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American Literature assistant professor. Studies medicine & economics in c19 Am. Lit. Enjoys the arts. Closed Adoptee. Cowgirl from some row-dayo. She/her/hers

Joined January 2015
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Let’s try this again without a typo! Just found out my article on Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall, medicine, and authorship is out in the latest issue of Legacy! Many thanks to so many of you! muse.jhu.edu/article/934767
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The first time I heard something like this I was 22 and just happened to walk into a cathedral while in France. They were only practicing and it literally stopped me in my tracks. It was like heaven opened up. How did Catholics trade this for what sounds like bad 70s music?
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Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds. Teach the humanities and the arts.
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Wow, just wow….
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Whoever is still left defending this, you’re not embarrassed of yourself yet?
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✨🎬 The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film ‘Sinners,’ directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and social contexts depicted in the film. aaihs.org/the-sinners-movie-…
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THANK YOU GREYHOUND🙏🏾💙🗣️
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An old and abandoned library somewhere in the Rust Belt.
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At the end of his life, Pope Francis made one last symbolic gesture: he emptied his personal bank account to donate 200,000 euros to the prisoners he had long championed. ncronline.org/vatican/final-…
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Eighty years ago today, American forces liberated Dachau, the longest operating Nazi concentration camp. Scenes of the aftermath are among those captured by Hollywood director George Stevens, who led a special unit of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, in rare color footage of WWII. 🧵
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The United States Secretary of Defense got community noted. Just saving a screenshot before Elon removes it.
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i am once again begging humanities professors to understand what this thing is actually doing and write about its outputs in a rigorous and critical way. it is genuinely embarrassing that you all continue to write as if the computer is thinking and talking
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MARGARET QUALLEY in a short film ad for Kenzo. It was directed by Spike Jonze, and choreographed by Ryan Heffington.
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“The much discussed AI-2027 scenario, for example, predicts in passing that by the end of 2025 (eight months from now!), there will be AIs that have “a PhD-level knowledge of every field”. I often get the sense that many of the people who make those kinds of predictions have no idea what constitutes expert-level knowledge or expert-level capacities in any field except, possibly, computer science. With these kinds of statements being tossed around casually, it is salutary to remind people that AIs facing problems from various fields make some mistakes that even human beings who are entirely ignorant of the field could avoid, and make many mistakes that a human (such as myself) with only casual knowledge could avoid.” — @ErnestSDavis, in an analysis of fairly easy but novel problem that ChatGPT-4-mini-high gets mediocre marks, source below.
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Fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections Keele University, UK jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT293/beyond…
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Abraham Lincoln's funeral train passed through Hyde Park, New York, on April 25, 1865. Local lore has it that his "ghost train" passes through the town every night on the anniversary. A historical marker commemorating this folklore was unveiled at the site on April 24, 2025.
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Update: Columbia chickened on bargaining AGAIN 🤡 Right before the end of the business day yesterday, a CU rep emailed us to say that they refused to meet our bargaining team, illegally demanding we exclude our union president from negotiations. 🧵
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your family may die from violent diarrhea like they’re on the Oregon Trail, but at least you didn’t have to see pronouns in an email signature
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