Dr. Scott Caddy
@profbeards.bsky.social
Scholar, educator, digital enthusiast, used bookstore lover.
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Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
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Happy birthday to one of the most prolific literary masterminds - Jane Austen🖊️🎉
Which Austen novel should we all read at least once? And which one should we read at least once...every year?
Check out all our Austen novels here (and grab one for your holiday reading!) - buff.ly/E0L5UUB
Which Austen novel should we all read at least once? And which one should we read at least once...every year?
Check out all our Austen novels here (and grab one for your holiday reading!) - buff.ly/E0L5UUB
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy birthday to one of the most prolific literary masterminds - Jane Austen🖊️🎉
Which Austen novel should we all read at least once? And which one should we read at least once...every year?
Check out all our Austen novels here (and grab one for your holiday reading!) - buff.ly/E0L5UUB
Which Austen novel should we all read at least once? And which one should we read at least once...every year?
Check out all our Austen novels here (and grab one for your holiday reading!) - buff.ly/E0L5UUB
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"Come in!" exclaimed the Ghost. "Come in, and know me better, man."
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Come in!" exclaimed the Ghost. "Come in, and know me better, man."
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
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This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
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Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never recovering from this page
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The next Central DF meeting is at The Charterhouse in London at 6pm on Tuesday 28th October, when Dr Jeremy Parrott will talk on 'David Coppperfield Unbound in 10 objects' - based upon his recently published book.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The next Central DF meeting is at The Charterhouse in London at 6pm on Tuesday 28th October, when Dr Jeremy Parrott will talk on 'David Coppperfield Unbound in 10 objects' - based upon his recently published book.
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Have you watched this yet? What did you think? Let us know in the comments here, and please Like and Subscribe on YouTube, if you can. Thank you.
New on YouTube today: a wonderful new introduction and study guide to Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', presented by Professor Malcolm Andrews. Watch, enjoy, like and subscribe!
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A Christmas Carol v3
YouTube video by DickensFellowship
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October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Have you watched this yet? What did you think? Let us know in the comments here, and please Like and Subscribe on YouTube, if you can. Thank you.
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The magnificent Summer 2025 edition of The Dickensian is devoted to commemorating the 100th anniversary of London’s Charles Dickens Museum, and it should be with subscribers shortly 🎉
August 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The magnificent Summer 2025 edition of The Dickensian is devoted to commemorating the 100th anniversary of London’s Charles Dickens Museum, and it should be with subscribers shortly 🎉
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Going into the fall semester like….
August 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Going into the fall semester like….
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Dickens: the main character’s name is “Martin”
Editor: oh thank god, finally a normal name
Dickens:
Editor: wait. What is his last name?
Dickens:
Editor: Charles, what is his last name???
Editor: oh thank god, finally a normal name
Dickens:
Editor: wait. What is his last name?
Dickens:
Editor: Charles, what is his last name???
July 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Dickens: the main character’s name is “Martin”
Editor: oh thank god, finally a normal name
Dickens:
Editor: wait. What is his last name?
Dickens:
Editor: Charles, what is his last name???
Editor: oh thank god, finally a normal name
Dickens:
Editor: wait. What is his last name?
Dickens:
Editor: Charles, what is his last name???
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How did Jane Austen die? ASU's @devoney.bsky.social, an Austen biographer, believes that breast cancer may be a “plausible diagnosis,” since it “was not uncommon” in Austen’s era and may have run in her family.
Read more in National Geographic magazine: ow.ly/Gjcg50WsOyX #ASUHumanities
Read more in National Geographic magazine: ow.ly/Gjcg50WsOyX #ASUHumanities
How did Jane Austen die? Even after two centuries, nobody knows.
Fevers, fatigue, and a changing complexion? Why modern doctors are still trying to make sense of the symptoms the celebrated novelist experienced before her death at age 41.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How did Jane Austen die? ASU's @devoney.bsky.social, an Austen biographer, believes that breast cancer may be a “plausible diagnosis,” since it “was not uncommon” in Austen’s era and may have run in her family.
Read more in National Geographic magazine: ow.ly/Gjcg50WsOyX #ASUHumanities
Read more in National Geographic magazine: ow.ly/Gjcg50WsOyX #ASUHumanities
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Maintain dissent.
July 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Maintain dissent.
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Narrator: Sadly, the DH project ran out of grant funding before meaningfully returning to infrastructure. #DH2025
Slide from @javiercha.bsky.social's keynote presentation at #DH2025, what a cliffhanger ☺️
July 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Narrator: Sadly, the DH project ran out of grant funding before meaningfully returning to infrastructure. #DH2025
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It should also raise the alarm for all of AI: If people like Musk are willing to weigh its AI to become mecha-hitler, they're probably also willing to weigh it to support their business interests.
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It should also raise the alarm for all of AI: If people like Musk are willing to weigh its AI to become mecha-hitler, they're probably also willing to weigh it to support their business interests.
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New Gad’s Hill tour date for the diary…our next tours will be on Saturday 19th July. If you would like to see Dickens’s study and eat biscuits in his conservatory you can find the booking link here:
www.gadshillplace.co.uk
www.gadshillplace.co.uk
Gad's Hill Place | Charles Dickens House | Gravesend Road, Higham, Rochester, UK
Gad's Hill Place - the home of Charles Dickens - is open to the public one weekend each month between April and October. Booking is essential.
www.gadshillplace.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
New Gad’s Hill tour date for the diary…our next tours will be on Saturday 19th July. If you would like to see Dickens’s study and eat biscuits in his conservatory you can find the booking link here:
www.gadshillplace.co.uk
www.gadshillplace.co.uk
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"Stories from the Library: The Tales Through Time" exhibicioun at The Huntington
www.huntington.org/exhibitions/...
www.huntington.org/exhibitions/...
Stories from the Library: The Tales Through Time | The Huntington
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction and collections-based educational and research institution.
www.huntington.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Stories from the Library: The Tales Through Time" exhibicioun at The Huntington
www.huntington.org/exhibitions/...
www.huntington.org/exhibitions/...
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Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
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Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
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The next Central DF meeting is on Tuesday 24th June, 6:30pm, at The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN, where Dr Lucy Whitehead will talk about 'Dickens's Lives: Biographies of Dickens, 1870-2020.'
June 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The next Central DF meeting is on Tuesday 24th June, 6:30pm, at The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN, where Dr Lucy Whitehead will talk about 'Dickens's Lives: Biographies of Dickens, 1870-2020.'
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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Eliminate ChatGPT from the humanities and humanities education
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Eliminate ChatGPT from the humanities and humanities education
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trans rights btw this isn't up for debate
June 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
trans rights btw this isn't up for debate
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"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? | Verso Books
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c
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June 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
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June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Motion to replace every invocation of "The genie is out of the bottle" when said in defense of LLMs with "The septic tank has leaked."
Metaphors are not debate-ending truths. Metaphors are choices. We can reject the appropriateness of this one.
Metaphors are not debate-ending truths. Metaphors are choices. We can reject the appropriateness of this one.
May 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Motion to replace every invocation of "The genie is out of the bottle" when said in defense of LLMs with "The septic tank has leaked."
Metaphors are not debate-ending truths. Metaphors are choices. We can reject the appropriateness of this one.
Metaphors are not debate-ending truths. Metaphors are choices. We can reject the appropriateness of this one.