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erobertlee.bsky.social
English PhD with work in American Studies and Classical Reception. African American Literature, American 19th/20th Century, Science Fiction, Du Bois.
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This is the root of the insane conversation we had about right-wing terrorists plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. Internet left was convinced these people were "poor" but you know they were clearly middle-class enough for paramilitary cosplay equipment

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I admire Sara luterman's writing about science and disability very much and this is a deeply engaging exercise. I'm obviously biased but I agree that understanding the cultural history of pop science movements and their scientific or quasi- scientific underpinnings will help you understand a lot

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This is actually at the heart of the problem wherein the overgrown autocomplete algorithm knows that lots of people have used these words in this combination, but I can't understand why

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Bouie's insight is piercingly accurate as always and this is maybe what I do actually get out of teaching postmodernity. Anyone who tells you they aren't performing but actually are presenting the real are at best deluded and at worst are liars and hypocrites. Nothing is outside of identity

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This is genuinely an interesting and valuable problem to consider. Saying someone isn't bright sounds like a schoolyard insult so it has no place in journalistic writing, but it is clearly true. Whenever an actual expert challenges him on his bullshit, like Twitter's programming stack, he crumbles

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Sadly this is my personal Peter Parker/Mary Jane "tell me the truth even if it hurts" image macro

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This is true, I can certify that Emily is the only inspector I trust

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The problem is I think this unironically

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Gotta hand it to Aaron Sorkin for this one

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Every part of this is incredible but sentences like "does that admission disgust you" really get to a funny problem at the heart of this: at the end of the day the most uncanny things here aren't plagiarism stew but the statements clear written by a human that talks like a robot

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See previous post

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

What seems critical about this example is that it sounds like the 4chan style sock puppets that have been on social media for a long time. If we had to guess why I feel like we should bet there are more 4chan trolls working at Facebook than Black queer women

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Mister Rogers never misses

submitted 56 days ago • 169 comments

"DoorDash is a human right because I have anxiety" is when I realized capitalism was locked in for another 40k years

submitted 56 days ago • 20 comments

This could save more lives than every "loose lips sink ships" poster combined

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Musk versus Loomer fight is classic. The ruler’s scheming eunuch is involved in a power struggle with his concubine while he blissfully ignores his responsibilities in his palatial Southern estate. Been done a billion times from Byzantium to Beijing.

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