The hand cramps are a feature not a bug! We must protect our students from RSI.

The real innovation will be when AI is good enough to instantly fabricate not only the citation but the whole underlying invented text itself.

Writing about James, but finding myself much more interested in The Trees.

New frontiers in viewpoint diversity.

Have figured out how to save the major. We just rename ourselves, "Artificial Intelligence (and English)."

Who wants to join the board of my new venture, The Journal of Human Narratives Studies?

Teaching my 2yo to make coffee in the morning. Still working out the kinks.

Will ChatGPT be, eh, joining the dialogue? Gotta include all the stakeholders, after all.

Can you spend most of a workday entering custom metadata in dozens of idiosyncratic and subtly different LOR forms? Let's find out!

The plot of every "Pluribus" episode seems to be figuring out how to spend $15 million in under 50 minutes.

Thanks, ChatGPT—you’re making me blush.

Really struggling with Sunk Anecdote Fallacy in this chapter.

Tenebræ LeSpark is a truly great Pynchon name.

Every social media platform is deranged in its own way, but might Substack have won the derangement games?

Look, the goal was always just to let federal workers enjoy a 40-day paid (?) vacation. Did you think there was some other plan?

Academic trade books with no index?! Why? 😭

Can't wait.

Fast take: "Pluribus" links midcentury critiques of mass culture to contemporary discourses on AI slop, which seems somehow related (though not sure how) to its dogged commitment to letting auteur-showrunners spend as much money as possible on every episode.

“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”

What could go wrong? 😑

"Not just X but Y" is the new "delve"—not just a lexical AI tell but a formula now forever banished from my prose. Well, now.

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Look, if I just perfect the anti-AI language on my syllabus, I think we’ll be just fine.

Four weeks of Grokipedia entries should just about cover it.

Autocorrect wants to change "praxeology" to "proctology" which seems somewhat apt.

@lkonstan.bsky.social wrote a great essay explaining why, highly recommend arcmag.org/mythic-capit...

The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...

The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...

Apple's Weather app failed me.

Ready for ASAP/16.

What if we just let Canvas stay down… forever?

Is this not the exact plot of You've Got Mail?

I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).

The original *Arkanoid* jingle has been stuck in my head all day.

After all the critiques of the sociology of literature, I am reduced to defensively arguing that a text is, you know, not *not* an allegory of its conditions of production, right?

One minor detail.

Ayyyy!

Where were you when you discovered that Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s dissertation advisor was Jürgen Habermas? 🤯

I am glad Murderbot turned out good.

Before they’re done the men leading our major AI labs are gonna not only discover the secrets of intelligence but — more importantly — speed(re)run the history of 20c literary theory. They coulda just majored in English.

I am so happy to announce we’re starting a new major in LLM Prompting. I hear it’s the future.

I’m convinced. Gonna give this “reading” thing a try.

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26! (Cover reveal soon!)

Trying to explain to my 7yo what linear television was.

Pretty sure we’re gonna nuke that asteroid. You know, mostly as a show of strength.

Just learned the word “methodolatry” which I wish I’d learned sooner. 😜

See, if you just wait long enough, reality will provide you with the perfect anecdote to open the conclusion of the book you are writing.

Who knew living in a cyberpunk dystopia would be so boring.

Important also that students and faculty not be given or allowed to use email either. 🤔

I managed to leave just as the questions were getting hard! 🤪