Jonathan Robinson

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian

interested!

RIP

or is it down?

another one bites the dust

yes i had a few minor car accidents as a new father.

agree with much of what has been said. you just have to accept the misery and enjoy the love and cuteness. you do adjust (a bit). also take care driving, sleep deprivation is as bad as alcohol for driver impairment, so drive slower and don't rely on your reactions as normal.

In discussion via email, the editor's English has also contained several ESL type grammatical errors. If it were a student or a colleague, I wouldn't bat an eyelid. But this is a professional who has been tasked with correcting my work. Should I say something to the journal editor or AITA here? 2/2

So, I think the (professional) copy editor has introduced a number of grammatical errors into my manuscript - presumably caused by not understanding the sentence, and possible prompted by an AI grammar checker. 1/

got it, magic!

i literally salivate proleptically (figuratively speaking)

proofs day!
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)

Yes please, sorry can't message you. jonathan.robinson [at] carey.ac.nz

I was glad to get to The End of that abstract, let me tell you.

yep, looking forward to reading this.

nice one. i recently made it into double digits, but between kids, work and dog walking needs, i find those saturday mornings available for Parkrun surprisingly rare. Parkrun is one of those inclusive participatory communities, like folk music clubs, which I think churches could learn a lot from.

beautiful writing, thank you.🙏

is it me or has LOEB online gone up in price dramatically? I am no longer allowed to buy it in USD, but have to buy in pounds or Euro.

AI is not powerful enough to dominate. Right now a lot of its biggest investors are panicking because it doesn't work as promised. So they're trying to offload their debt onto consumers by making AI seem inevitable. It's a Ponzi scheme, and once they get their money back the marketing will stop.

new blogs in the theology/bible space xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-fr...

book recommendations wanted please: what are the key important eco-theology / creation care books / resources that a theological library should have in stock?

and who will be cashing in on that additional demand for prison?

congrats!

looking forward to "shut up you dickhead" new song by McGlashan

great analysis

great thread. obrigado!

Generative Al Statement: The goal of this course is to help you improve as thinkers, scholars, and community members. The use of generative Al and LLMs (including Chat GPT) is antithetical to these goals. I strongly encourage you not to use generative Al to complete readings or assignments. There is growing evidence that the use of generative Al facilitates labor exploitation of workers in the Global South, causes severe local and global environmental damage, relies on stolen labor of writers and artists, fails to provide accurate information or citations, and may be causing a microgeneration of students to struggle to think/write critically and become less employable after college. Beyond all of these, generative Al-written papers are (more often than not) poorly argued, woodenly and generically written, and obvious to humanities professors. This course aims to help us practice the acts of critical thinking, analyzing, discussing, producing knowledge, and engaging with the communities in which we live. Accordingly, I ask that you embrace the difficulty of that process rather than attempt to outsource these skills. At the same time, I am not interested in attempting to surveil you through Al-detection software because this creates a hostile classroom environment between students and their professor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be and how you want to engage the work set before you.

Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)

I never really researched Nuremberg, so I was unaware until today that the famous “Nuremberg Defense” (“we were just following orders”) was not, in fact, the only defense offered by Nazi criminals at Nuremberg.

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need to sample this for a bass synth! also, yay for kākāpō!

has there ever been an explanation for Brill's pricing? maybe it's like designer clothes, the price is part of the appeal (for those who buy them) as it creates exclusivity. Only billionaire theologians can read this book 😆