"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

It’s Saturday night and I am editing PDFs (for reasons) and this section on assessment from a 1999 writing text jumped out at me, not least because of all the ~discourse~ on here about student writing

The air all around me knows not to hold anything for long. Bc it is this unison of breath, this unison of mind the big wind is after. From ‘Demonstration’, a new poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We must hurry if we are going to dance. Oh, we have time, I think. —till there’s no time left. That’s what time means. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz? It will serve. [Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]

fork found in kitchen

whomst among us hasn't gone along with an idea that we don't necessarily agree with just because a hot person suggested it

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Alfred W T Lo, Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age, Applied Linguistics, 2025. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1093/appl...

we need this man on here NOW #academicsky

Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) 5 December 2025, 10:30 - 16:15 www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain...

Join us for our first event of 25-26! A discussion of Fandom for Us, by Us by @alfredmartin.bsky.social, on Friday, Nov. 14 on Zoom. More info and registration: tinyurl.com/fandomforus

four by jean valentine [via sean singer]

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘KILL BILL’ movies will be released in theaters as one complete movie on December 5. • Will include a never-before-seen 7-minute animated sequence • Select presentations will be in 70mm and 35mm

if you're thinking about coming to do a #fanstudies PhD with me, here's your chance to learn more.

Here's a diversion for you all: contributors to @ebertvoices.bsky.social wrote about 11 of the late, great Robert Redford's performances. My pick is Sneakers. Everybody else's entries are fantastic, and there are some surprises. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

was anyone going to TELL ME that kahlo and o'keeffe partied together in new york, visited each other afterwards, and kahlo at least seems to have had a pretty intense crush on o'keeffe, or did i really have to find that out myself today via A FB POST

honestly thought it would be kimmel but in the end stephen was much more dangerous. poets and comedians are the canaries down the mine shaft, pay attention to who is next

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I don't think there should be any question that Colbert is the most brilliant man ever to sit behind a desk at a late night talk show. Seriously, watch this clip. As an extemporaneous speaker, he can't be beat. And the depth of his intellect is undeniable.

so few perfect things in the world but Blue is one

Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈 www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/

whoa, i'm in here too! honestly kinda sorta hyped about it bc these are three new poems i thought no one would love, but these nice queer southern folks did. they're my favorite, give them some love? 🏳️‍🌈 💕 🌈 (thank u screen door i love y'all)

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Another shoe drops.

I thought your approbation Fame – and it's withdrawal Infamy. [E. Dickinson to T.W. Higginson, 1877]

The New York Times has announced an agreement with Amazon that allows the company to use the newspaper's content to develop its artificial intelligence models. Until now, the newspaper has consistently refused to allow its content to be used for generative AI.

Li Shangyin 李商隱

"Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's middle name," [Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]

he's never quite gotten the role he's deserved? bit like dylan o'brien, the way gifted actors can get trapped in genre. but sadie gennis once wrote that the 100's murphy was the best character on tv, and richard harmon was 100% why. using him for a punchline in final destination is a waste of talent

john mulaney says cancelling plans is like heroin but you know another thing that gives you the same hit? "UNSUBSCRIBE."

cixous on tsvetaeva: "she declared her love to the people she met the way one declares war…her letters are very violent, but also sad and funny."

just had to read the sentence "[x] begins the book by immediately shifting the Teutonic plates beneath the reader’s feet" with my own two eyeballs and now i'm crying

What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. [Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914]

The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Li He! 李賀 !

85 years ago my late teacher was born. he died a year younger than i am now, a "cardiac cripple" he called himself. he loved cats and they loved him back, like ballet dancers and lesbians. he was miserable, tragic, contemptuous, magnetic, unforgettable. Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 5.24.40–1.28.96.

"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."

"[We] worked with a freelancer who used an AI agent to help build out this special section. It was inserted into our paper without review from our editorial team"—I'M SORRY WHAT? (& of course they're firing the freelancer; like raiding a brothel, you let the johns go and arrest all the sex workers)

If this is what Kristen Stewart is like as a director, I hope we're in for many, many more films like THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER. Rough. Unflinching. Also: sensitive, moving, radical & devoted to getting its subject's story right. @cannesfilmfestival.bsky.social 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

background from Ars Technica: "the error comes 2 months after the Sun-Times lost 20% of its staff through a buyout program.…departures included columnists, editorial writers, and editors….Melissa Bell, CEO of Chicago Public Media, stated…the exits would save the company $4.2 million annually."

The "the ouroboros of AI-generated content" note here is interesting (bleak). I've found this kind of thing recently in searches—it's getting very recursive out there. What percentage of searchers will bother cross-referencing a single thing? Or even know enough to tell when something's wrong?

well this seems unfortunate in...several ways, really