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Adam Kaiserman

@realkais.bsky.social
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Professor, Teacher, Writer Post-45 US Lit & Mass Media Ideas are my own and not necessarily those of my employer

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Narrator voice: her experience in professional wrestling in no way qualifies her to pass educational judgement on anything.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Historians: what is a graphic “novel” or comic book that you think passes muster as history? I’m not looking for memoir here. #comics #graphicnovels #history
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The future is not imposed upon us by the Hand of God or even the hands of Silicon Valley. We all make the future happen.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP Gloria Steinem.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Took my son to see David Byrne at the Hollywood Bowl last night. He described it as the best night of his life.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As a refusnik, I don‘t love everything in the report but this is fire: 🔥
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
While idiotic, we should ignore this latest disaster and continue to talk about Natalie Harp, which is the story he doesn’t want to talk about. Stay focused and don’t let him control the media narrative.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Old enough to be president and apparently old enough to run a presidency.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI is an anti-social technology. No one wants the slop, but it oozes over society nonetheless. People want to do an AI, they don’t want to get an AI.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ditching Canvas this semester and looking for an AI-free, private alternatives to Google products, chiefly Drive and Docs. Any suggestions?
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I didn’t know that the World Cup final also included a WWF component. #worldcup
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”
hedgehogreview.com
Artificial Negligence
Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Preach!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
To state the obvious, this third place game is crazy. #worldcup
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy Bastille Day!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Better yet: DocuSign the movie!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’d like to think it’s my overwhelming support that got them through.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Now that the US, Mexico, and Canada are out, I will be routing for Argentina (over my late Chilean mother’s objections) in honor of my Argentinian aunt. It’s only logical.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I only see Ed Norton here.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Among many taken today at LACMA’s block party event.
Painting of Young Christ.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
One of the biggest things I’ve learned as a college professor is to be on guard of those with ambition. Everything they do is “for the students” or for “equity” but it is really all for them.
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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Future dystopian sci-fi has imagined things like nuclear wastelands, sure. Totalitarian oppression, climate catastrophe, sure. But rarely has it imagined today's real horror of AI making stupid and annoying people 100x worse.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Grades are in, autoreply to email has been activated, so bring on summer. (Note: Summer may include fall prep and major automotive repairs).
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Grades are done but not in. My hair is the same color but I did (and I’m not joking) see some of it fall out while grading. I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Although I am an AI abolitionist, as an educator I am exposed to a lot of AI slop and I worry what this exposure is doing to my brain.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Arguing by meme really helps people feel heard and respected. It’s the most persuasive approach.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Half way there. Three down, three to go. 200 odd assignments to grade before Tuesday. Some of my hair is still brown.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’m behind on the reading but is this play basically Homeric fanfic? Reading The Odyssey now in prep for the film and the comparison is not favorable to Shakespeare.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
One class graded and for the history books, five more to go.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“In 2026, many major social media platforms feel icky because we are in the full throes of the third stage of enshittification” Ah! The third stage of enshittification. I remember reading about you in Hesiod’s Works and Days!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The deal to end the war In Iran is looking a lot like infrastructure week. Or Waiting for Godot.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
How did I get my Canvas to do list from 400+ down to 89 this weekend? By neglecting my wife and child, that’s how!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’m now starter pack famous. Add to the CV? Does that count as a professional organization?
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It's not just ___, it's also ______. 🫩🔫 #aigrading
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Fare ye well manuscript. May peer reviewer 2 be ever kind and merciful.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Canvas is down! Liberté, égalité, fraternité!!!
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We learn to write in college but we also write to learn across the curriculum. The fact that so few get how learning works is its own crisis.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In their search to lessen antidepressant use one thing that MAHA scientists have yet to consider: making the news less depressing.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@schiff.senate.gov. I would call your office to tell you this but no one has picked up in the last two years. Students don’t need to learn AI skills. It’s a consumer facing product that’s meant to be easy to use. Any idiot can use AI and we know this because every idiot is already using it.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the only person in Europe who can rely on Washington is Vladimir Putin.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Everyone I heard on CNN last night sounded like they were about to work for the Ellisons soon. But then again, maybe that wasn’t much of a departure.
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
In which I ask concerned American Jews to ask themselves what it is they really want (for @forward.com) forward.com/opinion/8210...
forward.com
American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt
Piker's popularity is a clear sign that we must adjust our tactics for fighting antisemitism — not double down on condemnation
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
J. D. Vance getting kicked out of the Catholic Church on the eve of publishing book about how he converted to Catholicism would be the funniest thing. The pope should do it for the comedy value alone.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Make America Competent Again.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ditch Randi.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Rereading Hamlet. It slaps.
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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I was cautious around the Ides of March and read Julius Caesar last month.
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