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jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
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[email protected]‬ is back this week with some reflections on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' draft environmental impact statement for the Line 5 oil tunnel! Read here; https://f.mtr.cool/pllozubbdj

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Ha! This is quite satisfying. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

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The students in my petrofiction class made a playlist. They each had to choose a song and explain why it belongs on the list. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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Pacers winning is great, but beating the Knicks is even greater

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I remember like 20 years ago Michael Berube published an essay "Teaching to the Six." He should update that for online teaching in the age of AI but maybe make it, like, Four.

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Thursday ikebana

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Hey, so where is academic/Indy 500 blue sky?

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Polluter pay legislation passed the state Senate last year but was lost amid a tumultuous and early end to the Michigan legislature’s lame duck session in December. planetdetroit.org/2025/05/mich...

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"If only these regulatory agencies—the US Army Corps, the WI DNR, the MI Public Service Commission, the Department of Energy, #GreatLakes, and the Environment—would heed the words of that great American writer who once said, “it’s a death trap, a suicide rap.” We gotta get out while we still can."

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my first time writing about Bruce Springsteen

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It's a death trap, a suicide rap. We gotta get out of this Line 5 madness while we still can.  Read this week's Current:

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it's amazing how when you ask students to do low-stakes personal reflections on the readings to try and discourage the use of AI, they wind up saying the very same things, almost verbatim. Teaching is fun.

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Baby’s first bonsai

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A new blog post from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social this week in The Current takes a look at the changing political winds of shutting down Line 5. Spoiler: so much has changed in the past decade. thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

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Ikebana 2

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Murph melting into the grass

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