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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

WERE HAVING A READIN THIS SATURDAY! DM ME ‘VOLCANO’ for the link!

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

every other issue I do a little intro for our new followers! I'm @pdedgar30.bsky.social ; I edit re•mediate and bring on guest editors every so often. I started the lit mag right as I was starting my PhD, and I describe my work with this journal now as an experiment in research-creation!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality; we take vows – spiritual vows, marital vows, oaths of office, become accountable for our words when we testify under oath in court or in Congress or just make a verbal commitment. Our words shape reality when we tell someone they're worthless or valuable, beautiful or ugly, beloved or unloveable, which is a bit like chanting "I believe that you will win." Or lose.
A friend of mine reminded me that the word encourage literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up. It's not the only work we can do during this emergency, but it's an important part of it. It's a big part of how we express a spirit of defiance, of resoluteness, how we act with the knowledge that emotions and attitudes are contagious, be they fear or courage, strength or weakness, kindness or cruelty.
Which is why it makes my head explode – picture this head as a volcano and these words as lava – when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics. There's a lot of "I believe that we will lose" on social media and in the news. One way it shows up is when journalists report on some of the rubbish spewing from the mouth of the geriatric clown/felon we have to call president as though his every utterance had the weight of law, as though words will become actions, as though the actions will succeed, as though they will not be met with opposition, as though they believe he will win.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/01/2026

18 years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice. If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it. Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/

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Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sorry to everyone I commented more than I questioned today at #mla2026 it’s a sign of deep respect and admiration for your work

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I took it earlier before seeing this!! Seems like in very good company :))

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Did you know our Submissions queue opened December 1? We welcome new work for an un-themed issue to be published March 2026. Consider sending us your work today! Each one will be carefully considered by this human (@pdedgar30.bsky.social), with guaranteed decisions between Mar. 1 & 15.

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 30/11/2025

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

little did I know when we wrote "ummm you can make it write poems about anything especially problematic stuff" that a paper would come out eight months later that says "ummm they all do it actually"

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Issue•4 of Re•mediate, [MachineWitness], is live! We are so excited to bring you this collection of new work in line with our call for work that "captures capture," that watches our being watched watching.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Gather with us on Saturday to celebrate the launch of MachineWitness! Join editor @pdedgar30.bsky.social and more than half of our contributors to hear and see original work and learn more about the pieces and process notes! DM or subscribe to our Substack to receive the link day-of!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

4) Huge thanks to Prof. Acie Clark for inviting me to a virtual conversation at the University of Central Arkansas! I had such a fun time catching up and sharing how I have been learning to apply Critical Making approaches to my writing, editing, and scholarly work!

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

3) I accepted and galleyed several pieces for the next issue of Re•mediate Lit Mag, which are coming out Saturday (and you're invited to attend our launch reading over Zoom! You can find the link by following the magazine on Instagram or Substack:) substack.com/@remediateli...

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

2) Two interviews between me and Katherine Parrish were published in Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/kath...

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

1) At the Creative Writing Studies Conference, I presented a work-in-progress that is a collection of distantly-coded text-deforming tools (in conversation with Kyle Booten's idea for Word Gyms) that facilitate generative chop-and-cook approaches to remixed creative writing on an incredible panel!

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The last two weeks have incredibly confluent for thinking about responsible and resistive approaches to AI in the Creative Writing space. I'm so grateful for my colleagues who are thinking critically along with me and for the literary/scholarly organizations we get to partner with! 1/6

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

if i closed all 81 tabs in my browser would my life be better, worse, or the same

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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Our first information session is TONIGHT, October 15, at 6pm. Come learn about the T&T PhD!

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5. eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/ I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa. This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

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Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Our first information session for the T&T PhD is in ONE WEEK on Wednesday, October 15. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I wish i knew of this sooner! Excited to see what comes of it

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

And I talk a little more about the process in the ReadMe file below. There's a minor interest in providing categories and asking for examples of them to think about mapping semantic space/categories as a kind of exploratory gesture, but really this is just for fun github.com/pdedgar1/bor...

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GitHub - pdedgar1/borges-taxonomy: A fun minigame made to illustrate the taxonomy that Borges made and that tickled Foucault enough to write The Order of Things!

A fun minigame made to illustrate the taxonomy that Borges made and that tickled Foucault enough to write The Order of Things! - pdedgar1/borges-taxonomy

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I read this translation of the original story: www.alamut.com/subj/artifac...

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The Analytical Language of John Wilkins

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

idk if anyone's teaching Borges but I Distant (Claude) Coded a matching game for the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's taxonomy! (Bigger screen better) lmk how it makes you feel — I still haven't gotten it perfect pdedgar1.github.io/borges-taxon...

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Borges Taxonomy Matching Game

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you know someone who would be interested in Re•mediate and hearing about what we're up to, but is disengaged from social media, I hope you'll send them this link to our new monthly newsletter (first drop this Friday!) — We'll keep you up to date on our calls, events, features, and contributors<3

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yes! Humanities majors get jobs! Which is quite separate from humanities *departments* getting funding. We're under-funded for ideological reasons, alongside mistaken cultural assumptions about employability. But our majors get jobs! At a high rate! History is a *good* major, so is Classics!

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

re•mediate's next issue will publish November 15. inviting works on the theme [MachineWitness]— as always, welcoming computer-assisted work and criticism of computer-assistance. Poetry <150 lines, Prose <4000 words, Image-Text-Media welcome! Direct Pitches for interviews to remediateeditor@gmail.com

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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

probably a good time to bring this back

meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Nam June Paik Reference >>> as an in-the-wild-glitch collector I'm really loving these and gift a malfunctioning-display-at-a-farmers-market-in-tuscaloosa

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

reading through the other pieces in the collection and loving this

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Screaming!!! Thank you so much @thearsonista.bsky.social & John for including me, and @leeches.bsky.social for the heads up to submit!!

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

is it fair to suggest that LLMs depend on a Whole Language/Word approach to text, rather than a Phonics approach? Question prompted by my chat with @parrishka.bsky.social about LLMs' failure with syllabics/lipograms… What would change if calculations were made on smaller units than that of the word?

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

there's only a week left to submit to re•mediate— we're still taking XR, AR, VR, MR, and invite reviews of those works as well as creative writing that fits our theme of [Next Realities]!!

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all my words, by letters @pd-bot.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Evaluate the truism arrayed here: "Attention overcomes republics; Depression decorates ratios."

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

As there's only one month left to submit, time to reintroduce the co-editorial staff reading for this issue! Founding Editor @pdedgar30.bsky.social and Guest Editor @digitalpoetics.bsky.social are excited to read your [Next Realities] work.

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Maybe No One Is Talking About This or We Are Watching Eliza Bright? Both on my shelf but haven’t read them all the way

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thank goodness yes! Someone else’s car caught on the second level but the fire trucks got there quickly and a path cleared for everyone to get out 😶‍🌫️

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PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA @pdedgar30.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It’s here!!!! Ordered just before the parking garage fire at U.Tampa right after @loriemerson.net ‘s talk!

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I know that media use the term "big beautiful bill" in quotes but it's unfortunate that this many years into covering this president we are still suckered into leading with his language and framing when covering such consequential stories

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