We’re doing a panel on Merisky’s Everyday Ecofascism at the American Studies Association on Friday, and it was helpful to listen to this.

So many applicants now use LLMs like ChatGPT to write cover letters, they no longer communicate much or anything about the qualities of the applicant.

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Saw this in a toy store window and somehow it seems like an apt response.

I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly!

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I enjoyed reading this a lot—even the sometimes-frustrating refusal to translate anything in a text that’s very polyglot—and think it’s take on AI is especially insightful.

I’ve been reading a lot about 20C Korea for something I’m working on, and I cannot recommend this new book by Kornel Chang enough.

It’s about the U.S. occupation of southern Korea right after WW2, but it also feels all too generalizable.

My commute to work the other day... but oh, the allergies.

One of the hardest stories to tell is of poor people living full and meaningful lives. When Life Gives You Tangerines is absolutely rocking this.