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medievalist always thinking about the present, gender, and race. he / il πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ beloit, wi

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Anyway I came on here to BEG academics to stop using AI in their journal submissions. Yes, that includes for proofing, arranging reference lists etc. I am currently staring at a perfectly decent article, written by a human being, with a useless AI-generated bibliography full of errors.

31.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

3. queer students deserve access to queer histories in their entirety, not just that which is affirming or inspiring, and refusing to teach uncomfortable or traumatic queer histories is as much a dereliction of our duty as educators as refusing to teach queer history at all.

27.07.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.

If you read only one thing today please make it this, by the great Vanita Gupta

You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

27.07.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 847    πŸ” 342    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 23

Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.

20.07.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1725    πŸ” 583    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking too about how right-wing authors are always β€œbest sellers” because some rich dude or think tank just buys thousands of copies on release to sit in a warehouse

11.07.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

22.06.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14969    πŸ” 3611    πŸ’¬ 658    πŸ“Œ 175
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Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

02.06.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2626    πŸ” 969    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 306
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

02.06.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 14993    πŸ” 4118    πŸ’¬ 456    πŸ“Œ 319

Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.

27.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.

29.05.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1333    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 21
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

27.05.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18879    πŸ” 5591    πŸ’¬ 508    πŸ“Œ 338
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Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee What I learned serving on a university AI committee.

β€œPreserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.β€œ

27.05.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 9

"History will say..."

No.

People are dying now. Listen to us now. Do something now.

25.05.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Enjoying Peter Szendy's latest: β€œ[…] read whatever happens, read for the sake of reading, read no matter what you read, despite what you read, even if, or precisely because, it is unreadable.”

24.05.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ocean Vuong tells us that the novel, is in fact, a bottom that contains multitudes.

23.05.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I despise legislative fights but I've unfortunately had to be part of many of them at the state level over the years. And what I can tell you is that NOTHING happens to stop bad bills unless PUBLIC PRESSURE IS RAMPED UP TO 1000%. That pressure can only build if the public is INFORMED.

22.05.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 684    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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I Talked to the Writer Who Got Caught Publishing ChatGPT-Written Slop. I Get Why He Did It. The latest A.I. controversy didn’t just hallucinate a summer reading list. It exposed how broken the system already isβ€”and how fast it’s unraveling.

The AI slop summer book preview/supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times is about what's happened in media more than what's happening with AI. This Slate piece gets it and I have some thoughts from the perspective of someone who writes about books for a major Chicago newspaper. slate.com/technology/2...

22.05.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11

it's a cold and rainy evening in Wisconsin but my neighbors are setting off fireworks. are we celebrating the death of habeas corpus? the dawn of fascism? or just cheese curds?

22.05.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At my university, a provost said that they didn't like having English department people on committees because we were constantly asking about context, comfortable with ambiguity, and generally able to point out flaws in logic.

21.05.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 224    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

The more people you force through already-overstuffed "business-friendly" degrees, the more unemployable a lot of them will become.

21.05.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a close-cropped look at a few lines on a medieval manuscript

a close-cropped look at a few lines on a medieval manuscript

Does anyone want to help me transcribe the bottom two little bits of text here after β€œJohannes Hawghtton me fier fecit” because I have been staring at it for twenty minutes and my brain is simply going β€œ????” (probably because it’s Latin and my Latin is awful)
I will be forever in your debt πŸ™

20.05.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

18.05.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4855    πŸ” 1877    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 62

They hate mRNA vaccines, but now they’re ALSO restricting Novavax, the only traditional vaccine for covid. For no effing reason at all. It’s been approved and in use for two years in people over 12. Now only over 65s can get it.

They want us sick. Or dead.

18.05.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

12.05.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 569    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 13
A marble relief sculpture of Dionysus feeding a grape cluster to a panther.

A marble relief sculpture of Dionysus feeding a grape cluster to a panther.

Trying to give my cat a pill.

15.05.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Please note that this THIS PHENOMENON EMERGES FROM A BUSINESS MODEL FUNDAMENTALLY RELIANT ON ADJUNCT LABOR AND CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD INDEPENDENT OF THAT CONTEXT

14.05.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

remember this when they say anything about Momodou Taal, RΓΌmeysa Γ–ztΓΌrk, Badar Khan Suri, or Mohsen Mahdawi

14.05.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 899    πŸ” 283    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

I am so sorry.

11.05.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

11.05.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10657    πŸ” 4177    πŸ’¬ 519    πŸ“Œ 513

The US has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year. It’s only the second time the US has hit this dangerous milestone in the past 30 years and it’s only May. This is the Make America Sick Again agenda.

10.05.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3282    πŸ” 994    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 42

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