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Poetry in English possesses two separate but intertwined beats. First of all, the stresses. And secondly, underneath those stresses, the syllables. The subtle latter are often drowned out by the strident former. But if you listen hard enough, the syllabics are there, underpinning everything.

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On Not Being Milton--by Tony Harrison Read and committed to the flames, I call/ these sixteen lines that go back to my roots/ my Cahier d'un detour au pays natal,/ my growing black enough to fit my boots.// The stutter of the scold out of the branks/ of condescension, class and counter-class/ thickens with glottal to a lumpen mass/ Of Ludding morphemes closing up their ranks./ Each swung cast-iron Enoch of Leeds stress/ clangs a forged music on the frames of Art,/ the looms of owned language smashed apart!// Three cheers for mute ingloriousness!// Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting./ In the silence round all poetry we quote/ Tidd the Cato Street conspirator who wrote:// Sir, I Ham a very Bad Hand at Righting."

R.I.P. Tony Harrison (1937-2025): from my mum's generation.

It gave me a shiver to reread V just now, especially the lines in which Harrison imagines his own grave. And another shiver when I remembered his not-quite-sonnet "On Not Being Milton" from 1978: that second octet!

At minimum, there should be a tax on AI use and a tax on the land they use for data centers and they should provide their own energy.

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

“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.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

Almost every “successful” AI use case involves knocking the first rungs out of a career ladder, but those are the very positions our students desperately need to become acculturated into the professional spaces that will eventually require experienced professionals to replace the current cohort.

It’s almost like we brought gen-AI on ourselves by getting so fascinated with the word “rubric.”

Screenshot of an email from academia.edu saying an AI has written a review of my paper Race and Irish Women’s Writing

Fuck your AI review

I need academics in STEM or comp sci etc to understand that their colleagues in the humanities might not see AI with the rose colored lenses they themselves seem to; and to stop framing those who refuse to use it like this. And a little critical thinking about AI is good

if you wanna eat the rich you don't go after professors and artists or even doctors or lawyers. the actual rich people we need to eat /don't work/

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

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continue to think that humanities discourse would be massively improved if we all admitted to ourselves that our most effective political activity can be separate from our jobs and might not have much to do with our areas of expertise

there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for

we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves

Yes! Same here. Connect! Repost each others' books and articles! Post pics of each others' books! The network is you!

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Probably correct for history, alas. English and other non-STEM subjects (music, some parts of philosophy, descriptive social sciences, languages) can prob go back to blue books more easily

LLMs can do some things usefully given proper constraints! but "reliably integrate facts to answer a query using the open internet" ain't one of them. You're both right!