etc—that you couldn’t go into in the proposal, you should be prepared to expand on that.

The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.

("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

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I second this! Today colleagues received messages purporting to share files from their Department Head (me!) which I did not send. Be careful!

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Why I will never get rid of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD.

Something good??

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Thanks for looking out for me, Mira!

This is the second time I’ve seen reference to this phrase in two days. I definitely don’t know what it means,