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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 5h

Back to painting class! 😎

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Posting daily October reading recs on my office door, in no particular order. October 1 is Bird Box, by Josh Malerman. I devoured this during an international flight shortly after it came out. One of the most horrific birth scenes I've ever read. Don't watch the bad movie adaptation.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another fabulous discussion of the Morbidly Curious Book Club in Lewiston last night. Mixed reviews on this one, though I overall liked it.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who is the audience for this?? 🎈🤡

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone on here said that Altman’s eyes are identical to Elizabeth Holmes’ in that teaser and now I can never unsee it

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

sfchronicle.com

Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad

Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paperback #pubday for Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination! www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New in Paperback! 'Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination' by @lkremmel.bsky.social demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti...

‘This volume is an exhilarating exploration of the shadowy hinterland that was shared by medical discourse and Gothic writing in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. As major a contribution to Gothic Studies as it is to the fields of Romanticism and the Medical Humanities more broadly, Romantic Medicine is an extraordinary feat of critical revivification that infuses fresh life-blood into the pathological corpus of early Gothic romance, poetry and drama.’

Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026

📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)

regulations.gov

Regulations.gov

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

nationalmuseums.org.uk

Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
No
Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🙅🏽No, AI is not helping worker productivity🙅🏽We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity. The first myth is that AI will improve productivity, which studies not only largely contradict, but sometimes suggest the opposite effect. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

*Whispers* Harry potter isn't even very good. Mediocre at best.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dolly Parton's take on AI in 2023: “I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing. I’m sure it’s a good thing for scientists or medical things. But when it comes to trying to duplicate a human being and every little thing they are, it don’t seem right to me. It’s too much.”

gizmodo.com

Dolly Parton's Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer

"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wish AI companies would go the way of Theranos. They've hoovered up more money and are worse than useless. And those tech bros are 10x more psycho.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Elizabeth Holmes jumpscare

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

An aside: you'd get a hell of a vibrant intellectual culture if you did hire and pay for the requisite number of faculty, as a bonus.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science

openletter.earth

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Writers! There’s an ongoing scam (that everyone has probably experienced by now tbh) which involves AI-written invitations to book clubs and literary festivals. Only now they’re using real literary festivals and signing emails from real people. So: beware.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

HP ink has tripled in price. Does anyone use a different brand in an HP printer that actually works?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just thought to check this. Wtaf, #googlemaps... what delusion are you living in??

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This semester's books, three classes

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1st day of class today. I get to the part of the syllabus about our no-tolerance no A.I. policy & explain that there will be no A.I. for ANYthing, no summarizing or brainstorming or organizing thoughts. Nothing. A student in the front row fawned, THANK YOU. Students want to be free from this tech.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What is even the point of a world without Tim Curry? 😭

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Syllabus writers: I have updated my list of reasons we don't use AI in class for an introductory writing/lit class. Free to use/adapt! 1/2

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You may think spending Sunday in the office would be sad and miserable, but I was perfectly content to put my head in the syllabus sand and pretend that the world's biggest problem was figuring out my assignments. And not, you know, everything but.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Every time someone says, "A.I. is here to stay," I've started saying "We'll see" with my most Virgo-y look. People actually seem pleased and relieved to encounter this response. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5

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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026

A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…

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