Mallory Cairo

Teacher: Global 9, IB History, YBK. Historical research: The Ashokan Reservoir, Religion's influence on politics.
History, politics, Spanish, and food.

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

Thinking about this today - the humanities are so important. Care about your HEART health (History, English (and other language), Art, Research, Teaching).

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

The world breathlessley reads a papal encyclical and enters anither week of hotly debating the Odyssey

Yet humanities programs are being closed all over.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.'

The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

@DKThomp The problem with AI isn’t marketing. It’s the product. Built by burning down our global cultural output & reshaping the ashes into a ghoulish simulacrum of creative expression. We must reject the strip-mining of our souls. The kids know this is impoverishment, not liberation.

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

etymologically you can't have an AI essay because "essay" implies trying and AI can't try

[csz @cszabla]

one of the things that can’t be expressed enough how much this kind of use traps us in an infinite loop of preexisting human activity. there’s no room for surprise. just an AI, replicating existing patterns of human behavior, forever

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

If you cannot loudly and firmly resist "humanoids" called Plato teaching our youth, you have no place in any movement that calls itself "classical."

It's time to draw some lines in the sand. I know which side I am on. Do you?

[Alex Tumay @alextumay]

AI is inevitable. You can tell by how no one wants it and it’s losing money left and right.

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

@CoreyMiles__ You've gotta be a big dweeb to want to be an academic in the first place - but to want to be an academic that doesn't do anything remotely related to reading and writing? LOSER behavior!! What are you here for????

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

@hotdamhistorian Something about the binding and typeface on a dissertation is so gorgeous to me.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

One way you can tell these people do not go to church is that they have no idea what one 67-year-old lady from Redeemer Lutheran can fit in a station wagon. This is a 2/10 on the church potluck scale, not even trying that hard.

[Momodou ✊🏿 @MomodouTaal]

“What he [the European bourgeois] cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the Blacks of Africa.” - Aime Césaire.

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

“One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn’t do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity.” —MLK jr

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

@dioscuri I mean, Sam Altman would have to 1) ask people how to care for his baby 2) read a book 3) google it and read a few articles…. All of which are what people actually do; not some notional ideal. I doubt he would be checking costar to see when to feed a baby.

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

@mkazin Too bad he can’t read

[Gravantus @Gravantus]

This is objectively one of the most evil ideas imaginable.

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

✍️ never piss off @JoyceCarolOates ✍️

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

@melnickjeffrey1 I saw it last week and I sure had a few.

[Mallory Cairo @MalloryCairo]

I'm sorry but these fools don't know anything about voting, elections, how election law works...

Absolute toddler behavior. Just because you don't understand the world doesn't mean it's wrong.

[Seth Rosenberg @SethGRosenberg]

My experience voting in NYC:

1. No ID required
2. Zohran on the ballot twice in the top row
3. Eric Adams, who dropped out to avoid splitting the vote, still on the ballot
4. Cuomo in the bottom right corner, 2nd row

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

"what if the professor punishes me for disagreeing with their argument"

Professors seeing a student show any kind of passion about anything in the course at any time