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OTD - 4th March - in 1812, Charles Dickens was baptised at St Mary’s church in Portsmouth.

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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The cover of the century, ladies and gentlemen: on a forthcoming edition of Poe’s Pym from Smith & Taylor Classics, featuring a conversation between me and the brilliant Nate Wolff

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The eighteenth century is BACK, baby!

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Dickens really hated this. Of course, his entire chapter on enslavement in American Notes is plagiarized from a newspaper piece, too.

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Lots of good jokes about plagiarism machines today, but, to add a pedantic footnote, one of the key features of copyright law since the late 1700s has been international conflict over the inability to enclose information. American newspapers ran thinly-veiled plagiarized Dickens stories constantly.

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The first 2025 meeting of the Central DF will take place on Tuesday 21st January at 6:30pm at The Charterhouse, London EC1, where President of the DF, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, and Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, Dr Cindy Sughrue OBE, will speak on the topic of 'Dickens and St Giles'.

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I will be at #MLA2025 as part of the "Poe Lives on Netflix" roundtable (388 - 5:15-6:30, Jan/ 10th). I'd love to see some of you there and look forward to seeing as many of you as a I can!

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BOTD - 06/01/1837 - Charles Dickens junior, CD and Catherine's first child. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D….

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I just want to teach them to write...

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You: “what inspired you to write this?” Me: “a pathological inability to say no”

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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

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The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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This is the good stuff. www.newberry.org/calendar/eme...

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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

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Explaining Bodleian taking digital collection(s?) offline, Richard assures this isn't permanent. People've burned libraries in strategic cultural attacks throughout history, most recently destroying British Library's digital presence. Sobering reminder: digitizing ≠ preservation & can undermine it.

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Some people are seeing mst3k The Final Sacrifice for the first time and I’m thrilled for them. Some of us are seeing it for the 100th time and will have just as much fun.

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone watching the #MST3K Turkey Day today! I’m thrilled to hear that it’s finishing up with THE FINAL SACRIFICE, absolutely one of my favorites because it features this beautiful mullet-sporting, Canadian-tuxedoed ❤️ hero ❤️. Enjoy! #MST3KTurkeyDay

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[Rolling the bottom of my trousers]: "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" hits different at 41 than it did at 21

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I love pancakes! And Mr Darcy.

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Every time you correctly use the word “ostensibly”, a teacher somewhere gets a pay raise!

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R.I.P.

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whenever a man says “childless women contribute nothing to society,” the ghost of the famously unmarried Jane Austen rises and says, “you are such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by you.”

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Hi friends! I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet. The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you're not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.

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Migrating away from that hellscape known as X is doing wonders for my mental health...now to get on organizing and fighting back for the next 4+ years. OH! And posting about books, hockey, and whatever else over here. Welcome, old and new friends!

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