I just went through months of outlook spam and found a dead-letters-office-worth of failed and misdirected messages. In addition to real spam, sent to long-departed colleagues, former instructors, people dearly missed. Spammy nostalgia is real.
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No war. histories of paper. media theory. 19th c German lit. misses Bucharest
If you stare long enough at Bucharest’s 19th c ruined mansions, you might actually watch them fall apart in real time.
Had to do a bit of Berlin Schönhauser Corner (1957) reconstruction work - including a (bad) homage to that amazing 360 title sequence
Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...
Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century - ZfL Berlin
zfl-berlin.org
Going through old pics, found this post-covid MLA panel classic
oh, this is brilliant: fake tech ads! (please make more?) goofstump.space
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Democratizing AI versatility for the human generation.
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Pick one: narrated by David Attenborough? or Werner Herzog?
Imagining how surprised someone will be, 40-50 years hence, to learn of the New School’s origins…. For that matter, to discover that for decades, Indiana University taught more languages than any other school in the country. And bragged about it!!
cass@cassiusa.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Purity Ring concert yesterday in Vancouver- a reminder to re/watch Search Party if you haven’t done so already!
Switching to final exams next year; at least I won’t have to read endless variations of the same bot-ified idea.
my favorite kind of end-of-term grading: grading while sick 🤒
the absurdity of teaching Perfect Days right now, wondering if shadows get darker when they overlap. actually, the absurdity of teaching anything right now
(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.
Why are the cinematic takes on humanities academia so absurdly bad? Name one that’s decent please.
do potato-picking farm trips for the glory of the socialist fatherland count or is that too niche?
Oh but let’s spend more time thinking critically about AI
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5mo agoThese evil mfs
fungus aesthetics: hair ice creations, courtesy of Exidiopsis effusa this morning
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
docs.google.com
kids, I beg you *please* stop reading those g00gle AI "overviews"
“The Secret Agent Network,” a series programmed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is on from January 7 through 13 @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
