Caroline Wilkinson

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)

Wow.

While it would have been soon enough to stop quoting Larry Summers as an expert after his first comment about women while president of Harvard, perhaps this email will be enough to finally do so.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.

A dog carrying in her maw a hallowed-out, tooth-marked pumpkin.

November 12, with dog

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

No, it's probably not a good idea to teach kids to read by telling them to just skip difficult words "(Skippy Frog)."

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Northern Kansas skies Glow watermelon tourmaline stark black telephone wires divide trees lonely without their feathers

Try to make your ALT TEXT a poem

A pink purple aurora with a baseline of faint green visible in the middle of Chicago despite light pollution

Aurora visible in the middle of Chicago

I just showed the opening to *A Map of No Return* to my creative-writing class, projecting it on a screen behind me, and it was amazing to see some of the students’ faces transform as they read. Such a powerful work.

No Kings includes Angus King

But computer science is cratering. Four-year undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences plunged by 7.7 percent this fall — and it decreased almost twice as fast at the graduate level. The Clearinghouse data doesn’t say why, but it’s hard to ignore recent gluts of tech-company layoffs and questions about artificial intelligence taking coders’ jobs in a discipline that’s proven subject to ebbs and flows.

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.

@senangusking.bsky.social's net worth is $22 million.

Majority of LGBTQ+ people voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split NBC News exit polls show that 81% of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split between him and Cuomo.

Vast majority of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762723200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

II. Time Passes (from To the Lighthouse)

Never recovering from this page

I've taught Sharon Begley's work in regard to plagiarism. (Jonah Lehrer famously plagiarized her science writing.) Here's her posthumous breakdown of Watson's legacy, including his racism and misogynist appropriation of "Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images (which Watson surreptitiously studied)."

Breaking | Israeli occupation tanks opened heavy fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

The moon in between trees. The sky is silver with some clouds.

Night after full

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

Block them. Without a second thought.

"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election."

Zohran Mamdani

They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.

They’re wrong.

New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.

If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here

Please share!

The cover of this novel, lime green with a circle of white over which some red appears as if spray painted. The other colors in the center, spray-painted circle are yellow and blue.

He is waiting for me. My name is Tara Selter. I am sitting in the back room overlooking the garden and a woodpile. It is the eighteenth of November. Every night when I lie down to sleep in the bed in the guest room it is the eighteenth of November and every morning, when I wake up, it is the eighteenth of November. I no longer expect to wake up to the nineteenth of November and I no longer remember the seventeenth of November as if it were yesterday.

On the Calculation of Volume I, Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland

New Directions, 2024