it was in the morning email version
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it was in the morning email version
they’re so close
Wife: Why don’t you ever tweet about Schleiermacher?
I tried to have AI make one for the irony but the AI one looked like crap
I made this for my classes
Posted @derlampenputzer.bsky.social’s handiwork on Twitter and some people think it’s real
ChatGPT house style is so beautiful
my teenager just called grad students an invasive species
what if being mean to strangers on the internet is the only thing i’m good at?
The underground Thai place on campus opened a hotpot place directly upstairs, but no one wanted that, so they offered both menus at both restaurants, but that was too confusing, so now the upstairs place is a sushi bar that also serves Thai and hotpot.
15: I tried to lie but it backfired Me: And what did you learn? 15: that I should try to lie until it works
I bet the employees at the Theory outlet would really like it if I asked them to point me to where the Foucault is located.
lmao
I don’t actually have it out for Foucault, and I could have easily substituted Derrida here, but Derrideans have a sense of humor, and Foucauldians never fail to take the bait.
can’t find anything saying the application can’t be written by AI
he was nice to me personally
As a wise man once said, in German Studies, we read French Theory in English translation.
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I thought about including Avital Ronell but ran out of room
French is a vibe not a location
he enjoys telling Americans how non-French it is
I’ve always thought that the French in French Theory™ has a rather tenuous relation to geography and linguistics.
different era
Character limit
Before you are allowed to use social media, please indicate where you stand on the following French theorists: Althusser, Barthes, Baudrillard, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Guattari, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, Mouffe, Nancy, Ranciere, Ricoeur
Thrilled to announce I’ve been appointed Sam Altman Professor of Charlatanry and Scams!
Teenager said I don’t need a sticker that says nerd because it’s already obvious from looking at me
yep
Re: Syllabi Dear faculty, The administration will review all assigned books to determine whether they are still relevant to modern life. This review does not involve reading the books. All written assignments must be replaced by coloring sheets. The new grading scale is: A: 49.5-100 A-: 0-49.4
and absolutely no one will reflect on why it’s terrible
My wife is shocked that every student in an intro to college essay writing class would submit an AI-generated essay given that the entire class is about writing an essay.
i just do not understand this moral universe
holy fucking shit
this is about me
Thank you for correcting my shitpost! I can see now how how much better it is with the humor removed.
every tenure track job I’ve applied to has tried to hire me, but I’m too fast for them to get me
being an academic
Can you return your children if they eat the food you were saving for yourself?
my wife thinks my gravestone should identify me as a “former graduate student”
telling the dean
“brainwashing retarded people into race communism”
My barber and I agree on pro/rel in the US. Glad we see eye to eye on this critical issue.
Racists on Twitter are mad at me. In other news, today is Tuesday.
that’s tomorrow’s fun
Reading what Adorno had to say about heating equipment right now
Our water boiler is broken, which is a fun new experience that I get to have.
the vat of goo is a privilege
Me: He’s not a grad student anymore. Wife: Is anyone ever not a grad student anymore?
wonderful things are happening on twitter dot com
we must delegate all thoughts to the machines
lmao
full rock hard hog
absolutely hilarious that this is being labeled as adult content
i like to think i bring a certain refinement to academia
the whole conversation is really great (!) but the “never get in a car driven by Jacques Derrida” part simply cannot be emphasized enough 😶
For anyone just getting into Kant and CRT
I talked with @llassabe.bsky.social about the Frankfurt School and why you should never get in a car driven by Jacques Derrida. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Zohran Mamdani never completed the system of German Idealism, and he somehow thinks he’s qualified to be mayor.
I would say that my approach, and you’re probably going to want to sit down before I tell you this, but my approach really centers around close reading.
hi, i saw you from across the twitter and you seemed completely insane
Get your BS in AI! Major in Artificial Intelligence Course Requirements ARTI1000: Intro to Cheating ARTI1488: Anti-Woke AI ARTI1776: Alternate Facts ARTI2874: Truthiness ARTI5683: AI Soulmate(s) ARTI7567: Slop Production Workshop ARTI7825: Sycophancy Seminar ARTI8008: AI XXX
guess this means i have to bring mine back
Forthcoming in December: Lessing Yearbook volume 52, edited by Joe Haydt, Hannes Kerber, and myself. The volume features contributions from the “Lessing’s Legacy” conference that took place at the University of Chicago in 2023.
I have patriot and loyalist ancestors, so July 4th is always a very hard holiday for me.
Someone must have slandered Jon F., for one morning without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
this dude is funny
It seems I have offended Mr. Doo Doo Fart
tonight’s bedtime story is the critique of pure reason
Wife: Shouldn’t you use his full name when you first mention him? He’s not Goethe, who is like Madonna.
You cited the wrong edition, and that’s just not something that I’m willing to forgive.
digital humanities is when the text is color coded
I want to know who taught my six year old to say daddy is canceled
I was told to choose which color I liked the least
I might forget what my name is, so it’s good to have it on my forehead
My kid has a German backpack. The son of the German woman at my kid’s camp does not have a German backpack. We will stare at each other every time we see one another but not speak once this entire summer.
asking me to explain my tweets is a hate crime
sometimes people explain my jokes to me and they’re not even german
i’m hanging out in the giant colon in case anyone wants to join me
driving the discourse www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/profes...
the sexiest words in the english language
he told me he was ok with the woke emily wilson translations
nah i’m good, thanks tho
I am not above finding out who your Doktorvater was to publicly shame you
I thought about doing something very inappropriate today* *submitting an abstract for a conference
I would prefer not to
Happy Father’s Day to literature’s number one dad, Oedipus
That’s my official faculty headshot
it me
Six year old to her mother: Daddy needs boobs because he’s a gorilla
It’s a hellscape of my own creation
it’s so sad when your most dedicated twitter hater gets himself banned again
When people tell me how much AI has improved their work, I read that as a really negative comment about the quality of their work.
talked about something critically important today with @llassabe.bsky.social for @americancampus.bsky.social
I tweeted about English grammar a few weeks ago and people are still fighting in the replies.
I understand why you saw my post and thought that I was talking to you but in actuality I was talking to myself.
Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
saving this for later
