Dr. Pam Yee
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Dr. Pam Yee
@februarygal
Postdoc at University of Rochester, medievalist, Managing Editor @METS_Texts, MedHum enthusiast, Arthurian fangirl, wannabe pianist. She/her.
Rochester, NY Katılım Ocak 2009
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I’m writing an essay on King Arthur and I wanted to use a quote I only half-remembered. I finally found the quote in a Chesterton book I read *twenty* years ago. This is why you have to read daily: your head will be full of stuff and that stuff will emerge when you need it most.
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i actually think its very easy to not use chatgpt like all you have to do is not use it
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@JoshC0301 @fredleept Yes, THIS! The white gatekeepers keep insisting that PoC authors just keep writing trauma porn and have historically refused to publish anything else. I hear horror stories all the time of PoC writers being asked to change their fictional characters to white ones
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@fredleept Aren’t a lot of editors who work at publishing houses white and they ultimately decide what gets published? What if they’re the reason there’s so much of this slop?
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So there's a lot of Asian American slop literature but the reason is most literature is slop. There's nothing particularly boring about us. Ever met a white suburbanite?
tomie@tomieinlove
The reason why Asian Americans tend to just write about tiger parent trauma or the struggles of smelling like tofu or whatever is because most Asian Americans have had very boring lives. There’s not much drama in Kumon. The history, the legacy, it’s all second-hand, third-rate.
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@Euphoria51790 @Lilli1859357 @W_T_Han And that's all before you even talk about how accessible and affordable the canon is. And we haven't even discussed lang barriers! Some of us lost our fluency b/c our American teachers encouraged us only to speak English, even in the household.
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@Euphoria51790 @Lilli1859357 @W_T_Han As an ABC, I have to say that it's far more complicated than "choosing not to learn." There is so much embedded racism that teaches you to be ashamed of your culture. If your parents didn't teach you (b/c they're busy working multiple jobs), it can be hard to pick up on your own
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Not gonna suggest this is the only or main factor, but -
Look how much traditional material C drama & K drama have to adapt from: mythology, dynastic histories, wuxia, classical fiction... There's endless IP.
Western artists draw on the traditional source materials of their cultures. Chris Nolan adapts the Odyssey. Anyone But You is based on Much Ado About Nothing. Asian artists sometimes get in that game: Chloe Zhao's Hamnet is based on novel based on the life of Shakespeare & the writing of Hamlet.
But, for the most part, Asian-American artists either don't have sufficient mastery of the canon of their ancestral countries or can't adapt it in a way sufficiently to interest a Western audience, or the gatekeepers of that audience.
An exception is Ken Liu. His Dandelion Dynasty series is obv a beat-by-beat retelling of the founding of the Han Dynasty...
tomie@tomieinlove
The reason why Asian Americans tend to just write about tiger parent trauma or the struggles of smelling like tofu or whatever is because most Asian Americans have had very boring lives. There’s not much drama in Kumon. The history, the legacy, it’s all second-hand, third-rate.
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@poemsway You don't think people in Asia eat or want to eat Asian food more than once a week? This is just common sense. But ok, challenge accepted. Show me the stats that prove that the majority of ppl living in Asia don't currently eat or want to eat Asian cuisine more than once weekly
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@februarygal I can throw out numbers to u less those numbers are related to food to prove your claim about half the world disagrees food wise. Nice try
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Such a willfully ignorant and xenophobic take. You really think the average Asian American is making daily meals with 44 ingredients? Have you never heard of fried rice or stir fry? Also, nobody wants Asian food "more than once a week"??? Half the globe would disagree
Briahna Joy Gray@briebriejoy
Love Asian cuisines, but they absolutely are the worst to cook at home. You have to buy 44 ingredients to make one dish and it’s not something you’ll want to have more than once a week. Extremely time intensive and best left to the experts. I took a Vietnamese cooking class once and the ingredient list to make it at home looked like a scroll.
