Clinton Kinkade
@clintdk.bsky.social
Lecturer at Davidson College | Ancient Greek scholarship and its reception of tragedy | Co-editor of Photios On Line
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A week from Thursday, Dr. @toriflee.bsky.social will bring her annual gift guide to Pasts Imperfect 🎁 once more. We are excited! But also a reminder that someone needs to buy this wallpaper and tell me how it is. www.hohenberger-wallcoverings.com/en/Mansions-...
The historical mansion mural from Pompeii as a historical wall covering
Discover the historical villas mural from Pompeii on non-woven wallpaper #healthy #decorative from Hohenberger Tapeten Manufaktur.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A week from Thursday, Dr. @toriflee.bsky.social will bring her annual gift guide to Pasts Imperfect 🎁 once more. We are excited! But also a reminder that someone needs to buy this wallpaper and tell me how it is. www.hohenberger-wallcoverings.com/en/Mansions-...
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MERCH IS HERE
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
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November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
MERCH IS HERE
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📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
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November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
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It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
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I am not going to arrest the intellectual development of my students by offering them opportunities exclusively to write within 75-minute blocks of time.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am not going to arrest the intellectual development of my students by offering them opportunities exclusively to write within 75-minute blocks of time.
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It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
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Keep the college essay.
You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.
It's OK. You can keep the essay.
You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.
It's OK. You can keep the essay.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Keep the college essay.
You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.
It's OK. You can keep the essay.
You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.
It's OK. You can keep the essay.
A testament to the (dubious) power of #Wikipedia: dozens of websites currently connect the poetic genre "cento" to a non-existent ancient Greek word "κεντρόνη" (should be "κεντόνη," no "ρ") because they directly copied the (now corrected) etymology section of the wiki article for the genre.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A testament to the (dubious) power of #Wikipedia: dozens of websites currently connect the poetic genre "cento" to a non-existent ancient Greek word "κεντρόνη" (should be "κεντόνη," no "ρ") because they directly copied the (now corrected) etymology section of the wiki article for the genre.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Just throwing in my two-bits that I never had a Nazi phase either, nor did any of my male friends growing up! Even we, in our adolescent foolishness, knew that Nazis were bullshit.
"oh that's bulls***"
"Oh, good, so we can..."
"different spelling."
"...different spelling? uh, oh, ok."
No, the average millennial man did not have a 'Nazi phase.' I sure didn't. People are telling on themselves here, good heavens.
"Oh, good, so we can..."
"different spelling."
"...different spelling? uh, oh, ok."
No, the average millennial man did not have a 'Nazi phase.' I sure didn't. People are telling on themselves here, good heavens.
i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just throwing in my two-bits that I never had a Nazi phase either, nor did any of my male friends growing up! Even we, in our adolescent foolishness, knew that Nazis were bullshit.
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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I find those ai slop nostalgia videos uniquely horrifying. A real rot deep in the soul of the people who make them and the people who like them.
September 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I find those ai slop nostalgia videos uniquely horrifying. A real rot deep in the soul of the people who make them and the people who like them.
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BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?
September 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?
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obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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I hope this ishmael finds you whale
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I hope this ishmael finds you whale
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I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
Funded MAs and More
Additions and Corrections Welcome esp. for Fall 2025 applications! How to use this list. The organizational principles is application closing date. I have grouped by month–the later in the cycle th…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
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Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027!
Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren
Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren
July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027!
Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren
Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren
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Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"
actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"
actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"
one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"
actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"
actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"
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The Performance of Roman Comedy: Publications of the 2023 NEH Institute now online #openaccess romancomedy.pubpub.org @nehafge3403.bsky.social @tofte.bsky.social @platanoclassics.bsky.social @denlinger.bsky.social
The Performance of Roman Comedy
romancomedy.pubpub.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Performance of Roman Comedy: Publications of the 2023 NEH Institute now online #openaccess romancomedy.pubpub.org @nehafge3403.bsky.social @tofte.bsky.social @platanoclassics.bsky.social @denlinger.bsky.social
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Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
July 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those
July 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those