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them: we need you to come to the meeting and just be NORMAL and PROFESSIONAL and *do not* make everything about moby-dick
me:
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Nate Wolff
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Nate Wolff
@proffwolff
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳
Medford, MA Katılım Kasım 2015
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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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@proffwolff Extra credit for students who write in "The" before the (otherwise incorrect) novella title.
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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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@proffwolff I just want you to know my like was a hate 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
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as they always say, "hate a fish, and you'll hate for a lifetime. Teach a child to hate a fish, and they'll see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"
Joseph Rezek@RezekJoe
Don’t let @proffwolff come play Legos with your kids he might make an ANGRY FISH
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@KerryHowley We all need a good patronage appointment side hustle
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sorry to do small mag salary discourse, but if you can’t handle reality of the NY labor & housing market you can do something else!!! Like stop working and die in prison, or become the sole survivor of a symbolically profound fishing mishap. Hi, I’m acclaimed author Herman Melv
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@joesway4 “Lovely day today”
Oh really? Not in the tornadoed Atlantic of my being.
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@proffwolff November in our souls.
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Hard to pin down why something is trending. My best guess is that it’s the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them.
Ethan@ethantgibson
Why is everyone suddenly talking about Moby-Dick
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@vjoshuaadams @HitFactoryPod Damn right I am and I’ve got the Nantucket Current’s “Top -Dickfluencers To Watch in 2019” certificate to prove it
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who are the essential twitter follows for Moby-Dick discourse? who are the stars of dicktwt?
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@dennismhogan @NewPopLit @MattPolProf finally some recognition that even my lowest performing Norris tweets have canon-shaping power 💪
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@NewPopLit @MattPolProf I don’t pretend to know enough about contemporary literature to respond to the first point, but Frank Norris is very much canonized imo! x.com/proffwolff/sta…
Nate Wolff@proffwolff
Because of AI, I don’t have students write papers anymore. it’s all in-class experiential learning now. #McTeagueTwitter #pedagogy #academicchatter
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@katpburke Yeah, I'm a mid-to-late-19th/early-20th-centuries guy who poses as early Americanist but short answer could be: Bercovitch and Miller especially did influential work on typology as central to Puritan epistemology & hermeneutics that still matter a lot to studies of early America.
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@proffwolff hey Nate based on two (2) data points I gotta ask: are all scholars of early American literature fascinated w/ typology?
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Jesus’s 3 days in the tomb and his resurrection was typologically prefigured by Jonah’s 3 days in and escape from the belly of a whale, so Easter is a great day to meditate on the inscrutable malice of a specific fish.
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FYI today's a great day to start reading this novel. It begins on April 1st — and it's widely considered Melville's most accessible and fun work after Clarel!
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@number_pizza111 💯 Crossing the pacific by ship is an ideal way to become more radically socialist. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
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@proffwolff My mom’s foster father once got so bored on a cargo ship from Japan to California he became a Trotskyite.
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“College kids won’t read novels anymore” uh sorry harvard, sounds like a skill issue. my students easily read Moby-Dick in its entirety!
We are in the middle of the ocean. It is the only book I allow on board.
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@keithdorejel semester, man? semster at sea? Both the sea and my vengeance are too vast for a "semester"
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