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@poemsway I didn't know I needed statistics to prove half the world's population lives in Asia. Current population of Asia is 4.7 billion of the world's 8.3 billion, which is 56%. My point stands.
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@februarygal You literally said half the world would disagree without putting out statics quit deflecting
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@poemsway Cool, eat whatever you want.
But yeah I'm mad the OP is a hypocrite: for someone who claims to be progressive, she makes assumptions abt Asian cultures that reinforce stereotypes of AAPI being foreign or exotic. It implies we're not American, just cuz our food is a lil different
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if you needed another reason to stop using chatGPT, here are a few
-openAI president greg brockman is currently THE top donor to Donald Trump
-ICE is using chatGPT to screen job applicants
-openAI is leading a $100m push AGAINST AI regulation and safety laws
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman
One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.
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This food discourse felt very frustrating for me because it was so othering in how we discuss mental health and who gets to have it recognized. Asians and Asian Americans also experience issues with executive functioning. We also have depression. We can also be neurodivergent
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@Etanarachel Obviously the correct answer is to make Zeus a black swan!
I swear, the way these racists try to logic...🫠
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What do you mean "a real woman"? She's a demigoddess who hatched out of an egg.
Steve Sailer@Steve_Sailer
@GiancarloSopo A black actress might reasonably be cast as a supernatural character, but Helen of Troy is supposed to be a real woman. And there's no plausible explanation how a black woman could get to Greece in 1200 BC. So, that casting stunt just takes you out of suspension of disbelief.
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everyone i am going to replace chatgpt now. Ask me something and i will drink a gallon of water then give you an incorrect answer
Joanna Robinson@jowrotethis
Do you know how dumb you sound to me when you say “I asked ChatGPT”?
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The New York Times had a three-hour interview with Trump and didn’t ask about Epstein. Today, the bombshell release of new files didn’t make the front page.
So who the hell in NYT leadership or ownership was hanging out on the island and wants this to go away?
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Joy isn't useless, unless you're a soulless misogynistic POS. God forbid we create things for our own pleasure, rather than trying to monetize everything. For someone who loves film as much as the OP does, he shows a stunning lack of imagination
tea stoner (she/her) 📚 31/75@bookbeduion
There's nothing useless about art
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@GrantSlatton I once couldn't open an Amazon locker with my app. Called Amazon's customer service, who also couldn't figure it out. Tried updating my app. After the window expired, they actually RETURNED my package and I had to repurchase it after opting out of the Amazon locker. Such BS!
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Just helped an 80 year old man get a package from an Amazon locker at 7-11, Amazon should be absolutely ashamed of the UX they’ve built
It’s one of the lockers with no built-in screen, you have to use your phone to open it
The man is on the Amazon website on his phone but can’t figure out how to open it
Apparently you can only do it on the Amazon app, not the mobile website
We download the app, nothing renders correctly because he has his system font size set to max for his bad eyesight
On the order page it says the order is at the locker, but there’s no button that indicates it can open the locker
After much experimentation, we discover you have to go into “track package” — not intuitive because the main screen already says where the package is! We don’t need to track it!
Then inside track package you click another button, and then another button to finally connect via Bluetooth to the locker
The connection is terrible despite being 1 foot away, it takes 6 connection attempts
After 10 minutes I finally get this poor man his package, he vows to never do this again
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“Wanting to control what or how much a person reads is about wanting to have dominion over them.”
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@MushtaqBilalPhD
A woman reads dense literary theory, writes a thesis on a complex topic, earns a PhD from a top university. Dude-bros: Useless. Waste of time and money. Burn it all down. A woman enjoys reading romance novels. Dude-bros: Useless. Waste of time and money. Burn it all down.
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You have to lose all credibility as an educational institution after siding with the college girl that writes at a fourth grade level
Pop Base@PopBase
The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay, will no longer be teaching.
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