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V. Joshua Adams

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Professing English at the University of Louisville. Poetry, poetics, philosophy, translation — plus old books, old cars, cat pics. Views mine.

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lmao I would be honored

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45: banner year for recognizing myself in novels

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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word from my kitchen is that it’s the book of the summer

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it is the overt hostility to any part of civil society that doesn’t uphold his vision of what society ought to be that is the clearest evidence of desantis’s authoritarian disposition www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

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Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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This is the national trend, and it’s bar none the saddest thing in education right now

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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just constantly bursting mom’s bubble

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t minus one month until this launches get your preorders in!

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Yooooo who’s going to Chicago for ALA?

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Ned Resnikoff's avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social
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We found a copy of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations at the encampment. These kids are questioning Augustine's theory of language. They're getting into all kinds of gnomic aphorisms. They think that if a lion could speak we wouldn't understand it. Absolutely depraved stuff.

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Columbia students, CUNY students, all the students protesting this war: you are heroes.

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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The list of people who are angrier at Jonathan Glazer than at Benjamin Netanyahu is, if nothing else, instructive.

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for sale: cat bed, heavily used

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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"Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago" is gonna get thrown around a lot this cycle and somehow it's gonna be about the price of gas and eggs, and not how we ran out of space in the morgues and had to stack bodies like firewood in vans in central park

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if I had any say over the like $40 billion Dems are going to fundraise this year I’d spend like 100m setting up a big party publication. this used to be common!

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Kelsey Atherton's avatar Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
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Every new right-wing publication is named The Daily Constitution and pays a dozen writers mid-six-figure salaries thanks to backing by the CEO of fascism. Every new left-wing publication is named Lazer Sword & pays fifty contributors $300 a month, funded by laid-off journalists donated buyout pay.

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Adam Kotsko 's avatar Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
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I wrote an article for Slate about the sharp and sudden decline in reading skill among college students:

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Listening to the audiobook right now it is incredible

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Your reminder deregulation is not and never was to provide better more efficient services and only to obfuscate responsibility and maximize rent seeking with state mandated monopolies

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Montreal ACLA peeps: 1) where are we staying? 2) are we hanging out Sunday night or going home?

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of course this guy is driven by petty slights and personal resentment! we are living in an age of rich guys with no substance other than an acute feeling of grievance www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/b...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)'s avatar Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone
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i don't know why this is so hard for people. biweekly means you are attracted to your own week and also other weeks

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It’s even a bad argument from within her wheelhouse. Plato and Aristotle were motivated by the question of how one should live!

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil's avatar John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social
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My therapist said I need to get out more, so I left her office.

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Financial Planner: Your 401k is at zero. What happened? Me: *shrugging*

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TFW your old car’s gearbox locks up but you manage to get it home in third

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him)'s avatar The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social
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If you're on a search committee this year, and a colleague points out that someone got a Ph.D. in 2015, or 2011, or 2019, and maybe that time gap indicates a certain spoiling, a decline in quality, simply say... "We're hiring a professor, not buying an egg salad sandwich."

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Drizzly Monday morning. About to chaperone a Kindergarten field trip to a farm. And, on the radio, “The Final Countdown.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"In the decade from 2010 to 2020, humanity witnessed an explosion of mass protests that seemed to herald profound changes...we can now see how the uprisings preceded – if not necessarily caused – outcomes that were very different from the goals of the protesters."
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

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it looks like you're struggling to reconcile with your powerlessness in a world out of your control. would you like to yell at some college kids you might be able to get in trouble?

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Rand is a good suggestion but also anything by Charles Murray or Steven Pinker

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