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Seth Rudy

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18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 12h

We’re going to have to pull #AI out of our culture like Arnold pulled the tracker out of his skull in Total Recall.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 15h

We’re two, maybe three semesters away from students demanding accommodations allowing them to bring their emotional support sexbots to classes and exams

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

See what you wanna do is get them to suspect you might be closer to 1000

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

As educators and admins lean ever further into “teaching” AI because employers will expect it, let us not lose sight of how many employers are idiots

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Me, an early career English prof: I am an historicist by training but I am also interested in genre theory and the history of ideas
Me, an English prof now:

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

I went viral here yesterday. Why have my finances, fame, social status, physical fitness, and general level of happiness not all changed accordingly?

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Good god, am I still here?

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 6d

The Diplomat, but The Kompromat

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 6d

Frankenstein: I detest the sight of you
Creature: father!
F: your existence evacuates life of joy and endangers all humanity
C: father!
F: you are wretched and should be destroyed
C: father!
F: on the other hand I really don’t want to write these emails, so you can stay
C: see you in hell dad

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 7d

I regularly try too hard to make my students make a connection between the Wealth of Nations and Frankenstein just because Shelley uses the phrase “invisible hand” one time

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 7d

Only if you mention the Creature doing chores for the De Lacys

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t want to sound cynical and pessimistic, but honestly what choice do I have

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 10d

I’m anti-AI but apparently not enough to be blocked by @tedunderwood.com. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 12d

Can I just submit a blanket atonement or do I need to itemize

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 14d

Watching WarGames (1983) for my AI class and Falken just referred to the missiles on the big screen as a “computer enhanced hallucination.” Coincidence with LLMs, or is that word older in comp sci than I thought?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 14d

Sec: I want to be surrounded by hot men. All the time, fit young men, fit older men, nothing but hot sexy strong men. And I want my son to be surrounded by hot men with me. Me and my son, looking at hot men, all day long, everywhere we go.

Pres: I like big boats and I cannot lie