chad black 💚
Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
- Siempre que veo a los estudiantes leyendo PDF en sus teléfonos… quiero gritar y me siento viejo 1000 años.
- The moment that Amazon MGM paid $40M for the Melania movie was the moment its performance on opening week ceased to matter.
- Lately, every time I read Benjamin's Theses and his language of the weak messianic obligation of the present to redeem the suffering in the past, I think of Harry Dean Stanton in Red Dawn. (The first PG-13 movie, which I saw at age 12 and thought I got away with something). AVENGE ME!
- Oh, damn. RIP Catherine O'Hara.
- What are the chances someone I. The White House bought Embraer stock right before this post went out?
- Doing my part in my classes tomorrow.
- For most all of my life, I never would have believed that it would be the GOP that chose to intentionally destroy American global hegemony. It is still almost unbelievable that they would do it for zero compelling reasons. Just an act of national self-immolation.
- Yes! Let's also revive the days when public service was so valued that public buildings made a statement of the pride a locality took in it. That wouldn't mean reviving classical architecture, as much as re-infusing beauty in our public spaces.
- Delete your account and fire your comms team, man. This is pathetic, not disciplined.
- And then shut off their airspace to US airlines.
- Nobel and FIFA both need to shutdown until we can all figure out what's going on with the peace awards.
- Starting my classes this semester with a day dedicated to being a luddite curmudgeon.
- Kant on why charity is not welfare: "Having the resources to practice such beneficence as depends upon the goods of fortune is... the result of human beings being favored through the injustice of government, which introduces an inequality of wealth that makes others need their beneficence."
- Reposted by chad black 💚new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up
- Reposted by chad black 💚really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces
- Ingmar Bergman on moviemaking: "Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe ten or twelve minutes, if you're lucky, of real creation." Could be a description of historical work, except it yields one footnote instead of 3min of film.
- Reposted by chad black 💚1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).
- The thing is, even when the LLM does a very good job of summarizing an article, we're still stuck in the 'give a person a fish' vs 'teach a person to fish' conundrum. Students and future historians will be bad at history by trying to skip the skill development phase (not what's being suggested here)
- We lost some of this with the decline of browsing the stacks. Go to the library to find one book, accidentally find important new directions in its nearby neighbors!
- Yes, this is exactly what old guy with power in decline looks like.
- I'll believe Jacob Savage is a real writer when he can write something new and different.
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- I struggled for years with plantar fasciitis. Did everything expensive and cheap short of surgery- OTC inserts, custom inserts, different shoes, shockwave therapy, massage, PT, fascia scraping, cortisone injections, stretching, etc. The thing that finally worked... barefoot kettlebell workouts.
- Learned from a student's paper today, that I apparently published a book with Duke in 2020 on colonial Mexico. 😂 I guess I can finally go up for Full Professor.
- The LLM and the AI boom is an expression of capital's desire to free itself from its dependence on labor, from the impossibility of fully subsuming the reproduction of labor power.
- It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.
- I don’t use bookmarks or fold down pages. But I do write and highlight all over the books I read. Never seems to be hard to find where I left off.
- The four corners ain't playing with turbulence at 34,000 ft tonight!
