Reposted by Erin KappelerKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 21hCurious if any tenants' rights people (esp in the northern US) are working on eviction moratoriums for the winter, what with everything costing more/people having no $/winter being a bad time to lose housing. I'll obv reach out locally but would be bolstered to hear who's working on it elsewhere! 044
Reposted by Erin KappelerData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib... 12818
Reposted by Erin KappelerKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026US Department of Education, "Compact 2.0" (2026) 0307
Reposted by Erin KappelerErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 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. 217858
Reposted by Erin Kappelerevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026guys cutting edge zuck AI is just humans doing tasks for you in call centers 1021680
Reposted by Erin KappelerJosh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excited 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... 16924
Reposted by Erin KappelerDennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In @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...dissentmagazine.orgThe Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent MagazineThe 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. 05721
Reposted by Erin KappelerHisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Some of us in academia feel the same… 082
Reposted by Erin KappelerCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I 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.anthropic.comAnthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates FoundationAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 23818
Reposted by Erin KappelerTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/05/2026Also 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-...mmcarrigan.substack.comDad's Junk Booktransitioning into fatherhood and regular newsletter updates 0201
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Slowly 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...direct.mit.eduInsolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just SustainabilityHow we can enact meaningful change in computing to meet the urgent need for sustainability and justice.The deep entanglement of information technology with 031
Reposted by Erin Kappelerrax ‘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... 151114291
Reposted by Erin Kappelerreadywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Here we go. A running list of studies that show the harm of using "AI" has on individuals. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comOverview: The Use of AI Can Cause HarmThe 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... 053
Reposted by Erin KappelerDave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 09/03/2026say it with a full chest: "SHARED GOVERNANCE IS HOW UNIVERSITIES STAY HONEST" 073
Reposted by Erin KappelerCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I 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. 0166
Reposted by Erin KappelerMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Well done.youtu.beA Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council 093
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Can't recommend enough organizing spaces for AI skeptics and haters in higher ed to talk to each other! 010
Reposted by Erin KappelerNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SHOULD 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% 318135922928
Reposted by Erin KappelerAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/03/2026There are a lot of people who see this shit for what it is and want no part of it 0678
Reposted by Erin KappelerAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/03/2026There 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. 432162
Reposted by Erin KappelerMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/03/2026As 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” 437173
Reposted by Erin KappelerDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...davekarpf.beehiiv.comCan AI Replace Social Science Researchers?No. No it can't. Come on, now. 24459127
Reposted by Erin KappelerDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026Imaging 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" 10600149
Reposted by Erin KappelerLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I 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. 171538434
Reposted by Erin KappelerErin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026In 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.uncpress.orgThe Enclosures of Free VerseThroughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ... 33411
Reposted by Erin KappelerMeredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 25/02/2026so exciting that this book is in the world it is fierce and rigorous and also fun to read 2125
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Thank you! It does fit into the story, but I don't write about Pound in this book. Too many other figures to highlight/threads to pull 020
Reposted by Erin KappelerNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I 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. 3285
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Like all books, this one has its flaws, and if I could start again, there’s lots I’d do differently. But this is the book I could write given the kinds of jobs I was able to get between 2014 and 2024. I’m proud of the good work that’s in it, and I hope it’s useful to at least a few people. 160
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I am claiming that the explicit racialization of free verse as a white form has been edited out of our accounts of the rise of free verse, and that this matters to our contemporary theories of rhythm and prosody. 1101
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I’m not claiming that everyone in the modernist era bought into the theory that free verse was a form generated by whiteness. I’m not saying this is the only story to be told about modernist free verse. 140
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I also read E. Pauline Johnson’s inclusion in the famed modernist anthology The Path on the Rainbow to show how her use of poetic convention goes against essentializing theories of Native American and First Nations poetic rhythms. 140
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I show how Fenton Johnson used his celebrated free verse poems to ironize white ballad readings of Black folk culture—modes of racialized reading that were an integral part of the theory that free verse was a form generated by whiteness. 150
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The book also offers two case studies of how differently racialized poets navigated the enclosures generated by white supremacist theories of free verse. 140
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026We can still see tendencies to narrate poetic rhythm as a progressive march to freer, more modern rhythms in contemporary teaching texts, making it important to unpack where that idea of a progressive rhythmic development comes from. 170
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The racialized reading practices that took hold in pre-New-Critical English depts and in magazines like Poetry helped to support white supremacist stadial histories of the origins & telos of English literature, seen as a progressive march from Anglo-Saxon rhythms to the rhythms of modern free verse. 191
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026It does explore how white academics, critics, and poets in the US developed and promoted the theory that free verse was a return to Anglo-Saxon principles and values, and thus was a form generated by whiteness. 190
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026It does not offer a new theory of free verse rhythms or a new taxonomy of free verse forms or a new genealogy of influence. The book in fact started with irritation with the way past theories of free verse edit out the very explicit racialization of free verse as a white form in the modernist era. 190
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026In 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.uncpress.orgThe Enclosures of Free VerseThroughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ... 33411
Reposted by Erin KappelerKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026the 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 293197324613
Reposted by Erin KappelerMarlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia. 392323213
Reposted by Erin Kappelerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/12/2025my 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 1490657
Reposted by Erin KappelerKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right. 586177423176
Reposted by Erin KappelerChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying Turn the guns into plowshares, please 012813