@andreawestcot.bsky.social
In which I try to make sense of what’s happening, as a sort of record of what I’m thinking. History, politics, education.
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We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
I am annoying everyone in my house while I read this book, because nearly every page I want to read a sentence out loud or talk about Edmu/ond Hai/l/wley. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I am annoying everyone in my house while I read this book, because nearly every page I want to read a sentence out loud or talk about Edmu/ond Hai/l/wley. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
JFC, Prudie. Groom outsources thinking, language, and basic human emotions to ChatGPT, and you give the letter writer the bridezilla treatment?
Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting.
slate.com/advice/2025/...
Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting.
slate.com/advice/2025/...
Help! My Husband’s Best Man Made a Stunning Admission During His Wedding Speech. I Might Never Get Over It.
I barely got through the reception.
slate.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
JFC, Prudie. Groom outsources thinking, language, and basic human emotions to ChatGPT, and you give the letter writer the bridezilla treatment?
Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting.
slate.com/advice/2025/...
Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting.
slate.com/advice/2025/...
I’m rereading The Age of Innocence for the first time in 25 years. I remember May Welland and Madame Olenska a bit - but I did not remember the sparkling, lethal humor of the writing. My god.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I’m rereading The Age of Innocence for the first time in 25 years. I remember May Welland and Madame Olenska a bit - but I did not remember the sparkling, lethal humor of the writing. My god.
Every once in a while, I get to witness a student truly coming to a new understanding of the world - an awakening, a sudden explosion of wisdom. It is messy, breathless, and it's utterly inconvenient to the structures of academic writing. Mind-altering realizations get Bs on standard rubrics.
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Every once in a while, I get to witness a student truly coming to a new understanding of the world - an awakening, a sudden explosion of wisdom. It is messy, breathless, and it's utterly inconvenient to the structures of academic writing. Mind-altering realizations get Bs on standard rubrics.
Dear students,
Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done."
Sincerely,
Your human professor
Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done."
Sincerely,
Your human professor
May 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dear students,
Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done."
Sincerely,
Your human professor
Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done."
Sincerely,
Your human professor
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Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.
The talking point that little girls have to settle for fewer dolls to soften the collapse of the consumer economy is genius. Women be shopping, and this whole thing smacks of gender.
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.
I’m head-scratching at the ways that tribalism has made the left forget our critiques of globalization / free trade.
Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare.
Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?
Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare.
Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’m head-scratching at the ways that tribalism has made the left forget our critiques of globalization / free trade.
Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare.
Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?
Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare.
Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?
I feel like a difference between my early adulthood and the current era is the absence today of a meaningful concept of “selling out”.
The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.
The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.
April 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I feel like a difference between my early adulthood and the current era is the absence today of a meaningful concept of “selling out”.
The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.
The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.
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What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.
April 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.
USian pro-democracy activism is quite old and white.
College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving.
And listen to them about how it must change.
College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving.
And listen to them about how it must change.
April 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
USian pro-democracy activism is quite old and white.
College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving.
And listen to them about how it must change.
College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving.
And listen to them about how it must change.
You'd think that with a technology as grandiose as AI, students would learn to cover their cheating tracks a bit better? Alas.
April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You'd think that with a technology as grandiose as AI, students would learn to cover their cheating tracks a bit better? Alas.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."
April 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."
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Every Trump apologist laughing at Democrats for “defending MS-13” is endorsing a conception of law in which the executive branch can abduct and disappear U.S. citizens to a foreign prison without even giving them an opportunity to object. It’s really that simple. These losers just crave fascism.
April 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Every Trump apologist laughing at Democrats for “defending MS-13” is endorsing a conception of law in which the executive branch can abduct and disappear U.S. citizens to a foreign prison without even giving them an opportunity to object. It’s really that simple. These losers just crave fascism.
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DAVID BROOKS says “we have nothing to lose but our chains.” David. Brooks.
April 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
DAVID BROOKS says “we have nothing to lose but our chains.” David. Brooks.
MAGA is a death cult.
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
MAGA is a death cult.
Visits to the U.S. in March fell nearly 12 percent year-over-year, government figures show, the first significant downturn since early in the pandemic. Analysts say Trump's visa revocations, detentions, deportations and tariffs are pushing tourists away
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM