Yeah, I went and looked at what he said when all the brouhaha arose, and didn't have the feeling he was saying it to insult those art forms!
09.03.2026 15:55
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Yeah, I went and looked at what he said when all the brouhaha arose, and didn't have the feeling he was saying it to insult those art forms!
Whoah... I didn't know this was a thing, but had "Clint Eastwood" stuck in my head all day yesterday!
Fighting back against the algorithmically generated internet by texting friends links.
(I want to be clear I'm saying there are crumbs under MY washing machine!)
Guilty as charged!
(I'm legitimately grateful that it's made me realize this!)
The whole AI thing has made me intensely aware of the fact that what I value in writing is the relationship between human minds.
Although, cheekily, she is neither 19th c. nor British, this is where you can read about May Birkhead!
Piggybacking on this to boost a session I'm organizing that very much wants to hear from contingent faculty! mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
There are a number of #MLA27 calls for papers focused on contingent faculty — please check them out…
mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
I lose my teaching tone every summer.
(my second hand copy of the book is part of a "queer literature" series--score one for different publishing apparatuses producing different texts! )
I love the PBS series, and it's faithful in my memory--hence me feeling confused about that language that kind of suggests they're two different things?
Lots going on in that "Companion to the PBS TV series"...
Who among us has not tried to use paperclips as hair ties?
This is brilliant.
How does one write a scholarly book in the face of the conviction that no one reads scholarly books?
Congratulations!!
Mostly the internet is bad, but I just read a review of a Rancho Gordo bean varietal that described it as having "main character energy," so I think I'll probably stick around.
No, I think you could enter France on either!
I believe you have to reenter the US on your US passport.
Reposting for the Friday crowd...
This is the problem (which I'm not blaming the journalists for!). I can get nearly a whole newspaper subscription for the price of one substack!
(I admit that I don't know details of the Google-university deals that let them digitize the books in the first place, I just know that for a number of years I could search Googlebooks and see pages and page #s, and then that got taken away)
I'm happy to just blame Google here and not universities: I think every day about how individuals lost access to already scanned books in GoogleBooks years ago, yet Google got to train their AI on them.
So angry he invented pseudonyms to get angry under!
name me a thing Ezra Pound didn’t get super mad about ;)
(I don’t mean to be an apologist for these insulting emails!!)
The most generous read on this is that it’s probably for the best if they’re not trying to hire middle aged men to tutor their 14 year old….
As a person who’s spent decades trying to decide whether to call my hair brown or black in my driver’s license, looks like I have my answer!