Seth Rudy
@sethrudy.bsky.social
18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
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In other #gothic news my students cast Adam Driver as Ambrosio in The Monk and booed when I said the studio would probably push for Sydney Sweeney as Agnes
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
In other #gothic news my students cast Adam Driver as Ambrosio in The Monk and booed when I said the studio would probably push for Sydney Sweeney as Agnes
Dracula is about professional specialization and the superiority of modern corporate structures over outdated models of mercantilism and guild structures, plus bats
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Dracula is about professional specialization and the superiority of modern corporate structures over outdated models of mercantilism and guild structures, plus bats
Primary everyone and everything. Total reset. Like run candidates to replace their friends and relatives. Maybe they need new families to get the message. Put your cat up against their cat. Let the voters decide which cats should be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Primary everyone and everything. Total reset. Like run candidates to replace their friends and relatives. Maybe they need new families to get the message. Put your cat up against their cat. Let the voters decide which cats should be in government.
I think AI might have broken me. Here’s a picture I took in real life of some real-life cormorants I saw in real life. #photography
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I think AI might have broken me. Here’s a picture I took in real life of some real-life cormorants I saw in real life. #photography
Hey can we put together a bank of student papers from the last ten or fifteen years with no identifying info or dates and then see if we can grade them and accurately guess their dates of composition so we have some kind of data to justify the refrain of how much worse writing/thinking has become
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hey can we put together a bank of student papers from the last ten or fifteen years with no identifying info or dates and then see if we can grade them and accurately guess their dates of composition so we have some kind of data to justify the refrain of how much worse writing/thinking has become
Ok but for real what if they rebooted Night Court with all Frankenstein characters
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ok but for real what if they rebooted Night Court with all Frankenstein characters
I think what we’re learning from the new Frankenstein is that almost no one responsible for writing about the new Frankenstein has ever read Frankenstein.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think what we’re learning from the new Frankenstein is that almost no one responsible for writing about the new Frankenstein has ever read Frankenstein.
My job makes me a bit nuts but the place is nice to look at
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My job makes me a bit nuts but the place is nice to look at
Actual (hypothetical) question—
A college provides students with access to an LLM. The LLM encourages or supports student self-harm or worse.
Is this a potential liability issue for the college?
A college provides students with access to an LLM. The LLM encourages or supports student self-harm or worse.
Is this a potential liability issue for the college?
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Actual (hypothetical) question—
A college provides students with access to an LLM. The LLM encourages or supports student self-harm or worse.
Is this a potential liability issue for the college?
A college provides students with access to an LLM. The LLM encourages or supports student self-harm or worse.
Is this a potential liability issue for the college?
Teaching undergrads to use AI is basically like buying them booze to drink at home because at least you know where they are
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Teaching undergrads to use AI is basically like buying them booze to drink at home because at least you know where they are
Court holds that if DOJ brings six more cases, will get seventh free www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Court holds that if DOJ brings six more cases, will get seventh free www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
One student cheats: that’s cheating!
Ten students cheat: that’s cheating!
Fifty students cheat: we have a cheating epidemic!
Enough students cheat: we must make the ways students are cheating part of the educational experience and redefine cheating to mean something else
Ten students cheat: that’s cheating!
Fifty students cheat: we have a cheating epidemic!
Enough students cheat: we must make the ways students are cheating part of the educational experience and redefine cheating to mean something else
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One student cheats: that’s cheating!
Ten students cheat: that’s cheating!
Fifty students cheat: we have a cheating epidemic!
Enough students cheat: we must make the ways students are cheating part of the educational experience and redefine cheating to mean something else
Ten students cheat: that’s cheating!
Fifty students cheat: we have a cheating epidemic!
Enough students cheat: we must make the ways students are cheating part of the educational experience and redefine cheating to mean something else
The Oval Office is opposite the swim-up bar and around the corner from the ice maker and vending machines
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Oval Office is opposite the swim-up bar and around the corner from the ice maker and vending machines
Is it wrong that I want Alison Janney to yell at me for a few minutes in character as Grace Penn
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Is it wrong that I want Alison Janney to yell at me for a few minutes in character as Grace Penn
All the Ellison crap and everything else aside, I would like to know what work the “overly” is doing
screenrant.com/paramount-ho...
screenrant.com/paramount-ho...
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
All the Ellison crap and everything else aside, I would like to know what work the “overly” is doing
screenrant.com/paramount-ho...
screenrant.com/paramount-ho...
AI bubble gonna make the South Sea Company look like Pets dot com
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
AI bubble gonna make the South Sea Company look like Pets dot com
Do I allow myself briefly to experience happiness at this news or do I immediately proceed to anxiety over whatever is next
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Do I allow myself briefly to experience happiness at this news or do I immediately proceed to anxiety over whatever is next
Gotta hand it to the Voyager probes for knowing how early they had to leave to be safely out of the solar system before this administration took over
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Gotta hand it to the Voyager probes for knowing how early they had to leave to be safely out of the solar system before this administration took over
School says 5 year old kid has trouble focusing and wife says I’m taking it too seriously but I worry that if we don’t address it now, then when she’s older she won’t be able to lock in and complete the prompt asking ChatGPT to summarize her reading
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
School says 5 year old kid has trouble focusing and wife says I’m taking it too seriously but I worry that if we don’t address it now, then when she’s older she won’t be able to lock in and complete the prompt asking ChatGPT to summarize her reading
Saving daylight? In this economy?
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Saving daylight? In this economy?
Parenting achievement unlocked: have nicked some of child’s Halloween candy
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Parenting achievement unlocked: have nicked some of child’s Halloween candy
There are six different species of bird in the feeder right now and this pleases me very much
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There are six different species of bird in the feeder right now and this pleases me very much
I keep hearing about infected monkeys on the loose but nothing about why we should vote for them
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I keep hearing about infected monkeys on the loose but nothing about why we should vote for them