liamlanigan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Governors State U. Interested in urban studies, Joyce, Shaw, LeGuin. But mainly post about Deadwood and lefty political stuff, and pictures of my dogs
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Good sequence there now though
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That's a fair point, and I definitely see the arguments for continuing to support them but if you're reviewing for them (which I've never done anyway, I should say!) my worry would be that you would have to do so while enforcing these new guidelines. But I also don't want to lose the NEH.
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I'm a former neh postdoc so I know better than anyone how amazing a thing it is, but I'm just not sure I can, in good conscience, support an organization that is, even if it's only because of compulsion, an agent of this kind of fascism
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I think it's fair to wonder if, at the very least, those of us in full time, "permanent" academic positions, should be boycotting the organization. People in more precarious situations may not have that luxury but those of us who are privileged enough not to NEED NEH funding should consider...
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I didn't either, I just noticed now when I was replying to this. I don't think it appears as obvious on bluesky somehow!
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Also peaches you not following me back i take as an affront. It puts me off my feed.
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Custer was a cunt. The end.
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It's nauseating to hear him act like he has a conscience now, when his entire political project, his life's work, paved the way for this.
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Hope this curse starts affecting elections. If we ever have them again.
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I will rectify the problem immediately
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I have NEVER seen this, even though Liam was my wife's PhD supervisor and we were both obsessed with the show around the time this would have come out.
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Would have thought Flow might pass also, it got two nominations?
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Hear me out
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Doesn't seem willing to hold Woolf responsible for some of the dismissal of sf in "literary" circles, the legacy of which she was then contending with
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I'm preparing a talk on Le Guin at the moment for April and it strikes me that she spends a lot of time trying to bridge the gap between her love of Wells and her use of Woolf as a touchstone for her understanding of what scifi can be.
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On a vaguely related note, I owe you a big thanks, a couple of months ago I asked for recommendations for a course on the British novel and industrialization and you recommended war of the worlds. I ended up putting it on, haven't taught it yet but it's been a lot of fun preparing it!
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I've noticed many students use it out of anxiety that they don't want to sound dumb, so that AI seems to persuade them that their own voice is not valid, that mistakes are stupid, and that the solution is to just shut the hell up and let the machine say it for you.
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Then the dean is recommending books about AI in pedagogy that sound atrocious and is *writing the recommendations using AI*. They have all been sold the worst kind of venture-capital hype-driven pup, one with the potential to destroy liberal education, and they can't see it.
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I have people in my dept telling me, and presumably students, what a useful tool it is for "invention activities" and for "polishing" essays. The results are the same as if they put the prompt in and got it to spew the essay, the only difference is the student *feels* like they thought everything up
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Haven't seen any moves from GSU to join this yet, will talk to the union reps tomorrow and see what we can do.
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Correct, and when you see how tiny a blip that dip is on a 6m graph, a blip that was mostly recovered by close of day, it tells a different story. But I do think TSLA will crash, it has been totally inflated by his recent ascension to power, it will burst.
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Well put
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For a graduate class there's no upper limit, no matter how much they may say otherwise. They'll thank you in the end
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It's ok though, the doors automatically locked so you could concentrate on finding a solution
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But what if only OAN and newsmax give fawning coverage of his pointless photo ops?! If we don't do it too, imagine how damaging that would be!!
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So what if they did? Not seeing what the problem would be. It's very convenient for you that the most strategic thing you can think of doing is nothing at all, keeping your access and dancing to the president's tune. You're a regular Seymour Hersh.
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www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
I have great news
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The difference is the IRA actually believe in something, whereas American liberal Democrats believe in nothing whatsoever and have no vision of the future, and whenever someone comes along with some actual beliefs they stamp it out like it's going to burn their house down.
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Is this how I find out James Frey is in the administration?
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That is the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen. Although the day's not over yet.
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Yeah I mean I was kind of demoralized by the plagiarism stuff at first because I had to keep having meetings with students about it, but it's the utter destruction of their critical thinking that's been so amazing to witness.
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"oh and by the way, you also agree that we will be feeding your work straight into AI like a tree into a woodchipper, with no compensation to you whatsoever"