Frankie G.
@frankiefurter.bsky.social
Birdbrain at Te Herenga Waka @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social
Graduation redux! (bunsen & beaker remix)
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Graduation redux! (bunsen & beaker remix)
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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Michael Burry has predicted 10 of the last 1 bubbles
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Michael Burry has predicted 10 of the last 1 bubbles
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"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 12:50 PM
"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...
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Could right-wing politicians *please* ease up on the magical thinking about AI? It's just getting daft now. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/569...
Watch: AI will aid with NCEA replacement, Education Minister says
"We're extraordinarily advanced in terms of the rest of the world," Erica Stanford says.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Does anyone know any search engines that don't use AI and don't suck to use? Using Google is starting to feel unconscionable
June 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Does anyone know any search engines that don't use AI and don't suck to use? Using Google is starting to feel unconscionable
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life/is to help in some small nibbling way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life/is to help in some small nibbling way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
December 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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A shameful day for the gov’t. Imagine believing you are qualified to lead a country whose arts, history, culture & society you relentlessly demean and undervalue www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...
Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
A shameful day for the gov’t. Imagine believing you are qualified to lead a country whose arts, history, culture & society you relentlessly demean and undervalue www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...
Hi Bluesky! A stingray brushed against my foot today in Te Tai Tokerau
October 21, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Hi Bluesky! A stingray brushed against my foot today in Te Tai Tokerau