so exciting that this book is in the world it is fierce and rigorous and also fun to read

I read an earlier version of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're out in these streets teaching modernist poetics then you NEED this sharp and sensitive account of the racialism attaching to narratives of poetic form in the early twentieth century.

In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.

my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying Turn the guns into plowshares, please

Having the newest thing used to be a personality trait. What I've learned from watching the surveillance state proliferate, is that the only thing I want to be a bleeding edge early adopter of is treating people with dignity and compassion.

stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on

This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!

Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.

starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life mac mail search that actually works scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res citation format conversion generator reliable synching of bluetooth devices

I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social

I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social

i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology

This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)

less punditry and much more organizing.

be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.

I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend

I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”

I am deceased.

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle

The knowledge was already free!! Open textbooks and libraries exist!! The benefit of a professor is having an expert teach it to you in a structured manner with assignments for practice and assessments to keep you accountable. Profs aren't keepers of secret knowledge. We are essentially tutors.

I wish for everyone the joy of rediscovering a long-forgotten favorite album that is indeed a masterpiece (Deloused in the Comatorium, my god!)

Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes

I love this.

cackling

"A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging. ... The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."

Love it when brilliant friends publish gorgeous, heartbreaking, life-affirming poems. <3

Love it when brilliant friends publish gorgeous, heartbreaking, life-affirming poems. <3

"We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education + the stakes feel even higher. In the 50s the targets were individual teachers—communists progressives liberals +their leftwing unions. Now the target is the system itself" www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

The second this Texas A & M story broke I said to a friend “we’re going to quickly learn that this student is the child of some county GOP chair.” I was close. Of course the entire episode was not spontaneous, but was part of a PR stunt that’s now ruined several people’s lives.

TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back. Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states: bit.ly/nodatacenters

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

was very surprised to find a tiny little article-let of mine in here!

Cynicism doesn't make you better than other people btw. I would much rather know and relate to people who are willing to experience disappointment because they tried, than people who shield themselves from disappointment by always assuming the worst, and therefore do NOTHING.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Workers : so are u using AI to solve the mysteries of the universe CEO : kinda Workers : kinda? CEO : we're eliminating all customer service and first line tech support jobs and replacing them with a forked Claude agent Workers : what does that solve CEO : solves me having to pay ur asses lmao

LLM companies are beta testing experimental products our children, and educators are facilitating it.