Baby Carter for cute tax.
Happy 9th Birthday, Carter!
The cute fluffy cotton ball I got at the beginning of my dissertation to keep me sane while writing, grew up. He's been my best bud all through cancer and treatment, through the precarity of academic job hunting, as well as the pandemic.
My sweet snuggle boy!
my other hot take on birth rate discourse is that I really really don’t much care for seeing specifically *cis men* casually chatter about it.
Almost all the art from By the Way is now available on the illustrator's shop! Prints, hoodies, t-shirts, and all the proceeds go directly to the artist!
I already have the Teddy Knight hoodie and I love it. Seriously!
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The sequel is coming! The sequel is coming!
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Tenured academic posts asinine take on how AI can do everything a researcher with a PhD can.
Confronts the ire of exhausted, irate, precarious academics struggling for funding/stability in an age where everyone with power wants to automate higher ed with gAI.
Tenured academic: People are so rude
How are you listening in on my conversations?!?
This picture freaks me out for another reason: US archaeology has OSHA requirements. These chuckleheads look like they’re digging down with zero consideration for safe egress or cave-in protections. 😬 👷🏻♀️🏺
"It's so good, it's god-like!" The techbros scream. "It might even be sentient!" The CEO trembles.
Yet, it is incapable of thought. It doesn't know. It's not creative. It can't actually do anything.
AI won't replace you because apparently, people with a lot of money don't know how anything works.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
You are not dysfunctional.
The world is.
We've encountered this. An attempt to create a two-tiered faculty system where tenured, research faculty are the shining stars at the top. The ones the college uses in all PR materials and "innovation" claims. The faculty who actually teach and do the hard work of pedagogy are just "staff."
As someone who was also born and raised in a small, rural, Minnesota town -- My brother had childhood leukemia and I had breast cancer by age 36. In fact, large numbers of kids in my hometown died of cancer in the 80s and 90s. We wondered the same.
The sequel is coming! The sequel is coming!
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This is false.
Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.
For non-teachers, lesson plans are usually a few lines or half a page of key points & reminders because you know what you're doing & then you follow the students.
"Well, what if the teacher doesn't know the text?" That's like saying, "Well, what if the pilot doesn't know how to fly the plane?"
There were days when I had chemo in the morning, and then was on the line by noon.
I don't say this as any kind of brag (it sucked, especially in March weather) but to show people that you can get out there. And you should! It matters.
Not a TTRPG, I don't think, but Dungeon Meshi immediately comes to mind.
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I hate that the last 8 years have made me an anxious person. 8 years of academic precarity. A cancer diagnosis. COVID. Another cancer diagnosis. Upcoming reappointment process that could destroy my career.
Last year, I was on that strike line though. My colleagues weren't going to fight without me.
A good critic, in my view, is always asking (of any comment) "What can the author do with this? Will this comment make the work better?"
And if that comment is "cite me," they should just quit immediately.
the Republican party deserves everything that's coming
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
Do these men not understand that you can, you know, not order things?
In 2023, David Brooks got all the attention he could ever have dreamed of for writing an entire opinion piece about an expensive sandwich he didn't like at Newark Airport.
(He also neglected to mention that $29 of the $78 meal were his two whiskey doubles.)
Society, I am sorry to report, survived.
Cultural Anthropology, checking in!
Naw, dude.
Historians will definitely be able to explain how this was possible. Just ask us. We can probably do it now, if you like.
It was only a year ago that Elon Musk and DOGE were dominating the daily narrative. Now we're at war with Iran. In between we've had masked secret police in the streets killing people and well ... everything else.
One year.
So, they're going with, The Actual Death of the Author.
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Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
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