Heather Chacon
@wickettred.bsky.social
English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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NYT: A professor who showed a graphic labeling the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster “intellectual diversity.”
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November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
NYT: A professor who showed a graphic labeling the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster “intellectual diversity.”
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Give me an old building like this any day
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Give me an old building like this any day
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I don't object to the idea that "the South" has a racist past and present. I object to essentialism that levels its people into a homogenous mass of bigots and to exceptionalism that demarcates particular forms of hate as regional, and therefore atypical for--rather than emblematic of--the nation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don't object to the idea that "the South" has a racist past and present. I object to essentialism that levels its people into a homogenous mass of bigots and to exceptionalism that demarcates particular forms of hate as regional, and therefore atypical for--rather than emblematic of--the nation.
I think this coat could fix me
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I think this coat could fix me
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Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Generative AI actually stands for generative ass impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Generative AI actually stands for generative ass impersonation.
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There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
I am home at 3:21 and going to do the most decadent thing imaginable
Take a fucking starfish shaped nap
Take a fucking starfish shaped nap
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am home at 3:21 and going to do the most decadent thing imaginable
Take a fucking starfish shaped nap
Take a fucking starfish shaped nap
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If these are the mistakes it makes and the best practice solution is to double check w “academic research, industry experts, and professional organizations”…why do we not just do the trusted sources first???
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If these are the mistakes it makes and the best practice solution is to double check w “academic research, industry experts, and professional organizations”…why do we not just do the trusted sources first???
All faculty are being made to complete this or else we loose the ability to send email
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
All faculty are being made to complete this or else we loose the ability to send email
New adult milestone reached:
Had to buy a new toilet.
Had to buy a new toilet.
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New adult milestone reached:
Had to buy a new toilet.
Had to buy a new toilet.
All I am saying is
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
All I am saying is
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Pretty sure that man is trying to kill the thc derived market to spite Rand Paul, specifically and in particular.
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Pretty sure that man is trying to kill the thc derived market to spite Rand Paul, specifically and in particular.
The pleasure of telling a student that not finding many people talking about their way of seeing a book does not mean they are doing research wrong, but that they are making a good contribution and need to do it!
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The pleasure of telling a student that not finding many people talking about their way of seeing a book does not mean they are doing research wrong, but that they are making a good contribution and need to do it!
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Look, I get why people are pointing out the intense utter hypocrisy of it all. But this all presumes that right wing conspiracy theorists ever cared about exploitable populations and not that they constantly target people through the lens of social panics that exploit peoples fears and anxieties.
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Look, I get why people are pointing out the intense utter hypocrisy of it all. But this all presumes that right wing conspiracy theorists ever cared about exploitable populations and not that they constantly target people through the lens of social panics that exploit peoples fears and anxieties.
Do I mention this in the teeth class, or
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Do I mention this in the teeth class, or
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Is Kansas the South or the Midwest? Discuss
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Is Kansas the South or the Midwest? Discuss