grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Point taken on US corporate protectionism, but I would prefer a strategy against it that doesn't necessitate Chinese-style authoritarianism. China's "economic miracle" was enabled by oppression, not something that should become a precedent. 8152
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nothing worse than a necrophilic capitalist 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Hugger Face incident AND environmental impacts AND the use of African labor AND the degradation of critical thinking for people who use AI are all VERY bad. Humanity has created many different self-destructive forces intersecting right now. Our framing needs to match the complexity of all this 001
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026After spending a hundred years destroying and starving public transportation systems nationwide 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...m.youtube.comAjeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel 020
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I wonder how long such directors have had this attitude while having to work with real humans. How long have they seen the needs of others as an obstacle they must endure to satisfy their own selfish desires? How long have these attitudes spurred the slow degradation of worker's rights in cinema? 140
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026of catching 1 criminal, but Odysseus “breaking hospitality” with the Trojan Horse was just what the Greek invaders wanted. There’s no greater good served like it supposedly was (in Nolan’s thinking) with Batman or Oppenheimer -defeating Troy was a bad thing in the first place. No Nolan-heroism here 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Great analysis of the Nolan-Hero! It gets at why the Odysseus of the movie is literally the opposite of Homer’s. But what is Odysseus breaking the rules for? Batman creates a surveillance state (which was basically a justification of Bush Jr’s post-Patriot Act surveillance state) for the “heroism”.. 100
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026These kinds of teaching techniques are good for a teacher's toolbox but they can't replace the critical thinking that is developed through full process writing. Especially when the techniques use the very technologies that hamper critical thinking in the first place. 101
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Some of that for sure. But I think ending the poem with Hektor's burial after watching Achilleus treat Hektor's body with such horrid disrespect that even the Gods come down and tell him to stop, shows a deep respect for the Trojans. Achilleus' behavior is a metaphor for what the Greeks did to Troy. 060
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Yes! Homer inclusion of Andromache's conversation with Hektor lamenting that she's going to end up enslaved by the Greek invaders is an artistic choice that definitely is critical of slavery. The whole poem is, actually. 1211
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Thank you. It's basically an argument that academics should enslave themselves to the same sycophantic worship of profit that movie reviewers do, especially movie reviewers of this film, many of which haven't seem to have read the poem. Capitalism attempts to turn literature into "content" 030
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The entire poem begins with Agamemnon stealing Achilles' warprize - a woman kidnapped from a Trojan city and kept as a slave. The Iliad is viciously consistent in its depiction of the Greeks as looters, rapists, and thieves whose petty squabbles nearly rip apart their own army. No brotherhood there. 011
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes! Achilles was weaned on war, sailing to Troy as a teen. He sacrifices his fellow Greeks for his own ego. This is not a message talking about the "comaraderie of soldiers" and is quite the opposite. The Iliad is essentially an anti-war poem that ends with the burial of Hektor, a Trojan victim. 100
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Yes! Pagans were the OG resistors! I think that complexity of their view of the cosmos you point out helped them excel at it. Polytheisms are better at escaping the dichotomy trap 020
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Pagans are used to being shoved through the Christian sieve of appropriation. Egotistical Toddler Hermeneutics 110
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Whenever a student claims they BS'd a test and was surprised they got a good grade, I'd just tell them that coming up with a thesis and supporting it is why they got the grade - the fact that they don't believe in what they wrote says something about their own character, not my grading. 21342
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I hear if you listen to Stairway to Heaven backwards it has satanic messages 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Selfish Toddler Effect - they want all the toys in the room but don't know what to do with them when they get 'em, so they toss 'em aside. 'Cept they're adults with power 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Seemed to me making his transformation happen from the Bikini Atoll test is central to the themes the movie is dealing with. Squarely centers it on the evils of the atomic bomb. 070
