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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely. Only addressing salaries justifies the problems teachers face instead of solving them. No one wants to be paid to *endure* issues they face; they’ll wear down and eventually leave the profession.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This will sound like a hot take, but both Tears of the Kingdom and Silksong. Both excellent games, but TOTK talk simmered more quickly than I expected into general BOTW/TOTK discussion, and Silksong couldn’t possibly sustain years‘ worth of anticipatory hype outside of a hardcore fanbase.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Any chance you’ll add any of these to your imprint shop?

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

let indie games be your avocado toast

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"If we want people to stop using AI, we need to help them come up with alternatives for what they use it for." THINKING. WITH YOUR BRAIN. THAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I might take the under on # of courses. The people who write to me and say they're teaching AI integrated with teaching writing aren't teaching writing anymore. They've moved on to automated text production, which...fine. But that "course" needs two class periods before you've reached a terminus.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Airplanes are great for novellas. I‘ll grab a book with <200 pages and finish it before landing. This book then becomes a memory marker for the trip (“That was the trip during which I read…”). I’ll interrupt my usual in-progress novel for this ritual.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Having just finished your TMNT run, I thought this was Armaggon at first.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Logan Cunningham, circa Bastion.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/07/2026

OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess...

olivia.science

Entryism

AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

His use of “emotional” as a pejorative is telling.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

They treated “holding” as a participle instead of a gerund and wrote “you” instead of “your“.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/03/2026

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Cornyn looks like Paxton 20 years from now.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I heard someone use it in reference to music in Dynasty Warriors 2–5 or so, and I’ve always taken it to imply the sort of bland, royalty-free distorted electric guitars of no known merit.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Shout out to Villentretenmerth.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It does look really cool. During the trailer, I kept hoping they’d reveal a campaign mode or something.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Let’s get an M2 collection with the 3D games, from 64 to Curse of Darkness. That would be sick as hell.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Didn’t Ackerman’s 2034 begin this way?

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Between this and the reference during the Split Fiction run on GDQ, I feel like the universe is celebrating BTB.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Zooming in on the crowd cam to see if I can spot Nathan Grayson, co-owner of the Good Website®️ Aftermath.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Hey man. Thanks for writing some awesome books. I dunno how much War Lit scholarship I’ll do in the future, but I’ll keep returning to Militia House.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

But who is Dorf der Schlümpfe?

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Dr Seasoned Rice, Goddess Most Divinely Made @seasonedrice.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Putting AI competency on the same level as numeracy and literacy is hallucinatory. Becoming literate is the greatest change that happens to a human being in their lifetime. Giving the suicide-baiting machine to children en mass is not likely to develop their critical reasoning habits

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“It says, ‘Speak “Friend” and enter.‘“ “What’s the Elvish word for ‘friend’?”

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

They had to prompt ChatGPT to come up with a tweet-sized zinger about a misunderstood angle in a paper they didn’t read.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

An easy way to explain this: Which is easier to do, bake a cake from scratch, or fix a cake that someone baked after they accidentally used salt instead of sugar?

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I think it’s an understandable gameplay hook that clearly appeals to a lot of folks, but speaking to the original post’s concerns about feeling out-of-touch (and my own feeling that I want to spend my time differently), the gameplay loop asks a lot of its players. You have to fully commit to it.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A lot of the positive replies point to the social aspects and how players treat it differently than other shooters, and that’s fair. But there’s a wide gulf between “I want a fun game to play” and “I play this game just to feel something”. I don’t want to spend time gambling on the latter.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

May I suggest doing the reverse? Leave “slop blender” in panel 1 and take out the second part of Mickey’s world bubble. Have him end on “haha“.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Practical Grammar. Professors told me I was a great writer, so I didn’t want to take what felt like a remedial skill course. Starting language over again with grammar was like remapping my brain. Diagramming sentences showed me that I was an amateur who knew nothing. I now teach practical grammar.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Imagine Darth Maul wielding a dual batsaber and wearing a San Franciscordinus cap.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I love that I just assumed some friendly rando paid Gianni to do this on Cameo or whatever before I realized who posted it. Never change, Dave. <3

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

He couldn’t figure out what was missing from his own story? Dude doesn’t even want to read his own (“own”) writing. Why the hell would anyone else?

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

everyone on a game is a storyteller and the storytellers on Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator fuckin’ despise the incentives of late stage capitalism also that kid beto is pretty cool

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CHI XU @meltingcomet.com · 12/11/2025

every single frame of animation, in-house developed sound effect, line of code, visual asset, chart, and line of dialogue was done by a human and done without using generative AI tools in the making of UNBEATABLE. relinquishing creative choices to tools makes your work empty, vapid, and meaningless

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

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Run for Something

Find offices you can run for

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

As a fan who has his autograph on my wall, I would love to see his memory survive through your work. I’m sorry for your loss; thank you for bringing your friendship with him to all of us.

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

“Let’s All Stop Pretending We Aren’t Using the Torment Nexus Every Day in All of Our Jobs,” by some shitfuck who does not work in your career field

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“How much longer until the whale shows up?”

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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Alan @aswirsky.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m still daunted by the prospect of cracking open my copy of Whale Fall.

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