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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social
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I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May. I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃

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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 · 1h
In… human years?
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 2h
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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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 · 20h
“There are men who cook for him and men who clean for him. There are men who make his bed and men who do his laundry. There is even a man who gives him Chinese-style massages.”
nbcnews.com
Diddy’s pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy
Sean Combs has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his lifestyle to a low-security correctional facility in southern New Jersey, sources said.
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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22h
Episode 6 of #ADifferentWorld has me SHOOK!!!!!!!!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We really are in hell.
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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
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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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
👀
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – comedy makes a near-flawless Broadway debut
theguardian.com
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – comedy makes a near-flawless Broadway debut
Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production
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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.
theguardian.com
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
Oh noooo…
Hehe
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
KNOW HER.
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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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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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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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justin (rough cut notes) @justininpost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
stop what you're doing right now and watch this
youtube.com
GENER8ION feat. Yung Lean Perform "STORM" | 2026 VMAs
YouTube video by MTV
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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
*looks directly at camera*
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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀
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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...
thecrimson.com
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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