Tobias Wilson-Bates

Every new thing that I learn about lungfish is more insane than the last insane thing I learned about lungfish.

but check out Book 10 of Paradise Lost if you want Satan and Sin having freaky incest to birth Death

it remains the GOAT pagitica

sadly not horny stuff, just religious tracts that were experimental and out of line with the Commonwealth government he was serving under at the time

the old world is dying and the new world is available to view now on Sora

we must never let the world forget that Milton was a complete radical who was only much later re-imagined as a saintly canonical author

Getting closer to God's earthly kingdom by letting everyone post thirst on main.

Fun historical fact is that John Milton essentially served as the content moderator for the Commonwealth Government, but let so much freaky stuff get translated into English that they quietly retired him from the position.

The Babe Ruth of calling her shot on coming back from the dead

not a pipe (it's a pipe)

every era must have one

Definitely US! The attempt to sound clever while saying very very much 😅

Hey! I'm reading The Victorian City right now and quite enjoying it. I knew nothing about Macadamized roads until now!

unhand me, grey-beard loon!

ya, definitely it was the pre-loaded. I was moving between things with my kid and didn't have a moment to revise it 😧

Little known fact, at a certain age all academics transform into thesis vampires, spending their days and nights slowly becoming dried husks until they can be revived by feeding on a healthy thesis.

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Slowly entering my Plato era where I think it's a problem that social ideas of rhetoric have become unmoored from discourses on social and personal ethics.

The dark academia I desperately want now

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*me when I read an original argument with creatively effective supporting claims

Little known fact, at a certain age all academics transform into thesis vampires, spending their days and nights slowly becoming dried husks until they can be revived by feeding on a healthy thesis.

Something I've noticed in AI generated essays that replicates a habit I've tried forever to get my students out of is the tendency to compliment a text rather than analyze it. So many "the text does an excellent job" or "the text makes a robust argument that", but these claims don't *claim* anything

Cool rhetoric machine we've produced that is potentially attached to no philosophy other than an investor-driven imperative to decimate thought-workers.

Interesting point

Slowly entering my Plato era where I think it's a problem that social ideas of rhetoric have become unmoored from discourses on social and personal ethics.

Similarly when I have seen the generated prose that is supposed to provide feedback to students. The tool seems more intent on making the writer feel accomplished than about the difficult task of interpreting what they were attempting relative to what the task instructed 🤔

Thinking a thing is "excellent" or "strong" or "effective" is like saying the quality of a song is mostly about what volume you're playing it at.

Something I've noticed in AI generated essays that replicates a habit I've tried forever to get my students out of is the tendency to compliment a text rather than analyze it. So many "the text does an excellent job" or "the text makes a robust argument that", but these claims don't *claim* anything

it's just my supernatural love of sleep 😅

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In pursuit of better sleep I’ve reduced my caffeine intake to one cup of coffee first thing in the morning, but sometimes I’ll do a second cup like calling in Batman on a case and it *HITS*

Ben.