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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5h

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2m

The Russo Brothers talk too much.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3h

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 49m

Every dynamic that exists outside of prisons exists within them, and vice versa.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3h

Aaron Sorkin is the Martian Manhunter.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently, he gets an overwhelming amount of fan mail. And I keep thinking about that. Like, I wonder what demographic makes up the majority of his stans at this point.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m watching season 3 of #ADifferentWorld. A flight attendant just told Whitley “why don’t you let me check your bag for you?” And she replied “why don’t you beautify America and floss your teeth?” Never cross THEE diva Whitley Gilbert.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

Whitley calling her fists LENA and HORNE has changed me forever. #ADifferentWorld

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

All the cliffhangers they dropped at the end of the #ADifferentWorld season finale?????? OMG!!! No storyline is safe!!!!! If Netflix doesn’t give this show another season, I’m gonna [Hi, FBI Agent Thomas, how’s your week going? Anyway, you know how I just be saying shit, lol. I kid! I kid] with C4.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

I’m confused by the concept of being hella rich and hella ugly. Like?????? Money can’t buy happiness, sanity or ethics but it can definitely buy you something akin to a human face.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21h

And… *BLOCK* I’m fully over people applauding the next generation for solving problems they inherited from us.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 22h

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Ivy @ivyashe.bsky.social · 22h

It is also important to note that Cornell doesn't have a journalism major. These are students who may not even plan to make journalism a career, but their dedication to the field is tremendous.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For alums or others who want to support student journalism, you can donate to the Cornell Daily Sun here:

cdsaa-2660.wp.greekly.io

Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I keep thinking about this laughing because what the fuck can ya do, ya know?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hollywood is so funny, not funny haha tho.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]

pitchfork.com

Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks

“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“One such wave hit the northern tip of South America in late August and has begun moving up towards the west coast of the US. That wave could reach California shores within days, and when it does, ocean scientists say it may raise sea levels by up to a foot for months as El Niño.” Oh.

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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

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HottieGolightly @breakfasthost.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

One Paperbag to Live

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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Their Green Eyes Were Watching God

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*gets home, takes off raincoat and shoes and immediately turns #ADifferentWorld back on*

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let’s keep these good vibes going!!!

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Keebler. @inayamchele.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

after i finish fake laughing with somebody at work:

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.

jessica.substack.com

Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Unassuming Local Guy @bionicslingshot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MY FORTUNE COOKIE: “You will soon experience a great transformation.” MY BRAIN:

An illustration depicting Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” featuring a human-sized bug on its back in a small bed in a sparsely-decorated bedroom.

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 28/09/2026

I hear the frustrations and know them well, which is why I cannot explain enough that @moderation.blacksky.app should be subscribed to if you do not want to be a part of Blacksky (as in migration). The tools are there; I hope y'all check them out.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kalshi truck parked outside of the Ohio State campus, giving out free coffee to students in exchange for their contact info

Dark green truck with
MARKETS FOR EVERYONE
FREEDOM TO FORECAST.
painted on the side and back

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harvard has begun restricting access to the plaza outside the Smith Campus Center outside of the building’s operating hours, displacing homeless residents who have regularly stayed there overnight. Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Homeless People Displaced as Harvard Restricts Overnight Smith Center Access | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard has begun restricting access to the plaza outside the Smith Campus Center outside of the building’s operating hours, displacing homeless residents who have regularly stayed there overnight.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, if you like it, I love it.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I smile every time I think about the #ADifferentWorld reboot. They DID that.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dating such a man is like seeing a strawberry covered in mold and going “MMMHMM, yummy!”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*puts on hair bonnet and swan dives into bed*

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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