Angela Hunter

Comparativist, translator. So much seltzer my blood has bubbles. “Ici, bientôt, de charmantes ruines.” (she/her)

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

Disastrous

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

"As part of President Donald Trump's budget plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) will see its funding cut from around $125 million a year to about $25 million." -Newsweek

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

If you know how much Chicago (or any other university) is paying to give everyone on campus Claude Enterprise, my DMs are open. I am curious how this expense compares to the apparently “too expensive” humanities PhD programs Chicago has cut. I bet the answer is illuminating!

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

@freganmitts They forgot that emergency measures have a higher vote threshold. Not a great reason, but there you have it.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

2020: “You need to stop using plastic straws. Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity.”

2026: “Anyway, here’s a 62-square-mile AI data center"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Can we PLEASE get AI to actually pick plastic out of the ocean, or do all the robots have to become screenwriters?

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

Encyclical Against the Machine

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

@CareyBrian @dee_of_e There are ways to prove the student didn’t write it (even if you can’t prove AI did), and that’s enough to move forward in a formal allegation (or to have serious talk w/ student and find an alternate way to handle it). It won’t work for all cases, but nothing ever does.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Show him come across a book so seemingly relevant to his project that he orders it on interlibrary loan. Now make it completely useless

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

@freganmitts I was absolutely strict on this for safety reasons and mine didn’t forward-face until they were over 5.

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

@_me_you_coward @RezekJoe Yeah, if only. Cause they keep hauling the books out of our uni library in favor of study space and group space and etc. amid budget declines.

[Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea @Maritime1400]

Out today! Congratulations! Frohock's book 'offers new insights into piracy literature by analyzing ways in which the pirate served as a contested figure of conversation in relation to imperialist violence, gender, race & topical philosophical matters'.🏴‍☠️
https://t.co/El0mETKDj5

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.

https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY

[theselongwars @theselongwars_]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

[Dr. Leonard Bright @DrLeonardBright]

Texas A&M is continuing its purge of the WGST program. Faculty have now been notified that two additional courses have been canceled for the fall semester after exceptions were denied.

The pattern is becoming increasingly clear: the systematic dismantling of Women’s and Gender Studies is underway.

[Angela Hunter @LitAndreas]

@DellAnnaLuca @HottyCouture WTF is wrong with these people or these fields that there’s a sense that the author hasn’t/authors haven’t actually read cited articles and books?!?!? Why are you referencing things you haven’t read regularly enough for this to be a problem??

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Still think we’re understating the impact of AI on university degrees. A growing numbers of students don’t just lack the inclination to read but the *capacity*. Literally unable to read and absorb difficult sentences for an extended period. Same goes for writing.

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

(faculty member who is shortlisted for the new VP in Artificial Intelligence and Student Search History Surveillance position) AI is here to stay

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

The other—which other?

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

A modest proposal: If you submit a manuscript with a made-up citation—not a bungled or misspelled reference—you receive a 5-year ban on having your work reviewed at that journal.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

It was clear for thousands of years that the cultivation of our humanity was the most important project we could undertake. The fact that the value of this is no longer legible to us--that we see no "point" to education beyond earning a wage--is the real crisis.