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Starting a chat for those wanting talk of Tolkien's political appropriation by the far-right. Recent years have given us lots on Tolkien's use by Italian neofascists & Silicon Valley neoreactionaries. Share your links & thoughts, if you'd like to join the conversation. substack.com/chat/2704238...

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The fairies will use cheese against us - we are doomed!

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Here are two of my favorite pieces by Jian Guo for #TolkienTrewsday #Ainur #FallOfGondolin #TolkienArt

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Hadrian’s Villa: an apex life moment for me!

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more people might be willing to play “generative AI is just a tool, let’s have a civil discussion about its boundless potential” if the tool weren’t actually being used to destroy things right now, having been adopted uncritically on the strength of its boundless potential

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This means something to me.

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Just watched the Dickinson episode where someone asks: “who is America’s greatest living poet?” Everyone in the room: “Walt Whitman.” Emily D: looks sad 😔

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#OnThisDay - 26 May - in AD 735 the Venerable Bede died at Jarrow, Northumbria. Theologian, grammarian, historian - perhaps his most-admired work is his 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'. #Bede 🏺 Image: Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 5v. Link - blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

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Contrast-enhanced mammography “not only found more tumors but detected them when they were small and had not yet spread to the lymph nodes.” But it’s not widely available in the US as the FDA has not approved its use for breast cancer screening. Gift link:

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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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Interview q for the Honors program: “if you could invent a holiday what would it be?” And I answered “May 26th would be Stevie Nicks Day & everyone would wear witchy clothing and sing Fleetwood Mac/Stevie songs all day.” HBD to the Welsh Witch ✨

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Then die t.co/2tcDvU4yDr

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"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

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Pontormo a mannerist king! 👑

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Help, I am reading The Silmarillion (again)!

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Life goal: Oxonmoot in person one day 💚💚💚 🧝🏼‍♀️ 🧝🏻‍♂️💚💚💚

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If you’re up for a reading list created by real humans who love books and have great taste, check out one of my fave traditions: NPR’s summer critics’ book list. It’s as great as ever and I’m proud to be a contributor. My pick: Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

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Your Honor, I adore him!!

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And for just $500 a month, Google will give you its Premium subscription service with all AI blocked.

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🚀 Broadview is hiring for three new positions in the Sales and Marketing departments! If you're keen on books and love to get creative, we want to hear from you 🫵 Click on the link for more info: broadviewpress.com/contact-us/c... Apply now!

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Dr. Anna Wessels Williams isolated the diphtheria strain that led to the lifesaving antitoxin, helping to eradicate it. She was called to the front lines during the 1918 influenza pandemic to investigate outbreaks a role rarely afforded to women at the time. #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/bdkt3yd9

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I wrote an elegy to my English professor—& ended up trying to make a case for the study of poetry. I’d love if you read it: writeordiemag.com/essays/big-e...

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"Abrams’s book succeeds at considering both the decay of certain standardized testing ideals and the way that rot has long infected educators’ ability to cultivate intellectual curiosity."

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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the actual content of education - not the credential - is valuable.

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Look what arrived, & just as I’m putting finishing touches to my abstract for @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social! Congrats, @melstanfill.bsky.social & @nyupress.bsky.social!

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The mania for "summaries" already shows a lack of understanding of how learning or even knowledge works. A summary is essentially a reminder. In a pinch, it can help give you an initial orientation, but it is ultimately useless unless you actually work through the summarized material yourself.

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Devastated to report that outlining actually works. As opposed to, for instance, worrying and obsessing.

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This is where David Lynch should have been laid to rest.

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Bard the Bowman:

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We missed Leslie Donovan, but we had a good time and had excellent questions! #Westmoot #TeachingTolkien

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Elwing absolutely ate them all up.

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#Westmmot morning paper in the bag! Anna Kris and Nick made it for the 8:30 paper 🧝🏼‍♀️ 🧝🏻‍♂️ 💚💚

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We are a bit star struck after this phenomenal book panel at #westmoot25! Luke Shelton with authors of three recent #tolkien books, @alas-not-me.bsky.social, Cami D. Agan, and @nicholasbirns.bsky.social? Yes, please! Loved hearing about the processes and pitfalls of writing a book! 📕

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I feel ya.

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Not according to my 3 hour faculty workshop! 🥴

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2 1/2 hours into our AI discussion and we finally heard the word “ethics.” Environmental impact? Nah.

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Really important post on Google Scholar: "The persistent deficiencies in for-profit literature aggregators like Google Scholar and the growing instability of publicly-funded information curators should remind scientists that high-quality access to information is no guarantee."

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Gong into my 6th? 7th? (I’ve lost count!) faculty meeting of the year tomorrow to “discuss” AI - almost like someone is obsessed?!?

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Framing the adoption of AI as an historical inevitability, rather than a way to do a thing you want or need done, gives the game away. Nobody selling it this hard cares whether it helps; they want it to be the thing you have to deal with, like it or not. Problems, solutions, what’s the difference?

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A real one, 14th century edition.

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