Shannon Murray

Rereading The Hobbit, which my students voted in as our last novel for a Children’s Lit class. This line got me: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, the world would be a merrier place.“ Amen.

This sent me back to all my favorite cakewrecks.com pics:

Tech wythout heart ys a horror.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience.

They want us to blame immigrants so we won’t blame billionaires.

(Danged autocorrect: I meant “neighbours.”)

I am feeling very hopeful for all my neighbors to the south today.

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

In Canada, we also have a loon on our one dollar coin.

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I swear, as I was scrolling and came upon your post, I had “Dead” on an infinite loop in my head. As I so often do. 100% recommend. youtu.be/Se5waJR_jXs?...

These are so delightful to read! I will go to my community band rehearsal tomorrow and play Christmas music waaaay too early in the season and laugh and enjoy making a joyful noise!

Yes, most days. I have a couple of really lively and engaged classes this year, and we actually had a blast with Beowulf. Mine are university level.

The evil that men do lives after them

Overtime and back pay, please, for 40 years of teaching anxiety dreams.

Nice! I just got “Straight Acting” as a birthday present — can’t wait!

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi... A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Construction...

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

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Great episode! Listened while biking here, near the site of the Yankee Gale disaster off Prince Edward Island, appropriately. (I wonder if there’s an episode in that.)

Desk=Globe stage; gowns = judge in Hamlet custody battle;
whiteboard = tempest in Tempest.

I did have a former student tell me she told her grad class how I once stood on a desk in my academic gowns and shook a whiteboard to simulate stage thunder. I was her eccentric prof, but I didn’t have the heart to tell her those were three separate events that she had conflated.

Nice! I am still working on my course outlines — classes start Wednesday — so now I have a new teaching goal.

"Our subjects need to be allowed to be their subjects, or else their value will fail."

Useful reminder of what's happening to our jobs and disciplines.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

“It is essential that we build into our teaching vision a place where spirit matters, a place where our spirits can be renewed and our souls restored. We must become as articulate in naming our joys as we are in naming our suffering.”

—bell hooks

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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