Lenora Warren
@ldwarren.bsky.social
Cornell University Department of Literatures in English
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fire-on-the-water/9781684480173/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fire-on-the-water/9781684480173/
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Remember that state seats are what determine how gerrymandered the 435 house districts are and who that gerrymandering favors
So state elections should be an urgent priority
So state elections should be an urgent priority
Reminder: the 2026 midterm elections are scheduled for Nov 3, 2026.
On the ballot:
All 435 House seats
33 of 100 senate seats
39 state gubernatorial seats
Numerous other state and local seats nationwide
On the ballot:
All 435 House seats
33 of 100 senate seats
39 state gubernatorial seats
Numerous other state and local seats nationwide
January 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Remember that state seats are what determine how gerrymandered the 435 house districts are and who that gerrymandering favors
So state elections should be an urgent priority
So state elections should be an urgent priority
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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we are aware of the situation
December 9, 2024 at 7:44 PM
we are aware of the situation
It’s all less confusing when you remember that anger at insurance companies is a bipartisan sentiment.
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Healthcare System
What would you say is the most urgent health problem facing this country at the present time? [Open-ended] Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans ha...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:56 PM
It’s all less confusing when you remember that anger at insurance companies is a bipartisan sentiment.
news.gallup.com/poll/4708/he...
news.gallup.com/poll/4708/he...
Not to undercut the seriousness of climate change putting humans and polar bears in dangerous proximity to each other, but Canada Man stories are way more badass than Florida Man stories.
Canada man who ‘leapt on’ polar bear which attacked wife recovers in hospital
Canada man who ‘leapt on’ polar bear which attacked wife recovers in hospital
Couple discovered animal in their driveway in northern Ontario, where climate crisis can change bear behaviour
A man who “leapt on to” a polar bear to protect his wife in a northern First Nations community in Canada is expected to fully recover from the…
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Not to undercut the seriousness of climate change putting humans and polar bears in dangerous proximity to each other, but Canada Man stories are way more badass than Florida Man stories.
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Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!
December 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!
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Brian Eno on AI:
“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review
Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.
www.bostonreview.net
December 5, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Brian Eno on AI:
“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
Finally finished The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social and am now dreaming about a better world where it would be optioned for a limited series.
December 4, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Finally finished The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social and am now dreaming about a better world where it would be optioned for a limited series.
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Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain
I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
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I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, a...
press.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain
I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
what if, and i know this is hard for many to hear, everyone just left trans people the fuck alone, forever?
November 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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This is such an incredible, riveting read.
I read this on transit on my way in to teach and almost missed my stop! A really fascinating story.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
This is such an incredible, riveting read.
I got nothing, but 'tis a worthwhile cause.
I have been waiting for the Melville stans to make some Ahab-whale joke out of the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud, but nothing so far. Y'all OK?
November 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
I got nothing, but 'tis a worthwhile cause.
Deep in Letter of Recommendation season and the superlative well runneth dry.
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Deep in Letter of Recommendation season and the superlative well runneth dry.
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White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.
November 25, 2024 at 7:23 PM
White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.
L just now: Mom, whenever I say something I don’t mean to say, I cover my ears until I forget about it.
I am absolutely going to try this.
I am absolutely going to try this.
November 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
L just now: Mom, whenever I say something I don’t mean to say, I cover my ears until I forget about it.
I am absolutely going to try this.
I am absolutely going to try this.
Ithaca monoculture
November 25, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Ithaca monoculture
Very smash-and-grab sounding. Big payday at the outset followed by a total collapse in which these guys still make enough money for it to be “worth it.”
A great example of how no one can find actual uses for LLMs that aren't scams for grifts. Quite literally the LAST thing publishing needs is MORE manuscripts, especially low quality and unedited AI regurgitations. This isn't a problem being solved.
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Very smash-and-grab sounding. Big payday at the outset followed by a total collapse in which these guys still make enough money for it to be “worth it.”
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UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
November 24, 2024 at 6:44 PM
UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
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finally a reasonable take
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 PM
finally a reasonable take
Basically every right/center right pundit’s entire take on extremely online progressives. “They’re so annoying so I’ll just hang with the destroy everything crowd.”
Nate Silver apparently doesn't understand that he is one of the most annoying people on the planet -- but at least we're not at risk of his presence here.
😂
😂
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Basically every right/center right pundit’s entire take on extremely online progressives. “They’re so annoying so I’ll just hang with the destroy everything crowd.”
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Interested in archival research at the Melville Society Archive in the Research Library of the New Bedford Whaling Museum?
Nov. 30th is the deadline to apply for our Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship!
Find out more at www.melvillesociety.org/walter-e-bez...
Nov. 30th is the deadline to apply for our Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship!
Find out more at www.melvillesociety.org/walter-e-bez...
Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship — The Melville Society
www.melvillesociety.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Interested in archival research at the Melville Society Archive in the Research Library of the New Bedford Whaling Museum?
Nov. 30th is the deadline to apply for our Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship!
Find out more at www.melvillesociety.org/walter-e-bez...
Nov. 30th is the deadline to apply for our Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship!
Find out more at www.melvillesociety.org/walter-e-bez...
Special issue of LEVIATHAN is out! I'm back on my Melville and haunting BS with my essay "The Ghost of of Anarcharsis Cloots." Many thanks to the editors Thomas Constantinesco, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, and Édouard Marsoin for including me in this issue. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53762
Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 26, Number 3, October 2024
muse.jhu.edu
November 22, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Special issue of LEVIATHAN is out! I'm back on my Melville and haunting BS with my essay "The Ghost of of Anarcharsis Cloots." Many thanks to the editors Thomas Constantinesco, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, and Édouard Marsoin for including me in this issue. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53762