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Endless need for vocational training in being the next Woody Guthrie tbh

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As a serious academic, I have been too busy to watch these movies you all are talking about. Which is why I am here, posting at 1 am… hmm…

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Excellent from @erikmbaker.bsky.social, makes me think of how speed reading becomes a subject of study in the 1890s, intending to empower superhuman productivity—but speed reading just produces more errors. And similar to the subject of the article, the scientists who studied it were eugenicists.

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That confusing bridge season between wool and cotton socks

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Excited to share our preprint "Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research” We're open to feedback—read & share thoughts! @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mmvty.bsky.social @docdre.distributedblackness.net @mariaa.bsky.social @jmjafrx.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social

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And also, a too rare opportunity to be in a union-protected job

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Nobody’s funded til everybody’s funded

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TIL that RIT’s Cary Collection released a VR game on Steam where you print a sheet from the Kelmscott Chaucer on William Morris’ Albion Press. Maybe the 1st time I’ve wanted VR glasses store.steampowered.com/app/3485400/...

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Strange bedfellows

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The reward for being a west coast night owl is watching my feed switch from enormous crises in american higher ed to the collapse of uk higher ed

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George Eliot disapproves of binging a whole TV season at once--stop it and go outside and fall in love Mary Garth.

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Re-reading The Jungle to induce vegetarianism. At Seattle prices, can't afford beef anyhow. Eggs might as well be from Fabergé.

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Brb (scrawling “This Machine Kills Technofascists” on my copy of Middlemarch)

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No surprise that quote is misleading—to make universities cheap, make everyone English majors.

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Good news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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On the 13th and 19th and every day after

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The forum of articles I edited with Carolin Kosuch is out now and open access!“19th-Century Secularist Poetry: Form and Formation of a New Worldview” brings together brilliant contributors to shed new light on the role of poetry in shaping freethought internationally muse.jhu.edu/issue/54115

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Also a perfect reason to stop listening to Taylor Swift (for the love of everything, stop listening to her anyhow)

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really wish more American men could treat motor vehicles as a means of transportation and not as a site for working out crises of masculinity

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Would think that minor American god Goldman Sachs would intervene on this one

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higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states and in over 60% of the 100 largest cities. destruction of federal research funds is economic sabotage.

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The fastest and best American ways to gain class consciousness are 1. To watch film noir and 2. To root for a team owned by a shithead. In other countries they read books and stuff.

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Buying an avocado as if I’m driving an old friend to the airport

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Snowing today in Seattle. Are we charging Canada a tariff for sending us this weather?

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BREAKING: Employees at Tim Horton's locations across the US have been ordered to spit in everyone's coffee starting Tuesday

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FireAid concert should have a ticker listing all the plastic surgeons and dermatologists responsible for tonight’s performances

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love the people power of a united @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org phone bank to protest federal research funding freezes, destructive to public health, cancer patients, and local economies

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The best reason you’ll have to go to DC in the next four years!

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I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources: DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...

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"…the present magic of “AI” is performed on us without our input, without our knowledge, and without our consent. There’s another word for that kind of magic; binding, subjugating magic performed on you against your will is called a curse."

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Cold sunshine has been great for my writing brain, which means that it is about to start raining and never stop

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You’re not going to be able to take up baking as a way of ignoring the next four years. You might have to do something.

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Was the inauguration this week?

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Calling Victor Hugo to find out what happens next, out here in the long long nineteenth century

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So far a key strategy to avoiding AI intrusions is owning devices too old to receive the relevant updates

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100 days til dissertation due. Lots will happen…

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I gave away like half of my constitutional rights when I signed up for Disney+ to watch The Mandalorian, so yeah I think I would sign up for this

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To hell with other artifacts of Romanticism, but going for little hilly walks really gets my writing flowing. (Or it could just be the caffeine from all that post-walk tea.)

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Processing my sadness for LA by driving like I’m living there (making left turns once the light turns red)

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