Deep as a Tomb is out today. Murder, treason, tomb mazes. YA fantasy. I may post about this more than once today. Forgive me. There aren't many release days compared to writing days. Azon: tinyurl.com/5e4ycaxe

This post from @macwright.com really nailed a large part of the problem with using LLMs to communicate on your behalf. “the point of resumes and portfolios is not just to list credentials, it's to give some hint as to which kind of person will be sitting next to you” Extends beyond resumes.

Here are the AI papers that excite me. Disclosure: Lav is a former colleague and participant of mine. www.jair.org/index.php/ja...

100 pages into way of kings and it’s fairly boring

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

I need to explain this because the media doesn’t get It. We are in a liquidity crisis. There isn’t enough cash for everyone to be invested in the stock market. Did SpaceX just add 1.75 trillion into circulation? Nope. thats going to collapse. (2008 was a credit crisis)

You can study cancer without being a fan of cancer

A virtuoso, breathtaking epic that is a treat to read. I wish I could write as well as Ada Palmer. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I have been asked to review a paper every day for the past 8 days.

You can study cancer without being a fan of cancer

Neighbor brought me over fresh honey from his beehive.

Several weeks ago, I stopped texting or calling people who never initiate texts. I'm down to no one for texts. Literally, no one texts me unless I do. Only my mom calls.

Again, I have no idea why people listen to this guy. He has no credentials, no charisma so to speak, no expertise other than just having opinion. The podcast class.

TIL I learned there is basically a pyramid in southern Illinois. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monks_M...

3 days after my first child was born, I had an emergency appendectomy. 4 nights later, neither I nor baby could sleep. I held said baby with a sore belly and looked on amazon for books. I literally said “An algorithm is my audience.“ More than a decade later, it’s my most cited scholarship

No one: young offspring: I want to live in an acorn house

June 20th is too early for fireworks

At some point, Apple is going to install homegrown free LLMs on their machines and collapse the rest of the industry.

Did you know that before I became an academic or worked in a grocery store or did construction, I wanted to be a novelist? I still do. Here are the first four pages of a fantasy novel I wrote for my kids. The entire novel is complete. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Here is why LLMs should not be used for peer review: I know (first hand) of engineers on my campus who are doing cutting edge research. If you ask an LLM, it will say their results are wrong. But the entire point of their research is that prior RESEARCH is wrong. That is novel research.

writing is this bullshit chapter

I'll be honest, as a parent I see the firsthand destructive uses of phones and AI.

It's not about taste. LLMs write like they do because they're indifferent to meaning. They operate from averages, which don't exist. The average horror novel or videogame don't exist singularly. LLMs start with uncut genres, which are only meaningful if there is an idiosyncratic experience.

100%

The corruption is so out in the open that I’m convinced people can’t process it.

Hello Writing Studies researchers, I'm looking for articles that have experimental/quasi-experimental design, meta-analyses, or systematic literature reviews published in the field. Would you have suggestions?

“Stirring it releases more Gatorade scent”

Not enough AI writing gurus understand short term (working) memory and long term memory. Focused writing (especially by hand but also just undistracted) help you learn by moving information from working to long term memory.

Morningstar has the real value of SpaceX stock at $63 a share. It's selling at $213 currently.

I've been convinced people don't remember the COVID19 lockdowns accurately. Here is a random trailer for a Netflix movie. In the comments, people are remembering the COVID19 lockdowns as being in 2019. Very strange.

The comments and quotes on this remind me of the old internet.

We stopped streaming services. I started buying CDs again (super cheap btw! like $5-8 for brand new music, dirt cheap for stuff older than 10 years). We check out DVDs from our library (they have so many!). We are saving about $30 a month in streaming services. (we never had Netflix)

If I were into conspiracy theories I would think the farm bankruptcies from Trump’s tariffs were all part of a bigger plan. Makes you think 🤔

The past 24 hours has made me realize most people don't understand stock valuations

If I said I went for a walk with my kids and we wore something on said walk (per their request), I bet you'd never guess that thing was swimming goggles.

Eleanor Henricksen & I conducted a survey of GenAI habits related to writing. Students still think they write better than GenAI, but not equally: Disciplinary differences in usage, trust, and writing practices with artificial intelligence Our preprint is available: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating?

Don’t buy the ponzi scheme today

Direct instruction remains the gold standard

New blog post! "The best empirical studies I have read about GenAI in 2026, in APA format" meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-best-e...

I wrote an entire book because I was exasperated with Robert Yin's notion of a case study as existing a prior to the researcher. www.amazon.com/Case-Study-R...

My own kids told me I was born in the 1900s.

I think zotero should be required for college students to learn in their first two weeks of college.

Why do people listen to Ezra Klein? I mean this seriously. What are his credentials? He seems like he is just a professional opinion-haver.

Outlining counts as writing!

Never ask your students to do an assignment that you wouldn't or couldn't do.

I don't understand why people include "food & housing" in the cost of college. You still have to pay for "food & housing" if you DON'T go to college. Yes, students should not have to live on campus, but still, it's odd when people roll living costs into the college tuition

“Dad, why are there tea parties but no coffee parties?”

Me: I need a cup of coffee Offspring: you don’t need a cup of coffee. You want a cup of coffee.

So is Computers and Writing sorta gone from social media? (I withdrew and wanted to follow online)