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Erin Kappeler

@erinkappeler.bsky.social
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English prof turned instructional designer The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era (UNC Press, 2026), available here: tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a She/her/fix your hearts or die!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
guys cutting edge zuck AI is just humans doing tasks for you in call centers
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excited to team up with these amazing folks to talk about the moral, ethical, and pedagogical reasons to resist the use of AI in our classrooms. You can register here: olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcing a live webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a Stand for Our Students and Our Colleagues. Event takes place on October 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET. Speakers are Cate Denial (University of Minnesota Rochester), Joshua Eyler (University of Mississippi), Kevin Gannon (Queens University Charlotte), and Liz Norell (University of Mississippi).
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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In @dissentmag.bsky.social, I look at years of patient organizing around labor and housing that reshaped politics in Providence, feeding into the campaigns that lifted @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social and council allies like Miguel Youngs to victory last week. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent Magazine
The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Some of us in academia feel the same…
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I think education researchers considering applying for these funds must be clear-eyed about Anthropic and the company's decision to partner with Elon Musk's xAI for its compute power at Colossus 1, the same Colossus 1 that's deepening environmental racism by poisoning the air in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/05/2026
Also this was the culmination of what I forced each of out the last 3 days which was surprisingly heartfelt and vulnerable. Please click like and subscribe mmcarrigan.substack.com/p/dads-junk-...
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Dad's Junk Book
transitioning into fatherhood and regular newsletter updates
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Slowly working my way through _Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability_ and basically retyping the whole book as I take notes, pumping my fist, yelling "yes, this yes!" direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability
How we can enact meaningful change in computing to meet the urgent need for sustainability and justice.The deep entanglement of information technology with
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
‘if you don’t learn to use AI, you’ll get left behind!’ 🍆✊ www.patreon.com/posts/155290...
If an AI future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here we go. A running list of studies that show the harm of using "AI" has on individuals. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Overview: The Use of AI Can Cause Harm
The Use of AI Can Cause Harm Paul T. Corrigan It is a scientifically documented fact that using commercial AI products like ChatGPT can harm you[1][2]. The possible harms range from minor to major, up...
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
say it with a full chest: "SHARED GOVERNANCE IS HOW UNIVERSITIES STAY HONEST"
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I was listening to IBCK on bullshit jobs and thinking of how essential so many jobs turn out to be in our bot-age, that we need people to maintain systems, build institutional memory, provide real customer service and information. The zeal to replace people is making people seem irreplaceable.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Well done.
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can't recommend enough organizing spaces for AI skeptics and haters in higher ed to talk to each other!
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/03/2026
There are a lot of people who see this shit for what it is and want no part of it
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching. It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.
Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
No. No it can't. Come on, now.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026
Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.
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The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
so exciting that this book is in the world it is fierce and rigorous and also fun to read
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I read an earlier version of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're out in these streets teaching modernist poetics then you NEED this sharp and sensitive account of the racialism attaching to narratives of poetic form in the early twentieth century.
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.
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The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025
Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying Turn the guns into plowshares, please
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life mac mail search that actually works scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res citation format conversion generator reliable synching of bluetooth devices
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social
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The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social
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The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/11/2025
This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.
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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend
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