monique flores ulysses 🧿

Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

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Tolkien Against the Grain - Dissent Magazine The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

Loved this.

"Tolkien Against the Grain"
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolk...

04.05.2025 23:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is.

You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.

02.05.2025 16:59 — 👍 447    🔁 165    💬 10    📌 11

The Heir Conditioner | Los Angeles Review of Books The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”

Very excited to get my hands on this book!

"The Heir Conditioner"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

12.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Noah Wyle Was Nearing a ‘Nervous Breakdown.’ Then Came ‘The Pitt’: It’s ‘Infuriating We Can’t Come to a Consensus’ on Masks and Vaccines Noah Wyle didn't want to play a doctor again after his 15 years on "ER." Then came COVID and "The Pitt."

I am absolutely obsessed with The Pitt
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television | Defector On Sept. 19, 1994, a week before Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared that there was no legislative path forward in the current Congress for the Clinton administration’s healthcare reform a...

"In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television"
defector.com/in-praise-of...

06.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

as a pg-13 movie, return of the king can technically drop one f bomb. but where to deploy it

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land acknowledgments are deeply insufficient sometimes diving straight into cringe but anyone who's only run into a few over the past decade is revealing a lot about the limits of their engagement with culture

06.03.2025 17:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Quit buying shit, write poems, live más

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Jeremy Strong on Poking Fun at Method Acting With Dunkin’ Donuts Super Bowl Ad: ‘I Had No Trouble Taking the Piss Out of Myself’ Jeremy Strong talks about sending up his method acting with a new Dunkin' Donuts ad and shares details about his upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic.

Unironically, I loved this. Like, "one creamer by land, two sugars by sea" ????? Come on that's hilarious and totally wacky.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

16.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of 5 dog figurines in profile facing to the left in a staggered line. The closest one is reddish, the three in the middle are beige, and the furthest is dark grey. Each one has a cuneiform inscription on their side.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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😭

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I've been slowly listening to @thedigradio.bsky.social eps with Michael Denning on Stuart Hall all week and it is like a soothing balm applied on a fresh wound. Might have to re-listen (for a third time lol) to the Gramsci ones he did, too.

30.01.2025 14:40 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Dog of Randall the Jeweler, ca. 1875.

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The timeless monasteries and sacred art of Greece’s holy mountain Over a millennium’s worth of Orthodox monastic life has played out on Mount Athos, with its icons, incense and lanterns. But the fourth-century liturgy? It’s all Greek to Joshua Barley

Finding great solace in these photos today
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/mount-...

24.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely cannot wait to listen to this!!

14.01.2025 21:15 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“El sueño de la razón” (2008), Myra Barraza. A drawing of a woman's head on an otherwise blank piece of paper, placed off center, laying prone and staring toward the viewer.

Very excited to share an editorial project that has been published digitally by Fence Magazine:

"'I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast': six women writing from El Salvador," spanning the years of the Salvadoran civil war through the present.
fenceportal.org/six-women-wr...

07.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

🎉🎉
FIGHTING FOR CONTROL: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social is available now wherever books are sold. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

09.01.2025 13:53 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

09.01.2025 12:44 — 👍 52149    🔁 14267    💬 792    📌 862

Objecting to the specific implications of a particular technology for a particular set of goals is neither resisting technology in general nor trying to hold up the inexorable flow of time, and anyone who says differently is most likely either selling something or justifying a purchase

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All respect to the Luddites, but also: I don't think scholars who use digitized archives and online journal databases and Powerpoint presentations and all the rest of it are best understood as "anti-technology" if they resist the use of generative AI to undermine the integrity of research or writing

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How to critically read a text. This is what the author wrote, here’s one way to interpret what they’re saying and here’s why I think it’s interesting or significant. It’s an invaluable skill. And increasingly rare across different mediums.

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I have a brilliant plan, all I need is:
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world

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Alex Volko @altryne On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long) I got my 6 yo daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isnt like the other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things Ive built and interacted with them, chatted with ChatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc). So a very interesting experiment happaned after @magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround thank you) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and the..learned to turn it off, and doesnt want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top that we made together, but every time I ask her if shed like to chat with it, she says no.

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

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Merry Slopmas! AI-generated Christmas classics that dwell in the uncanny valley are giving listeners the creeps.

This is a fucking nightmare???

"[I]f you’re streaming Christmas music today, did something seem a little off to you? If so, there’s a very good chance you’ve been listening to AI-generated carol-slop."
www.404media.co/email/d77d05...

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