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A. Smith

@smitheng.bsky.social
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English teacher (2008-) & department chair (2018-) in public education. Mostly [re]posts on education, policy, & the humanities. Not here representing my employer etc.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h
"Culture might seem a less consequential right than due process or free assembly. Its infringement makes less spectacular news than police action. In this way, the gross repeal of a right that took decades to build goes unreported." OTD 2025 hyperallergic.com/how-to-prote...
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How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11h
A Hero? Wyth a Thousande Faces? Yn thys economye?
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 13/10/2026
Right now, Hilton Head's Gullah-Geechee residents are opposing the island’s land management ordinance, which includes proposed amendments that would impact their development and land-use rights. 📣 In or near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina? Show up to the meeting TODAY & amplify their voices!
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This student in the article wants to do an in-depth research paper, but he's also taking seven classes. Seven! Why is he taking seven classes? What is this system that incentivizes checking boxes on seven classes over deep learning in five (or four) classes?
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IT’S STEAL A LITTLE TIME FROM THE BOSS TO READ ANNE CARSON DAY
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 08/10/2026
Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...
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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...
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Scott Walter @slwalter123.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More on banned books (and banned comics) from @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social and @sdsulibrary.bsky.social for @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social (and @cbldf.bsky.social) comics-blog.sdsu.edu/banned-books...
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Banned Books Week | Comics @ SDSU
It’s the first week of October and with it comes an annual event to raise awareness about attempts to censor books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Th ...
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A. Smith @smitheng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A bit off-topic for this account but www.selc.org/news/ace-bas...
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ACE Basin victory: Data centers blocked in southern conservation area
We just got a huge win for one of the most important conservation areas in the South – the rural ACE Basin. On behalf of local residents, SELC sued and just reached a settlement that prohibits data ce...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/10/2026
📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history. In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students were building stations and broadcasting campus events. 📚 More: blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/1... 🧵
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A. Smith @smitheng.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ekphrasis
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incredibly good stuff here: defector.com/resident-evi...
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Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you go to the ice box and there are no plums
Katie Britt looking horrified at the Jack Smith hearing
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Set out my feelings about why I just don’t like this trend towards creating a better past by censoring your own archive:
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We must resist the temptation to censor media and film archives
The best solution is to have a policy of addition rather than subtraction
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"...The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate." www.chronicle.com/article/harv...
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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane
When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.
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A. Smith @smitheng.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.postandcourier.com/education-la...
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It’s Year 3 of SC’s growing school voucher program. Data on student learning still is not available.
Hundreds of test scores required under SC’s school voucher program are missing from 2024-25, preventing the state from completing a long-anticipated check on learning gains in the now $83M program.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1797 the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft died after giving birth to her 2nd daughter (Mary Shelley). Her last book was a fictionalised account of a remarkable journey she undertook to Scandinavia in search of stolen treasure: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... #OTD
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 10/09/2026
Course in General Linguistics (Ferdinand De Saussure, 1916)
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 10/09/2026
As a higher ed finance person, I keep emphasizing that more students are enrolling in high cost of educating fields like health and engineering and fewer in lower-cost fields like the humanities. This squeezes institutional budgets as cross-subsidies disappear.
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Report: Humanities Majors Disappearing
Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026
If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse
Cream graph-paper graphic with a decorative yellow line-art path and "save" wordmark, plus a yellow ">" chevron tagline reading "tools you can use." Bold black text reads "Save Page Now." Below, a yellow folder icon with the Internet Archive logo and white text: "If you see something, save something."Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Am completely fine with AO Scott going dorky English teacher, have at it, this is the good stuff www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Take 10 Seconds to Read This Ezra Pound Poem. Think About It All Day.
People-watchers, trainspotters and A.O. Scott agree: Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is one of the shortest great poems in English.
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/08/2026
The universe may never tell you if your choices mattered. Owlcat’s ‘Osiris Reborn’ might not either. www.wired.com/story/the-up...
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Can the Upcoming ‘Expanse’ Game Avoid ‘Mass Effect’s’ Biggest Mistake?
The universe may never tell you if your choices mattered. Owlcat’s ‘Osiris Reborn’ might not either.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
3 years ago I worried that what I'd spent my career on--helping people develop ideas in writing--was no longer going to be valued in an AI-saturated society. But I don't worry about that now. I worry that students will miss the chance to become thinkers and that good thinking will be harder to find.
