It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.

Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social : "The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?" thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...

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Congratulations to Jamie and her wonderful book!!

Just in time for the holidays, yet another reason to get this brilliant book by my amazing friend and colleague @jamieljones.bsky.social!

don’t comply in advance also applies to the enclosure of all hitherto existing cultural production and expulsion of labor

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

One of the points Newfield makes in this talk is that the American people are deeply dissatisfied with how their lives are organized under capitalism, and the solutions offered by corporate media are actually not satisfying them. What they need is the type of knowledge that humanists provide.

Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal. thedialjournal.org Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.

In this brilliant essay, @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social reminds us that on matters of energy, infrastructure, and climate, we're still living in the long 19th century. No one writes about energy like Jeff!!

Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping. thedialjournal.org

Super excited about the 21st c. resuscitation of The Dial-- and to be in such brilliant company. Check it out!

Huge thank you to @chrishanlon.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this amazing inaugural issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social, along with my dear friends and co-operators @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social and @jamieljones.bsky.social.