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Anna E. Clark

@annaeclark.bsky.social
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Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal Then: academia, 19thC, NYC Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out annaeclark.com

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Browsing exterior paint colors and wow, have I got some fodder for the aesthetics of fascism crowd:
Swatches of bland taupe paint titled "agreeable gray" and "accessible beige."
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So much has fallen on us elder millennials and now we’re responsible for keeping all the cute natural wine shops solvent too.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the money in the world apparently buys you this version of the humanities
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No idea what I’ll be for Halloween, but my cat will be going as a Fat Bear Week contestant.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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302 END TIMES FASCISM
We are convinced that our collective safety will come only when our elites are forced to imagine living and surviving here, with the rest of us. They will see this as a cruel and terrible punishment at first.

They will have to get over it.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So much of the teaching of writing and reading has been an attempt to circumscribe the very freedom they yield, which in part explains why it is often done so badly.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anything Trollope
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This has been a great week for adding to my list of people and events of which I can feel ok about maintaining near total ignorance
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of my favorite parts of Bluesky is the spicy version of Kai Ryssdal
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“‘’destructive scanning sacrifices multiple potential future human readings to a single instance of machine reading.‘“
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Institutions capitulate or dodge; students who don’t want to cheat with AI do; and then students believe it’s their individual failing. Some become cynical; some are filled with guilt.”
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have gone from being the person family call on to help polish a cover letter to the person they call on to de-Claude it. This does not feel like progress.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More of this please
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...
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U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students
The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
has anyone encountered any good critical history of writing in the university? especially as it concerns labor
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I finally read this review and I’m moved by the extent to which Dwight Garner praises the novel and also the depth of his work here—it’s not a simple rave, by any means, but a class on how to read. If you want that.
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Mario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There is no comprehensive tally of ICE subpoenas to tech companies in the second Trump administration. But this is a start www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies
This is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice and challenges them in court, or when a company docume...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/08/2026
MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just about given up hope institutions could say: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
3.1.1. Revisit course goals
Before considering how to construct Al-aware assessments, instructors should reconsider their goals for student learning- in every subject they teach. What should students know or be able to do by the end of the course?
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Making university faculty sit in their offices from 8 am to 5 pm every day, 5 days a week, is insane and serves no conceivable academic purpose. The fact that admins and even *staff* are exempt from this absurd requirement shows the real goal is to make tenured faculty quit.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She was *such* a human being, but the thing I keep thinking about is how Dolly’s voice makes me feel—one of so few singers who, in listening, produce in me the same physiological joy as the act of singing itself, like I could open my mouth and those same pure notes would pour out. Nothing like it.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
oh for a time machine to go back to, oh, 2012 or so and talk to every English department trying to endure by hawking ”writing skills” to business and criminal justice majors…
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I really hate the term “brain break,” and the speed with which it’s infected k-12 ed. Yes kids need movement and play and variation, but a term that frames these activities as, like, anti-cognition, is dreadful, & almost rationalizes what I often see, which is a “brain break” that just means…
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Kids should learn about the Bible the old fashioned way: in various VBS programs their atheist Unitarian moms use as low cost summer childcare
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As a friend pointed out, it’s kind of hilarious that Nolan thought what the Odyssey really needed was a big reveal
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
see too: high school.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.thenation.com/article/soci... "But even when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the United States—...the government not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure."
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’ve been surprised to learn how many college courses that were formerly taught in person have now moved totally online. Like, yes, I realize this is convenient for many students and faculty, but, man, I dunno if this is really helping matters…
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Between this and the Talarcio stuff, there's a lot of "legitimate claim to participation in political life is earned through correct performance of a highly specific vision of heterosexuality that only we get to define" coming from MAGA lately.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In a very good, very casual writing group for the first time in a long time and I've been trying to figure out why it's better than all the ones I've been part of before, and honestly I think it's that we're all middle-aged and/or largely immune to shame.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
you ever think about the minutes of living you’ve wasted contemplating the appropriate emoji?
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Based on my own experience, I suspect that many parents give more weight to high grades than they should because they think of them, at some level, not as a measure of learning but as a credential or a transaction www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Becoming Impossible to Know How Your Kid Is Doing in School
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I loved Transcription and have lots of thoughts about it but mostly it’s such a joy to read something so smart and riveting and idea-rich without an ounce of didacticism. Why is this so rare.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’d dunno I’d just like to find a way to exist so that my every action and need aren’t somehow mined for profit
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Heisenberg’s Quantum Dog @mimeris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
You’re gonna utterly despise what the second largest school district, under a hostile state takeover, is doing with AI then in Houston. Should be a much larger story but hasn’t become one yet.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
These findings confirm studies on chatbots and the recent US presidential election that my lab conducted with @proofnews.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-c...
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Chatbots' inaccurate, misleading responses about US elections threaten to keep voters from polls
Chatbots are spitting out fabricated and misleading information that risks disenfranchising voters leading up to the 2024 U.S. election.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Best novels/shows w/ characters who are the unwitting cause of their own hardship? Think false bildung: characters who, despite seeking personal improvement, only end up making different versions of the same mistake? Enlightenment was so good here—wanting other similar things.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It would be interesting/cool if LLM “writing“ resulted in a renewal of engagement w/ literary biography, writer as auteur?—the real minds who made, shaped, invented real works—how, why, to what ends… these questions feel newly urgent
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Probably a good day to recommend The Long Form. Briggs is brilliant, covering incredible narrative & conceptual distances in the few turns around the living room it takes to soothe her baby. It's quiet in some ways, explosive in others. #BookSky #MothersDay
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The Long Form
From the award-winning author of the book-length essay This Little Art, a debut novel that reaches back to the start of the novel tradition and outward to the complexities of contemporary life.Kate Br...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Gotta say, I did have ”LMS apocalypse“ on my proverbial bingo card
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
What is up with this novel House of Leaves? I have have had several intellectually ambitious but non-literary professional people ask me about it and talk about it as though it is a difficult masterpiece on par with Ulysses or Infinite Jest or something…
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
ah yes, spring. The flowers, the sun, the academics on end-of-semester posting sprees…
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