monique flores ulysses 🧿
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mexican/cypriot | woc feminist educator, historian, writer, worker | histories of race + immigration | visiting prof @ wesleyan | she/her ♉️(☼☽) ♓️(↑)
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Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,
May 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,
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If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is.
You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.
You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.
This week, I spoke with one of the Duolingo contractors impacted by its 'new' AI strategy, and they clarified that
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
May 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is.
You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.
You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.
I am absolutely obsessed with The Pitt
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Noah Wyle Was Nearing a ‘Nervous Breakdown.’ Then Came ‘The Pitt’: It’s ‘Infuriating We Can’t Come to a Consensus’ on Masks and Vaccines
Noah Wyle didn't want to play a doctor again after his 15 years on "ER." Then came COVID and "The Pitt."
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April 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I am absolutely obsessed with The Pitt
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"In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television"
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In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television | Defector
On Sept. 19, 1994, a week before Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared that there was no legislative path forward in the current Congress for the Clinton administration’s healthcare reform a...
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April 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television"
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as a pg-13 movie, return of the king can technically drop one f bomb. but where to deploy it
March 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
as a pg-13 movie, return of the king can technically drop one f bomb. but where to deploy it
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land acknowledgments are deeply insufficient sometimes diving straight into cringe but anyone who's only run into a few over the past decade is revealing a lot about the limits of their engagement with culture
March 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
land acknowledgments are deeply insufficient sometimes diving straight into cringe but anyone who's only run into a few over the past decade is revealing a lot about the limits of their engagement with culture
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Quit buying shit, write poems, live más
February 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Quit buying shit, write poems, live más
Unironically, I loved this. Like, "one creamer by land, two sugars by sea" ????? Come on that's hilarious and totally wacky.
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variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Jeremy Strong on Poking Fun at Method Acting With Dunkin’ Donuts Super Bowl Ad: ‘I Had No Trouble Taking the Piss Out of Myself’
Jeremy Strong talks about sending up his method acting with a new Dunkin' Donuts ad and shares details about his upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic.
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February 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Unironically, I loved this. Like, "one creamer by land, two sugars by sea" ????? Come on that's hilarious and totally wacky.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
I've been slowly listening to @thedigradio.bsky.social eps with Michael Denning on Stuart Hall all week and it is like a soothing balm applied on a fresh wound. Might have to re-listen (for a third time lol) to the Gramsci ones he did, too.
January 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I've been slowly listening to @thedigradio.bsky.social eps with Michael Denning on Stuart Hall all week and it is like a soothing balm applied on a fresh wound. Might have to re-listen (for a third time lol) to the Gramsci ones he did, too.
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Dog of Randall the Jeweler, ca. 1875.
January 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dog of Randall the Jeweler, ca. 1875.
Finding great solace in these photos today
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/mount-...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/mount-...
The timeless monasteries and sacred art of Greece’s holy mountain
Over a millennium’s worth of Orthodox monastic life has played out on Mount Athos, with its icons, incense and lanterns. But the fourth-century liturgy? It’s all Greek to Joshua Barley
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January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Finding great solace in these photos today
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/mount-...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/mount-...
Absolutely cannot wait to listen to this!!
Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to listen to this!!
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Very excited to share an editorial project that has been published digitally by Fence Magazine:
"'I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast': six women writing from El Salvador," spanning the years of the Salvadoran civil war through the present.
fenceportal.org/six-women-wr...
"'I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast': six women writing from El Salvador," spanning the years of the Salvadoran civil war through the present.
fenceportal.org/six-women-wr...
January 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Very excited to share an editorial project that has been published digitally by Fence Magazine:
"'I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast': six women writing from El Salvador," spanning the years of the Salvadoran civil war through the present.
fenceportal.org/six-women-wr...
"'I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast': six women writing from El Salvador," spanning the years of the Salvadoran civil war through the present.
fenceportal.org/six-women-wr...
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FIGHTING FOR CONTROL: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social is available now wherever books are sold. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
FIGHTING FOR CONTROL: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social is available now wherever books are sold. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
January 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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FIGHTING FOR CONTROL: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social is available now wherever books are sold. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
FIGHTING FOR CONTROL: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social is available now wherever books are sold. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
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Objecting to the specific implications of a particular technology for a particular set of goals is neither resisting technology in general nor trying to hold up the inexorable flow of time, and anyone who says differently is most likely either selling something or justifying a purchase
December 31, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Objecting to the specific implications of a particular technology for a particular set of goals is neither resisting technology in general nor trying to hold up the inexorable flow of time, and anyone who says differently is most likely either selling something or justifying a purchase
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All respect to the Luddites, but also: I don't think scholars who use digitized archives and online journal databases and Powerpoint presentations and all the rest of it are best understood as "anti-technology" if they resist the use of generative AI to undermine the integrity of research or writing
December 31, 2024 at 2:24 AM
All respect to the Luddites, but also: I don't think scholars who use digitized archives and online journal databases and Powerpoint presentations and all the rest of it are best understood as "anti-technology" if they resist the use of generative AI to undermine the integrity of research or writing
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How to critically read a text. This is what the author wrote, here’s one way to interpret what they’re saying and here’s why I think it’s interesting or significant. It’s an invaluable skill. And increasingly rare across different mediums.
17. What is one thing you think every human being should learn how to do?
December 30, 2024 at 11:02 PM
How to critically read a text. This is what the author wrote, here’s one way to interpret what they’re saying and here’s why I think it’s interesting or significant. It’s an invaluable skill. And increasingly rare across different mediums.