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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12h

starter packs are old model. now we make finisher packs that liberate you from discourse

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 13h

Angry Bob Dylan is my favorite
Sad Bob Dylan is also great
Funny Bob Dylan is underrated

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time

Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d

For today’s Arm Day, I had to do an EXTRA SET of everything. And the only thing I halfassed was the last set of pushups.

When I started this a little over a year ago, all I wanted was to feel better but it looks like I got stronger by accident

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d

“From hell’s heart I stab at thee!” -Local Man

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 1d

enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d

Re the ChatGPT pivot to s*xting news: I am not looking forward to reading flirty term papers

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2d

Old literature has stood the test of time, while untested new ideas like AI might not pan out in the future. We know that reading books makes students smarter; we don't know that about AI, and it's too important to leave to experiments by corporations.

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 2d

^yes

Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta stop grading and go to bed so I can get up early to grade some more

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, yes, yes! All I can add is that this, for me, is a sacred experience

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 2d

“Twist and Shout,” The Beatles

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 2d

Unhinged literary opinion: there is not a monster at the end of the book

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 3d

Is your protagonist addicted to cocaine? Congratulations, you just invented a genre

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 3d

Awwww I love bears! (From a distance)

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Personally I prefer a society whose members feel some pressure to signal virtue over one where vice is continually rewarded

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 3d

POINT BREAK. Vaya con dios, bro!

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d

Without saying The Matrix, Fav Keanu Reeves Film?

Keanu Reeves in a black suit and grey scarf short messy black hair trimmed grey beard smiling in front of a pink background. hot.

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t need therapy, I just need everyone to stop being wrong.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 3d

I think there's a lot of truth in this. But I think there's a parallel (good) conservatism in uni press monographs and, especially, peer-reviewed journals, where work must be embedded among interlocutors and building incrementally. That work's still being done every day, despite it all

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 3d

I also believe that most anything you use AI to do at your job is something you won’t be paid for in 3-5 years

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3d

"AI as an assessment tool represents an existential threat to education because no matter how you try and establish guardrails or best practices around how it is employed, using the technology in place of an educator ultimately cedes human judgment to a machine-based process."

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

marcwatkins.substack.com

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 4d

Ed Wood >>>>>>> AI

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Student: I need 4 pages on the Odyssey by tomorrow

[Weird] Al: he’s just a small town boy, returning from the war in Troooo-oooy

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 4d

Professor: This reads more like a parody of an essay to me

Student: . . .

Professor: Did you use Weird AI by accident?

Student: . . .

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Dr. Will Frankenstein-Danzig @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 4d

Professor: This reads more like a parody of an essay to me

Student: . . .

Professor: Did you use Weird AI by accident?

Student: . . .

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