Emily
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Proverbs 27:14 | definitely not a vampire | not as into Chaucer as it sounds from the name | ask before adding me to lists/packs/etc
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i heard both of these today:
"what are we solutioning here"
"we don't have a solve for that"
nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
"what are we solutioning here"
"we don't have a solve for that"
nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
i heard both of these today:
"what are we solutioning here"
"we don't have a solve for that"
nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
"what are we solutioning here"
"we don't have a solve for that"
nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
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just discovered one of my new favorite internet genres, Preppers Learn About Weevils the Hard Way
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
just discovered one of my new favorite internet genres, Preppers Learn About Weevils the Hard Way
how is it simultaneously ALREADY FEBRUARY 10 and ONLY TUESDAY
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
how is it simultaneously ALREADY FEBRUARY 10 and ONLY TUESDAY
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I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
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*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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tricky writing a scale for this because "terrible" is technically the same answer as "outstanding"
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k) gives me some methodological concerns. They allowed people to rate their pun making as "outstanding" but, statistically, most are sitting indoors at the time
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
tricky writing a scale for this because "terrible" is technically the same answer as "outstanding"
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there are logos. and then there are logos
February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
there are logos. and then there are logos
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Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.
Ohio USA, English, fire truck (although I am now second guessing myself because if I were to refer to a specific truck I would probably say e.g. Engine #3)
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Ohio USA, English, fire truck (although I am now second guessing myself because if I were to refer to a specific truck I would probably say e.g. Engine #3)
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It’s 10 February, which can only mean one thing. YES, OF COURSE! It’s the 671st anniversary of the townsfolk and students of Oxford marking Saint Scholastica’s day by... er, hammering shit out of each other until over 90 people were dead 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
It’s 10 February, which can only mean one thing. YES, OF COURSE! It’s the 671st anniversary of the townsfolk and students of Oxford marking Saint Scholastica’s day by... er, hammering shit out of each other until over 90 people were dead 🧵
the town where I grew up listed their last 5 calls on the fire dept website and I have yet to live anywhere else that does this! alas
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
the town where I grew up listed their last 5 calls on the fire dept website and I have yet to live anywhere else that does this! alas
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance.”
Chesterton
Chesterton
February 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance.”
Chesterton
Chesterton
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‘I am the very model of a modern neurotypical’ - is this anything?
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
‘I am the very model of a modern neurotypical’ - is this anything?
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R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
"Warren stated that job outcomes were a 'key factor' in the decision-making process—within the previous decade, only a 'tiny percentage' of PhD students who graduated from the LCS program went on to receive tenure track at an R1 institution." An absurd metric & sign of the conservatism of higher ed.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
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Hound, in a truly extraordinary act of vandalism, got into my office closet, grabbed a mounted fish that was part of a piece of art I picked up a decade ago, and beheaded it.
Kevin and I stood around the even-more-dead fish and said things like “This is a new one,” and “I was not expecting that.”
Kevin and I stood around the even-more-dead fish and said things like “This is a new one,” and “I was not expecting that.”
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Hound, in a truly extraordinary act of vandalism, got into my office closet, grabbed a mounted fish that was part of a piece of art I picked up a decade ago, and beheaded it.
Kevin and I stood around the even-more-dead fish and said things like “This is a new one,” and “I was not expecting that.”
Kevin and I stood around the even-more-dead fish and said things like “This is a new one,” and “I was not expecting that.”
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did you know you can just add mac & cheese to your pulled pork slider. no one can stop you. you can just do that
February 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
did you know you can just add mac & cheese to your pulled pork slider. no one can stop you. you can just do that
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when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 PM
when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?
please fill out this post-exorcism experience survey. would you say the use of Latin (Ecclesiastical) made you: extremely upset, moderately upset, neither upset nor calm, moderately calm, extremely calm
February 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
please fill out this post-exorcism experience survey. would you say the use of Latin (Ecclesiastical) made you: extremely upset, moderately upset, neither upset nor calm, moderately calm, extremely calm
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please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
is this a repeatable experiment
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
is this a repeatable experiment
part of the grand tradition of medium yellow dogs
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
part of the grand tradition of medium yellow dogs