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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 7d

The Hapless Child
— Edward Gorey

Black and white illustration a white girl in a white dress standing in a gloomy densely decorated doc Victorian parlor

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 23h

Michael Wolf, Paris Rooftops, 2014.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 23h

‘The relationship, as established by Flaubert, was quite straightforward: he was an Artist, while his publisher was a Tradesman. Nor was there any question of which entrance to Flaubert’s house in Croisset the publisher should use, because Flaubert never invited him there.’

By Julian Barnes:

Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 23h

‘Somehow Violet Lang barely seems to have been real; one can picture her passing into legend. Yet exist she did, annoying as many people as she entranced along the way. “I wish you disaster, nothing permanent,” she wrote in one poem, bequeathing the most mixed of messages for us to brood upon.’

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 23h

‘“the tools that are best evaluated have been least adopted. The tools that are most adopted have been least evaluated.”’

AI could make it harder to establish blame for medical failings, experts say

Report raises concerns about liability issues and lack of testing as development of AI health tools booms

www.theguardian.com

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2d

i do think a simple answer is right there for us guys

WaPo column: Column Karla L. Miller
Work Advice: How to avoid
'workslop' and other Al
pitfalls
999+

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 3d

Temptation of St Anthony

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 3d

Score of Felix Mendelssohn’s Schilflied illustrated by his own watercolour, 1842.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘“The Snow Leopard” … is both a record of a man’s failings and a book written to avoid confronting them.’

Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner crisis.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘Maybe my favorite fact in the whole book is that your dealer was a member of the string section of the New York Philharmonic.

I think he played the cello. It’s extraordinary, isn’t it? I don’t know how that happened. But he was a very nice man’

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is the fundamental problem tho… thinking of time devoted/required to developing connections - interpersonal, intellectual, creative, etc - as ’inefficiency’, a failure to *produce*

Mizzy Blundell-Straw MP 🌹 @mizzyblundellstraw.bsky.social · 3d

The emotional labour of thinking

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2d

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 2d

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

History Workshop and, largely because I use it surprisingly often for teaching, History Compass.

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Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social · 2d

Maine Central Railroad was chartered in 1856 and began operations in 1862. By 1884, it was the longest railroad in New England. It was the merger of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad and the Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad, resulting in a line from Danville (now Auburn) to Bangor.

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 8d

Seated female torso, 1918 by Egon Schiele

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 5d

Miss E. Carise by George Hoyningen-Huene, Paris 1930.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘“More money is pouring in, more businesses are feeling the pressure to do likewise, without knowing how they can really use AI. It’s the worst of both worlds — you don’t get productivity improvement… At the same time, you displace people and you reduce the possibility for meaningful human work.”’

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 3d

We’re back … and we brought you a wonderful weekend Umlaut from Würzburg.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 7d

Manuel Cabré
Tejados de la Vieja Caracas y el Avila, 1933

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

“In his address to the UN last month, the Uruguayan president, Yamandú Orsi, spoke of how he ‘can walk among the people without bodyguards, and can enjoy a football match in the stands of a stadium like any other supporter’”

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘Conflicts over what may seem like minor details pointed to a broader debate: the more sophisticated the operation, the more plausible the theory that the Russian state had played a role in its facilitation.’

By @philipoltermann.bsky.social

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

Saint Jerome and his lion, bonding meditatively over thoughts of life's vanity in 1548. As painted by Georg Pencz, whose day is today.

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