Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A work of experimental modernist fiction by a kinesiologist called MUSCLE MEMORY 010
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What if all of my purposes *are* intensive? 030
Reposted by Will Canoe-Sickrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i can’t believe my favorite band the Communists with their platinum record We Are A Bunch Of Communists are a bunch of communists 9107495
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I downsized into a smaller place and it’s helped my stress level a lot. Let’s get small 010
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Flannel shirts better not be going back out of style 010
Reposted by Will Canoe-Sickaohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Petty footnotes are load bearing. I realize academia is being destroyed from the outside, but we also need petty footnotes to make sure academia is motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning 1203
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The hosts did note that, actually, most students dislike AI too. And it’s quite clear that instructors do. But the president likes it, or in any case wants it. So the university is abdicating all responsibility for managing or regulating it. That falls on us, with no new time or resources. 45211
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The meeting hosts used sympathetic language very capably, and affirmed our worries. But when we asked how we could get students to abide by individual syllabus policies disallowing AI while the university is investing $450 million in AI initiatives of dubious potential, next question please. 1345
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Always a good day to teach WORKING by Studs Terkel 010
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickKate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Books are a perfect technology that will never die. 415231
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Melvins: Revolveyoutu.beMelvins - Revolve (Official Video)YouTube video by MELVINS 020
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable 612918
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickMatthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We’re getting close to Keats season 5132
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How to spell and say “oeuvre”: 1. Just write down a lot of vowels. Weird ones too like å and ö and ǔ. Make some up if you want. No one checks. The important thing is to have fun. 2. Then write “v” and “r” and then a few more vowels. 3. Say “uv”. 2416
Reposted by Will Canoe-Sickmelanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wish people would write more about the historian spidey sense where you can see what’s under the hood of a book even when it’s not cited 0101
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After that listen to some more Byrds songs if you want 000
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game. 91732324
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please 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. 52531662
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190535437
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I saw Sleater-Kinney last week and was the only 25 year old there 020
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Look all the kids need is enough water, money, and electricity to feed to the LLMs. What do they need skills for 000
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The major issue with understanding the value of kids learning math is not that math is useless but rather that it is ubiquitously and continuously useful to the point of complete dependence in every aspect of the modern industrial ensemble that undergirds infrastructure the standard model of reality 1357
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fashion tip: the sluttiest thing a straight man can wear is a regular sweater with the sleeves pushed up just a little. This is your cheat code 921743
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026MS Word is terrible, but it is still slightly more useful than what has become of Google 001
Reposted by Will Canoe-Sickhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Elden ring (died 14x in the tutorial cave and uninstalled because i win that game by not indulging it) 2222
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Recs for readings / sources on the merits of in-class writing? Great if gen-AI is part of the discussion but I’m esp interested in approaches that frame in-class writing less in terms of what it prevents and more in terms of what it makes possible / permits / affords on its own terms. 192
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history. 846975
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I received a political fundraising email where the subject line read as though the sender was asking me to donate five million dollars and I hope they understand it is not possible for me to do that 010
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But what this really means--and no, it's not all of you, but maybe?--is that white guys who are big mad about the humanities getting torn apart should consider that other colleagues fought this fight for a long time but their work wasn't seen as universal and valuable like you believe yours is. 16613
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026All the grand sweeping reasons you might give for defending the humanities now also apply to all of the "niche" subjects and "marginal" disciplines your department and college got rid of. If the values of the humanities are real and universal, then full restoration and expansion must be the goals. 1877
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickSeth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled 0195
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The answer is AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999). Lots of people knew CRASH (2004) was trash from the start 191
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good job Sleater-Kinney. Thanks for coming to Iowa. Good thing my class isn’t until noon tomorrow bc I’m 47 120
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem 452654248
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I can’t even fathom that and I can also absolutely fathom it 020
Reposted by Will Canoe-SickKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.” 9758177
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Have you ever tried eating an entire pizza on a Friday 240
Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Happy Friday! I have graded everything I absolutely have to grade right now, and I am giving up on 2026 until Monday 021
