@firecrasher.bsky.social
academic, musician, photographer. I don’t post much but I’ll follow you.
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This is a HELL of a user name. Standing and applauding.
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a HELL of a user name. Standing and applauding.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
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It's messed up that you ahve to write to write things instead of thinking about them really really hard
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's messed up that you ahve to write to write things instead of thinking about them really really hard
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Megyn Kelly in 2018: " There's no consenting for a 14 or even a 17 year old."
Megyn Kelly now: "Jeffrey Epstein…was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
Megyn Kelly now: "Jeffrey Epstein…was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Megyn Kelly in 2018: " There's no consenting for a 14 or even a 17 year old."
Megyn Kelly now: "Jeffrey Epstein…was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
Megyn Kelly now: "Jeffrey Epstein…was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
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An absolutely fascinating episode explaining the various experimental recording techniques used on Tomorrow Never Knows. Outstanding!
#Beatles
#Beatles
Season 2, Episode 1
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
017 Tomorrow Never Knows
Podcast Episode · Producing The Beatles · 11/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
An absolutely fascinating episode explaining the various experimental recording techniques used on Tomorrow Never Knows. Outstanding!
#Beatles
#Beatles
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every writer likes to brag about their productivity until they learn how Lauren Groff drafts:
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
every writer likes to brag about their productivity until they learn how Lauren Groff drafts:
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Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed
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Inspiration—a mysterious entity that appears at 3 a.m. when you’re too tired to type, then vanishes the moment you open your laptop.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Inspiration—a mysterious entity that appears at 3 a.m. when you’re too tired to type, then vanishes the moment you open your laptop.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books
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"The fact that Trump is adorning his office with gold and doubling his net worth is all the proof you need that he was perfectly content to say whatever he needed to say on the campaign trail to manipulate his fans. But now that he's got what he needs from them, he's done helping them."
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"The fact that Trump is adorning his office with gold and doubling his net worth is all the proof you need that he was perfectly content to say whatever he needed to say on the campaign trail to manipulate his fans. But now that he's got what he needs from them, he's done helping them."
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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If you want to get admitted to a leading university such as Oxford you need to put in the work of figuring out what contribution to knowledge you will make. Start by reading the literature but please not by asking ChatGPT to write a proposal.
It is a waste of everyone’s time and frankly offensive.
It is a waste of everyone’s time and frankly offensive.
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If you want to get admitted to a leading university such as Oxford you need to put in the work of figuring out what contribution to knowledge you will make. Start by reading the literature but please not by asking ChatGPT to write a proposal.
It is a waste of everyone’s time and frankly offensive.
It is a waste of everyone’s time and frankly offensive.
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When you’re in Paris and you know you overdid it on the book purchases.
September 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
When you’re in Paris and you know you overdid it on the book purchases.
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
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FRIENDS CALL ME BUBBLES: Happy Frog Friday! Here's a new photo of a young bullfrog in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. Bullfrogs are a non-Pinelands species. Their call sounds like "Jug-o-rum." 🐸 🌎
📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC
#frog #FridayFeeling #wildlife
📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC
#frog #FridayFeeling #wildlife
September 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
FRIENDS CALL ME BUBBLES: Happy Frog Friday! Here's a new photo of a young bullfrog in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. Bullfrogs are a non-Pinelands species. Their call sounds like "Jug-o-rum." 🐸 🌎
📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC
#frog #FridayFeeling #wildlife
📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC
#frog #FridayFeeling #wildlife
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
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"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."
--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.
--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."
--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.
--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.
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White man kills white man, black woman gets fired.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
White man kills white man, black woman gets fired.
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karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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Jimmy Kimmel is being brought back for the same reason he was suspended: Corporations only care about money.
Which is why boycotts work.
Which is why boycotts work.
September 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Jimmy Kimmel is being brought back for the same reason he was suspended: Corporations only care about money.
Which is why boycotts work.
Which is why boycotts work.
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“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross”
Sinclair Lewis, 1935
Sinclair Lewis, 1935
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross”
Sinclair Lewis, 1935
Sinclair Lewis, 1935
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If you needed more incentive to contact the advertisers on your local Sinclair station, let me remind you of this:
Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA"
Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?
Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?
#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.
September 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you needed more incentive to contact the advertisers on your local Sinclair station, let me remind you of this:
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Some “Thiel worshippers” on the scene!
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Some “Thiel worshippers” on the scene!