Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Another slop-tastic love letter to AI in the NYT this morning. “No technological improvement in the history of the world has ultimately failed to create more jobs than it destroyed.” Fine, okay, but what does that have to do with AI? 010
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119114892853
Reposted by Liana KrissoffHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.wired.comNapster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone TeachersOnce the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom. 1128161
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401522709
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Self-talk before the big All-Hands meeting on Zoom: 110
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAvery @dyingsignals.love · 15/09/2026The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department 012724
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Asphalting over these handmade crosswalks, leaving the ghost of a crosswalk clearly visible, is irresponsible and dangerous: Why is the city of Pittsburgh telling drivers this *isn’t* a place for pedestrians to cross? www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/tran...pghcitypaper.comTransit Talk: Lawrenceville’s guerrilla crosswalks are a white-striped call for changeOne set that appeared behind Aldi was mysteriously painted over. 010
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just learned that Jordan Tannahill, author of two of the best books I read over the summer, will be at White Whale Books in Pittsburgh on Wednesday! (And yes, I started following him a while back because I read about the medieval monk movie he’s making with Kit Connor lol.) 031
Reposted by Liana KrissoffMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I made the decision a while ago not to use AI detectors. 1. They are AIs themselves. Anything you feed into them is “turned over” to the model. 2. They aren’t very accurate. 3. I told my students I wouldn’t use AI in my running of my courses. 4. This alleviates students’ fears about… 214628
Reposted by Liana KrissoffOy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Seeing your own child's joy to know themselves and be accepted for who they are is better than any drug. Parents who refuse to invite themselves to that experience are missing out. And even if you eventually come around, you'll be kicking yourself for losing all that time. 2367
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“I only use AI as a tool for brainstorming and organizing my thoughts, not for actual wri—“ No. That *is* writing. You’re employing a service to write for you. 010
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1 3469
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Satchel Paige's great asset was control. One of his barnstorming gags was to set up a 1x2 plank behind home plate and stick four tenpenny nails into it. He'd drive the nails into the board by pitching from the mound. And never take more than 10 pitches." —Bill Veeck, "VEECK—As in Wreck" (1962) 033
Reposted by Liana Krissoffs. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker. 72192541
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Pittsburgh: Two Ross McElwee movies, Sherman’s March (1986) and Remake (2025), are screening at the Harris this month. Worth seeing! 020
Reposted by Liana KrissoffThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 01/09/2026I don't believe gen AI will ever be able to create fiction or art of any real merit. It's just using statistics to remix existing shit. But in the unlikely event that ever happened, I still wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Human creativity is joy & fulfillment even on the days when it's hard 1446969
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJoel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Lots to appreciate about this, but in particular: respecting the students enough to recognize that reading such a policy might be jarring, particularly when the larger university is encouraging the use of generative AI; and explicitly stating that the teacher is holding himself to the same standard. 141
Reposted by Liana KrissoffPittsburgh Post-Gazette @post-gazette.com · 23/08/2026Vaccine enforcement gaps in Pennsylvania charter schools put thousands of children at risk post-gazette.comVaccine enforcement gaps in Pennsylvania charter schools put thousands of children at risk With Pennsylvania steeped in one of the largest measles outbreaks in the country, charter schools across the state are allowing children into classes without... 002
Reposted by Liana KrissoffEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>> 10461190
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A corollary to this point: Students need and deserve real teachers on the other side of their writing practice, true readers who will consider their messy drafts and chaotic ideas with care. I can’t imagine how discouraging it would be to have to write only for an AI tutor or grader. 020
Reposted by Liana KrissoffCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026With news that Google is making it more difficult for students to avoid Gemini with “a Gemini tab to transform their class materials into interactive experiences that help them study and learn” and “starter prompts”, I wanted to repost an earlier 🧵 with research on the Googlization of education. 13324
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1 313365
Reposted by Liana KrissoffBenjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design. 16830216
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As a professional Word user, how concerned should I be about the possibility that Word as it exists now (even in its degraded state) will go away? Is Microsoft really that dependent on the success of Anthropic and OpenAI? Will Microsoft throttle the features that make AI totally unnecessary for me? 210
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Throwing a few bad book title options in the list, too, to make my preferred option look good. 081
Reposted by Liana Krissoffanna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Huge news for me specifically, a massive fan of this train www.axios.com/local/pittsb...axios.comMore daily trains for Pittsburgh ridersA second Pennsylvanian trip aims to improve travel and reliability. 042
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026RETVRN but for book cover art. Seen at PulpFest today, a random fantasy paperback from 1969 with the most gorgeously unhinged cover illustration. (Neglected to note the artist’s name.) 031
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammet, is so hard-boiled I almost don’t know what’s going on. 120
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’ve lucked out with back-to-back books featuring smart, funny, messy women. Both are talky, tense, and propulsive: New People, by Danzy Senna, and The Listeners, by Jordan Tannahill. 010
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is so important. The risk is not only what authors do but what publishers do. And the majority are clapping like seals about to get fish with the idea of "optimising & being more efficient" with AI. 0176
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We need a “concepts of print” for high schoolers and college students. open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...open.substack.comFourteen questions about booksEncouraging students, and others, to think about where books come from 021
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 25/07/2026My favorite indie search engine these days is marginalia-search.com It's really good considering it is just operated by one random guymarginalia-search.comMarginalia SearchMarginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring yo... 2156
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026“This scandal has stolen months of capacity, time, labour, money, and attention away from the genuine queer writers that we exist to support.” www.bona-books.com/news/we-boug...bona-books.comHoney, We Bought an AI Story — Bona BooksBona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our ... 010
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Confidential to Kit Connor: When you do Hamlet, pls edit out the ghost. It hasn’t worked in at least a century. 100
Reposted by Liana KrissoffCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137702877
Reposted by Liana KrissoffSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026As a professor, I once punished a kid who hadn't read the workshop submissions by making him do verbal critiques on them anyway. He absolutely nailed it. Unforgettably hilarious. 3657
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I regret to inform you that the Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Root Beer Float seltzer is not bad. 020
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAlex.ʳ Jos. @aljodasch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Cutting this sign down and carrying it in protest 2131
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The excitement about that big locomotive scheduled to roll through Pittsburgh today (3pm in Homestead? maybe?) is palpable! Might have to become a train person. 140
Reposted by Liana KrissoffChris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Where we at? 012
Reposted by Liana KrissoffDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." 1258801525
Reposted by Liana KrissoffHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”theguardian.comAI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study findsResearchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion 11402195
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026What tf is a Leavers’ Ball? (Asking as a non-UK Heartstopper fan.) 000
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"But in my little experience the end is never very different in its nature from the means. You can only build a violent thing with violence." —from John Steinbeck's 1936 novel, "In Dubious Battle" 031
Reposted by Liana KrissoffBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead. 318941
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Looking up jonjoli after having the pickled blossoms at a Georgian restaurant in Prague. This description took a dark and confusing turn. 120
Reposted by Liana KrissoffSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/12/2025right after my father died several of his contemporaries invited me to come speak at their churches ... they knew i was in college and wanted to help me out 226811