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legacy is what you enable for the people who come after you

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People who gesture with their hands as they speak to their phone

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really loving @nnedi.bsky.social’s new book THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR … and especially this very Phoenix scene of being picked up by a car without a driver #booksky #📚

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"The Jews did 9/11." 1 million views. No community note. Many Jews died on 9/11. There was no specific forewarning to Jews or Israelis. Just a litany of cartoonish lies incentivized and paid for by Elon's MuskBucks, the online engine for making antisemitism into a business model.

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assorted

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daughter's shopping lists are cryptic poems

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good morning from the desert 🌵

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home

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gave a talk for the wonderful community at U of Arizona, now a short desert writers retreat to hammer out an overdue proposal 😈👹🧌💀

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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To #Janus — the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. [c.1240, artist unknown - resides at Duke’s Nasher Museum] To #January —

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Open my soul to the vast dark places. Say to me, say again, nothing is taken, only given. -Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January. #everynightapoem

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gave a talk for the wonderful community at U of Arizona, now a short desert writers retreat to hammer out an overdue proposal 😈👹🧌💀

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"the only antonym to public that matters is paywall"

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put my soul into this one, hard to write

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put my soul into this one, hard to write

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Higher education should always have been doing this BUT: now is the time to increase our partnerships with institutions within the communities we serve, demonstrating in everyday ways why universities and colleges matter to cities, states, towns and regions in which they are located (cont'd)

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It’s not a great modernization and somehow I got to her to struggle through some of the Old French with me, sooo fun

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daughter texted me she’s reading Marie de France in her French class and I’m about to pass out from happiness (Modern French Lit class so reading a translation into contemporary idiom, below)

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what will survive of us

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what will survive of us

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the #PlanetaryParade as glimpsed from Phoenix is extraordinary! though at first I mistook Mars, Castor and Pollux as the parade ... so much vaster than that!

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what would you do if an anchor dropped from the clouds, got stuck on a stone, and a sailor shimmied down to free it, drowning in the the thickness of our air? this happened in the Middle Ages -- and Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about it (link to an essay of mine) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67p1x...

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what would you do if an anchor dropped from the clouds, got stuck on a stone, and a sailor shimmied down to free it, drowning in the the thickness of our air? this happened in the Middle Ages -- and Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about it (link to an essay of mine) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67p1x...

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Collation of knowledges are disciplines because we have declared them disciplines They are not platonic forms, and only seem discrete because we have separated them Not surprising that so many disciplines are reaching their limits

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from this week’s New Yorker vampires need to ROAM

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these are actually true

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So much truth in this. One of my students told me how fortunate I am to have grown up in a time of books that absorb you — but never beep with notifications distractions and invitations to scroll endlessly.

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Ten more colleges are introducing "integrated majors," which combine two existing degrees—say, English and computer science—into one, in the hopes of both satisfying workforce needs and increasing diversity in STEM fields. @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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gorgeous and heartbreaking Daniel and Jennifer were both colleagues when I was at GW, both are brilliant, Daniel's loss is hard to process poems.com/features/wha...

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been thinking abt why I used such a difficult vocabulary when I wrote "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" 30 (!!!) years ago partly it was bc I was so immersed in what was called critical theory at that time partly it was bc I wanted an unserious subject taken seriously mostly tho imposter syndrome

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been thinking abt why I used such a difficult vocabulary when I wrote "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" 30 (!!!) years ago partly it was bc I was so immersed in what was called critical theory at that time partly it was bc I wanted an unserious subject taken seriously mostly tho imposter syndrome

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THE MONSTER THEORY READER is so good 🐺😈 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s intro is extraordinarily thoughtful, rereading the volume this weekend #monsters 👹🧌

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We live in a time of monsters. #evergreen #monsters 👹🧌

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