@proffwolff

Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳

 Medford, MA
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Joined November 2015
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buddness in the front, party in the back
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Sending this to the fellas to remind them of the sticky biological reality of our reading habits.
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Ahab catching strays at whole foods :(
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Hey man just wanted to check in. Yeah haven’t seen you since grad school lol. Just wanted to let you know the pope uses “ontological” better than you
Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 2
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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AI Slop or soul-revealing daguerreotype?
Nate Wolff@proffwolffSep 29
ummmm, hold on, Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar here. Since well before the advent of AI this kind of gables situation was not "slop" but rather a complex metonym for the repressed horrors on which our nation was built.
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ummmm, hold on, Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar here. Since well before the advent of AI this kind of gables situation was not "slop" but rather a complex metonym for the repressed horrors on which our nation was built.
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everybody’s talking about the embarrassing meltdown at that queer community space in Massachusetts
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And they say guys don’t text their friends anymore 🤔
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Stop turning structural problems into men's personal failings! This was the enitrely predictable result of the decline of the whale fishery.
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"Umm actually Moby-Dick is very funny!" No. It’s about marine biology and Calvinism. "omg the fish Dick has sperm in its head!" Stop. That is just a true thing about whales.
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going wildly viral by captioning this "Ishmael according to the reading advanced in CLR James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways":
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Miles Smith IV@IVMilesSep 11
I dont think New England is a psychologically in a very healthy place.
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still looking? still looking??!! This is straight up disrespectful to the many people who have devoted significant time, at great personal and professional cost, to being publicly weird about best ever dental novel MCTEAGUE (1899) by leading US naturalist Frank Norris.
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this is the plot of McTeague (1899) one of the greatest American novels ever written
“scary” berry 🫐🎃@berry_gathererAug 23
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Great album. Contains the second most important Jude 1:13 reference after Moby-Dick.
Melodies & Masterpieces
@SVG__CollectionAug 22
“Dummy” by Portishead was released 32 years ago today.
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Everything is dumb and bad right now, but at least reporting on the new Melville statue is appropriately horny.
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nay, lad, methinks ye mean "leg"
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unsettling GRE marketing, c. 2001
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Not since the Pequod herself weighed anchor have I sighted such a portentous, doomed (complimentary) enterprise 😍
Dennis M. Hogan@dennismhoganJul 13
Official editorial communication: The New England Review of Boats, a handmade regional zine about the vessels and people who go down to the sea for adventure, work, or pleasure--seeks submissions for its inaugural issue.
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Yeah and I mean, you never know. Ahab’s “white whale” for example is intimacy
Merriam-Webster
@MerriamWebsterApr 30
People are dunking on this, but what a great sign that a word has truly established itself in the lexicon.
screenshot of a Reddit post that says: What is Superman's "Kryptonite". In literature, mythology, and comic books heroes often have a "kryptonite" or "Achilles's heel", basically a weakness that makes them vulnerable. I'm curious what fans here would consider to be Superman's "Kryptonite"?

ALT screenshot of a Reddit post that says: What is Superman's "Kryptonite". In literature, mythology, and comic books heroes often have a "kryptonite" or "Achilles's heel", basically a weakness that makes them vulnerable. I'm curious what fans here would consider to be Superman's "Kryptonite"?

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fml. I’m about to get hybrid assemblaged to this bosch :(
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