You realize this is what they WANT you to do...because it's not about the books. It's about dismantling the entire public institution.

A tenure-track job outside of San Antonio. Happy to answer questions!

*November, aka the end of summer in San Antonio *Mauricio Dubón getting his second Gold Glove *calling my husband "sir" when he was trying to boss me around and both of us cracking up *dipping into friends' books when I miss their voices

Hard to turn the pages and look in the physical magazine.

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Keegan Cook Finberg on the arrival of her amazing new book, POETRY IN GENERAL: HOW A LITERARY FORM BECAME PUBLIC tinyurl.com/2vbhy4t4 @keegancf.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social

I keep hearing people defend teachers using AI because it will save them time on the unpaid work that we do. Are they in fewer meetings? Have fewer duties? Dealing with fewer new initiatives? Being asked to spend less time getting evaluated? Lots of nontech ways to reduce teacher burdens:

I'm sure subscribing to another cozy British murder streamer will fix things.

This thread resonated with my experience of teaching poetry, which has always been where I see the most excited and exciting student readings. I also like that short works can be printed cheaply.

My 74-year-old mom insisted on marching the whole 1.7 miles in San Antonio even though the temperature was in the 90s and she was limping by the end. Her dad was a fighter pilot in WW II and had trained here in SA. We talked about him as we walked.

nor till the autocrats among us can be / "literalists of / the imagination"—above / insolence and triviality and can present / for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads / in them, shall we have / it. Marianne Moore, "Poetry" (Others for 1919)

A degree in AI is like if in the nineties we had majored in Franklin Planner.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

Happy Angela Lansbury's 100th birthday!

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows. But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished. Solidarity with the survivors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Grudging respect to the lady on the running trail who intuited I was listening to St. Vincent and blew vape smoke in my face.

Timeline cleanse came across tiny postman's gardens in old London where there is a wall of plaques, set up in 1900, for ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to save others... Beautiful small garden and beautiful tributes

Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

wrote a book about the B of E and the history of financial crises, so, obligatory: "Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."

superego, id, ego

Taylor is like “thank god you, my boyfriend, didn’t tell me to get to a nunnery, kill my father, and then get into a huge fight with my brother literally in my grave, after my muddy death!”

It was the great “as though,” the how the day went, The excursions of the police As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting Neither fire nor water, Vibrating to the distant pinch And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you. John Ashbery, "The Chateau Hardware”

something good to look forward to in chicago in a few weeks, Kashana Cauley and Jason Wozniak talk student debt and heists! interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

Maybe part of the same trend, I was in a Barnes & Noble yesterday and it was packed, mostly with young people. The indie bookstore in Seguin is also always crowded, but I'd assumed that was a one-off.

First time deadheading roses, some pink ones that came with the house and remind me of my grandmother, who wore rose perfume. The roses blooming feel like her checking in. Hoping to hear from her even more now, with the path cleared. (This is a "before" pic)

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

As there is Better Than Ezra, so there is a worse Ezra. And it is always Pound.

Out of all the hundreds of Beatrix Potter's illustrations, I think this one, from 'The Tailor Of Gloucester', is probably my favourite. It's just exquisite. #BookWormSat #BeatrixPotter

Residents have until Oct. 6 to register in order to have an opportunity to weigh in on several issues, including raising the venue tax for a downtown San Antonio Spurs arena. Read More👉 ebx.sh/KPqF9d

this great point about the social character of knowledge —how knowing real things relies on others signaling when you’re wrong—is another way of highlighting the political importance of social shame. It also clarifies the fundamental nihilism of the AI-industrial complex

"One of the neat things about wildflower seeds is that if they don’t grow in year one because of a lack of moisture or other reason, they will grow in year two or sometime in the future."

The Collected Emails of a Modern Woman's Increasingly Accusatory Correspondence Between Her Work and Home Accounts.

One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.

Vincent van Gogh, Butterflies & Poppies, 1889. Note the directness, even offhandedness, of Van Gogh's artistic approach here: the blue line he drew along the edges to frame the composition, and the areas of bare, unpainted canvas www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

"Please be suspicious in the nicest way - of everyone."

the eyes are always giving blue steel

This is a thread where I will put haunting images from estate sale listings.

Orna what the hell

In any case, the ruling was long overdue. The people are beside themselves with rapture so we stay indoors. The quest was only another adventure and the solution problematic, at any rate far off in the future.

Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine

Now do the fired teachers and professors

“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 23/🧵

Platitudes aren’t helpful when facing cancer treatment. Instead, sit with us in our pain. I know it’s hard. That’s why it means so much. #cansky

Saturday morning! Time to…deal with the carpenter ant invasion.

What I Might Sing Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, and because of you, I was thinking too of America, what I might sing of it... I loved this "singing of," this ordering, not to simplify, but to capture what it really means, all of us together here in America.

...It's just the thing I needed, something to rest my eyes on, and always wanted, which is to say it's that of which I felt the lack but didn't know of, of no real use and yet essential as a button box, or maps, green morning skies, islands and canals in oatmeal, the steam off oyster stew...