Yes! If they're able to sit with a complete text, I can teach them the cultural components that nuance an individual text; but having the patience and skill of reading a complex plot through its entirety is definitely a prerequisite to that.
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Famously, science is uninterested in the scientific method.
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Matt nails it: "the point of journalism [or science!] is the outputs—bringing facts to light—not the process."
Most slop is still human slop. AI just made it impossible to ignore. So, the Q isn't whether to use AI, but how to use the best tools available to reduce human slop.
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov Matt nails it: "the point of journalism [or science!] is the outputs—bringing facts to light—not the process." Most slop is still human slop. AI just made it impossible to ignore. So, the Q isn't whether to use AI, but how to use the best tools available to reduce human slop. Quote Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · 20h The case for more AI in journalism
"the point of journalism (or science) is the output, bringing facts to light, not the process"
is definitely something to say.
It helps that the previous essay is graded as complete/incomplete and they get a free redo. So I can provide clear, constructive feedback without worrying about tanking their grade. It gives them some real feedback to think through.
As part of our writing intensive requirements, I have my students essentially write a "response to a readers report" when they submit their revised and expanded essay. I love hearing why the changes they chose to make produce a stronger essay.
BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
Thank you, @martindoyle.bsky.social , for publishing my little piece on Irish hair in Irish poetry, along with lots and lots of poetic hair in the pictures: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Census obsession continues unabated here… #census26 #speirgorm
Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction | Moira Donegan
Such a timely book.
The Tonight Show is built to liquify all phenomena into content. Trump, the political reactionary and demagogue, the harbinger of a crisis, was treated not as a threat to democracy or a figure of public concern, but just another wacky celebrity guest willing to play along. Fallon and his show are not horrifying because they are malevolent, actively creating suffering in the world, but because of a thoughtless, systematic refusal to perceive any of their work as having ethical consequences. Trump’s monstrosity becomes merely eccentric, as neoliberal media packaged as entertainment normalizes a failing status quo.
Illustration of Jimmy Fallon looking demonic
This is such a great encapsulation of the horror of the Tonight Show.
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Pretty sure my prayers receive a desk rejection.
I wouldn't mind seeing columns like this in the NYT though
The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.
Chronicle of Higher Ed headlines are always either "How to Choose AI!" or "Why Academics Except for Me are BAD and WRONG"
@annieabrams.bsky.social recently asked about what skills we expect students to have coming to college and, I think, the ability to read complete texts--regardless of the complexity--is a pretty foundational one.
This is a horror.
Yes. The people to whom the book is very much NOT dedicated.
SORKIN: There's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon, that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs. From what I understand, part of the reason is they're worried about offending you.
TRUMP: I think it's brilliant. They got to know me very well. I'm honored.
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I think it was @annakornbluh.bsky.social who said when you’re frustrated with or stuck in writing your book, start writing the acknowledgements
I always read acknowledgements. #Lit 📚
(New Issue) (Re)thinking the history of mental disorder and psychiatry: an approach through the South(s) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/repe... #histpsych
What makes a Scottish bestseller?
@glasgow.ac.uk Prof Alan Riach looks at the works of “perhaps the three most famous authors in the second half of the 20th century” – Ian Fleming, Alistair MacLean, & Nigel Tranter
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5/5
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this April 21, read Coviello (+get the book from U Chicago Press!)
"PRINCE is hard to grieve because he is, in an only barely not literal sense, divine...our greatest conceptualist of religion, most devoted not only to God but to heterodoxy, heresy, blasphemy"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-t...
