how about we write poems celebrating what working people do for society instead of navel gazing and fretting about the apocalypse

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Did you know we like blue? Have we told you we like blue? Have you read bluets? Do you know about the blue hour? What about blue as a symbol for melancholy?

Let’s take care of each other today.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social is a very very good press! I haven't read all their books yet but I have read FOUR and I loved them all.

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

People who call kids “bad” usually don’t know Fact One about child development. A lot—A LOT—of adults, despite their authority, want children to display more emotional maturity than they’ve ever modeled for them.

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo

We need a Generative AI Code of Conduct at the University level because it's becoming increasingly clear that my colleagues (other professors and ESPECIALLY admin) are using AI way more than my students are.

But yes the short version is this is a right wing signifier implemented by corporate czars who sit on public university boards for LinkedIN clout making an administratively clunky decree by political fiat. they feel immune from public pressure because we don’t know how to apply any.

we know this story here and everywhere

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

These people don’t want to chat with you. They want to either kill you or control your every decision until you stop being useful to profit at which point see number one.

I'm listening to a nonfiction audiobook w/analysis of dreams and nightmares and sleep. It's a summary of research, stuff like that, but then they just up and dropped in the phrase "A gaping skeletal sense of loneliness" and put to shame every poem I've ever written.

It is great to see why they hate artists so much be manifested as to why they specifically should hate artists lol

“This morning I was writing—the words were just flowing and doing their thing—then I had a zoom meeting and the words died. They are gone. Such is the writing life with its daily graves.” -- Alina Stefanescu

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Everything blue is made of distance

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

I think we need to stop talking to each other, "what would you do if that was your kid" and instead talk to elected officials, "if you do not prioritize gun legislation, you will not know peace". the US population is crystal clear on gun violence. We don't want it.

Welcome to Derry, and really the whole IT series deals with childhood trauma in such a real and affecting way. God, I love horror. The foundational genre of these United States.

I have found over and again that changes in higher education do not happen where change can be most effective but rather tends to happen where people/programs are least protected

Looking for an expert to speak to ASAP early this week about people working multiple jobs. Especially interested in how widespread this is across fields & what might make this moment different than others in our lifetimes. DMs open, email [email protected]. Thank you in advance!

Platforming famous actors on your gd poetry small press is about it for me. Towel. Thrown. Bye.

Shocked to learn that despite 1,000 op-eds about how they are now a workers' party, Republicans are doing what they always do when they're in power

What if emotion IS knowledge? @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi... @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

I know about the dark web and all of that but I’m still pretty sure that LinkedIn is the most unhinged place online.

The beginning

The idea that we must be Very Useful Engines will kill us.

dang this is a banger

To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.

Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“A beet is a serious thing. It sleeps in the ground while the apple trees thrash all night in the wind’s red darkness.” — Richard Siken from “Beet Soup” in I Do Know Some Things

URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision. Please sign actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

It’s hard not to think of this entire poem every time I read the news

Made Mara watch the film version this weekend and I still cry 😭. I used to wonder how I ended up the way I am from truly broken family, then I rewatch my favorite movies and shows and books and there I am.

I first read this poem in my father's final days. It took my breath away. Tomorrow will mark one week since we lost him, but I know he's still with us. So grateful to have (finally!) read _The People's Project_, edited by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, where it appears.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

I asked said person, “just so I’m clear, you’re refuting my account of my marital status based on a claim that AI is making about me? Do I have that right?” They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.

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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

I wish we academics had a better social media platform because everything is way too fragmented. A lot of folks on here, FB, IG, Tik Tok are talking about the same problems (AI, closings/layoffs, political repression/union busting, etc), but its pretty hard to mobilize b/c we're in different silos

There’s a big beautiful moon out right now. Go look at it.