Dr Martha Bayless, PhD

This is important. Please do this.

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

#neverforget

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Raising my hand! It was straight from there to medieval Welsh.

first off, I detest "serial entrepreneurs" the words make my skin crawl.
Second, its intensely ironic to use "the decline of handwriting" cultures to sell an AI that writes for you. Can they hear themselves or are they just lost in the sauce?

It's interesting that this is the tail end of a whole series of supposed emails between Faith and Dr. Kutaywa, apparently first on Instagram. I gather the tone is comic. (Not that some profs are not just this objectionable.)

gentle, genteel, gentile, jaunty

I like the way the Olympic skiers just collapse onto the ground once they pass the finish line. If only we could do that at the end of the semester.

It's not that they think AI is better. It's that it's easier.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Mornington Crescent (game) - Wikipedia

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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Alive and posts often on Facebook — interesting stuff.

By checking your registration "you consent to receive recurring voting information and requests for support from Vote org." No no no, not having it.

whoever called it a hurdy-gurdy should get to name more things

Next week's @newyorker.com cover

I think the movie "The White Ribbon" (Das Weiße Band) is relevant here. People can be warped by abusive power structures that seem like the only norm in the world.

Good writing is insightful, absorbing, revelatory.

People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time

I can easily see editors recruiting submissions which they will then not send out for review (and thereby keep the fee), and refusing to send out all but sure things (probably by big names) so as to keep the fee. The indie journals are always skint, and the for-profits will also see opportunity.

And in fact Vincent Price was American — born in St. Louis.

I judge a company by how easy it is to unsubscribe from their emails

Trying this new thing where I make a plan first

Tupperware is great for when you want to throw your food out on a different day . . .

moral arc right to repair

Ambiguous announcement: is it the student and colleagues who get access to Copilot, or Copilot that gets access to the students and colleagues?

Painter John Singer Sargent was born on this day in 1856. In 1915 he painted this portrait of University Librarian Francis Jenkinson, to mark the 25th year of his librarianship. It hangs outside the present Librarian's office @theul.bsky.social.

And Seventeen had a writing contest every year. One year I won 3rd place; the 1st-place winner was (now famous writer, then a teenager) Lorrie Moore.

This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

So AI.