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Daniel A. Hoyt

@danhoyt.bsky.social
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Fiction writer, English professor, founding editor of American Buffalo Books, Rock and Roll Reading curator at #AWP, poisonous blue frog, Novel-in-posts: @spitfirespoutrain.bsky.social

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is interesting and tracks with the pain points, as far as I understand them, experienced by students at my large regional age school.
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Proud to be a designated spokesperson for the anti-AI humanist movement in this excellent @newyorker.com piece. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Paragraph from linked New Yorker article reads: This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sometimes I know something is going to suck, and it does suck, but it never sucks the way I think it will suck. It's brand-new suckage. Yes, this is about academic meetings.
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Kansas State University AAUP chapter @kstateaaup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As Kansas State President Richard Linton celebrates the university's "next-gen land-grant" success, his administration plans to decimate the College of Arts and Sciences. kstateaaup.org/so-much-for-... @aaup.org @claywires.bsky.social
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So much for One K-State
As President Richard Linton celebrates K-State's next-gen success, his administration aims to dismantle the university's core, the College of Arts and Sciences. Budget cuts will decimate jobs, departm...
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Kansas State University AAUP chapter @kstateaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At Kansas State University, documents from our provost's office are routinely written by AI, and our administration is making million-dollar purchases of AI tools. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use
Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In my role as the current president of @kstateaaup.bsky.social, I wrote about the stark dichotomy between Kansas State's "next-gen land-grant" success and its plans to dismantle the College of Arts and Sciences. #KState
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Kansas State University AAUP chapter @kstateaaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As Kansas State President Richard Linton celebrates the university's "next-gen land-grant" success, his administration plans to decimate the College of Arts and Sciences. kstateaaup.org/so-much-for-...
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So much for One K-State
As President Richard Linton celebrates K-State's next-gen success, his administration aims to dismantle the university's core, the College of Arts and Sciences. Budget cuts will decimate jobs, departm...
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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
R.E.M. broke up 15 years ago today. Back then, I wrote an essay for @salon.com about their life and legacy. www.salon.com/2011/09/22/w...
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How R.E.M. invented alternative music - Salon.com
The most influential American band of the last three decades walks away with a staggering and secure legacy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
without downloading any new pics throw your phone into the river
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pye 🍊 @pyeraptor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Biquette the legend 🐐🙏 rescued from a dairy farm, she lived the rest of her days at a communal farm / punk diy venue. she loved grind and attended shows held there, wandering freely and choosing to stand at the front during loud performances
Biquette backlit at a gig
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Like I get what you want me to do here, but what on earth do any of y’all think women and girls can do to solve this? It’ll never get better until men in these spaces are made to feel unsafe *by other men*
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
RIP Cheetah Chrome. Rocket From the Tombs, Dead Boys. Just a kid from Cleveland.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
One of the venues that refused to allow Macklemore to perform is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which is run by Hillsborough county. They did allow Kanye to perform even after he released a song called "Heil Hitler" and sold swastika merch. In case you thought this was about antisemitism.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some of you on here simply never know who you should ACTUALLY be mad at and instead spend your time punching down. You should ALWAYS punch up but some of you seem afraid to do so.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Roger Marshall has failed Kansas families, and today during the #KSSen debate those families didn't hold back. "Boooo" "You don't live here"
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chicago! This reading with some @whiskeytit.com homies is going to be dope! Starts at 6 @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social!
Flyer for a fiction reading tonight at Pilsen Community Books.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CHICAGO! The Rock and Roll Reading at Rainbo Club tonight is going to be dope af. It's at 6 p.m. It's free. World-class poets and writers will melt your faces!
Flyer for Rock and Roll Reading at Rainbo Club.
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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don’t you think “pay us not to kill you” is the natural endpoint of capitalism?
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
okay I love this, @breathofthewild82.bsky.social is gonna love this, @jamesfolta.com thank you for bringing it to my attention: lithub.com/on-the-stran...
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On the strange, literary video games of Inpatient Press.
The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work. The small publisher has been putting out fascinating novels, collections, zines and games since 2013. Inpatient’s publi…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just as I opened the garage door to push the mower out, the rain came down. You are welcome, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm psyched to read with some @whiskeytit.com homies on Saturday @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social in Chicago! Thanks for running herd on us, @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social!
Flyer for a reading titled "Whiskey Tit Invades Chicago." The flyer has a sideways photo of the bean and a lil of the surrounding skyline. The flyer list the readers and time, date, place: 6 p.m. Saturday, September 12, at Pilsen Community Books.
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Cheryl Walsh @cherylwalsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy birthday to UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT, launched into the world two years ago today! To celebrate, I'm giving away a few copies--DM if you're interested. #unequaltemperament #bookbirthday #americanbuffalobooks #debutnovel #harpsichord #meteorology #WomensFiction @buffalo-books.bsky.social
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You can take the man out of North Reading, Massachusetts, but you can't take the Massachusetts out of the man.
Image of the dialect map that says "You talk most like someone from Massascusetts." New England is red (meaning "most like you"), and the Louisiana/Alabama south is blue (least like you). Kansas is blueish/grayish for me, oddly, even though this is my current home state.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bikini Kill walks the fucking walk!
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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE SPENT YOUR TIME WRITING INSTEAD OF DRINKING & TRYING TO FUCK YOUR STUDENTS, BRO.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Feminists are not more prone to mistakes and missteps than the leaders of other liberation struggles. Rather, their mistakes and missteps are given disproportionate attention, significance and publicity.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am an English professor at an R-1 university, and my income places my son and I at the 60th percentile for households. We, like 60 percent of Americans, are barely holding on, and meanwhile, Meta and other companies have stolen my work to train their AI. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...
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Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Rock and Roll Reading kicks off at 6 p.m. September 11, 2026, at Chicago's Rainbo Club. About a dozen readers will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its offshoots or precursors) for three minutes or less each (the length of a song). Super fun times. No cover.
Flyer for the Rock and Roll Reading at 6 p.m. September 11, 2026 at Chicago's Rainbo Club. The flyer lists the readers and includes images from Rainbo's Club's distinctive sign.
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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
next book news
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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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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans! Check your voter registration ASAP!
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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey, folks, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social just dropped a new #ElectronicBrain abt art & censorship & the fight for creativity & truth. It includes my essay abt my dad, the first Black man to fly a jet in the Air Force, & my fears his achievements will be deleted spacecowboybooks.com/electronic-b...
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Electronic Brain issue #3 Art Under Fire released – Space Cowboy Books
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
yeah i've got that coursedog in me
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This will pretty much end international students pursuing doctorates. A shocking decision and one which will do irreparable damage to the United States in the long term. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump administration caps student visa stays at 4 years under final rule
Critics have castigated the measure, arguing it ignores average degree completion times and creates unnecessary burdens for international students.
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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So I promised you some big news and here it is! I'm writing a book about swing revival for @barrelhouse.bsky.social; thanks to @mikeingram.bsky.social for making my dream of lecturing people about the Cherry Poppin' Daddies a reality.
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Suffolk University students are pushing back against the school's new Applied AI co-major. A new petition with over 500 signatures calls on Suffolk to scrap the program & redirect funding toward students, staff and arts and humanities after 65 staff positions were cut recently.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Smear campaigns targeting faculty of color are designed to do what this has done. Our lack of readiness as a profession in how to address them is one of many worries I have as a faculty member.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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