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Seth Rudy

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18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Good god, am I still here?

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

The Diplomat, but The Kompromat

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Frankenstein: I detest the sight of you
Creature: father!
F: your existence evacuates life of joy and endangers all humanity
C: father!
F: you are wretched and should be destroyed
C: father!
F: on the other hand I really don’t want to write these emails, so you can stay
C: see you in hell dad

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

I regularly try too hard to make my students make a connection between the Wealth of Nations and Frankenstein just because Shelley uses the phrase “invisible hand” one time

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

Only if you mention the Creature doing chores for the De Lacys

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t want to sound cynical and pessimistic, but honestly what choice do I have

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

I’m anti-AI but apparently not enough to be blocked by @tedunderwood.com. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 8d

Can I just submit a blanket atonement or do I need to itemize

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 10d

Watching WarGames (1983) for my AI class and Falken just referred to the missiles on the big screen as a “computer enhanced hallucination.” Coincidence with LLMs, or is that word older in comp sci than I thought?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 10d

Sec: I want to be surrounded by hot men. All the time, fit young men, fit older men, nothing but hot sexy strong men. And I want my son to be surrounded by hot men with me. Me and my son, looking at hot men, all day long, everywhere we go.

Pres: I like big boats and I cannot lie

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 10d

No no no Paradise Lost was not the Creature’s “training data,” he read books it’s called reading books, you shut up now you shut up forever

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 11d

Just reread I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and honestly AM has a point

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 11d

What about objectionably

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 17d

A Left Behind story set in the Jurassic Park universe called Velocirapture

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18d

Does the Rapture happen everywhere all at once or do you get to celebrate as it goes through different time zones like New Year’s

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20d

My regular cat is off duty. Here’s a #caturday clouded leopard I met today.

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20d

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22d

Probably just a coincidence but on this day in 1939

World War II: the radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22d

Having trouble squaring my dislike of conspiracy theories with my sense that we shouldn’t put anything past them

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 24d

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 25d

America in two screenshots

Is high school student lose ground in math and reading continuing years long decline

TN to require gun safety training in schools

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 26d

Kilmeade: I want to apologize for you hearing me say without thought what I think

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 28d

Anglophone

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 28d

I’m teaching a new class in the spring: “Leave Me Alone: Solitude, Isolation, Retreat, Utopia.” 100 level undergrad, no period restriction but English lit. I have a framework and some key texts but seek further recommendations on different kinds of aloneness. Go!

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