Yep

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’
But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

This is how all my nightmares begin now

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home Ebook available to libraries as part of

So grateful to @emilybstanback.bsky.social for this blurb: "Reznicek offers a compelling...of the national tale, calling attention to the foundational ways that concepts of health, illness, and disability have been used to define national identity" www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home Ebook available to libraries as part of

We're just about twenty days away from the release of Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale. If you would be interested, can I ask you to recommend the book to your library? www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness - Lightspeed Magazine USER: this is a message for Milwaukee Elementary’s curator Jude Towers, I hope this is the right address. anyway thanks for the story you had RIGHTR generate for my 10th graders’ Empathy Week. it was ...

New story from me @lightspeedmagazine.com, maybe the bleakest I've ever written. It's about:

-AI’s effect on teaching literature
-what literature can (& can't) actually teach us
-trans fatherhood
-the road to hell being paved with white saviorism

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...

When universities tout their partnerships with OpenAI, parents, faculty and everyone really should be asking how they intend to account for the increasing evidence that their technology is hurting people, especially young and vulnerable people. How many instances of harm will be enough?

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Well I guess I'm going to be kicked off of Bluesky soon... 🫠

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No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Ha. I was thinking just yesterday that I'm probably going to need to rewatch season 1 of severance.

Ooh what's the name of this album??? I have a dog and kids and self who might benefit

"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean. After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

I’d love it if you could add me! Following others from the starter packs now!

Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how much I’ve been changed by Mississippi, and how much of a privilege it’s been to teach at USM.

So many of the Civil Rights leaders commemorated in the museum are/were from MS, and so many of the atrocities memorialized took place in MS—including the lynching of Emmett Till and the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer’s house in Hattiesburg, where I now live.

Exterior of Woolworth Co. / International Civil Rights Museum

Memorial of names and footprints inlaid in sidewalk outside of Woolworth lunch counter / International Civil Rights Museum for leaders in lunch counter protest

Detail from top of Woolworth / International Civil Rights Museum

In Greensboro, NC for a family wedding and snuck off to go to the International Civil Rights Museum, the site of the famous 1960 Woolworth lunch counter protest—a week before teaching Anne Moody in my World Literature course.

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

you could ask your library to order if you want

A pedagogy essay about disability and teaching I wrote in 2016 as I was preparing to complete my doctorate has finally appeared in Romantic Circles Reviews & Receptions: www.romantic-circles.org/index.php/pr...

Wow

On top of a brown wooden table is a COVID test with two lines indicating it is positive.

Social media can be a cruel place. Amidst all the muck, there are glimmers of hope. I wrote about disabled outrage and a recent hashtag I created on Twitter #PodSaveJon

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/d...

The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from July 23rd-25th and online August 1st-2nd.
Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference20...

Churchyard with long grass in the sunset. Church has a tower, there are big trees nearby. A few gravestones emerge from the grass, but basically walking through here would be a deathtrap of hidden masonry. Pretty though.

We're advertising a really fun interdisciplinary PhD on the biodiversity of churchyards and the barriers and opportunities of community-driven biodiversity action: Churchyards as a microcosm for biodiversity gains in the UK's cultural landscapes. Apply here: www.york.ac.uk/professorial...

LOVE the drama of this Italian fan, c.1806 – forget flowers and lovers, give me NIGHTSCAPE VOLCANOES 🌋🌋🌋

🪭 at the Met Museum: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #18c #19c #histsci