Brooks Eakin
@brookseakin.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, enthusiast.
"And so I began the slippery descent into facetiousness - the arch-enemy of literary creation. I still hate myself for it."
Lu Xun, in the preface to Old Stories Retold, 1935
Lu Xun, in the preface to Old Stories Retold, 1935
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"And so I began the slippery descent into facetiousness - the arch-enemy of literary creation. I still hate myself for it."
Lu Xun, in the preface to Old Stories Retold, 1935
Lu Xun, in the preface to Old Stories Retold, 1935
Everything is going great! Really cool, really normal.
August 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Everything is going great! Really cool, really normal.
The fact that only AI knows how to properly use the em dash (—) is so funny to me. Any comment online—written like this, with a clause embedded between em dashes, with no spacing before or after—immediately outs it as almost certainly AI-generated.
May 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The fact that only AI knows how to properly use the em dash (—) is so funny to me. Any comment online—written like this, with a clause embedded between em dashes, with no spacing before or after—immediately outs it as almost certainly AI-generated.
Dictatorship of the ignorant.
On Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed SB 37, which removes faculty oversight of the core curriculum, particularly humanities and social science courses (particularly History courses) AND strips university faculty senates of any real input in shared governance. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...
Texas Senate approves bill that could reshape how history and race are taught in state universities
An overhauled version of Senate Bill 37 would also allow anyone to file complaints that could lead schools to lose funds.
www.texastribune.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dictatorship of the ignorant.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Where do your tax dollars go? Here's a cool civic tech project drawing from public budget data to answer that very question. Just drop in the figure from line 16 of your 1040 to get a "taxpayer receipt."