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But all jokes aside, this is deeply cynical and manipulative. As with "AI in education", Musk and his fellow billionaires are pushing this line of thinking so they can secure funding, but also to build consensus for a 2-tier system: humans for them, robots for the rest of us.

As far as fully 3D Mario games, it’s definitely up there.

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

If your project is so destructive and unpopular that you need to have people arrested for the audacious crime of clapping at a public meeting, your product is garbage and they arrested the wrong person.

Hey everyone - for my latest Summer of (Movie) Love series, I’m celebrating Cronenberg’s THE FLY. This is the film I’ve probably covered the most in my career but I really wanted to dive into it again. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Open to free/paid subscribers! 🪰💚

When I last taught Beowulf, the anthology I used had the older Seamus Heaney translation (which is good in its own way), but that student was really into the story and so I told her she really needed the newer version. (And I just covered Wilson's Iliad and Odyssey in my World Lit class 2 weeks ago)

It's great! I gave it as a graduation gift to one of my students last year.

Around a month ago. If I'd booked sooner, I could have been closer to the movie opening.

Homer called it a "wine-dark sea" because Cool Blue was the most popular flavor of wine back in those days. lost to history now, I'm afraid. climate change and all.

I am excited to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm this Saturday.

It's become meme-ified, but "What does God need with a starship" is a great line.

Shatner seemed genuinely surprised that I had good things to say about it (it's far from perfect, but I appreciate some of its big swings despite the limited budget)

book guy: heh, movies are for idiots movie guy: heh, tv is for idiots tv guy: heh, video games are for idiots video game guy: i never should have sold my plastic rock band instruments :(

When I met Shatner and Koenig at a con a while back, I cosplayed as "interrupted while camping" Kirk, with the uniform jacket over a Go Climb a Rock shirt and jeans.

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Basecamp was a pretty good product. Too bad it no longer exists!

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

"You think I showed up with ChatGPT? Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously. Dickinson? Obsessed. David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name." Absolutely incredible.