Luke Brake

Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Sterling College.

keywords: Christian; Rhetoric; Composition; Electracy

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[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

@lymanstoneky Read the original piece. He is describing a woman who is forced to prostitute herself to save her husband, and he says "I don't think I would call that woman a fornicator, but this is a very messy example." That is not a defense of polyamory by any stretch of the imagination.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

I mean the answer probably is that most people only read “The Grand Inquisitor” chapter but still

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

I know this is all engagement bait or whatever, but why does Dostoevsky always get put down as some kind of depressing nihilist, when his two most famous works are about everlasting love and the potential of mankind?

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Reviving my greatest artistic creation. Tag yourself, I’m “Sad + Hates Everyone.”

[Sterling College C.S. Lewis Center @sclewiscenter]

This will include papers from @SterlingCLife's own Chair of Language and Literature, Dr. @LukeBrake and familiar IFF faces @GCSalter and Elizabeth Jennings, as well as a wonderful reflective paper from Dr. Wilhelm.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

I do not mind the Disney Adult too much (not my cup of tea, but it seems fine).

I am pretty tired of how threatening some public spaces are to my children in terms of public indecency, especially with pornographic images on t-shirts/cars.

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Okay. Ban childless adults from Disney World and other kid-centric spaces and let’s have a chat.

And while we’re at it, let’s talk about the number of times I’ve had to sit next to a table of adults loudly spewing profanity, which has become more common than a free bread basket.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

This is anti-human and anti-culture and neglects the real culprit of the decline of low end dining: gigantic TVs

[Fox News @FoxNews]

No one wants a romantic dinner ruined by a screaming child at the next table.

According to a new survey, 75% of Americans say restaurants should offer some kind of adults-only dining experience to avoid unruly kids.

That includes child-free sections, restrictions during late-night hours, and quieter dining environments focused more on the experience than family-friendly chaos.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

@MereSophistry IDK if this is a common experience, but I do a lot better with OLD books on audiobook.

I think it has something to do with the visual film-like quality of contemp. prose that tries to describe things as a movie.

Older stuff works more like a story someone is telling me.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

Church coffee hour depends on complementarity.

For the parents, an Apollonian hour of conversation and swapping prayer request.

BECAUSE

For the kids, a Dionysian hour of donuts, running around like dervishes, and screaming.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

Let’s be honest. All these people upset about college students using AI are just jealous they didn’t have it when they were in college. They just want them to suffer like they did. It’s an old story: “Well if I suffered, they should too.” It’s also a morally repugnant position.

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

We can solve the fertility crisis by showing people charts and then yelling at them for not having enough babies

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

Genuinely hopeful that this discourse resolves the extremely embarrassing citation bloat in academic journals.

It’s unnecessary, vain, and needlessly discourages grad students.

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

Lots of mean stereotypes about Tech researchers getting validated rn

[Luca Ambrogioni @LucaAmb]

No, you are supposed to obsessively check everything line by line after any of your coauthors make any update to any of your papers.

Major PIs will author more than 15 papers a year with several tens of coauthors. Now they are supposed to check everything line by line at every single update without failure rate.

If the failure rate of any of this is 0.5-1%, a PI who publishes 15 papers a year or more will likely be banned in a few years at best

[Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca]

The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

@suzania @ZoharAtkins Also, try coloring like a child sometime. It’s harder than you think!

[carl 🥦 @NightlifeMingus]

the real question is how often in Nolan’s Odyssey we will see Matt Damon burn thigh bones wrapped in fat for the gods

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

I guarantee you’re a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

@ChrisExpTheNews I don’t mind the poem, but hating on a poem is the backbone of having a poetic culture. It’s a GOOD sign. Hushed, unearned reverence is only a little better than apathy.

[Luke Brake @LukeBrake]

@MereSophistry