Jon Hegglund

Jon Hegglund

@jonhegglund.bsky.social

Prof of English, Washington State U. Narrative theory, psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, humanism in a dehumanizing age. Minor character in Baseball Prospectus extended universe. Yes, that is a moose in my backyard.

3,175 Followers 967 Following 5,588 Posts Joined Jun 2023
8 hours ago

any of the potential use-cases for LLMs are outweighed by the fact that I now have to think about LLMs every day for the rest of my career, if not my life

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10 hours ago

future wisconsin coach jason eck (if they're lucky)

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10 hours ago

thought this was james mercer for a sec but mercer has never been this cool

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12 hours ago

I have my lock screen set to pull random pictures of my son throughout his life and the mix of happy and sad it makes me is a lot to take in both directions

(he's 14 now, a lovely kid, but also nor really a kid anymore so)

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1 day ago
the cat is on me

le chat est sur moi. je suis immobilisé

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a group of basketball players are sitting in a row wearing red shirts with heat on them ALT: a group of basketball players are sitting in a row wearing red shirts with heat on them
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1 day ago

def too tight in #4. I am going to borrow #2, just need a new pair of chelsea boots

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1 day ago

men's and women's teams both dancing!

big night for moscow

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1 day ago

WOO VANDALS

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2 days ago

we tried 🤷‍♂️

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2 days ago

where my bodø sickøs at

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2 days ago

where my bodø sickøs at

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2 days ago

google search (incognito mode): how to shrink shoes without boss knowing

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2 days ago

was just thinking about this problem in terms of Remains of the Day, and my dumb answer is "suspension of disbelief" if done well

what does "doing it well" mean? I suppose it constructs a consistent rhetorical *mode* (e.g., confession) without evoking a concrete rhetorical situation

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2 days ago
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falling faintly & faintly falling

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2 days ago

baseball has rules where you are punished for being a lazy, complacent idiot, however

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2 days ago

(on a conference call with Benji Gil and Francisco Cervelli)

fuck them protestants

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2 days ago

shout out to my fellow rounder-uppers

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2 days ago

and then the students use AI to write papers about the AI-generated research, and the professor uses AI to grade them. the circle must be closed

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2 days ago

A Penn-educated TV host put in charge of the United States made baffling and indefensible decisions that result in American failure and humiliation on the world stage? Nah

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2 days ago
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Disgrace of Gijón - Wikipedia

rooting for Italy-Mexico to pull a Disgrace of Houstón

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2 days ago

those liberal Harvard-Westlake boys

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2 days ago

turn out the lights, the festa's over 😢

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2 days ago
google translate showing that "festa" means "party"

just sayin'

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2 days ago

surely Mike Napoli can be sent for

maybe get a text out to Jarrod Saltalamacchia

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2 days ago

*by, not buy. it's been a long day.

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2 days ago

but also, got married in an eleventh-century convent just outside of Florence buy a magistrate in a sash who looked like Omar Sharif, so there's that

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2 days ago

eloped in Italy, which if you are someone who insists on planning and bureaucratic competence, ENJOY YOUR ANXIETY

may technically not be married, who can say. I can't read the license, it could be a dishwasher warranty for all I know

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2 days ago

gentleman's C, as long as he goes into a different major

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2 days ago
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a group of men are watching a basketball game between the chicago bulls and miami heat ALT: a group of men are watching a basketball game between the chicago bulls and miami heat

me when a podcast/instagram product is actually good

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