THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.
Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
Screenshots from Andor when the Gorman councilman told Mon Mothma, “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
At Oklahoma University “it is now university policy to give paid suspension to any faculty member against whom a student has filed a complaint.”
I've been seeing people say about their work lately, "I used AI in the edits & refining of this piece, but it's all my own words & ideas."
I think people don't quite understand what "my own words" means. If you're using AI, the words are not your own. They are an amalgam of other people's words.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Enlightenment
Transformation
Healing
(All extremely welcomed)
Clarity
Opportunities
Tasgaglome
Clarity
Opportunities
Tasgaglome
Stop trying to make felch happen
Is this anything?
Night Tracks Blockbusters
SNL
MASH
(routine Saturday night lineup in middle school)
I was nine years old. Seared my brain.
Poor little guy looks cold! 🥶
“Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’”
centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...
“North Carolina Republicans are moving quickly to redraw the state’s already-gerrymandered map to give themselves a much better chance of winning an extra seat in the state.”
I have family members who have dual citizenships. 🤷🏼♀️
They spoke, the fifth day,
of silence.
Bus drivers, shelf stockers,
code writers, machinists, accountants,
lab techs, cellists kept speaking.
The silence spoke loudly of silence,
and the rivers kept speaking
of rivers, of boulders and air.
Bound to gravity, earless and tongueless,
the untested rivers kept speaking.
The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent.
Now it was only the rivers
that spoke of the rivers,
and only the wind that spoke of its bees,
while the unpausing factual buds of the fruit
trees
continued to move toward their fruit.
Someone, from deep in the Badlands,
began posting facts.
The facts were told not to speak
and were taken away.
and the ones who worked for the bees.
The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
and the ones who worked for the farmers
were silenced,
On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.
“Our findings show that women are rated significantly lower as they age from younger to middle age, with their lowest teaching ratings emerging at age 47. Men do not experience this drop in ratings.”
They spoke, the fifth day,
of silence.
