Dan Breen
@dgsbreen.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern literature and history, friends, family, "culture." Occasionally grumpy, but mostly nice.
“It’s easy to laugh at Kim Kardashian, who recently announced that she failed the California bar exam,” Max Raskin writes.
“But Kardashian’s failure is not a knock on her — it’s an indictment of the bar.”
“But Kardashian’s failure is not a knock on her — it’s an indictment of the bar.”
Opinion | Actually, the bar exam failed Kim Kardashian
The test is not about quality control for lawyers, it’s about quantity control.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
This you?
This you?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Even I have trepidations about what kind of future my son will grow up in as A.I. progresses. And I am far from alone,” writes Soulaiman Itani, a developer of several A.I. projects.
“Even I have trepidations about what kind of future my son will grow up in as A.I. progresses. And I am far from alone,” writes Soulaiman Itani, a developer of several A.I. projects.
Opinion | How to Prepare Your Kids for the A.I. Revolution
I help to build A.I. systems, and even I know there are real reasons to be concerned about how A.I. affects our children.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
This you?
This you?
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No; 2026 is the distant science-fiction future, when we’ll all have jet-packs and live on lunar colonies.
I, meanwhile, am still writing “1994” on my checks.
I, meanwhile, am still writing “1994” on my checks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
No; 2026 is the distant science-fiction future, when we’ll all have jet-packs and live on lunar colonies.
I, meanwhile, am still writing “1994” on my checks.
I, meanwhile, am still writing “1994” on my checks.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Happy Birthday William Blake!
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Happy Birthday William Blake!
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The Harder They Come
Donald Too Bad's ratings are in a pressure drop, but Dems have many rivers to cross to keep the country from turning into a shanty town. We'll be sitting in limbo to see if really want it.
by Maureen Dowd
Donald Too Bad's ratings are in a pressure drop, but Dems have many rivers to cross to keep the country from turning into a shanty town. We'll be sitting in limbo to see if really want it.
by Maureen Dowd
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Harder They Come
Donald Too Bad's ratings are in a pressure drop, but Dems have many rivers to cross to keep the country from turning into a shanty town. We'll be sitting in limbo to see if really want it.
by Maureen Dowd
Donald Too Bad's ratings are in a pressure drop, but Dems have many rivers to cross to keep the country from turning into a shanty town. We'll be sitting in limbo to see if really want it.
by Maureen Dowd
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
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Why didn’t we ever get a dark, gritty reboot of Encyclopedia Brown?
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Why didn’t we ever get a dark, gritty reboot of Encyclopedia Brown?
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Pinker, Taylor, Souljah, Pie
Campus free speech, the new Swift album, and Democrats’ shift to the center will give your family plenty to talk about this Thanksgiving.
by Maureen Dowd
Campus free speech, the new Swift album, and Democrats’ shift to the center will give your family plenty to talk about this Thanksgiving.
by Maureen Dowd
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Pinker, Taylor, Souljah, Pie
Campus free speech, the new Swift album, and Democrats’ shift to the center will give your family plenty to talk about this Thanksgiving.
by Maureen Dowd
Campus free speech, the new Swift album, and Democrats’ shift to the center will give your family plenty to talk about this Thanksgiving.
by Maureen Dowd
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As tensions increase between the United States and Canada, some Trump staffers worry that new travel restrictions may make it more difficult for them to visit their girlfriends.
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
As tensions increase between the United States and Canada, some Trump staffers worry that new travel restrictions may make it more difficult for them to visit their girlfriends.
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I can’t tell you how much it saddens me to see two of the country’s most prominent intellectuals and philanthropists at odds with one another.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I can’t tell you how much it saddens me to see two of the country’s most prominent intellectuals and philanthropists at odds with one another.
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Chicagoans say their iconic Michigan Avenue retail district is called the Magnificent Mile. Donald Trump says it is called the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. As with most controversies, the truth may lie somewhere in between.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Chicagoans say their iconic Michigan Avenue retail district is called the Magnificent Mile. Donald Trump says it is called the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. As with most controversies, the truth may lie somewhere in between.
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You don’t hear the word “galore” much these days. Let’s change that
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You don’t hear the word “galore” much these days. Let’s change that
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Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
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Our Black & Latino Studies Department is hiring a tenured associate professor in black and/or Latino queer studies (open discipline)! I'm so excited about this hire—excited enough to have agreed to serve on the search committee! Please spread the news. Baruch's great, and so is NYC!
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our Black & Latino Studies Department is hiring a tenured associate professor in black and/or Latino queer studies (open discipline)! I'm so excited about this hire—excited enough to have agreed to serve on the search committee! Please spread the news. Baruch's great, and so is NYC!
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Curious about the George Santos commutation? This sheet pan Dover sole recipe was submitted by Santos himself, dating back to his time as executive chef of The French Laundry.
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Curious about the George Santos commutation? This sheet pan Dover sole recipe was submitted by Santos himself, dating back to his time as executive chef of The French Laundry.
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This is why, in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we prioritize the foundational importance of *caring*
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is why, in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we prioritize the foundational importance of *caring*
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Reading about the Louvre heist and hoping those guys from the Dorchester Ave. chop shop who did the Gardner are sitting in a cafe in a banlieu just North of Paris right now figuring out how to order a coffee like Dunkin’ makes
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reading about the Louvre heist and hoping those guys from the Dorchester Ave. chop shop who did the Gardner are sitting in a cafe in a banlieu just North of Paris right now figuring out how to order a coffee like Dunkin’ makes
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Um . . . did I just buy a book that used to belong to Eamon Duffy?
October 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Um . . . did I just buy a book that used to belong to Eamon Duffy?
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I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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It is not too late for Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage.
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It is not too late for Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage.
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Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature
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Please support the kickstarter for my movie Kraven the Gatherer. Kraven gathers so much shit in this movie and his friends are all "Kraven, where are you gonna put all that stuff your apartment ain't that big" But Kraven ain't trying to hear it. He is a gatherin' fool and whatnot
September 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Please support the kickstarter for my movie Kraven the Gatherer. Kraven gathers so much shit in this movie and his friends are all "Kraven, where are you gonna put all that stuff your apartment ain't that big" But Kraven ain't trying to hear it. He is a gatherin' fool and whatnot
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Georgian name of the day:
Mr Griffinhoofe, lace-maker
Mr Griffinhoofe, lace-maker
September 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Georgian name of the day:
Mr Griffinhoofe, lace-maker
Mr Griffinhoofe, lace-maker