I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
Now that we've done Mother Ann, can we have a movie about Public Universal Friend?
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved.
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This article is about exactly what the headline says. The teacher of a course about how to analyze and compose moral arguments has been instructed to remove readings by Plato that introduce thought exercises that very superficially involve "split people". dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Well. Hello! We get a notification email when a book sells on our website. Guess what email came in a minute before midnight on October 31st? 🧙
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x
Let's do this. One like, one book we love.
Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · last yr.One like, one thing I hate
Stupid - ignorant - lame - crazy - out of your mind - full of **it - conformist - sheep - ****ing lib - lib**** - hysterical - filthy - fearmonger - uninformed - way behind - inconsistent - inconsiderate - trying to harm me - ****faced - ableist - leftist - Marxist - socialist - fascist - ugly - sta
PAY WHAT YOU WANT SALE!!! All money received goes to Antelope Lending Library! www.antelopelendinglibrary.org Suggested donation $1/hardcover, 50c/paperback.
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday
I know the majority of people never will but it's been fun hanging out and listening to people reminisce about how the internet and social media used to be.... Forums, affiliate links, webrings, blogs. We had so much control. We really gave it all up
Books That Burn@booksthatburn.com · 2y agoThe internet used to be a pile of links to cool websites. Then we spent two decades with working search engines and people didn't need to know where everything was. Then google broke itself with AI. I've made a website to catalog niche sites that do one cool thing really well, for free. #NoAI
They never wrote articles like this when Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people. Remember that.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2y agoThe brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
That feeling when you did your dissertation on a guy from Roman Syria and were hoping one day to be able to visit the ruins of his hometown ... .
I have created a Starter Pack. I tried to design it to appeal to general used and independent bookstores, but with a leaning towards rare and collectible books. Book collectors in general may find it inviting, though. So, please do send it to anyone who fits those criteria: go.bsky.app/DLyksnY
Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...
