“13 percent of The Best American Poetry is composed of poems by past or future editors of The Best American Poetry.” Or, how a dude who arbitrarily hated Adrienne Rich used academic garbagetongue to trash up and dumb down an art. The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social

“If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?” @nicksturm.bsky.social in @defector.com https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry

I'm feeling a new love for a clumsy sentence or a misspelled word. I imagine a human on the other end. Doing their own typing, like the old days. I'm thinking about styles of writing that might emerge from this-- analogues to a guacamole I once saw advertised as "hand hacked" at a fancy restaurant.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

ugh, here with the spelling corrected, womp womp

Judicial opinions have epigraphs now!!!! Up with epigraphs!!

if the television is not saying what’s true then how can I ever emerge tremfyant

Spent many (many!) hours pulling legal explanations and apologies from lawyers who were caught using AI that hallucinated in which they explained to a judge why they used AI. The explanations are astonishing and extremely good: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

post a banger that's not in English youtu.be/-rCeygWexyA?...

When will GALS overthrow the Bass Pro Pyramid?

i will deign to watch a video *only* if there are open captions and i can keep the sound on mute. but if there's a transcript? i can read that in 1/10th of the time.

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

This whole section really.

why not opt-in? just ask permission first if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked just ask permission first

The barriers put in place to stop any trans girls from playing with others girls are so complicated and onerous that TEN SCHOOLS can’t get enough cis girls through them to field soccer teams this year. “Respect for women’s sports” my ass.

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma. This government is committing war crimes.

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

Anyway it’s just me again begging people to pick up a book and use reading comprehension and literary analysis skills and also google, frankly And if you’re struggling wit any of those things, please, genuinely, seek support Literacy activists want to help you!!!

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

People truly believe that whatever an author writes must be how they feel. Whatever the main character does must be condoned by the author, or why would they write it? The impact I’ve seen is that the fiction that’s published these days prioritizes moral clarity over artistic complexity.

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

This is what I would say if I was given a stick and told to market it

I love the nineteenth century

reminder:

(trailer voiceover) this halloween, grass touches back

If you don’t want to do your job, you can leave! People are desperate to teach at universities, let them do it!

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

This is more than an academic freedom issue. This is no longer an institution of higher ed if it’s demanding lies be taught.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

I am the gar I long and thin I have a jaw things fit within Yet sometimes shapes are wrong for head so do my best & lik the bread

kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what? the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Each day you will be confronted with three unmarked doors. Behind door one is getting all your work done. Behind door two is getting enough rest and exercise. Behind door three is a tiger. Good luck.

Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep: 1. Lemuria 2. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 3. Literary theory

The 2026 SEASECS conference is going to be at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama! Accepting proposals through October 1! www.seasecs.org/2026-confere...

CHOTINER: Many say Middlemarch is the greatest 19th-century novel. GEORGE ELIOT: I sought only to shine a light on unhistoric acts, people destined for unvisited tombs. CHOTINER: These Chotiner memes—Star Wars, the poem about plums, Moby-Dick. Are you jealous? GEORGE ELIOT: That f***ing whale.

it me, lady university admin on duty

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

"Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police and ICE." www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

This is your must read of the day. "The neurogeneticist Stanley Nelson once said, 'If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.' Researchers increasingly believe the search for a cause of a singular 'autism' is misguided. There are autisms, rather than just autism."

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over