Jacqueline Antonovich

Long-haul truck driver, WWII Navy Vet.

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

Do you know about this? dhsi.org I did it when I was in grad school.

And then eventually they tell you to stop writing for the same reasons.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

There are currently no US Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, or Qatar. And since consular budgets have been slashed, few personnel to assist Americans trying to leave the region, even as the US issues evacuation notices instructing them to do so.

If you are having someone else do your lit review--and I mean LLM but also research assistants, honestly--you didn't review the lit, you don't know the field, you know someone else's view of the field. That seems like a problem, like a constructing a strawman problem. With LLMs, it's worse.

ewwww

The best!

The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.

!! Amazing.

I always tell my friends who are looking for a man over 40 that I have found them. They are all at physical therapy.

100%!

Yep. A lesson to PhD students and vivas. Admit when something is pointed out to you, and you hadn't thought about it or got it wrong. But if the examiners have some point you fundamentally disagree with, stand your ground. Offer to better clarify it, but don't concede when you're right.

It's such a cool moment!

There’s a broader point here which is that professors are always being accused of trying to brainwash students. Professors like disagreement! They get off on coherent challenges to their position! The absolute best moment in teaching is when a student says plausibly “you’re full of shit.”

omg, 100%

You can't gain that kind of expert-level confidence by handing it off to a machine.

There was a moment during my oral exams where I started "arguing" with one of my committee members on a certain historiographical point. They told me later that was *the* moment I passed. It proved I was enough of an expert to disagree with a bigger expert in the field and back it up with evidence.

Yes!

I just had a conversation with an expert on shipping and the Strait of Hormuz that brought into sharp relief just how completely messed up that situation is.

Y'all, 20% of the world's oil / natural gas, plus 15% of all container shipping passes through there, and almost no ships are now transiting

We're bringing back night school!

(This is my most niche post ever)

RFK out here trying to be the new Flexner.

A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.

Tonight in 1959, “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” (season 1, episode 22)—Rod Serling’s taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltration—was broadcast for the first time on CBS.

I was not prepared.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

I mean, it's slightly safer than sniffing cocaine off a toilet seat.

A lot of blaming voters, not enough blaming voter suppression