I often think about this quote scrawled on the wall of Laurie Anderson’s Four Talks installation at the Hirshhorn in DC:

The theater I saw Titanic at, when it first came out, was running a "win a cruise!" tie-in sweepstakes. That... was not a movie that made me want to go on a cruise. (I assumed the idea was, go on a cruise & meet your own Leo, minus the whole boat-hitting-iceberg-not-enuf-room-on-the-door part)

Might run into some IRB issues with that....?

A thing that made me feel old: student did not know what "going Dutch" meant when I mentioned it as a search term for primary-source databases. Thought it was something dirtier (didn't specify what) than it actually is.

It's so important to keep accesbility in mind when you're writing social media captions.... ? otherwise your followers might experience perpxlexy!

I am the Gourmet Kitchen with no appliances or, well.... anything, wondering why the GREAT ROOM is hogging all my stuff.

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I mean obviously this is is Fargo, but also, not a muppet: theelectriccompany.fandom.com/wiki/Fargo_N...

that poor graduate student...

Yes!!!

As God as my witness I, as a GenXer, thought that those sketches were about an incredibly annoying guy who the company placed in the copy room to save on paper (he's so annoying that no one wants to make any copies).

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if anything, AI makes things *less* personal? Reminds me of when I was taking a terrible "how to teach online" course at the start of covid -- we were taught how to make the LMS address students "individually" (basically using a macro) to humanize the LMS experience. Had the opposite effect for me.

I watched WandaVision having only seen one MCU film (Black Panther), really enjoyed the gimmick, but lost interest when it turned into what I now recognize as just another Marvel product (and also something that got a lot less interesting once it was clear I was supposed to know the lore).

Also about devaluing originality by normalizing/hiding the *predictive* nature of LLMs -- "all writing is just words put together, there is no originality anyway"

One of the most consistent and tiresome truisms of the arts world is that people who do not give a shit about the underlying fundamentals of your practice are always very happy to tell you how your future should actually be in whatever random thing they made money on in the stock market last month.

This tea is an invitation to put on fuzzy slippers, crack open a book, rest and recover. A kind reminder that "tireless" is a fallacy and taking care of one's self is worthy work as well."⁠
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oh I like that! (my library is sticker-happy!)