Reposted by Anna LenaJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5 37815
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Beaucoup thanks to @bittersouth.bsky.social and @kyletibbsjones.bsky.social for including this poem among such good company in their issue 14. Love that back cover 💗 Tisko Tansi for scale bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-14/... 031
Reposted by Anna LenaAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026WORD FACT Greek “strephein” (to turn) ultimately gives us the word “strophe” — a “turn” in poetry. It also gives us: Catastrophe → an overturning/downturn [1/3] 193
Reposted by Anna LenaSir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've always thought maths was one of the humanities. 0195
Reposted by Anna Lenajenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“The whole ‘Oh no, our [AI] models went rogue’ thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app 321474
Reposted by Anna LenaUlrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent. ~Virginia Woolf (The Waves) 29122
Reposted by Anna LenaAlice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026BREAKING: EPA is launching a study of water contamination that will, for the first time, test for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Anti-abortion groups consider it a major win that could pave the way for restrictions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Abortion opponents claim ‘tremendous victory’ as EPA tests water for abortion pillsThe new study will test for trace amounts of chemicals, pesticides and drugs — including ones used to induce abortions — in drinking water in multiple cities. 36297171
Reposted by Anna Lenaphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Must you have a part in everything? William Carlos Williams, in Nancy Willard's Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey (1998) 0268
Reposted by Anna LenaFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him. 2422103
Reposted by Anna Lenacaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149113710
Reposted by Anna LenaThem @them.us · 07/09/2026To help address the upcoming shortfall, the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus has set up a GoFundMe.them.usSouth Carolina Pulls Funds From Just Two Out of 180 Arts Orgs: A Gay Men’s Chorus and an LGBTQ+ Theater Company 11718
Reposted by Anna LenaBiodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026On #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, our latest #BHLat20 post explores some of BHL’s most precious treasures: extinct species descriptions. BHL’s historic literature preserves information about what we’ve lost, and what we can still save: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/09/exti... 🧪 📖 02411
Reposted by Anna LenaMaureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So happy to see NYC lead on this! AI has no place in our schools. Kids need to learn to use their own brains to solve problems & read & write & play. I hope they extend the ban to high school next. I am all for HUMAN schools! 2154
Reposted by Anna LenaDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026Next time your local or state legislature parrots some lobbyists talking points trying to tell you data centers will "increase our tax revenue," ask them about this NINETY-ONE PERCENT LOSS in tax revenue in Georgia & elsewhere, and whether & How they can guarantee the same thing won't happen to you. 1217125
Reposted by Anna LenaÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Special for @mimosaishere.bsky.social 22710
Reposted by Anna LenaMay-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thank you, Alta Journal! www.altaonline.com/books/g73497...altaonline.com14 New Books for SeptemberHere are the works by authors on and of the West—including Under Story, Open the Floodgates, and For Customers Only—that we’re most excited to see published this month. 043
Reposted by Anna LenaAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just hours left to comment! 14530
Reposted by Anna LenaEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026posted in the lefty folk group chat 43246789
Reposted by Anna LenaSarah @thebasementtan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"The voluptuous embodiment of empathy." God, what a glorious thing to have been. 0224
Reposted by Anna LenaJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was 182690302
Reposted by Anna LenaÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026when your college or university asks you to join a panel or run an event about "ai" you can say, no I'm not doing that 2367
Reposted by Anna LenaPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Northwestern University is reportedly shuttering its 80-year-old Program of African Studies, laying off staff and keeping students in the dark It is the "first formal academic program focused on Africa in the United States."thepurplewire.beehiiv.comSCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies 34573365
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A delight to talk with Autumn Newman, about meter & rhyme & plants & ecological trauma, for @southrevbooks.bsky.social 💚 030
Reposted by Anna LenaLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do. 142893677
Reposted by Anna LenaJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Be sure to read this piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com by Jessica Grose. There's a straight line between what she's talking about here--college-as-trade-school-- and the options for how we deal with AI in the classroom. If everything is output and product, then the outsourcing of writing /1 1265
Reposted by Anna LenaCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff! 251640391
Reposted by Anna LenaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language! 492511700
Reposted by Anna LenaARTWIFE @artwife.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This month on The ARTWIFE Podcast, we welcome Anna Lena Phillips Bell to talk about her most recent collection of poetry, Might Could. We talk about the process of titling poems, the elements of craft that are often neglected in prose but amplified in poetry, and what we can learn from plants.podcasts.apple.comMIGHT COULD by Anna Lena Phillips BellPodcast Episode · The ARTWIFE Podcast · July 7 · 39m 042
Reposted by Anna LenaPlant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This week’s feature is the wonderful Anna Lena Phillips Bell, with an artist statement reflecting on kindness, mutual flourishing, and the care we share with the plants around us. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/phillips-bell 051
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Thank you to @readalittlepoem.bsky.social for including this here anticapitalist aubade, from Might Could & first published in the much-missed Gettysburg Review <3 010
Reposted by Anna LenaAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21/07/2026ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...austinkocher.substack.comICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest DataNEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day. 351306838
Reposted by Anna LenaLawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026😍😍 #poetrycommunity #bookarts #poetry #booksky 072
Reposted by Anna LenaEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780... 16878315
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Happy solstice! Here is the kind of luck I have—Emily Hancock of @stbrigidpress.bsky.social has made my poem “One Lightning Bug,” from Might Could, into a tiny letterpress-printed pamphlet. Emily showed me that the cover does this! 194
Reposted by Anna LenaAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Palindromists have taught the world that daffodils love to slide. (They do.) 091
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Just such a delight to talk with Amanda Hawkins for @therumpus.net. Thank y'all! 💚✨ 050
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 07/05/2026"Against Stoicism" among the columbine! Thank you, @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social! 💗💚 070
Reposted by Anna LenaDr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Logged on and immediately saw an exhausting conversation. Remembered these words. 051
Reposted by Anna LenaLarry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social · 19/04/2026futurism.comStudy Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users' Confidence in Their Own BrainsA new study out of Middlesex University argues that the ultimate effects on an AI users' brain come down to how they use it. 023
Reposted by Anna LenaMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/04/2026John is absolutely right to see the “infinite patience” for Khan’s failed EdTech creative destruction & the closure of Hampshire as linked. EdTech has always been dependent on using grades as the foundation for A/B testing, behavioral modification (which they pretend is learning), & tokenization. 39744
Reposted by Anna LenaIgnacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail" "About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"theguardian.comIndependent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retailAbout 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation 14827241
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Sharing this belatedly here but with much appreciation for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social—for everything they do, and for featuring two poems from Might Could and a series of river photos <3 051
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Thanks for the shout-out for Might Could, @clmporg.bsky.social! Just seeing this! 💚 020
Reposted by Anna LenaTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026big ruling from the Montana supreme court. as bolts reported last year, this court in Montana has been a backstop against all sorts of conservative policies: boltsmag.org/montana-supr... 91514386
Reposted by Anna LenaAlexandra Samios @xanboni.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Frankly, the really stupid thing about them latching on to "just war theory" is that this /isn't/ a just war, by anyone's interpretation. 1674
Reposted by Anna LenaElinor A. Levin @levinforiowa.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Deere also agreed to make available to farmers for 10 years 'the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair' of large agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, and sugarcane harvesters, the filing showed." Great news! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...reuters.comDeere settles US right-to-repair lawsuit with $99 million fund, repair commitmentsU.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers that are part of a class action over costs and access to repairs. 33869288
Reposted by Anna LenaEuthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Probably not surprising to anybody posting on bluesky but ChatGPT is a surveillance machine. Even queries made outside the US, in French, are getting sent to the FBI. 184