Ten minutes into the first grading session of the semester and I already found an assignment that is entirely AI generated. I should get a cookie every time I have to deal with this shit.

Funny how my math professors were never like "Amy, you hate math and you're not very good at it, but you have the right to math!"

Nate Holdren The Gurgling Cod talks about this very thing in his book! manifold.umn.edu/projects/town-…

The story of AI in writing/art/"content" is going to be the story of so many labor saving devices. Instead of freeing up people's time, it's going to ratchet up expectations for productivity for anyone who lives from the work.

A bunch of sunflowers finally popped and the bees are happy.

Boom.

I started school on Monday & so, apparently, did The American Vandal. Over 3000 episodes have been downloaded already this week, across the whole catalog. If you’re teaching with AV, I’d love to know about it.

This Friday, I’ll be in Philly! You can join the seminar on Zoom. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

anyone interested in a putting together a “just-in-time” mla panel about whether/how “brownness” is useful in thinking through palestine? been on my mind lately and i can’t figure it out on my own, would welcome conversation

Real talk for all you secret goths.

Remember the dream of the 90s internet when people rhapsodized about information wanting to be free? Yeah.

What about the ideas you get while you’re writing? If your piece ends with the same premise it began with you’re doing it wrong.

Women's media has gone from 2000s "how to win a man's heart" to "you're moisturizing wrong."

EM Forster. After 20+ years of teaching, I beg to differ.

Ask yourself why aren’t you listening to Uncle Tupelo right now?

This thread is a work of art.

Updating my CV and looking at the pages upon pages upon pages of conferences I've attended in the last 15: all I see is debt.

I am in a waiting room with at least six pregnant women and no one is wearing a mask but me—not the staff, not the doctors, not the patients. Remember that hot minute when people were worried about the effect of COVID on fetal development? Yeah…