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Plus never good creating precedents, otherwise the price of your toilet paper will be doubling between throwing them in your cart and going to the cashier to pay for them... 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The meaning of a work is not controlled by the author and so creates a site where meaning is contested. Art welcomes this, propaganda detests it. Any intended "conservative" meaning is just one interpretation of many. That's why fascists don't understand and hate metaphor - it can't be controlled. 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026PPP's are a soporific for students. Puts 'em to sleep with their eyes open like clockwork. 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026it never ends. ever. maybe retirement? but then there are the dreams... 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Any academic articles or book references for scholarship that traces the attitude/discourse in american history this thread is identifying? (something more specific than the whole of american history, ie :) 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026russian agitprop troller/bot, or american equivalent 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025He won. Dude rolled over in some white privileged gentlemanly bs that the Dems always pull out when they're faced with adversity, claiming that if they did fight back, it would create chaos and our democracy would fall apart. Meanwhile, the Republican platform is to make our democracy fall apart. 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Umm...it WAS a warning. To those of us paying attention. No royal "we" here, please, leave me out of this far-too-late hand-wringing 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025...many good intentions are hijacked by fascism to further its ends. Stupid or deliberate, we are left with the reality the act makes. So, in turn, we must call out the effect of the stupidity, leaving aside any speculation of intent, for that way lies inadvertant normalization of said stupidity./2 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025It is a sad facet of the 21st century that there is little difference between weaponized stupidity and feigned stupidity to cover for bad faith. In addressing such moments, I find it important to remember that effect is more important than intent.../1 130
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025So what? This kind of what-about-ism completely whitewashes the existential crisis for our democracy Comey enabled with his very conscious, very clear move to strategically use a nothing-burger as propaganda to destroy Clinton's political career. This is dangerous logic salad. 120
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They were predicted long before he was elected, this is a key point if you are talking about the Cassandra Effect 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025From here forwards I will only use dumb words to teach my students in order to more authentically speak to the youth of today to make them more smart and to give these classroom customers the consumer experience they expect so they come back for more. 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Perfect! Gets at the heart of the AI ad campaign. Thank you for this! High school English teacher here, and this is my life. Very quickly fellow teachers would circulate "thinky-pieces" about ways to use AI - one even suggested using it to "inject humor" into your lesson plans 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Biden lost because the media decided to give him bad coverage to the point of making crap up about him while sanewashing trump for 8yrs. Trump is MUCH less functional than Biden is. Trump is largely a journalistic and media creation 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Not sure if everyone renting from oligarchs is a positive. Feels more like just giving them more power over ppl? Rent control is not the norm 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Entertainment industry has always relied on the psychological motivations of villains, characters, etc, to precisely avoid any interrogation or awareness of how social environment deeply structures character motivation. It is an apolitical artistic choice made to maintain status quo to make money 010
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Not sure how media orgs are all of a sudden gonna get a moral compass after they willingly threw the last election and have since become apologists for and funders of this criminal regime 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Any media framing of this as politics-as-usual just normalizes what's happening right now & mystifies the reality of this admin - it's sole purpose right now is to destroy our government under the influence of hostile foreign powers. These are not serious people enacting a party's platform policies 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The 20% of in-between party voters were swayed to vote the way they did because of a media acting in bad faith and distorting the coverage to help Republicans, not just because of lack of engagement or moods or reactive stances to the economy. Deeply missing the core of why last election happened 050
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I don't get it. Are we still expecting journalistic integrity from owners like this? 000
Reposted by @grendelkhan.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024at this point I'd happily pay a premium for writing/reading/editing software that undertakes never to incorporate an AI assistant, and has an off switch for any predictive text/autocorrect functions if you know how to read or write well, this stuff just eats up memory and constantly gets in the way 2579
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I think he knows very well what editorials are. I think Bezos does too. The take on this kind of attack on the press isn't rocket science, especially given the current zeitgeist. 000
grendelkhan.bsky.social @grendelkhan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I think @tribelaw.bsky.social gave a good reason why - to refrain from performing anticipatory obedience. Better to make trump fire you, which he has a history of hating to do. Don't make anything easy for him is the idea, I think. Gob up the machine, slow it down as much as possible. Don't help. 010
