Nate Wolff

Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳

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doomed whaling voyage

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

question for men: what are your favourite things to do with other men?

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"nickname literate" people be like

[Will Provost @GremlinIndustry]

"Media literate" people be like

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Herman Melville: ADDICTED TO WIKIPEDIA

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@angularityyy 💯

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This, to me, is public humanities

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@HartWexford spouting 👏 fish 👏 with 👏 a 👏 horizontal 👏 tail

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Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures of Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.

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@stevebikes Whales are fish. 1818 Maurice v. Judd. I don't make the rules.

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@Ozymetsdias a thing with fins that lives in the ocean? Think about how you sound right now.

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@imfleetwoodjack THANK YOU

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@AnnMile71721158 free yourself from the tyranny of Linnaean taxonomy

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@KodaScott1 That a whale is a fish is whole thing in Moby-Dick, which is something that people who have read it know.

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@JoyceCarolOates @PhilKlay Ok, I’ve come around to a compromise position.

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j/k — I prefer to think Middlemarch and Moby-Dick are not competing rather they are a loving power couple and we all call them middledick

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@JoyceCarolOates @PhilKlay Totally agree. But just between us Moby-Dick wins right?

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j/k — I prefer to think Middlemarch and Moby-Dick are not competing rather they are a loving power couple and we all call them middledick

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I'm sorry, no. "Transparency" is simply not an indefiniteness that shadows forth the heartless voids & immensities of the universe, stabbing us from behind with the thought of annihilation; a dumb blankness, full of meaning, from which we shrink.

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@HenriDeMarsay Yes exactly this is all by design. LLMs are totally sycophantic so only humans can be visibly annoyed by the wrong title and the quiz’s weird punctuation 🧠

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Yup. My pedagogy has been AI-proof for years 💪

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

It’s amazing how everyone is lamenting the way AI makes it impossible to assign take-home essays anymore when you can just give students in-class exams with true/false questions.

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"but professor doesn't the text profoundly destabilize the linguistic and epistemological grounds of interp..." let me stop you right there. YES OR NO

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@dennismhogan Hate like ye say? aye lad tis the strongest kind of like

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Canvas is down ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming merciless drink! then lad, ye might say with some authority that can