Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 2h

Sure would be nice to highlight Lost Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, too.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

2 12

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

I don't care that you did it at the last minute. I care that you happened to put a single iota of thought into it. Even if that single iota is your last brain cell hanging on with the power of Red Bull

5 5 93

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

22 220 850

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 4h

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

12 70 250

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Call me Trick-or-Tracy. 👻🎃 @peakingsassy.bsky.social · 4h

The girlfriend of TWO of the founders of antifa!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

3 75 360

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 4h

The talking point “whatever you think of AI it’s here to stay” is a political position and a radical one, not a statement of fact.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 13h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

8 21 110

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

The second way is how I heard it

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

Does it depend on where you're from/where you are? I've only heard it one way but I didn't get much outside the boston/cambridge/Somerville areas

1

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

Oh whew, I say it right

1 1

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

36 580 2.4K

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

Wait have I been saying Copley wrong? How do you say it?

1

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

31 720 3.6K

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

What we don't talk about enough is the dignity harm suffered by women who have to share the public sphere with guys who go around talking about our bodies like we're a public resource whose use and distribution they're qualified to determine.

6 82 470

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 6h

3 51 200

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

84 550 4.9K

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 7h

POV: you are going to be bitten

42 140 2K

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 8h

One time I had to do my weekly video therapy call from the vestry of st nicks, except it was that time of month where the electricity wasn’t working so I had a bunch of candles lit, and then my therapist paused mid sentence and said “oh someone just came in” and then that someone walked thru a wall

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 8h

How bad a mess was the church vestry previously? Well there's a priest who visited St Nicks once, never held a service, and only passed through the vestry briefly - and four years later he still mentions to me how thinking about the state of our vestry gives him anxiety.

6 5 100

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 9h

Is it okay to be against-fa?

2 1 12

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 9h

You don’t have a Spanish teacher, you have a rude cartoon owl

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

4 15

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

The person with the single greatest access to real and true information in the history of humanity believes in his soul that Portland is burning to the ground because the tv told him so

9 33 180

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

"Critics say Portland still has stores."

5 8 160

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

8 88 380

Reposted by Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃

Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 9h

I will say that the more scary and bizarre their rhetoric gets it feels so weird to like, take the kids to soccer practice. Everything is normal here! Portland is especially lovely right now!

1 3 26

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Teef

Closeup of an orange and white cat sleeping. His tongue is sticking out and his teeth are visible.

1 6

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Yes I heard it that way too

1