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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When an AI summarizes a text, it is not "reading," in any way close to what happens with humans. It is more accurate to call an AI summary a "compression." Compression of huge bodies of text can be very useful, but I think it's necessary to hold on to the distinction between compression and summary.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the one rule of India about ruling India that has been true for 3500 years is that anyone can rule but they rule exactly as long as the public is willing to be ruled and it's always for less long than you'd think

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and of course you can figure out what you think in conversation and debate. But working through your ideas by reading other people's ideas, figuring out what makes sense/what doesn't/what evidence/what assumptions does of course help you discover what you think. I saw it every semester and I am/2

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And when teachers refuse to think, when they outsource thinking, when they buy in and come to depend on standardized materials, that is a form of automation.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This would be a difficult story to report, because nobody would want to go on the record about it, but the actually important story about American schools is the persistence of thousands of teachers who give their kids what we know they need despite the barrage of mandates, standards, tests, etc—

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

Never forget that maintaining the status quo is, and always will be, a political act.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Everyone who was against the PATRIOT Act 20 years ago was called a terrorist sympathizer. Many don’t remember the world before it. Background checks didnt even exist the way they do now prior to it. The surveillance state became normal. Just like they said it would All in the name of “anti-terror”

After 9/11, the U.S. built an anti-terror apparatus. Trump is using it at home.
Waning attention to international terrorism and other threats has former officials worried.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Which is to say: Pick up that pen and WRITE. Open that sketch book and DRAW. Buy that book and READ. Sit down at a table with new people and TALK. Hang that painting by a local artist in your HOME. Paint that room whatever fucking color you WANT (screw resale value). Be HUMAN to the fullest.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I like this Japanese artist that hand paints vintage American clothes. He turns things such as vintage hunting jackets into “animal appreciation” jackets using motifs that celebrate animals. Some of his stuff is currently up for sale at Maiden's Shop in Tokyo. IG takuro917 and maidens_shop

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”

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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love how R politicians think teachers have the ability to convince kids to transition and vote communist when they can’t even get students to write an essay without AI

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Students are often portrayed as antagonists/perpetrators in AI cheating stories, and surely some of them are—I won't entirely dismiss their capacity to make choices. But students are also the main victims. The real villains are not living in dorms or going into debt to learn nothing.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When you read a book only a fraction of what you get from the experience is the information in the book. The vast majority of what comes from reading is a new experience of yourself that comes to exist in relation to the book’s unique patterns.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this was a super interesting thread to read, and i'll add my two cents as the survivor of a fundamentalist christian education with a mandatory bible class: the close reading of absolutely any text poses problems to indoctrination as a project

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

See: Public education.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 11/08/2026

“I'm tired of following agamemnon”

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. —Toni Morrison

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

RIP writer Toni Morrison, died this day 2019. "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

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Joe Okonkwo @joeokonkwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”

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Mister Anthony

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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Let me tell you why they're coming after Writing before English literature. Because writing has always been the more radical side of English. It's where students are encouraged to be producers, rather than passive consumers of knowledge. It's where unionization starts.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Now I have lived long and I know better.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone’s decision against silence.” - Yiyun Li

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's wild because comp is the most widely offered course at any university across the nation & many faculty across all English fields teach comp more than they teach in their expertise. 1000s of people who don't even study comp rely on the CCCCs for resources and conversations abt teaching writing.

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

On this, Emmit Tills birthday, I want to share one of my favorite speculative Poems “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing share.google/mWtwTI9NvriN...

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“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing

Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 22/07/2026

"Grief is with us all the time because love is with us all the time," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1564. "Grief touches every part of our lives, because love touches every part of our lives." Read "Young Widow at the Kitchen Window" by @dsmpoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/45dnp8a

graphic featuring a portion of Donna Spruijt-Metz's poem

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

to be serious about art is to maintain an open and playful heart

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/07/2026

It's no longer about whether it could be you... that is no longer the issue at hand... it's a matter of moral clarity it shouldn't have to be you, look like you, or be close to you ... to activate your advocacy because that's how morality works

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🌸𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑑𝑒77🌸 @djade77.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." 💛 ~ L Hay

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