Seth Rudy
@sethrudy.bsky.social
18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
Me, a professor: *orders a course pack*
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
December 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Me, a professor: *orders a course pack*
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
2026! Just a couple of weeks to reprioritize my enemies list before classes start. Look forward to seeing, but not being seen by, some of you in the New Year!
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
2026! Just a couple of weeks to reprioritize my enemies list before classes start. Look forward to seeing, but not being seen by, some of you in the New Year!
Drawing your attention to this exchange that occurred totally organically without my instigation. Important thing is @tedunderwood.com said you should read the book.
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Drawing your attention to this exchange that occurred totally organically without my instigation. Important thing is @tedunderwood.com said you should read the book.
Was waiting for a train at King’s Cross in London when I looked behind me and definitely saw Alan Rickman, who definitely saw me definitely seeing him, and looked at me as if to say, “yes, but don’t.”
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Was waiting for a train at King’s Cross in London when I looked behind me and definitely saw Alan Rickman, who definitely saw me definitely seeing him, and looked at me as if to say, “yes, but don’t.”
Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be
December 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be
I’m doing an analog-only course next term. Realized the extent to which Canvas and email allow *me* to detach. It’ll be like going to college when I went to college!
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I’m doing an analog-only course next term. Realized the extent to which Canvas and email allow *me* to detach. It’ll be like going to college when I went to college!
Let this be the year I post an AI take that finally makes @tedunderwood.com block me
December 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Let this be the year I post an AI take that finally makes @tedunderwood.com block me
Make a Bond movie academic
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Committee
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Committee
Make a Bond movie academic
No Time to Grade
Also:
The Syllabus Is Not Enough
No Time to Grade
Also:
The Syllabus Is Not Enough
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Committee
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Committee
Make a Bond movie academic
Tomorrow Never Hires
Tomorrow Never Hires
Make a Bond Movie academic
Best, Russia
Best, Russia
Make a Bond movie casual
From Russia with Best Wishes
From Russia with Best Wishes
December 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
Tomorrow Never Hires
Tomorrow Never Hires
I’m feeling quite depressed and would like one or more of you to take responsibility for it.
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I’m feeling quite depressed and would like one or more of you to take responsibility for it.
Students! I am not preparing you for the job market. I am preparing you to survive on a diet of literature and contemplation as a reclusive refugee from post-maxicapitalist civilizational unraveling.
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Students! I am not preparing you for the job market. I am preparing you to survive on a diet of literature and contemplation as a reclusive refugee from post-maxicapitalist civilizational unraveling.
Me: I declare no more cookies until the afternoon
Daughter: how could you! I’m your wife’s child!
Daughter: how could you! I’m your wife’s child!
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Me: I declare no more cookies until the afternoon
Daughter: how could you! I’m your wife’s child!
Daughter: how could you! I’m your wife’s child!
You know, I’m starting to think a lot of you aren’t anyone’s brother in Christ at all!
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
You know, I’m starting to think a lot of you aren’t anyone’s brother in Christ at all!
Kruse is stealing my bit
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Kruse is stealing my bit
Do not thank me for my patience, airline. If I would be dragged off the plane, arrested, and charged for expressing anger, what you are experiencing is not patience.
December 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Do not thank me for my patience, airline. If I would be dragged off the plane, arrested, and charged for expressing anger, what you are experiencing is not patience.
Well it happened. They asked if there is a doctor on board. But it seems serious so I decided to play it straight.
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Well it happened. They asked if there is a doctor on board. But it seems serious so I decided to play it straight.
I can’t imagine anyone in literary studies using AI to generate fake citations or summarize stuff, I would think it’s completely anathema, I am obviously wrong, I would be mortified to know for sure
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I can’t imagine anyone in literary studies using AI to generate fake citations or summarize stuff, I would think it’s completely anathema, I am obviously wrong, I would be mortified to know for sure
Some of those pages are so redacted you’d think Parson Yorick just died
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Some of those pages are so redacted you’d think Parson Yorick just died
Student eval says “Prof Rudy, and I mean this in the best way, is so strange.”
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Student eval says “Prof Rudy, and I mean this in the best way, is so strange.”
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
~ Sir Walter Scott
December 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I’ll vote for any Dem running on a platform of damnatio memoriae
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I’ll vote for any Dem running on a platform of damnatio memoriae
I don’t know what exactly, but the Christmas card with machine printed message and signature automatically sent by my insurance company’s mail system every year is definitely emblematic of something wrong with this country
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I don’t know what exactly, but the Christmas card with machine printed message and signature automatically sent by my insurance company’s mail system every year is definitely emblematic of something wrong with this country
Has anyone done “The Madness of King Orange?” Can I copyright that?
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Has anyone done “The Madness of King Orange?” Can I copyright that?
Crap I missed the speech, I was busy chien andalouing my own eyeballs because I thought it’d be less aggravating
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Crap I missed the speech, I was busy chien andalouing my own eyeballs because I thought it’d be less aggravating