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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something 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

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I think this was the moment I, the frog, noticed the pot had been boiling for a while. In what universe is it Google's job to console me and be an empathetic listener rather than just find what I am looking for on the internet?"

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When did Google get so f-ing weird?

I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ugh, is there anything more frustrating to write than a teaching statement? Trying to explain why I do what I do in a way that makes it sound impressive and intentional makes me feel...

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Man Collapses from Exhaustion

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super jazzed to start the first in-class discussion of the novel Feed by M.T. Anderson with my classes. Let's go!

From the novel Feed by M.T. Anderson: "People were really excited when they first came out with feeds. It was all da da da, this big educational thing, da da da, your child will have the advantage, encyclopedias at their fingertips, closer than their fingertips, etc. That’s one of the great things about the feed — that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit."

From the novel Feed by M.T. Anderson: "Of course, everyone is like, da da da, evil corporations, oh they’re so bad, we all say that, and we all know they control everything. I mean, it’s not great, because who knows what evil shit they’re up to. Everyone feels bad about that. But they’re the only way to get all this stuff, and it’s no good getting pissy about it, because they’re still going to control everything whether you like it or not. Plus, they keep like everyone in the world employed, so it’s not like we could do without them. And it’s really great to know everything about everything whenever we want, to have it just like, in our brain, just sitting there."

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Regular Special K because it was super bland. I associate it with Grandma's house because (in my memory) that was all she ever had.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I thought you were smarter than this..." Buddy, she *is* smarter than that, which is why she knows it's a bad idea! #HATM #Aliens

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ooh, I like that they're showing her greasy fingernails as she activates the cargo loader. Great character details. #HATM #Aliens

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bishop just stated, basically, Asimov's laws of robotics from 1942. Lots of sci-fi things since have used them since for their own robotic humanoids that act as helpers to humans. #HATM #Aliens xkcd.com/1613/

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The Three Laws of Robotics

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1. I'll skirt the question a little bit and say that I'm about to start reading the YA novel Feed by M.T. Anderson in my speculative fiction class. And let me tell you few dystopian sci-fi things have predicted the future closer than this banger from 2001. Hard critique of capitalism. #HATM #Aliens

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026

You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...

What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Notebook doodle and original art for the cartoon quoted below: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

A small scatchy ink drawing.
A reader walks past bookcases, ghosts and clouds of ectoplasm.
Title: Haunted library is cool.

Ink drawing

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You know what, it’s September, can it stop being 90-ish degrees out, please.

Forecast showing a high temperature today of 88 degrees, and highs on Thurs of 90, Fri 92, Sat 83, Sun 87.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember that not all who labor get Labor Day off. Please be kind to your non-emergency workers today, including the retail workers at places where there is a Big Sale today.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2. On Prime: Best Years of Our Lives, Sept. 5, Witness for the Prosecution, Raging Bull, Charade, Pajama Game, My Man Godfrey, Nickel Boys, Naked Gun (the new one), Sheep Detectives #HATM

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is one of those skills that we expect graduate students to pick up but rarely teach explicitly. But basically, most (all?) academics learn to read in a way that lets you extract what you need from a text as quickly as possible, because we have to process a lot of text as part of our jobs.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I occasionally watch old Unsolved Mysteries, and I just saw the most amazing segment on the "death chair." I swear I thought it was a joke or a parody of Unsolved Myesteries. 🤣 www.tiktok.com/@ryan.ruddy/...

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Unsolved Mysteries The Cursed Chair of the Busby Stoop Inn Full Segment #unsolvedmysteries #robertstack #chair #curse #legend

TikTok video by Ryan K. Ruddy

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no gray area on Scrooge. He is the most explicitly caricatured figure in all of Dickens. A Sistine Chapel level finely filigreed precise depiction of every miserly trait boiled down to an aromatic reduction. A Platonic ideal of the form.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is what happens when you let the AI do the reading for you.

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This, except most schools in my area return way before the last week of August now.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wait, is this movie doing a Satanic Panic? 😭 #HATM #Jennifer'sBody

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"I thought boys like you were into vermin and death and shit..." Jennifer, he's an emo, not a goth. Subtle difference. #HATM #Jennifer'sBody

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm partial to Last Christmas (even if my husband thinks the title gives away the twist). But Pretty Woman is a classic. (I don't think biopics about musicians that use a song title as the movie title count, imo). #HATM

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1. Does Hamlet count? The Branagh version. Or 9 to 5. 2. How about Yoko Ono or Patti Boyd? #HATM #Jennifer'sBody

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

on fridays we become medieval cats

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You know the economy is bad when Taco Bell is doing a "use the whole buffalo." (I obviously know that this is satire)

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Any one else getting the vibe that Mike here is autistic or on the spectrum? #HATM #Crime101

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1. I have a cousin Chris that I like okay. I went to school with a bunch of people named Chris (both boys and girls). Of the celebrity Chrises, there are too many good ones: Eccleston, Lloyd, O'Dowd, Plummer, Guest. Of the young-ish ones, maybe Hemsworth? #HATM #Crime101

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Chris Hemsworth as Kevin in Ghostbusters

ALT: Chris Hemsworth as Kevin in Ghostbusters

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I will never get over how disrespectful most genAI use it. People are doing everything in their power to trick you into reading slop because they don't respect you enough to actually take the time to write the thing they nevertheless expect you to take the time to read. Scamtech for scammers.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Post you from a different era in your life

A young girl, probably aged three or four, standing on the beach. Wearing an oversized blue t-shirt that is knotted on one side and a red bucket on her head.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A random magnet that a collection of the loose paperclips get stuck to.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"How will you look after your mental health? A. The university health center, if it’s not too abysmal. B. I will immerse myself in the works of Nietzsche, and possibly the work of Ben and Jerry."

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Please note: this film was not approved by any museum ever and seriously please don’t pull this. #ThomasCrownAffair #HATM

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