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A. Smith @smitheng.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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SC students statewide now eligible for scholarship allowing a debt-free degree • SC Daily Gazette
In the new state budget, the Legislature approved using $18.7 million in state lottery profits to expand the program to 32 counties in a public-private partnership.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 21/05/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Advocate SC gov signs harsh new law for all public school bathrooms and locker rooms that mandates use by birth-assigned sex and allows for single-user spaces for trans students who request them-- aka porta-potties.
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South Carolina governor signs bathroom law that could force trans students into porta-potties
The ACLU has decried the measure as an attack on student privacy.
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Philip Nelson 💻🧙 @blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 20/05/2026
at 2pm, the South Carolina senate will convene to start their redistricting debate. We're still waiting on Judge Coble's decision regarding the League of Women Voters and ACLU's motion for a TRO against the House because of the rule change that let them fast track redistricting. #scpol
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The gloomy headlines about the future of American higher ed been seemingly relentless. But the discourse is missing some basic(and surprising) facts about what’s actually happening right now. Here are 10....
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"...or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write." I'm just going to keep repeating it: curation is a fundamental aspect of whatever "AI Literacy" is. (2/2) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
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How We Can Make the Internet Helpful Again
Amid an infodemic of misinformation and manipulation, it feels like the Internet uses us more than we use it. Taking back control is possible.
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Jennifer Berry Hawes @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Early voting in SC’s Republican primary starts one week from today. Candidates have been raising money and campaigning for months or longer. But the state’s GOP legislators are trying to rush through new Congressional district maps at the last minute. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...
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SC House Republicans impose surprise rules change to accelerate redistricting plan
South Carolina House Republicans passed a late-night rules change late May 18 that would allow them to accelerate the pace of a national effort to redraw Congressional lines ahead of the 2026 midterm ...
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
sorry, not sorry
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Also, Middlemarch is better than Moby-Dick,” the Pope stated, conclusively resolving the debate.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14/05/2026
hell yeah voice actors
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 14/05/2026
this essay on Beowulf and the film Sinners is so good. #medievalsky "Reading across Beowulf into Sinners provokes a host of enlivening questions for both works. Above all is the ambiguity of what it means to be a sinner."
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3
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What Matters Most? 20 years of the student experience - HEPI
Half of students miss one-third of their lectures. 20 years of data show undergraduates are struggling to access the high-quality teaching, in-person interactions and satisfying student experience the...
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The full committee is hearing public comments, all opposed to redistricting so far. www.scstatehouse.gov/video/stream...
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Kincaid is, in the words of Democracy Docket, "The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab." Now he is working on a power grab in South Carolina. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Meet Adam Kincaid: The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab
Read more here.
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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
SC law silent on no-bid operators of some public schools share.google/KQrUw11WcZrf...
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How no-bid private groups became the unintended ‘third arm’ of SC’s public charter school system
Under loose regulations that never contemplated this, private entities have raked in millions to launch and run South Carolina’s publicly funded charter schools. Lawmakers are scrambling to catch up.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“It is difficult to take seriously the admin’s concern about Americans’ mental health…when it has made/advocated for cuts to Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, Medicaid (which covers a disproportionate share of those with mental illness & substance use disorder) & the ACA.”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/05/2026
when i say you need to study history this is what i mean
the museum of bbq in kansas citya map of bbq traditions in south carolinaa kc city dry rub recipethe four styles of texas bbq infographic
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 05/05/2026
1/ “I really wanted them to know & understand that what they’re interacting with is not a person." - Cynthia Sandler, a library media specialist in North Salem, NY Read about how Sandler's 7th graders spent months creating & then performing a magic show to teach about #AI & its pitfalls ⤵️
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Students’ magic show exposes myths about AI - The News Literacy Project
Seventh graders in North Salem, New York, performed a magic show to give adults a revealing glimpse behind the curtain of AI.
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A. Smith @smitheng.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The graphics your orthopedist pulls up, so you will quit trying to "walk it off"
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Just Announced: “The Cost of Knowledge” is the Theme For International Open Access Week 2026 www.infodocket.com/2026/05/04/j... #oa #publishing #scholcomm #libraries @sparcopen.bsky.social
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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Is it possible to learn through AI? Sure. Is it possible to be educated by AI? No. Education is relational, it is a human endeavor.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul." "What do you mean by the courageous soul?" "Courageous, ma foi! The brave soul. The soul that dares and defies." -Kate Chopin, *The Awakening*
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“I am frustrated with how their arguments are driving out other ways of thinking…That makes it much harder to see the enormous variety of futures that might be possible, depending on the choices we make and their consequences, both predictable and stochastic…[stunting] democratic debate”
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