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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome.

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts
This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself.
Recently a friend and I read a cover story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their
Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh. My friend has also taught writing. He likes to tell his
students, “If you want to be a writer, put on a cool hat and go sit in a bar with cheap beer. If you want to
write, write.”
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way
Through College” persuaded me that for many it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed,
you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part
of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled each one of them.
Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with
me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is,
I probably can’t stop you. Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted
coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it. That’s my part. Now, about yours.
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good, even if
sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of
intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of
this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical
juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from
the act of shaping language. I live off the aftermath of that act—the recognitions, financial and
otherwise, I earn from the results—but there is no payche…

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 14,1948

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- NANCY IS STAYING WITH THE SPUTTERS ( FRIENDS OF FRITZI) WHILE HER AUNT FRITZI IS OUT OF TOWN

NANCY IS DOING HANDSPRINGS IN THE LIVING ROOM

MR. SPUTTER: STOP DOING THOSE SILLY HANDSPRINGS

P2- MR. SPUTTER IS VERY GROUCHY

MR. SPUTTER: THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR SUCH IDIOTIC BEHAVIOR

NANCY: I'M
JUST HAPPY

P3-
NANCY: AUNT FRITZI IS COMING BACK TODAY AND I'M GOING HOME

P4- MR. SPUTTER IS THE ONE DOING HANDSPRINGS NOW

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

made with Avocado Ibuprofen Paint nightphilosophy.github.io/avocado/

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I think this covers it? my brain is well and truly cooked

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The fact that air and water are still sometimes free is a deep pain in the hearts of capitalists everywhere.

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i'm working on a very brutal, minimalist painting program (desktop only), check it out at: nightphilosophy.github.io/avocado/

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

“Shame is only ugly when it’s hidden. It can be breathtakingly beautiful when a writer puts it out there without fanfare. [...] That’s what good literature does: in the right hands, shame doesn’t even exist because it becomes something else.” — Moyra Davey

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Patience (game) 12 Jun ― 01 Nov 2025 Malmö Konstmuseum saliva.live/exhibitions/...

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Tiny Furniture 2 cordova.world in 2020

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avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

the only good thing about the internet right now is that the Youtube algorithm keeps recommending me these semi obscure japanese ambient records: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31es... love the record and these two alternative covers for it

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"I’ve noticed through my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible." - Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind

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