19cprof
@lauracstruve.com
Professor of English literature at Wilmington College, lover of Victorian things, mother of two
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
Kids! They give the worst course evals!
Angry 5yo: “you’re the worst mommy in the WHOLE UNIVERSITY!”
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Kids! They give the worst course evals!
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Week thirteen of the semester, every time
Wile E Coyote Falls Off Cliff
YouTube video by Frankie Allen
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Week thirteen of the semester, every time
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I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was"
The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
Restaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stop
He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back
uk.news.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was"
The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education.
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“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?
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If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
August 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
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As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
August 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
Evergreen
I would like everything everywhere to stop getting worse all the time
August 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Evergreen
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i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane
July 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane
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TIMELINE: ok i hear what you're saying. but what if things got dumber
July 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
TIMELINE: ok i hear what you're saying. but what if things got dumber
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"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Thinking a lot lately about how we have for some time treated the reading of books as a means to an end in school rather than the books themselves as a worthwhile end.
Lots of complicated thoughts on this but it's definitely something I've been wrestling with.
Lots of complicated thoughts on this but it's definitely something I've been wrestling with.
July 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thinking a lot lately about how we have for some time treated the reading of books as a means to an end in school rather than the books themselves as a worthwhile end.
Lots of complicated thoughts on this but it's definitely something I've been wrestling with.
Lots of complicated thoughts on this but it's definitely something I've been wrestling with.