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  1. CW: AI slop

    Had some fun asking an LLM to translate Sor Juana's Hombres Necios into a hip-hop diss track. I kinda like it.

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    You loud-ass fools talk shit on women,
    like you ain’t the cause from the beginning,
    set the play, then call it wrong,
    then act confused like “what went on?”

    You chase, you beg, you won’t take no,
    apply that pressure, put on a show,
    then when she folds, you flip that tone—
    now she a “bitch,” a “hoe”? That’s your own.

    Yeah, you the one throwin’ words like that,
    “slut,” “thot,” like it’s fact,
    but you wrote the script, you pushed that scene,
    now you mad how it all turned out to be?

    You hype her up, then drag her name,
    switchin’ rules mid-fuckin’ game,
    say you want “good,” say you want “real,”
    then shame her soon as she catch a feel.

    What you want, huh? Make it make sense—
    a saint at home, in public intense?
    You want her quiet, but sexy too,
    then call her “easy” when she rocks with you.

    If she curves you, she “stuck-up,” “ice,”
    if she don’t, she “ain’t that nice,”
    either way you talk your mess,
    can’t let a woman just exist.

    You build that pressure, stack that heat,
    then blame her when she hits the street,
    like you ain’t the one who lit that spark,
    now you barkin’ loud in the dark.

    You want respect? Then give that first,
    not just when you tryna quench your thirst,
    quit playin’ judge, quit actin’ clean,
    when your own hands dirty as hell, unseen.

    Real shit—look in the damn mirror,
    all that blame? Yeah, bring it nearer,
    ‘cause half that dirt you throw around
    started with you, then circled back down.

    #SorJuana #HombresNecios

  2. I was thinking, if #SorJuana was alive and writing today, she's be spitting those sick rhymes on the mic.

    Looked it up, and I'm happy someone else already had that idea:

    youtube.com/watch?v=nBwwLAy1N8

    Redondillas (4-line, 8 syllable, ABAB rhyme structure) really are rappable.

  3. #JuanaInés is a quite remarkable series, and it really made me want to learn more about #SorJuana and read her works more.

    It appears that historians have disliked how it strays from the historical record and speculated where that record is spotty, but I think it's okay to do so.

  4. So #SorJuana exchanged portraits with the vicereine Doña María Luisa.

    That's like swiping right, isn't it?

  5. We're really enjoying #JuanaInés. It's speculating a lot where the historical record is spotty but it seems to be sticking close to fact whenever we do have documents about #SorJuana's life.

    Anyone got a favourite English #translation of her #poetry? I'm looking for a good translation of "Hombre necios..."

  6. It is #citogenesis! The book that Wikipedia cites just has one line: "She [Sor Juana] was also a student of scientific thought and experiment, and corresponded with English scientist Isaac Newton."

    And in its sources, it lists Wikipedia!

    Whatever, in my headcanon #SorJuana was a physicist of #Newtonian calibre.

  7. This is really nagging me now. Did #SorJuana really meet or have correspondence with #Newton? Where did the English Wikipedia get this idea?

    I need to track down this book and figure it all out, because it's what English Wikipedia is citing and it all just seems so weird:

    worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9

  8. I just watched the first episode of #JuanaInés and then I read on English Wikipedia that #SorJuana actually had correspondence with #Newton.

    Whaaaaaat? Why is there no mention of this in the Spanish Wikipedia? That sounds like a big deal! Where are these letters between Newton and Sor Juana?

    Let's see if the internet can find them...