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Charles Louis Richter Profile picture
@richterscale
Nov 1, 2018 • 25 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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The Presidents of the United States of America, as Simpsons Characters

A thread:

George Washington is Jebediah Springfield
John Adams is the Blue Haired Lawyer
Thomas Jefferson is Robert Terwilliger Jr., PhD, aka Sideshow Bob
James Madison is State Comptroller Atkins
James Monroe is Dr. Marvin Monroe
John Quincy Adams is Martin Prince
Andrew Jackson is Herman Hermann
Martin van Buren is Kirk Van Houten
William Henry Harrison is Hans Moleman
John Tyler is Lenny Leonard
James K. Polk is Bumblebee Man
Zachary Taylor is Gladys Gurney
Millard Fillmore is Moe Szyslak
Franklin Pierce is Hank Scorpio
James Buchanan is Dr. William MacDougal, aka Groundskeeper Willie
Abraham Lincoln is Ian, the Very Tall Man
Andrew Johnson is Cletus Spuckler
Ulysses S. Grant is the real W. Seymour Skinner
Rutherford B. Hayes is Jasper Beardly
James Garfield is Reverend Timothy Lovejoy
Chester Arthur is Representative Horace Wilcox
Grover Cleveland is Selma Bouvier
Benjamin Harrison is Horatio McCallister
Grover Cleveland is Patty Bouvier
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Charles Louis Richter Profile picture
Sep 5, 2022
Tolkien fundamentalists, like any fundamentalists, read into their text the world they themselves long for and then claim it is the only true reading and, indeed, a blueprint for the real world.
Fundamentalisms are reactions to a modernity in which a group perceives themselves to have lost power and authority. They retreat into an imagined mythic past that they assert is more legitimately real than the world around them.

With LotR, it's *literally* mythic, ironically.
With most Tolkien fundamentalists, it's pointless to quite Tolkien to them--they already "know" that Tolkien was talking about Italians when he mentioned brown skin, and they care not for your heretical interpretation.

In fact, it DOESN'T MATTER what Tolkien meant.
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Mar 19, 2022
I am hereby requesting that when you see something that seems too wild to be true and also confirms your priors, you stop and consider if your initial reading is correct, or if there's something else going on here.

recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04991
On first glance, this looks like a job posting for free teaching labor. But is it?

The text is boilerplate, it doesn't specify what the teaching load is or any other responsibilities of the position, and it says twice that they won't pay you a dime.

So what's up?
It's probably a courtesy appointment for an outside-funded researcher so they can be on the books as an adviser and get grad students in their lab. UCLA likely has to post it even though they aren't doing an actual search.

IOW: likely not a request for uncompensated labor
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Mar 18, 2022
This can't be stressed enough--don't repeat Evangelicals' claims that they read the Bible "literally." They have an interpretation just like any other Christians do; they just describe that interpretation as the literal meaning and people tend to say ok, I guess so?
It's a neat trick that fools people into thinking that Evangelicalism is more authoritative than it actually is--"well, they're just reading what the Bible says, I guess they're more serious about it than Christians who put their own spin on it."

No. Just no.
It's why, in American journalism, "devout" is more often used to describe politically/culturally conservative Christians, or why reporters don't feel it necessary to specify what *kind* of Christian is behind the latest racist/sexist/etc law/policy/etc.
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Charles Louis Richter Profile picture
Mar 14, 2022
Dickens had a sensitivity reader--her name was Eliza Davis, and she helped him understand (after the fact) that his portrayals of Jews were antisemitic. He even changed some text in later editions.

Dickens didn't think of himself as antisemitic until she showed him the problem.
The story of Eliza Davis, her corrections, and Dickens's acceptance and understanding:

jewishcurrents.org/charles-dicken…
Kneejerk reactions against sensitivity readers are mostly rooted in contempt at the idea that white authors, and especially white dudes, have anything to learn from anyone else.

And also in the cartoonish notion that a sensitivity read constitutes censorship rather than wisdom.
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Mar 12, 2022
the tenure committee
Statler: "Say, Waldorf, why haven't you published anything lately?"

Waldorf: "I lost my typist years ago."

Statler: "Oh right, my condolences on your wife's death!"
Statler: "Have you read this tenure file yet?

Waldorf: "No, I can't find my reading glasses."

Statler: "I can help you look for them."

Waldorf: "No thanks, then I'd have to read it!"
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Jan 31, 2022
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