Great podcast and fun episode — but did you know that (at least in the US) one of the advertisers is Abeka Books, a producer of anti-science, Christian nationalist textbooks? I was shocked to hear them attached to (and implicitly normalized by) any BBC podcast, but especially this one.

So feminist 🙃

Not “preferred” but I hope the point stands

Beyond that! She chose to write mystery novels as Robert Galbraith! Preferred names/pronouns for JKR but no one else

Please DO SOMETHING with this! How have you only posted once since then? Why am I not seeing ad buys on all my social media?? She just gave the IDP a GIFT and this is all you’ve had to say about it???

Yeah, exactly. Same enraged white billionaires — but what will the population do?

I have wondered whether South Africa will face the same challenges, since they actually made systematic efforts at reconciliation. That’s really different from a bunch of white guys in the US beating the Nazis abroad and then coming home to support Jim Crow

Okay but I AM teaching All’s Well this semester for the first time 👀

At first I thought uncharitable thoughts about MBA recommenders driving the design, but then I remembered AI. I confess I have wondered what percentage of recommenders ask ChatGPT to write the letters.

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