Nancy Lee (she/her)

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.

Me too!

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Read this.

"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Submissions to Arc's Poem of the Year Contest are open, and all poets are welcome to submit an extra poem before the Early Bird Deadline on December 31, 2025.
More details on the contest and how to submit can be found on our website: buff.ly/ofdnZTd

A graphic with the text: "Now Reading on Cozy Fest: Dina Del Bucchia, You're Gonna Love This" featuring the cover of the book and an inset photo of the author.

Kicking off #ALUCozyFest is Dina Del Bucchia coming to us from a cozy spot in her home to read a passage about friendships, group texts, and perfect days from her book YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS (@talonbooks.bsky.social).

alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-di...

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Absolution cover and VanderMeer and Fu headshots with text AUTHOR EVENT AT LAKE FOREST PARK.

Hey, Seattle, join me in convo with Kim Fu at Third Place Books, about my novel Absolution, cosponsored by the North Cascades Institute as part of their "Nature of Writing" series. Nov. 19, 7om, Lake Forest Park.
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

IOC moves closer to ban on transgender women The International Olympic Committee moves a step closer to introducing a blanket ban on transgender women from female categories across all sports.

This is terrible, ignorant, and silly. Let's say trans women athletes do "retain physiological advantages" -- lots of women have lots of physiological advantages for lots of reasons. No one is transitioning so they can come 12th at the hurdles or whatever. www.bbc.com/sport/articl...

Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...

Kenneth Lonergan on You Can Count on Me - Bright Wall/Dark Room On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of 'You Can Count on Me,' writer/director Kenneth Lonergan sits down to talk at length about making his first movie.

“I’m not somebody who feels it’s worthwhile working with geniuses who are assholes. There are enough great actors who are nice that you don’t have to spend your time working with people who aren’t pleasant to be around. I never think that’s worth it.” - Kenneth Lonergan

Parent-Writers' Residency | Upstart & Crow

really excited to launch the newest residency at Upstart & Crow, which is specifically for parent-writers and includes a childcare stipend in addition to a residency grant and space to work. the residency I have dreamed of! applications open this weekend: upstartandcrow.com/programs/par...

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Ah, the sweet balm of standard time

Every single play over the last 30 minutes of this game has had the same vibe as the "two people wrestling for a gun and then it fires and you don't know who was shot" movie trope.

never watched a baseball game before in my life, are they all like this

Wait so you can strip someone of their power on account of their association with Jeffrey Epstein? Interesting

This is so sad and also… we are so cooked. Therapy isn’t just validation. You need to be challenged. And men? Make a human friend and talk about how you’re feeling. I swear it doesn’t make you gay — just human.

Vancouver’s Historic Park Theatre To Reopen With New Owners & High-Profile Financial Investors Including Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins & Mike Flanagan Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins, and Mike Flanagan are among the financial backers.

deadline.com/2025/10/park...

Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.

The US rape kit processing backlog was estimated at nearly 400,000 in September of 2024. That’s 400,000 unsolved crimes - not civil infractions - where the evidence that could convict the perpetrator is available, but unchecked. If ICE wants to fight crime, get those agents a GED and a lab coat.

A textured crocheted blanket-in-progress piled on my legs with a shapely wooden hook on top. It has a reddish-brown stripe, a taupe stripe, and the start of a beige stripe.

I decided I should crochet a blanket instead of doomscrolling in the evening, and it seems to be working out for me. So far.

Art by Vanessa Stockard

navy poster with yellow text: The Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship is for a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise. This competitive Fellowship includes a full scholarship to the Six-Month Intensive 2026 program to work with one of our award-winning authors. Deadline November 10, 2025

Know a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise? Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship applications are open until November 10, 2025!

Apply at www.vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com @vmiprogram.bsky.social

A monthly movie gathering at UBC curated by Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French launches its first film “Slash/Back” on OCT 31 at 2 PM. 🎬🍿Free popcorn & drinks. All are welcome.

🗓 Friday, October 31
⏰ 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍Buchanan Tower, Room 225
🎟 Free

RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

A screenshot from LifeSite news has a laptop with a red circle and cross through DEI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

it's morbidly amusing when they make it so explicit. No diversity! No equity! No inclusion! (Yes homogeneity! Yes isms! Yes exclusion!)

Theres not a thing I’ve read about generative AI that’s not the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard