@JonathanADiaz

Assistant Prof. @Westmont working on religion in Latina/o/e Literature. Poems in @nimrodjournal @AGNIMagazine @BPJtweets Views my own.

 Santa Barbara, CA
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Joined February 2011
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Beyond honored to receive the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from @NimrodJournal Thank you @PaisleyRekdal @BorisDralyuk and congrats to all participants!
Nimrod Journal@NimrodJournal29 Jul 2024
Congratulations to the winners of our 2024 literary competitions! Paisley Rekdal (@PaisleyRekdal) has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Jonathan Diaz (@JonathanADiaz), and Kelly Link has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Allison Krupp (@allikrupp). 1/2
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It's too real.
🅱️askerville@WB_BaskervilleOct 16
People who like CS Lewis more than me are unsophisticated, simple naïfs. People who like him less than me are tryhard pseuds. Only I like CS Lewis the correct amount.
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Now this is just me, but I don’t think the era and aesthetics of literal baby boomers are congruent with a “fresh” or “innovative” adaptation. I will watch and I have some faith in Gerwig, but this looks quite bad.
Complex Pop Culture
@ComplexPopOct 13
First trailer for Greta Getwig’s ‘NARNIA’
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1. This will make excellent Advent reading. 2. I absolutely heard the British pronunciation of “Isaiah” in my head when I read this.
Tom Wright
@profntwrightOct 8
I’d like to introduce you to my next book, Into the Heart of Isaiah. In this book I ask: What does Isaiah have to do with Jesus, Paul, the resurrection, and the first century Christians? Quite a lot, it turns out. I encourage you to pre-order here: a.co/d/095puEzT
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Grateful to hear @TheAlanNoble telling our @Westmont students today that our very existence is a real and demonstrable good, which we have a duty of embrace and affirm.
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*a duty TO embrace and affirm
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Jonathan Adriel Diaz retweeted
Jake Romm@jake_rommOct 2
your homunculus will never be ensouled bro, stop showing the pope your homonculus, he doesn't like it
Christopher Hale
@ChristopherHaleOct 2
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…

NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers

Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.

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This is not a persuasive case for the theatre.
Mickey-Jo@MickeyJoTheatreSep 21
Re the fatiguing Narnia discourse - I often think if more people watched theatre it would dispel the notion that new interpretations of an author's work have to align with their exact original intentions and expectations every single time. Like, can you imagine?
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Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreySep 22
Speaking and writing are the means by which you clarify your ideas/judgments. Your ideas/judgments are not magically outside of language. In searching for the right expression or formulation of ideas, we are developing and refining them.
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This one hurts.
Megan Fritts@freganmittsSep 22
This is unbelievable, approaching parody. thedartmouth.com/article/202…

Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’...

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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This happens in poetry/lit mag more than anyone wants to talk about.
ABTejana 🧡🩵🩷
@MbProfesoraSep 17
It’s kind of funny when a lot of deeply disturbing things get presented as ironical or avant garde bc a part of me is always going to respond to that stuff like it’s a dangerously colored frog and I can never believe it when other people have the opposite reaction.
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The Gospel Coalition published a piece using New Mexico Hispanos as a metaphor for Christian endurance in a time of shifting ideological borders. Total Chicano cultural victory.
Trevin Wax
@TrevinWaxSep 14
What do we do in a world where the borders are whizzing back and forth overhead? thegospelcoalition.org/blogs…

When Borders Change, Stay Settled

A reminder for the church in a time when the political landscape is changing, with categories and alliances shifting quickly.

thegospelcoalition.org
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I am curious to see the greater context of this quotation, as Dr. Esolen knows better than most that the same power which “is power to do what it wills” is identical with “the love that moves the sun and other stars.”
Austin@monkmanqueSep 9
This is the concept destroying Christianity. It’s gnostic and evil. God is love and also omnipotent.
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Course packs + No Canvas/lms + no devices in class. All the cool kids are doing it.
W. W. S. Hsieh - Sometimes Satirical!@whsiehSep 9
Replying to @alexrmoskowitz @jshelat1 @RezekJoe
I have colleagues at two different institutions who’ve gone back to coursepaks.
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Grant Addison
@jgrantaddisonSep 3
“We would all benefit from getting out of the AI-detection business because it damages trust between faculty and students.”
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperSep 3
Here’s the relevant part of the Harvard dean’s email, in which he suggests (“modestly”) that professors teaching writing intensive courses should encourage AI use. And of course this gets dressed up in woke moralizing about policing students and damaging “trust.” End times stuff.
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Zena Hitz@zenahitzSep 3
I might go still further and ask this dean to "embody" a person who is no longer dean
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperSep 3
Here’s the relevant part of the Harvard dean’s email, in which he suggests (“modestly”) that professors teaching writing intensive courses should encourage AI use. And of course this gets dressed up in woke moralizing about policing students and damaging “trust.” End times stuff.
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Black Latinos had a historical presence in the Plaza that became Olvera Street, through the 19th century “Calle de Los Negros” and the area’s most prominent citizen, Pío Pico. There are some ahistorical—and risky—assumptions in this take.
LIL PAPi
@lilpapifreshSep 1
As a Mexican from LA. Let me try & explain why black ppl are upset about the Latin run club being in Leimert Park It is a historical black space built on community, culture & business for generations It’s the equivalent of black ppl having a dj & party on Olvera Street
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I did not expect the students to cheer when I said I would not be using Canvas this semester.
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Reading Wendell Berry always leaves me equally annoyed, awed, and convicted. American letters will miss his singular and prophetic voice. Requiescat in pace.
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“Among others.”
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“The C. S. Lewis Guide to the Carnivore Diet.”
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