aohsu
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Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
It is profoundly ethical and collegial to make fun of any of your colleagues doing this shit. It looks dumb, they look dumb, you look dumb by association.
a lot of people are yelling at her but she’s 100% right here. ai art is just one of many tools you can use to make your powerpoint presentations more engaging for your audiences! i, for instance, rely on the starving artist i have chained up in my basement to make cute infographics!
i have no issue with it - I've used AI generated cartoons myself to liven up slides. it cna do a much better job than I can!
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It is profoundly ethical and collegial to make fun of any of your colleagues doing this shit. It looks dumb, they look dumb, you look dumb by association.
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
The sequel to _Wicked_ apparently features not only animals regaining their sentience, but strawmen too! This one imagines “being another Lincoln,” the Great Emancipator. #defyingslavery
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The sequel to _Wicked_ apparently features not only animals regaining their sentience, but strawmen too! This one imagines “being another Lincoln,” the Great Emancipator. #defyingslavery
Every man on earth is a combination of four Davids: Bowie, Byrne, Lynch, and the Psalmist.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Every man on earth is a combination of four Davids: Bowie, Byrne, Lynch, and the Psalmist.
What are your favorite “colon a novel” novels?
Colon A Novel Novels:
Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Salvage the Bones
The Golden Notebook
LaRose
The City and its Uncertain Walls
Under the Volcano
Cahokia Jazz
Lincoln
Embassytown
The shipping news
An unnecessary woman
The Books of Jacob
The Intuitionist
A Tale for the Time Being
The Luminaries
Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Salvage the Bones
The Golden Notebook
LaRose
The City and its Uncertain Walls
Under the Volcano
Cahokia Jazz
Lincoln
Embassytown
The shipping news
An unnecessary woman
The Books of Jacob
The Intuitionist
A Tale for the Time Being
The Luminaries
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What are your favorite “colon a novel” novels?
What kinds of responses do conservatives make to such claims? “Would have died anyway”? “It’s good they died”? “They weren’t really human”?
People should be held accountable for evading the law and constitution to precipitously shut down USAID, without any action by Congress.
It was not just illegal and unconstitutional, but a crime against humanity.
It was not just illegal and unconstitutional, but a crime against humanity.
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
What kinds of responses do conservatives make to such claims? “Would have died anyway”? “It’s good they died”? “They weren’t really human”?
Can’t tell if _Babel_ is brilliant or the equivalent of a silver brick with “tosh” inscribed on one face and “malarkey” on the opposite
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Can’t tell if _Babel_ is brilliant or the equivalent of a silver brick with “tosh” inscribed on one face and “malarkey” on the opposite
Some people are really frightened about all the expensive and energy sucking data centers we’re building for the AI productivity boom that will probably never arrive. Tosh! After the bust we can just use them to house the unhoused, after converting them into data.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Some people are really frightened about all the expensive and energy sucking data centers we’re building for the AI productivity boom that will probably never arrive. Tosh! After the bust we can just use them to house the unhoused, after converting them into data.
Distended Colon: a novel coronavirus
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Distended Colon: a novel coronavirus
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My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...
*TEDtalking out of my butt* what the Buddhists call “dependent origination” and the Christians call “original sin” is, at bottom, a more fundamental crisis: a male horniness epidemic
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
*TEDtalking out of my butt* what the Buddhists call “dependent origination” and the Christians call “original sin” is, at bottom, a more fundamental crisis: a male horniness epidemic
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Biden confirms what I already know about hunter biden, and people from the state of Georgia more generally: of desperate and likely criminal character, worthy of my pity but not much of my thought
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Biden confirms what I already know about hunter biden, and people from the state of Georgia more generally: of desperate and likely criminal character, worthy of my pity but not much of my thought
Ebook novels I’ve borrowed from the library are of two forms: those whose titles end “: a novel” and those that don’t because they are confident they are in fact novels
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ebook novels I’ve borrowed from the library are of two forms: those whose titles end “: a novel” and those that don’t because they are confident they are in fact novels
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I think GoodReads exists to confound any theory of the reader we might be tempted to develop. One cannot induce what reading is like for others based on one’s own account of reading, or others’ accounts for that matter. It’s just always so much weirder.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think GoodReads exists to confound any theory of the reader we might be tempted to develop. One cannot induce what reading is like for others based on one’s own account of reading, or others’ accounts for that matter. It’s just always so much weirder.
Couples’ bathrobes labeled “the nuzz” and “the lizz”
Sorry I have to tweet this out to banish the image from my mind, which spontaneously came up with it from your tweets
Sorry I have to tweet this out to banish the image from my mind, which spontaneously came up with it from your tweets
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Couples’ bathrobes labeled “the nuzz” and “the lizz”
Sorry I have to tweet this out to banish the image from my mind, which spontaneously came up with it from your tweets
Sorry I have to tweet this out to banish the image from my mind, which spontaneously came up with it from your tweets
Was surprised to learn that a children’s book I checked out from the library was ranked 3.7 stars on GoodReads. “What kind of adults are rating children’s books on websites?” I thought to myself.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Was surprised to learn that a children’s book I checked out from the library was ranked 3.7 stars on GoodReads. “What kind of adults are rating children’s books on websites?” I thought to myself.
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People say that RSS feeds are great, but mine was just full of pro-Modi stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
People say that RSS feeds are great, but mine was just full of pro-Modi stuff.
Read two pieces by professors today about the place of reading in the classroom. One you could sum up “no they can’t read, and nobody is coming to save us” and the other “in spite of academia’s being set on fire, they can still read and it matters.” They’re kind of saying the same thing, but …
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Read two pieces by professors today about the place of reading in the classroom. One you could sum up “no they can’t read, and nobody is coming to save us” and the other “in spite of academia’s being set on fire, they can still read and it matters.” They’re kind of saying the same thing, but …
Why is translation only thematized in sci-fi and fantasy genres (Embassytown, Babel, Arrival, “babelfish” in Hitchhiker), but not high literary fiction (Bel Canto, maybe?)?
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Why is translation only thematized in sci-fi and fantasy genres (Embassytown, Babel, Arrival, “babelfish” in Hitchhiker), but not high literary fiction (Bel Canto, maybe?)?
Instead of ten dolls I will buy my kid one ham
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Instead of ten dolls I will buy my kid one ham
Just like “Caesar” became a title, in the future we will bow and pay tribute to our American Brandon.
brandon doesn't make the office, the office makes the brandon
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Just like “Caesar” became a title, in the future we will bow and pay tribute to our American Brandon.
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows ONE BIG thing: hell yeah I’m a hedgehog 😎🦔— Isaiah “Sonic” Berlin
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows ONE BIG thing: hell yeah I’m a hedgehog 😎🦔— Isaiah “Sonic” Berlin
In Soviet Russia dogs rate you!
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In Soviet Russia dogs rate you!
How was turkey prepared here pre-Columbus?
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
How was turkey prepared here pre-Columbus?
The whole methodology of social psych has always seemed sus to me: “isolate” a “subject” in an enclosed space, make weird statements in front of them, write down how they respond, generalize about “human behavior”
One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The whole methodology of social psych has always seemed sus to me: “isolate” a “subject” in an enclosed space, make weird statements in front of them, write down how they respond, generalize about “human behavior”