Christian Lehmann (he, him, his)
@buffyantiqua.bsky.social
Dickens, classics, Buffy, Wheel of Time
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Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/
Recently learned that you can do "blueprint" printing quite economically. Large scale color Pompeii (36x48) for $12. The rest under $10 each.
They are already making great teaching aids!
They are already making great teaching aids!
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Recently learned that you can do "blueprint" printing quite economically. Large scale color Pompeii (36x48) for $12. The rest under $10 each.
They are already making great teaching aids!
They are already making great teaching aids!
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
There it is! Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception will publish my book "Charles Dickens and the Classics" next year.
Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class.
+90 images
www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bl...
Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class.
+90 images
www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bl...
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
There it is! Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception will publish my book "Charles Dickens and the Classics" next year.
Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class.
+90 images
www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bl...
Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class.
+90 images
www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bl...
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Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️
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The Statue of Liberty is for the emancipation of slaves, but it was changed to immigrants to make it palatable to the American public. The tablet in her hand was supposed to be broken shackles, those were moved to her feet. The crown was supposed to be a Phrygian cap that freed Roman slaves wore
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Statue of Liberty is for the emancipation of slaves, but it was changed to immigrants to make it palatable to the American public. The tablet in her hand was supposed to be broken shackles, those were moved to her feet. The crown was supposed to be a Phrygian cap that freed Roman slaves wore
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The French "In the year 2000" postcard series (produced in 1899) was only 25 years off.
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The French "In the year 2000" postcard series (produced in 1899) was only 25 years off.
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oh, also: fuck this guy. i have wanted to crawl through the tv and disembowel this fictional man for 25 years now. i hate him more than most of the actual killing spree villains.
July 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
oh, also: fuck this guy. i have wanted to crawl through the tv and disembowel this fictional man for 25 years now. i hate him more than most of the actual killing spree villains.
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I woke up this morning with a map thought in my head, and here it is:
July 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I woke up this morning with a map thought in my head, and here it is:
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AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness
July 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness
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Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.
July 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.
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Our emergency meeting was a beautiful, and powerful, success. We've recorded it so watch out Everyday Orientalism's post on the event for the recording 💚 and make sure to join the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social (it's free!) everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...
July 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Our emergency meeting was a beautiful, and powerful, success. We've recorded it so watch out Everyday Orientalism's post on the event for the recording 💚 and make sure to join the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social (it's free!) everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...
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Book your tickets here now: www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/franke...
Please share widely, and see you in August at Frankenstein’s lab!
Please share widely, and see you in August at Frankenstein’s lab!
Frankenstein - Edge Hill University
This is a world premiere sung in English and is performed by an international cast of musical theatre students from Dankook University, South Korea and Edge Hill University, UK.
www.edgehill.ac.uk
July 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Book your tickets here now: www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/franke...
Please share widely, and see you in August at Frankenstein’s lab!
Please share widely, and see you in August at Frankenstein’s lab!
We are in a new March of Intellect.
"The legs with which it strode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence fell ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the earth."
(Robert Seymour, the March of Intellect, 1828)
"The legs with which it strode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence fell ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the earth."
(Robert Seymour, the March of Intellect, 1828)
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We are in a new March of Intellect.
"The legs with which it strode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence fell ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the earth."
(Robert Seymour, the March of Intellect, 1828)
"The legs with which it strode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence fell ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the earth."
(Robert Seymour, the March of Intellect, 1828)
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TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.
these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.
these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.
these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.
these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
April 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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DOJ’s pressuring med journals to offer viewpoint diversity under Robert “autistic people can’t write poems, transsexuals are sick, & neither should exist” Kennedy’s HHS, so it’s a good day to explore the dozen studies threaded below. every reputable medical org endorses transition for trans folk.
April 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
DOJ’s pressuring med journals to offer viewpoint diversity under Robert “autistic people can’t write poems, transsexuals are sick, & neither should exist” Kennedy’s HHS, so it’s a good day to explore the dozen studies threaded below. every reputable medical org endorses transition for trans folk.
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They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
Having won an award for the first time for a seminar for k-12 educators on "Great Expectations in the Global Imaginary" and reading dozens of applications brimming with excitement to spend three weeks with like-minded curious teachers, this is deeply upsetting.
Help us protect the NEH.
Help us protect the NEH.
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Having won an award for the first time for a seminar for k-12 educators on "Great Expectations in the Global Imaginary" and reading dozens of applications brimming with excitement to spend three weeks with like-minded curious teachers, this is deeply upsetting.
Help us protect the NEH.
Help us protect the NEH.
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If libraries have ever benefited you in any way, small or big, this is your time to speak up. Libraries quite literally exist to support community, to support *you*. Please don't let this administration strip away support for libraries. The impact will be devastating for us all. bit.ly/41QMGmL
ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...
bit.ly
March 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If libraries have ever benefited you in any way, small or big, this is your time to speak up. Libraries quite literally exist to support community, to support *you*. Please don't let this administration strip away support for libraries. The impact will be devastating for us all. bit.ly/41QMGmL
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Unexpected bit of #Dickens afterlife this afternoon: fashion designer Seán McGirr's latest Alexander McQueen show was inspired by the Uncommercial Traveller essay 'Night Walks'.
Flounced dresses and laced boots fill McQueen’s Dickens-coded Paris show
Waists, heels and lace take centre-stage in Seán McGirr’s ‘modern dandy’ collection, as hourglass tailoring returns
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Unexpected bit of #Dickens afterlife this afternoon: fashion designer Seán McGirr's latest Alexander McQueen show was inspired by the Uncommercial Traveller essay 'Night Walks'.