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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 15h

Movies definitely give you the impression that when the end of the world comes you’ll get the day off work.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 15h

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 15h

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 1d

God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 15h

in the past 2 months, I have seen--in person--two different people looking at their phones run straight into a utility pole.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 20h

I watched the preview and was like “I know her!!”

Very exciting! I don’t think I’ve heard of any of these films.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 1d

God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 1d

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Full Specs & Order Link: severinfilms.com/products/exo...

19 Feature Films Including Award-Winning Documentary, Plus New 168-Page Book & 21+ Combined Hours of Bonus Features

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 2d

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is far from perfect, but I’m not sure how many great PG horror movies there are.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

Starting to think online assessment is untenable in the age of LLMs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

If you ask ChatGPT to provide a works cited entry for a poem that you’ve uploaded or copied and pasted, it will provide a Poetry Foundation link to nowhere.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

Sensodyne commercials have the least convincing dentists I’ve ever seen.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

Also that low budget 2000s films looked uniquely shitty. I assume it’s the digital cameras they were using.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 7d

You know the Criterion Channel’s 2000s horror collection is not convincing me that the 2000s were a great decade for horror.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 3d

Woody Haut's Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood (2002) probably remains the definitive work on the miserable lives of the American noirists

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 4d

Sinners, right?

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 6d

Heroes!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Calgary students stage widespread school walkout to protest Alberta's transgender laws | CBC News

Students across several Calgary high schools walked out of class Friday morning to protest the province’s three controversial laws affecting transgender people across health-care, education and sports...

www.cbc.ca

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 7d

You know the Criterion Channel’s 2000s horror collection is not convincing me that the 2000s were a great decade for horror.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 7d

Damn, John Carpenters.

Our projections show that by the year 2025

will be under the protection and the dominion of this power alliance.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 9d

Writing a literature paper is hard: you’re dealing with abstract ideas, etc. So, a typical characteristic of student writing is awkwardness.

LLM writing isn’t awkward, because there’s no effort involved.

I see a long gerund phrase start a sentence, and I think “someone wrote this.”

Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 9d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 7d

In my expert opinion, The Death of Bunny Munro wasn’t a great novel.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 9d

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

It speaks to the changed media landscape that HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET was considered to have low ratings, with about 12 million+ viewers each episode.

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