Jill Anderson
@jillian6475.bsky.social
historian. poetry, libraryish; working on mid-20th-century girls' art-career fiction. Central PA. Increasingly un-sold on microblogging.
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Some More Font Upgrades, After Yesterday’s Calibri News www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Some More Font Upgrades, After Yesterday’s Calibri News www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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What's on offer is a chance to speak to a slop simulacrum of *a* dead grandmother. "Have some tea, dearie!" MY dead grandmother was a science-fiction writer who once sent me a carbon copy of a sexually explicit query she'd written to Dan Savage. AI's gonna figure HER out with the right prompts? GTFO
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
What's on offer is a chance to speak to a slop simulacrum of *a* dead grandmother. "Have some tea, dearie!" MY dead grandmother was a science-fiction writer who once sent me a carbon copy of a sexually explicit query she'd written to Dan Savage. AI's gonna figure HER out with the right prompts? GTFO
I forget that there's this weird thing that happens here where competing power companies contact me demanding to "verify my usage" -- and that at least one company uses door-to-door salesmen who want to come in and have me pull up my bill on my phone. Which I really, really don't want to to do.
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I forget that there's this weird thing that happens here where competing power companies contact me demanding to "verify my usage" -- and that at least one company uses door-to-door salesmen who want to come in and have me pull up my bill on my phone. Which I really, really don't want to to do.
This is not saying what he apparently thinks it's saying.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is not saying what he apparently thinks it's saying.
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I often think about this quote scrawled on the wall of Laurie Anderson’s Four Talks installation at the Hirshhorn in DC:
October 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I often think about this quote scrawled on the wall of Laurie Anderson’s Four Talks installation at the Hirshhorn in DC:
if I were still teaching my dating-history course I would be bringing this passage in for discussion because it is so (apologies in advance) DATED and would fit right in with some of the primary sources we looked at.
in fact one semester I had a student do his final project on the q of "who pays."
in fact one semester I had a student do his final project on the q of "who pays."
There are men out there being told that THIS is why women don’t want to have sex with them, and that is very sad.
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
if I were still teaching my dating-history course I would be bringing this passage in for discussion because it is so (apologies in advance) DATED and would fit right in with some of the primary sources we looked at.
in fact one semester I had a student do his final project on the q of "who pays."
in fact one semester I had a student do his final project on the q of "who pays."
Hey @frost42.bsky.social have you heard about this New Boulean Logic New Boulean Logic? I hear it's great for helping patrons with perpxlexy and also with avoiding stereyptes. Very accesbile.
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Hey @frost42.bsky.social have you heard about this New Boulean Logic New Boulean Logic? I hear it's great for helping patrons with perpxlexy and also with avoiding stereyptes. Very accesbile.
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
@templeofgloom.bsky.social Thoughts on who would be Moorhead?
@alejandroariera.bsky.social I concur re Northfield
@alejandroariera.bsky.social I concur re Northfield
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
@templeofgloom.bsky.social Thoughts on who would be Moorhead?
@alejandroariera.bsky.social I concur re Northfield
@alejandroariera.bsky.social I concur re Northfield
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I named my fists White and Noise because you're about to experience an airborne toxic event.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I named my fists White and Noise because you're about to experience an airborne toxic event.
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I can't wait to tell my students to follow the Pope's teachings.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I can't wait to tell my students to follow the Pope's teachings.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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One of the most consistent and tiresome truisms of the arts world is that people who do not give a shit about the underlying fundamentals of your practice are always very happy to tell you how your future should actually be in whatever random thing they made money on in the stock market last month.
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One of the most consistent and tiresome truisms of the arts world is that people who do not give a shit about the underlying fundamentals of your practice are always very happy to tell you how your future should actually be in whatever random thing they made money on in the stock market last month.
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This tea is an invitation to put on fuzzy slippers, crack open a book, rest and recover. A kind reminder that "tireless" is a fallacy and taking care of one's self is worthy work as well."
Badger's Burrow
This blend is part of our Classic Literature collection. Check out the entire delicious collection here! There's nothing like an evening at home, enjoying one's own company with a good book by the fire. When you wish to burrow into a coziness, nothing quite hits the spot like a classic cuppa: black tea with honey and l
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November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This tea is an invitation to put on fuzzy slippers, crack open a book, rest and recover. A kind reminder that "tireless" is a fallacy and taking care of one's self is worthy work as well."
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"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
yes yes yes
Making my way through this extraordinary interview between @garthgreenwell.bsky.social and Brandon Taylor while I should be working, and this paragraph, about all the things that cut people off from each other, absolutely hit me in the face.
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
yes yes yes
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An exclusive look at the deal to reopen the government:
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: lucy pulling the football away from charlie brown
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An exclusive look at the deal to reopen the government:
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Really elucidates the New York Times "style" that we've seen in countless cases (particularly in the case of Mamdani and trans-related issues) where they try to hide their obvious bias behind a screen of both-sides-ism that ignores the fact that only one side really offers quality evidence.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Really elucidates the New York Times "style" that we've seen in countless cases (particularly in the case of Mamdani and trans-related issues) where they try to hide their obvious bias behind a screen of both-sides-ism that ignores the fact that only one side really offers quality evidence.
This is so exciting to me, as a PA transplant from a red state. Not as sexy as NYC or CA victories (which are great!) but still a good thing!
Absolutely huge result.
All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court. https://to.pbs.org/4oRlpKx
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is so exciting to me, as a PA transplant from a red state. Not as sexy as NYC or CA victories (which are great!) but still a good thing!
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This guy is a suuuuuper interesting piece of the Mamdani story to me.
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This guy is a suuuuuper interesting piece of the Mamdani story to me.