asking ai if this is part of god’s plan for me
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Hadas Weiss
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The Wayward Anthropologist coming April 2027
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"in your 80s you start thinking about death" START???
asked a german friend if he had any suggestions re my wrinkles and he said "accept that we're on a downward trajectory towards decay"
guys is it worth reading odyssey the book if you've already seen the movie
the only thing more embarrassing than being caught with a plagiarized dissertation is having to admit i wrote it all myself
tfw the customer service rep is so useless you're like ok put ai back on the line
take it easy on the suntanning
academia trying to regulate the use of ai
how do you say "i woke up, i posted, i went back to sleep" in latin
the only parasite we have to deal with in europe is the capitalist class
is feeling even more down bc you're letting something stupid get you down a thing
when you get a citation for a volume to which you've contributed next to nothing
then you get upset because of one guy
one day you're young and cool, the next you have "skin goals"
"i was so happy you were also in that meeting just like, sitting there radiating hostility"
prompting it to "do a breakthrough" in my research so it makes it non-pointless
waiter: would you like some dessert
friend i won't be having lunch with again: no we're good
great, now i have to reconsider atheism
my favorite scene in the odyssey is when matt damon looks at the camera and says "i'd rather be woke than asleep"
when i step out of the house for the first time in 3 days
7yo niece: is 8+7 15
me: yes
7yo: then why did you hesitate
me: i didn't
7yo: it took you like 10 minutes to answer
men don't kill their partner's suitors like they used to
my self-discipline when there’s cake
friend: just skim & tell me if it's ready to submit
me:
does anyone know if the strait of hormuz is open today
me: i'm not a hematologist tho
the algorithm: ok but the conference is in barcelona 😉
does anyone know if i should go out again to do more fieldwork even though it's about to rain and i don't feel like it
i look forward to reading it
editor: please review the copy-edits carefully
me: *accept all*
momentarily felt dubious at this being in french and not in the original english
we apreciated the opportunitity to review you’re manuscript
tfw you mark something important on your calendar but don't check your calendar
gun to your head, name a specter haunting europe
your honor, i did it for the zeitgeist
my institute about the joint projects they're forcing us to do
"you should go to the city park it's so pretty and it has animals"
the animals:
go above and before you know it people expect you to also go beyond
being on a podcast is so scary bc what if there's a transcript
breaking no contact to tell him something funny
my airbnb: no, we don't have a smoke detector but
“you already have plans for today?” yes to have it unfold exactly as I expected
at 3k followers i'll tell you where in Isaiah
"where there's a will there's a way. like how you just interviewed me in portuguese with your level of portuguese"
me: i read famesick & thought, i should be just as brave & uninhibited w fieldwork
my mom: yeah well i'd like to see lena dunham speak in portuguese
"pour yourself a glass and celebrate" you mean think of all the things that could go wrong and redouble my efforts?
social murder is some of the drafts i've asked people to read
call me ben lerner the way i just transcribed an entire interview from memory