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A preprint, but important research. Surprise, surprise—using LLMs to “help” you write an essay leads to you not learning anything. Seems significant not only for teaching, but any and all professions in which some people are increasingly reliant on AI to think for them. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Incredibly funny and very, very dark.

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Happy birthday to my mom. I wrote this poem for her, which was published just last year in Terrain.org. My parents aren’t on social media, so I was pretty quiet here on Mother’s Day—but this poem also serves as a pretty good Mother’s Day tribute for my mom, I think www.terrain.org/2024/poetry/...

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“Recent changes to the federal Broadband […] program, originally set to grant Louisiana $1.3 billion for fiber expansion, will reverse the Biden administration’s fiber-first approach, and with it, the fiber expansion as planned in rural Louisiana.” lailluminator.com/briefs/broad...

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Happy birthday to my mom. I wrote this poem for her, which was published just last year in Terrain.org. My parents aren’t on social media, so I was pretty quiet here on Mother’s Day—but this poem also serves as a pretty good Mother’s Day tribute for my mom, I think www.terrain.org/2024/poetry/...

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Wishing a happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and fathering-types out there. Wrote this poem for my own pops a few years ago. It’s also in my book. northamericanreview.org/open-space/p... To My Father, on the Table, Several States Away | North American Review

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Wishing a happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and fathering-types out there. Wrote this poem for my own pops a few years ago. It’s also in my book. northamericanreview.org/open-space/p... To My Father, on the Table, Several States Away | North American Review

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This is Manhattan specifically which is the largest rally. But there were protests in all 5 boroughs

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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

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I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

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The nuance in the face of such blunt forces is what makes this piece so sharp: "It isn’t that computing is antithetical to education, it’s that education is happening in many modes and many places during a student’s scholastic life, and sometimes technology can be an aid and sometimes a hindrance."

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“OpenAI, Coursera, and many other EdTech startups, fantasize about utilizing public and not-for-profit educational infrastructure - our data repositories, labor forces, real estate, and tax havens - to transform themselves into technofeudalists.”

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I know this middle column is a joke and wish I knew what the left column was based on, but gotta love being a PhD’d prof and our family of 3 barely breaking into “upper-poor” territory—which here is WIDE. To get more comfortably into that category feels like the dream… we’ll never be “surviving” 😂🫠

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If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

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More examples of leveraging historically/architecturally significant houses for the public good, please! (Not a great photo of the house, though, I have to say!) This was perhaps my favorite building on campus (chapel excluded), and I’m so glad it’s finding new life. www.valpo.edu/stories/2025...

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we should teach literature in schools as though following a long, complicated narrative is a desirable skill

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Physical grade books! Print articles and physical books! A break from being aggressively marketed to and data-harvested from while in seminar discussion! Print is a rent strike! And the ability to articulate to students why they might opt out of technofeudal capture platforms, without requiring it

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Didn't know Canvas (which pretty much all universities compel us to use) was owned by KKR, which also funds settlements in occupied Palestine. (Also, this includes some great reflections on tech's tentacles in education and how to resist) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

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“Ask yourself: Who is this ‘you’ that wants chemotherapy so, so badly? There is no self. There is no plan. There are only prior authorizations.”

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Esper said that Trump looked to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and said, “’Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?’” Esper characterized it as “a suggestion and a formal question.” theintercept.com/2025/06/08/t...

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Absolutely outstanding, even in the little details (“But after Isildur slow-walked the destruction of the One Ring, and Sauron was allowed to roam free….”) 👏👏👏

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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

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Putting aside the palpable loss of identity, it also robs the US of a shit ton of money since the parks are profitable. Also aspects of this were in Project 2025.

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Insane. The amount of incredible American literature I was exposed to in my junior year of high school—it changed my life!

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The model could be Berea, not Harvard

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Current state of the course planning shelf (L-R—ENGL 321: African American Literature, TREK 115: Credo, and ENGL 201: Literature and Environment)

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This makes me very much aspire to be a woman in my 30s

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Then it deserves to die. It genuinely couldn’t be simpler. “Asking banks for permission to take their money would kill the bank robbing industry.” Yes, and…?

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Great to have a mom in town for a big birthday. Lots of warm fuzzies in this little corner of Shreveport tonight.

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Tragic and despicable abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

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The way this case drags on makes me sick & ashamed of my state—this & the fact that LA, not a border state, detains more migrants than California and Arizona combined (because it’s so profitable & they transitioned a bunch of for-profit prisons into detention cntrs) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/n...

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“your robots… leave much to be desired. We’ve seen the little ones that deliver food, and this does not look to be an improvement over the sixteen-year-olds who did it in the days of yore. Furthermore, robot dogs should be built for cuddles, not to murder on behalf of the police industrial complex.”

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This place has also been terrible to Black people and Arabs! But I'm speaking from my experience as a Native person. It was bad before the Jesse Singal shit, people just didn't care til it affected white people.

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This is smart: www.newsweek.com/harvard-hkus...

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I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

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Mahmoud Khalil "was not allowed to hold his newborn son after [ICE] officials refused to allow a contact visit between him and his family." "Khalil, 30, was forced to meet his month-old baby for the first time behind glass." #Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Deportation #Incarceration #Genocide

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1/ Good debunking "Trump played a video clip that showed a long line of white crosses on the side of a highway, which Trump said were 'burial sites for white farmers. The video was made in...during a protest against farm murders after two people were killed...The crosses did not mark actual graves"

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"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr

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This is so disgusting and cruel. Can’t say it better than she does here.

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