atomic.asu.edu

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

“The best class we show, is but a mob of fashionably-dressed speculators and vulgarians.” WW, 1871

4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

Bracing, needed counterpoint to the slop most university admin are pushing.

www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

2026 RWES Awards - Call for Applications - Emerson Society The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce the following awards:

Please circulate!

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce its 2026 award competitions: the Research Award, Outreach Award, Undergraduate Student Essay Prize, and Graduate Student Essay Award.

For more details see:
emersonsociety.org/2026-rwes-aw...

Ollie doesn’t know what this C19 bullshit is but he’s glad it’s over.

Let’s do it again soon, C19

Good morning! And welcome to Day 1 in Cincinnati, C19!

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Airplane reading for C19, courtesy of the Emerson Society—our third issue is live!

With content by Christina Zwarg, Rachel Banner, Rachel DeWitt, Max Chapnick, Kristin Lacey, Rachael DeWitt, Susan Dunston, Sonia Di Loreto, & Mollie Barnes.

thedialjournal.org
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The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati.
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Funny that neither the NYTimes review nor the New Yorker mention that little of the dialogue in “Wuthering Heights” seems actually to come from the novel. Also if this is such an expressionistic rendering would it have killed Fennel to include some puppy-hanging?

Just passed four armored vehicles on Northern Ave at rush-hour.

ICE Out For Good TEMPE · Mobilize Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Very excited!

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@asuenglish.bluesky.social

asuevents.asu.edu/event/save-y...

Disaster on Gichigami What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?

@johnubacon.bsky.social ‘s book on the Edmund Fitzgerald is pretty engaging but loses the plot @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social catches: the ship was part of a whole infrastructure of crazy, ecocidal, midcentury extraction the likes of which we seem to be returning.

open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

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My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.

Apropos of nothing: "... we find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This move toward English Department websites that do not list faculty members, or that place faculty behind labyrinths, is obviously intended to disempower said faculty, but the actual effect is to disrupt the establishment of connections and the flow of opportunities toward the institution.

I’m listening in this coffee shop to two guys in their 60s wax on about A.I.—they actually believe it is a better source of medical information than their doctors; one believes it when it tells him he can get rich developing NFTs. So many boomers have lost their minds in their phones and its apps.

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

If you’re in Phoenix, call David Schweikert (House R) and blame him for shutting down the government: (480) 946-2411, (202) 225-2190. Call him a radical.

I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman

I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.

The staircase Harriet Jacobs was pushed down (producing injuries so extensive that she “was unable to turn myself in bed for days”) is in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem and examined now by @molliebarnes.bsky.net and Susanna Ashton:

theconversation.com/a-staircase-...

Guy I know passing me at the line at the coffee shop: “Hi Chris; how are you?” Me: “Reeling, thanks, how about you?” Him: “Good, thanks, see you later.”

Against the Environment But what if 'the environment' is actually the problem?

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota:
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

“A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturalized by removing to the state to reside, and taking an oath of fidelity: and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen […]”

Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia

Thanks! I’ve taught Folsom and Bushyhead but didn’t know they wrote about sectionalism or national division so much as they addressed settler colonialism.

I was thinking of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch even though it’s Irish