Lisa Oliverio
@loliverio.bsky.social
Recovering academic still invested in American literature, American religions and pedagogy.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
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Update: I would like to stop living through events covered in the 2075 AP US AND World History Exams
I'd like to stop living during the events covered in the 2075 AP US History exam
BREAKING via AP
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
June 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Update: I would like to stop living through events covered in the 2075 AP US AND World History Exams
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The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)
May 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)
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Look, everyone, it’s been more than fifty years since Warergate. Attaching -gate to every scandal or potential scandal is just cringe.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
March 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Look, everyone, it’s been more than fifty years since Warergate. Attaching -gate to every scandal or potential scandal is just cringe.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
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want to feel old? this is caillou today
March 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
want to feel old? this is caillou today
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1990s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay exhibit bc veterans and historians can’t agree whether we should celebrate its role in ending WWII or critically assess the decision to use nuclear weapons
2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word
2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word
honest question: did they just ctrl+f for "gay" bsky.app/profile/brad...
Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social)
The military is plans to scrub photos of the Enola Gay, one of the bombers that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, from its website as part of its purge of diversity content.
It's among more than 26,0...
bsky.app
March 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
1990s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay exhibit bc veterans and historians can’t agree whether we should celebrate its role in ending WWII or critically assess the decision to use nuclear weapons
2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word
2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”
lithub.com/judith-butle...
“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”
lithub.com/judith-butle...
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
lithub.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”
lithub.com/judith-butle...
“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”
lithub.com/judith-butle...
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D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."
February 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."
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MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
February 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
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so you’re navigating the institutionally sanctioned collapse of your profession for the first time! here are some pro tips from a historian:
February 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
so you’re navigating the institutionally sanctioned collapse of your profession for the first time! here are some pro tips from a historian:
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This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
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If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
February 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
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JPMorgan nails today’s vibes least.
February 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
JPMorgan nails today’s vibes least.
I’m starting to think the destruction of the humanities is so no one notices that they have cribbed all their ideas—from governance to their own savior narratives—from 20th C sci-fi—they seem to misread Neuromancer.
if you want to understand the Musk faction of the coup, unfortunately you need to understand EA, e/acc, and how Silicon Valley became embroiled in a war between cult factions that both exist to justify prioritizing the lives of the wealthy, abled, and white.
www.the-independent.com/tech/openai-...
www.the-independent.com/tech/openai-...
Inside the political split between AI designers that could decide our future
As AI threatens to the world upside down, a new philosophical movement advocates letting technology – and capitalism – off the leash. Io Dodds explores the heady world of Effective Accelerationism
www.the-independent.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m starting to think the destruction of the humanities is so no one notices that they have cribbed all their ideas—from governance to their own savior narratives—from 20th C sci-fi—they seem to misread Neuromancer.
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J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
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“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...
January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...