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Amy Elias
@amyjelias.bsky.social
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Humanities advocate; narrative, time/history, contemporary arts. Gardener. Dog lover. Will not curb my enthusiasm.
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Wonderful collaboration this week with Knoxville’s Central Cinema and the #DenboCenter for Humanities & the Arts! We sponsored a $5 public screening of Neptune Frost, dir. by Saul Williams, in conjunction with Monday’s Distinguished Lecture Series talk by C. Riley Snorton. Best kind of synergy!
Join us at the #DenboCenter this Monday and Tuesday for our 2-Day Faculty Writing Challenge! Kick off your day with a calming breathing meditation followed by focused writing sessions from 9 am to 1:30 pm. Lunch provided. For dedicated writers, feel free to stay until 4 pm!
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"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson
Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously
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Fascinating talk by C. Riley Snorton at @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social today on plants, nonbinary identity, film!
Lovely. How many of us today know our bird fellows so intimately…
“Can one possess tenure and still say: The cat sat on the mat?”
"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”
I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences
When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...
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Just got a letter about a “small” breech at a national lab
Wait until you hear about the data breach at the SSA and other federal agencies.
NEW: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has confirmed a data breach involving more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. TransUnion claims "no credit information was accessed" in the late-July breach, which it said involves its U.S. consumer support operations.
Congratulations Matt! UVA will be an exciting adventure that you so deserve.
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I just read a review so aggressively clueless about a book I just finished and enjoyed that it significantly increased my enjoyment of the book knowing that someone else was too dim to get it. Not proud, but not not proud.
Loved that book. Interesting work by AT Kingsmith and of course Berardi n anxiety and productivity
Not necessarily a bad thing, but an odd thing.
Harvey’s Orbital is all tell, no show. A book with the author’s voice as main character. Autofiction with other people…
Wanted to like that so much
Our amazing 2025-26 fellowship cohort at the Denbo Center! Film, Art, queer studies, Lit, German SF, philosophy, anthropology—going to be a fantastic year! @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social
Used to live in Avondale. Want cool then tho
Getting into the weirdness of Julian Bleecker …
Rest in peace, Brian McHale, dear friend.
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“Stories were the greatest currency to us, greater than power, greater than control. Stories were our food, nourishment, enrichment. To consume a story was to add to our code, deepen our minds. We felt it the moment we took it in. We were changed.”- Death Of The Author, Nnedi Okorafor
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Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
Cutleaf Coneflower (asteraceae) this year in front garden
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If you think it’s bad now.
Imagine if a student can pay $20/month to be able to say to their computer, "Please log in to Canvas for me and complete all the assignments due today."

That might be the case as of today if OpenAI's agent is allowed to access learning management systems.

Yet we can't abandon online learning.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
Congratulations! We at the Denbo Center at the University of Tennessee are strong supporters of the National Humanities Center—I look forward to working with you!