Ashley Rattner
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Former Internet personality
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This is 19999% something Heather Gay would order and then throw up in a sprinter van
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is 19999% something Heather Gay would order and then throw up in a sprinter van
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Here are Musk's replies to the five different times Rogan lobs him softballs about how AI is likely to improve in the future:
"Yeah yeah."
"Yeah. Have you ... yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yes. No, it's ... yeah."
"Yeah yeah."
"Yeah. Have you ... yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yes. No, it's ... yeah."
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Here are Musk's replies to the five different times Rogan lobs him softballs about how AI is likely to improve in the future:
"Yeah yeah."
"Yeah. Have you ... yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yes. No, it's ... yeah."
"Yeah yeah."
"Yeah. Have you ... yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yes. No, it's ... yeah."
"FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD"
–Alabama Department of Transportation signage
–Alabama Department of Transportation signage
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD"
–Alabama Department of Transportation signage
–Alabama Department of Transportation signage
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Perfect ASA experience: present 4 papers on rot, someone in the audience is like “actually this all reminds me of gooning” then we all talk about the energy economy of gooning for 15 minutes
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Perfect ASA experience: present 4 papers on rot, someone in the audience is like “actually this all reminds me of gooning” then we all talk about the energy economy of gooning for 15 minutes
It's called marketing
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social doing her part to force C19 on everybody at ASA
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
It's called marketing
Dental humanities reunion at @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's Berenice paper at ASA this weekend!
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Dental humanities reunion at @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's Berenice paper at ASA this weekend!
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One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
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fully prepared to blame Ezra Pound for this as well
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
fully prepared to blame Ezra Pound for this as well
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are you going to be at ASA in San Juan this weekend? Come listen to me, @ashleyrattner.bsky.social, @ericastevens.bsky.social, and friends talk about all things rotten in this failing state! (Graphic courtesy of Ashley. I bullied her into making it a few months ago, and I forget why)
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
are you going to be at ASA in San Juan this weekend? Come listen to me, @ashleyrattner.bsky.social, @ericastevens.bsky.social, and friends talk about all things rotten in this failing state! (Graphic courtesy of Ashley. I bullied her into making it a few months ago, and I forget why)
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Actually I use bitcoin as a septic system
Is this the modern equivalent of using currency as wallpaper?
Americans are heating their homes with bitcoin this winter
Winter across the U.S. means big bills for home heating oil, gas and electric furnaces, but in some cases, crypto like bitcoin is paying to keep Americans warm.
www.cnbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Actually I use bitcoin as a septic system
Buried the lede here. We did it, Gord
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Buried the lede here. We did it, Gord
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
"mind deranged, 376"
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"mind deranged, 376"
Italian-American discrimination? Today I yelled at someone in a meeting so loudly that Google Meet said it was adjusting my volume
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Italian-American discrimination? Today I yelled at someone in a meeting so loudly that Google Meet said it was adjusting my volume
There used to be a record store in Memphis and when they were closed they'd hang up a sign with a picture of Townes Van Zandt that read "CLOSE YOUR EYES, I'LL BE HERE IN THE MORNING"
every record fair, every record store i go to i look for something by townes. have never found him, not even as a duet or a guest on someone else’s album or whatever. he’s my white whale
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There used to be a record store in Memphis and when they were closed they'd hang up a sign with a picture of Townes Van Zandt that read "CLOSE YOUR EYES, I'LL BE HERE IN THE MORNING"
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temporary moratorium on people asking me for stuff
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
temporary moratorium on people asking me for stuff
Is this anything
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Is this anything