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every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"

Finally watched the GDT Frankenstein. What’s the consensus out there on it?

John Thorpe seemingly big on FitTok, but it is revealed that he buys his engagement

My 8th graders “translate” the invocation “for an audience of middle schoolers” before we read The Odyssey. Every single group that used “bro” got a laugh from me.

She’s an aspiring BookTok-er.

it’s an important moment for arguing in favor of habits of mind, modes of learning that are worth teaching

and if caring—about details, students, art—is not central to that discussion, what are we doing

I didn’t get the wording down precisely, so I won’t quote it, but one of the things that hit hard in the room:

Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.

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”.

Darkly humorous that I had to click through an ad for the LA Times’s collaboration with Perplexity’s AI browser to read this review.

a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and a purple pot Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

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let’s have a conference

ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father My own private Frankenstein

Not an academic essay but worth a look: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

stack of copies of CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

I’m shilling CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY hard because I’m so proud of it —specifically because it, like every close reading, is the product of a community and an offering to a community.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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“It’s a ‘driveway with a basketball hoop,’ Michael. How much could it cost?”

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.

I think this is also true of LLMs

What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time The first dialogue readers encounter in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a conversation between a wife and husband who have been married for twenty-three years. Mrs. Bennet is all aflutter abou…

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
lithub.com/what-pride-a...

But this looks good tho

No way of knowing for sure, but I think I once disqualified myself from consideration for a TT job at a SLAC because I asked about opportunities to teach/mentor students in the joint English major/ed degree. Whole tone of conversation soured. Anyways I work in K12 ed now.

So good that I am reposting even though the high in Atlanta on Wednesday is 88

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."

YouTube video by XL Recordings Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Bruegel's "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"

Punk Ekphrasis youtu.be/abCZZQ6UdBU?...

I don't use feedback on my writing from an LLM because it can't read and I write for readers. When students say they find LLM feedback "helpful" what are we signaling about what's important about their writing? Helpful for what goal? Helpful how? What values are being reinforced?