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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 12h

I really need there to be a named fallacy for the argument that goes “because X thing could potentially benefit a disabled person, critiquing/rejecting X is ableist.”

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h

Ive been blocked by some pro-gAI academics on here who think Im "ableist" for refusing to allow gAI in my classrooms, but the thing is I do fundamentally believe that we make a moral statement when we decide to teach students that they must rely on this kind of theft to read, write and think.

Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 17h

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 12h

What if neoliberalism was a couple?

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 13h

Snoop Dogg, Lainey Wilson, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Andrea Bocelli & Son has to be one of the most chaotic musical lineups ever produced.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 14h

Part of that generic handsome white dude factory that seemed to exist in the 2000s. A stable repository for putting alongside A-list women in rom-com posters.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h

Ive been blocked by some pro-gAI academics on here who think Im "ableist" for refusing to allow gAI in my classrooms, but the thing is I do fundamentally believe that we make a moral statement when we decide to teach students that they must rely on this kind of theft to read, write and think.

Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 17h

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 1d

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 20h

🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like *voice abruptly changes* / The water, the well / Drink forth and descend🎶

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 20h

Just got this for Christmas. I’m of course thrilled, but now the obvious question: do I REALLY get everybody depressed this holiday by marathoning this?!?!

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 22h

*sounding like absolute hell* “y’know, not only SHOULD we be smoking indoors, but we need to go back to all-natural cigarettes with no filters. It’s the filters that really brought all the adverse effects”

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 23h

Modern drama and A.S. Hamrah: two key interests of mine coming together brilliantly. (Will say: I'm due a visit to Tao House one of these days...)

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 2d

“When Oscar Wilde wrote that ‘a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it,’ he didn’t know that someday an American painter would find a way to make sentimentalists pay for it in monthly installments.”

A Cottage for Sale | A.S. Hamrah

The way Thomas Kinkade sells his paintings certainly bespeaks a desire to make people pay.

thebaffler.com

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

On another Little Simz banger, "Young."

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

On a pop-punk surprise, the grimly tongue-in-cheek "You Ominously End" by the Canadian outfit Arm's Length.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

On my favorite song of 2025, Deafheaven's "Winona."

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

On what is probably my most listened to single of 2025, David Gray's duet with Talia Rae, "Plus and Minus."

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

On Lera Lynn's new edition of "My Least Favorite Life," in effect the theme song of the much misunderstood second season of TRUE DETECTIVE.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote some blurbs for @drwoodhouse.bsky.social's end-of-year review of music. For the best songs of the year list, up today:

On a surprise blast-from-the-past (for me) striking a new spark, from Between the Buried and Me's new record THE BLUE NOWHERE. www.drwoodhouse.com/best-songs-2...

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

My school gives us the lockdown app exam.net, which I cannot recommend highly enough.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

To stress the absurdity of this: in this day and age if you have a tenure-track academic job/are tenured and it's at a university that doesn't overburden people with 5/5s and give them no money/time for research, that fact on its own means that you are the elite of the elite.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

cnn.it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

Not a McCarthy devotee, but as someone obsessed with THE PASSENGER & STELLA MARIS specifically I’ve wanted to read the other McCarthy novels that have ties to those two. This, in SUTTREE, sounds exactly like the Thalidomide Kid and his gang.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

Gretchen’s pick and write-up for #1 go far in illustrating why she’s one of our best critics. That film is either 1 or 2 for me, and I think it got slept on compared to other auteur releases. But that one’s gonna stand the test of time.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about my top 10 movies of the year! 2025 was a weird year at the theater, thin and inconsistent, but some gems snuck through, as they always do.

www.patreon.com/posts/146540...

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

cnn.it

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about my top 10 movies of the year! 2025 was a weird year at the theater, thin and inconsistent, but some gems snuck through, as they always do.

www.patreon.com/posts/146540...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 2d

“When Oscar Wilde wrote that ‘a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it,’ he didn’t know that someday an American painter would find a way to make sentimentalists pay for it in monthly installments.”

A Cottage for Sale | A.S. Hamrah

The way Thomas Kinkade sells his paintings certainly bespeaks a desire to make people pay.

thebaffler.com

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

Part of the motivation, apart from the years of recommendations, was seeing that this (seemingly) unassuming novel was discourse-prompting.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

Got a very generous Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas. My haul:

Werner Herzog, THE FUTURE OF TRUTH

THE ODYSSEY (Mendelsohn)

John McPhee, ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD

Edward Said, THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC

John Williams, STONER

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

The archive I’ve spent most time with is the Stoppard collection at @ransomcenter.bsky.social, a rich trove of stories. A young Stoppard kept up a correspondence with Steinbeck. He also wrote letters to hotels leaving reviews that would be legends of Yelp were they published.

Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 3d

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

Through a relative I’ve met screenwriter Randall Wallace. Apparently he owns a BRAVEHEART-themed truck — still dining out on that one to this day.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d

VERY good casting! In some ways his WHITE LOTUS performance is a warmup to that character.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the answer! I do love the setting, and the three leads in the production I saw were great, Clive Owen especially.

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