Lenora Warren

Postdoc at Cornell!

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Remember that state seats are what determine how gerrymandered the 435 house districts are and who that gerrymandering favors

So state elections should be an urgent priority

Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

I will absolutely pony up a subscription fee for this ep.

we are aware of the situation

Healthcare System What would you say is the most urgent health problem facing this country at the present time? [Open-ended] Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans ha...

It’s all less confusing when you remember that anger at insurance companies is a bipartisan sentiment.

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Can we also talk about the fact that two pieces of fiction on his Favorites shelf are The Lorax and Brave New World?

Luigi Mangione’s 'favorites' books on Goodreads (15 books) Luigi Mangione has 15 books on their favorites shelf: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your F...

Paging @michaelhobbes.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Thanks Chandra. I am sorry to say that I am more silly than brilliant on social media but I will try.

Not to undercut the seriousness of climate change putting humans and polar bears in dangerous proximity to each other, but Canada Man stories are way more badass than Florida Man stories.

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AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.

Brian Eno on AI:

“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”

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Finally finished The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social and am now dreaming about a better world where it would be optioned for a limited series.

Mariners, Renegades and Castaways A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.    Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, a...

Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain

I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated

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Under-appreciated aspect of having good manners and minding your own business is that one can so easily avoid being transphobic, racist, etc...

This is such an incredible, riveting read.

I got nothing, but 'tis a worthwhile cause.

Deep in Letter of Recommendation season and the superlative well runneth dry.

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

This is why I try to key into the wrong car once every 3 months.

L just now: Mom, whenever I say something I don’t mean to say, I cover my ears until I forget about it.

I am absolutely going to try this.

Three black Suburus with nearly identical license plates

Ithaca monoculture

Very smash-and-grab sounding. Big payday at the outset followed by a total collapse in which these guys still make enough money for it to be “worth it.”

Hi! Happy to chat!

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

finally a reasonable take