Hannah Sparwasser Soroka

Deeply misogynistic for me to lose an hour of sleep on International Women's Day

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

It's an abuse of both the text and our tradition and should be condemned in the strongest of terms.

I am listening and learning

I'm truly heartsick about this. Contempt for human beings is the core of the AI hype machine and the hollow CEOs who ride it.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.

The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

Way to go Dijon

Convinced that most people (including me) learned about it through Cry Cry Horse

I saw this in a volume of Polin years ago. Let me see if I can actually track it down.

I remember reading that, in 18th century Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, men outnumbered women two-to-one by their mid-thirties.

I've seen a lot of people wondering whether it's a personal essay or a composite story based on interviews. And it's neither of those things.

I have no problem with fictional pieces about measles, but they should be clearly noted as such-- especially in publications known for non-fiction.

The beginning of Mud Season 😬

In an information landscape where people routinely accuse health professionals and reporters of making up the risks of not vaccinating, publishing a fictional piece as though it's a personal essay/true story seems irresponsible!!

Basically none of this happened. And the stuff that did happen didn't happen this way.

I make lots of socks and, while wearing socks custom made for your exact foot is very nice, remembering which one's left and which one's right is too much of a pain. So I just make custom socks that fit either foot.

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Steven Pinker? Or are you looking at postgrad affiliations only?

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

happy birthday gromit 🥹 🎂 🐶

Update:
- misspelled the name of a presenter on a poster. Twice.
- bought the wrong train tickets
- lost an earring

Radagast did all the Istari Department service work and received zero credit or acknowledgement from the department chair (Saruman) and the superstar prof (Gandalf). And he did it all without the magic rings that those two had (although Saruman's was self-published, LOL).

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Mercury may not be in retrograde, but Something is Up because this week:
- I lost yarn chicken
- I broke a glass container & a mug
- I burnt popcorn so badly the pan is scorched
- I accidentally (temporarily) deleted half my zotero
- the library license for the e-book of Pepys' Diary lapsed

Also I was written off as "bad at math" by myself and others. But I'm good at music theory, functions, baking, adapting knitting and crochet patterns, etc. All of which are math.

I'm just not at good at math as I am at other things. But I'm still pretty good at math.

I was so bad at calculus that just being in that classroom made me queasy.

Then I did a philosophy degree and learned how Leibniz invented his calculus to model God's decision-making process. And suddenly I understood calculus.

Sometimes it's more about how you learn than what you can learn.

This is the best thing I've seen in ages!

Wishing her speedy, complete recovery and a lifetime of happiness!

As a historian, I'm gonna tell you that the botanical classification of sugarcane has little bearing on what it means in the context of that performance. And what it means for the NYT to not recognize it as sugarcane.

It's a mystery why they wouldn't run my Super Bowl commercial for ShammAI, the only LLM that tells you that your question is stupid and you should be able to figure this out yourself