Blaire Kay
@blairekay.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University (English literature). Shakespeare lady, Gothic lit enthusiast. Probably a ghost.
Romans 5:8
Romans 5:8
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Blaire Kay
@blairekay.bsky.social
· Nov 15
hrothgar: a monster has been invading our mead-hall parties and killing our thanes
beowulf: how long has this been happening
hrothgar: 12 years
beowulf: have you considered not partying
hrothgar: out of the question
beowulf: how long has this been happening
hrothgar: 12 years
beowulf: have you considered not partying
hrothgar: out of the question
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You will be visited by three spirits.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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medium warm take but I don't think advising PhDs and ECRs to become influencers is going to solve the academic jobs crisis
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
medium warm take but I don't think advising PhDs and ECRs to become influencers is going to solve the academic jobs crisis
Madame Roulin and Her Baby - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/131371
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/131371
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
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A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Today on dissertation writing: looking up the sounds vultures make in order to analyze the musical motifs of a 2004 opera.
(vulture cries are HORRIFYING btw)
(vulture cries are HORRIFYING btw)
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Today on dissertation writing: looking up the sounds vultures make in order to analyze the musical motifs of a 2004 opera.
(vulture cries are HORRIFYING btw)
(vulture cries are HORRIFYING btw)
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a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
![A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glqdunvigi5zxowf6heik65g/bafkreigi4rz7omz3cell5pa7hlyceoxd4fxsjy2ynmcd37fozanjejhsry@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
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Currently Reading: The Haunting of Hill House.
This is my first Jackson novel after reading many of her short stories, and WOW, the prose and character-building here are incredible.
This is my first Jackson novel after reading many of her short stories, and WOW, the prose and character-building here are incredible.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Currently Reading: The Haunting of Hill House.
This is my first Jackson novel after reading many of her short stories, and WOW, the prose and character-building here are incredible.
This is my first Jackson novel after reading many of her short stories, and WOW, the prose and character-building here are incredible.
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Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.
Newport Public Library.
October 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.
Newport Public Library.
*nods in agreement, looking nervously at my dissertation*
A paragraph without a single semi-colon will always be meh.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
*nods in agreement, looking nervously at my dissertation*
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‘The lorde is wethe the[e] this daye and ever amen’.
At the back of a work by Christine de Pisan (London, 1521). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.4.38.
At the back of a work by Christine de Pisan (London, 1521). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.4.38.
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
‘The lorde is wethe the[e] this daye and ever amen’.
At the back of a work by Christine de Pisan (London, 1521). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.4.38.
At the back of a work by Christine de Pisan (London, 1521). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.4.38.
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The fundamental problem with the HBR-business/tech genre of AI studies is they all start from the premise that "learning" = "transfer of content" and thus "learning" is measured by "quantifiable restatement of said content," and that's just...not how learning works
September 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The fundamental problem with the HBR-business/tech genre of AI studies is they all start from the premise that "learning" = "transfer of content" and thus "learning" is measured by "quantifiable restatement of said content," and that's just...not how learning works
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“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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A sinuous floral border in the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in William Morris’s workshop in 1896. One of 13 copies printed on vellum. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1916 by John Charrington (1856-1939), Honorary Keeper of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum. CUL Sel.1.16.
September 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A sinuous floral border in the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in William Morris’s workshop in 1896. One of 13 copies printed on vellum. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1916 by John Charrington (1856-1939), Honorary Keeper of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum. CUL Sel.1.16.
I love listening to Gilbert & Sullivan while I'm working because I'll tune it out and then be jumpscared by lines like "It's true Koko was condemned to death for flirting."
August 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I love listening to Gilbert & Sullivan while I'm working because I'll tune it out and then be jumpscared by lines like "It's true Koko was condemned to death for flirting."
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If your book is in this database of published material that was plagiarized without permission to shovel into the maw of AI (& it most likely is--I just checked & mine was there), add your information (title, publisher, ISBN number) to this attorney form to be part of a future class-action lawsuit.
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If your book is in this database of published material that was plagiarized without permission to shovel into the maw of AI (& it most likely is--I just checked & mine was there), add your information (title, publisher, ISBN number) to this attorney form to be part of a future class-action lawsuit.
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Thinking about Freakazoid and how “has all the power and knowledge of the internet” was his superpower and it resulted in this thing. 1997 sure was a year.
a woman in a pink dress is dancing in a field with mountains in the background
ALT: a woman in a pink dress is dancing in a field with mountains in the background
media.tenor.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thinking about Freakazoid and how “has all the power and knowledge of the internet” was his superpower and it resulted in this thing. 1997 sure was a year.
I have been in Volpone mode all summer, and I'm somehow not sick of it yet. Victory? #dissertation
July 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I have been in Volpone mode all summer, and I'm somehow not sick of it yet. Victory? #dissertation
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Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
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I post this to say: I know a human voice when I hear one. this is because of my training in the humanities & precisely why we should all train in the humanities.
I’m an English professor at William & Mary & for the first writing assignment in all my classes, I tell students to give me their version & a version written by AI. I tell them not to indicate which is which & I grade them both & make a guess.
it’s never been hard to tell.
it’s never been hard to tell.
July 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I post this to say: I know a human voice when I hear one. this is because of my training in the humanities & precisely why we should all train in the humanities.