Jennifer Czechowski

Won't read this because I don't hate myself.

From Austin Powers: "That train has sailed."

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

It's funny because I always heard that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.

We just started using Panopto at my job, and I am unsettled by the name.

This one was FASCINATING

Oh, I will be judging.

James Carville, back on his bullshit in the New York Times.

Jesus Christ, are we still doing this? It's parody at this point.

She uses it as a simile. My bad.

It's funny that she uses driverless cars as a metaphor here. I use it too when I tell my freshman comp students why we won't use ChatGPT in a class that is meant to teach them to write: would you use a self-driving car in driver's ed?

Girl. Stop.

Teachers don't have to accept everything that the tech industry tries to force on us. LLMs have not been good for students, and they are starting to realize it. I am going to continue to teach writing skills and critical thinking, even if it doesn't make any money for Sam Altman.

think i’ll pass on “proudly hailing” brad pitt, who physically abused his ex-wife so horrifically in front of his children that none of them will speak to him

Oval-framed daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglass, a prominent 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, and orator. He wears a dark jacket, patterned waistcoat, white shirt, and bow tie. His expression is serious and resolute, with his wavy hair parted to the side. The photograph reflects his dignity and strength as a leader in the fight against slavery.

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

I anxiously await @edburmila.bsky.social's take on Thom Tillis.

I hate it here.

"I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?"

I am, and I am.

I think one thing chatGPT's invention has revealed is how many people - including some very important people in society - find just basic reading and writing to be laborious and cumbersome to perform, and how oddly closely that type of strained literacy correlates with having other shitty opinions.

when it comes to the second trump term i am dreading the return of randy rainbow about 90% as much as i'm concerned about loss of my personal civil rights

Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

Other important things I learned:
-it's okay for adults to like pop music
-I very much like a less car-dependent lifestyle (and I wasn't even in London, so we're talking the bus and Pat and Charlie)

Who could have foretold that the most valuable thing about studying abroad in the UK in 1998 is that it would enable me to have an opinion on a movie in which Robbie Williams is represented by a CGI monkey?

Seeing The Graduate at the Gene Siskel Film Center with my daughter on our trip to Chicago. It was part of a series of films with iconic final shots.

🎶It's the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the year🎶

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

1. REM, Automatic for the People
2. The Cure, Wish
3. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
4. Jeff Buckley, Grace

48--the actual age I will be in two months.

Is microdosing the news a thing?

This is the goal, and I have no idea how to do it.