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if you ever wonder why millennials are all like this the answer is because we all read Frindle

i used to think web browsers were cool and now i hate them. whose fault is this? everybodys

any time a european tries to have an opinion on anything i feel like you must remind them that they chopped down all of their trees

there are so many discourses which only really exist in academia and which consequently use big academic words. and you can¦t summarize them in lay terms because there aren¦t lay words to express them. it is a kind of knowledge security. the computer cannot make sense of you because you exceed the ontology of the user. the people who would not read your blogpost because it engages with difficult concepts still will not read your blogpost, just differently

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i am so excited for somebody to try to get a·i to summarize my work and a·i to fail because it doesn¦t know the word “epistemology”

can you imagine if other animals could boil water

i try to do good all the time and nobody ever tries to hold me to a higher standard, or any standard, or even is aware of anything i am doing. i have this cheat code called “being a girl and therefore invisible”. nobody takes anything i do seriously and therefore i can do whatever i want

I DO NOT EVER WISH TO ask the computer to do the thing

I ONLY EVER WISH TO ask people to do things, using computers

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it takes a lot of stamina to live the way that they do

today is a good day to print out articles from 90s legal studies journals??? and underline them with a Pilot Precise V5 RT???

when you check the book on worldcat and the only libraries with a copy are all Ivy Leagues……

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i just wanted to do a brief overview of a topic for a blogpost how am i already purchasing two books and trying to ILL another one

“the Eurocentric worldview measures and validates things in reference to European values and paradigms [two citations]” thanks, buddy. i never would have guessed

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one of the most baffling aspects of academic house style to me is the implicit presumption that the person reading your paper lacks the information literacy to research and validate the intellectual groundwork upon which you make your claims if you don¦t point them to a literal book on the subject first

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there is a lot of “i feel this claim needs evidence but it is also obvious and widely‐recognized and has a whole school of literature about it so i just picked the top search result” going on here

for example, “indigenous and local communities were colonial subjects and victims [three random citations]”

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