GingerProf
Thinking about Beleriand.
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- Reposted by GingerProfI think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
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- Reposted by GingerProfThe mania for "summaries" already shows a lack of understanding of how learning or even knowledge works. A summary is essentially a *reminder*. In a pinch, it can help give you an initial orientation, but it is ultimately useless unless you actually work through the summarized material yourself.
- Devastated to report that outlining actually works. As opposed to, for instance, worrying and obsessing.
- This is where David Lynch should have been laid to rest.
- Bard the Bowman:
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- We missed Leslie Donovan, but we had a good time and had excellent questions! #Westmoot #TeachingTolkien
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- Elwing absolutely ate them all up.
- #Westmmot morning paper in the bag! Anna Kris and Nick made it for the 8:30 paper 🧝🏼♀️ 🧝🏻♂️ 💚💚
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- I feel ya.
- Not according to my 3 hour faculty workshop! 🥴
- 2 1/2 hours into our AI discussion and we finally heard the word “ethics.” Environmental impact? Nah.
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- Gong into my 6th? 7th? (I’ve lost count!) faculty meeting of the year tomorrow to “discuss” AI - almost like someone is obsessed?!?
- Reposted by GingerProfFraming the adoption of AI as an historical inevitability, rather than a way to do a thing you want or need done, gives the game away. Nobody selling it this hard cares whether it helps; they want it to be the thing you have to deal with, like it or not. Problems, solutions, what’s the difference?
- Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
- A real one, 14th century edition.
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- Reposted by GingerProfImagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.
- Happy Met Gala celebrates Black dandyism to all who celebrate! #MetGala #AndréLeonTalley
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- As they should be (excluding The Chain)!
- 💚 The Tale of Tinúviel. 💚
- On this day in 2017, J.R.R. #Tolkien's Beren and Lúthien was published. Set over 6,000 years before The Lord of the Rings, the book shows the full history of Beren and Lúthien - a mortal man who fell in love with an elf princess.
- Reposted by GingerProfWhen the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
- Reposted by GingerProfEmpathye ys the purest and most powerful kynde of courage. It hath been alwayes thus, and alwayes will be, no mattir who mighte saye otherwyse.
- Winner of the Tolkien Society award for 2026 already in the bag!!! 🤣
- New J.R.R. #Tolkien Book coming out in the UK in October by @harpercollins.bsky.social edited by Christopher Tolkien and @richove.bsky.social www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
- Reposted by GingerProfEvangelicals are raised in a religion that demands they acquiesce to an authoritarian. Whether it’s their father, their pastor, or their president — they are indoctrinated to submit.
- It’s going great!
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- One of the fanciest of fancy bois!
- Just finished grading Tolkien research papers - they were so good! 💚 🧝🏼♀️💚 Some highlights: * Gollum’s language as ideolect and others’ attempts to interpret it * Orcs as racial/spritual Others * Nienna-Yavanna-Lúthien’s songs weave lament into the very cosmos of Arda 🤩🥰😍😭 #Tolkien
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- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
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- One of the strangest conceits of AI-in-the-classroom boosterism is the idea that one can learn to ask good questions without working through the material about which one is asking questions. Formulating interesting and fruitful questions is not a skill independent of familiarity with subject matter.
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- Reposted by GingerProfIndeed. From 2023, a majority of provosts would prefer "long term contracts" over tenure. Academic freedom rights are a hindrance to administrative "flexibility." Trump will smash everything to bits and provosts will get to be as flexible as they want. www.insidehighered.com/reports/2023...
- Happy that the OKC arena won’t be half full of Lakers fans at any point this playoffs. Stay home and be sad!
- Reposted by GingerProfThe artes and humanityes are also a kynde of wildernesse space to be preserved
- Obsessed!!!!
- Curly-haired bebé Jésus squeezing the life out of the lil bird (Holy Spirit)!
- Reposted by GingerProfWhile you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!
- Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
- He was so insane for this (complimentary)!
- “What makes you so much worthier of your peace” is a WORD.
- Reposted by GingerProfyour child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
- When I say to the young men: grow your hair! This is what I mean:
- Cataclysm!!!
- Reposted by GingerProfAt this point, we all know the cycle. I mean, what was ever the point of any of this.
- OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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- Justice for Mîm!!!
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- Reposted by GingerProfKinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult
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- Whoever sold the concept of “something other than a character in a text BECOMES A CHARACTER IN THAT TEXT” deserves time in literature jail.
- Reposted by GingerProfWhile you're distracted by a SCOTUS case about inclusive books in schools, the new leader at the IMLS is demanding that state librarians share what their grant money is being used for. I told you this would happen, and here it is.
- Abolish greige!!!
- Ar-Pharazon:
- Reposted by GingerProfOr, instead of relying on a bullshit machine that will dry up a lake to tell you stupid lies, you could simply read a book, watch a documentary, or see a film. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
- Reposted by GingerProfRepost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper
- Historical hottie.
- A history of 21st-century academia.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that students who sign up for voluntary conferences on drafts are already A students.
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Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave... - Reposted by GingerProfYour periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
- Praising Harvard AND David Brooks in one week it’s too much.
- Reposted by GingerProfWith Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)
- Reposted by GingerProfJust got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
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- So thrilled to make the shortlist! #TolkienSociety #CitiesAndStrongholds
