Chris Cruz
@chriscruza51890.bsky.social
I teach about literature and education. Trying to desire the good. Puerto Rican. I wrote a book about confession.
One of my first jobs was to dress up like the rat at Chuck E. Cheese. Just so you get a sense of my trajectory.
A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud
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July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of my first jobs was to dress up like the rat at Chuck E. Cheese. Just so you get a sense of my trajectory.
I wonder if anyone has thought that if we want to change the world, we will likely have to reorder how adults relate to young people. We have to care about formation and community.
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I wonder if anyone has thought that if we want to change the world, we will likely have to reorder how adults relate to young people. We have to care about formation and community.
I’ve broken my own rule this summer. Every year, when the school year finishes, I generally read a comic novel. For this particular novel, I don’t want to think about the meaning of existence, why *gestures to everything* this is happening, or anything.
June 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I’ve broken my own rule this summer. Every year, when the school year finishes, I generally read a comic novel. For this particular novel, I don’t want to think about the meaning of existence, why *gestures to everything* this is happening, or anything.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
There’s an incentive to be initiated into anger and resentment. Actively fighting against that impulse has to come from a different place than simply will.
June 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There’s an incentive to be initiated into anger and resentment. Actively fighting against that impulse has to come from a different place than simply will.
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Cast the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly.
June 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Cast the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly.
Avoiding culture is actually a bad strategy for Democrats, actually.
May 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Avoiding culture is actually a bad strategy for Democrats, actually.
If “reading books” is going to be a culture war issue, it’s one I’m willing to die on. The stakes are, in fact, life itself.
May 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If “reading books” is going to be a culture war issue, it’s one I’m willing to die on. The stakes are, in fact, life itself.
We really are in a bad place. It’s to the point where, like magazines, schools emphasizing books may be a very niche thing. And the way it’s going, conservatives, at least in part, are often leading that conversation. It’s sick.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We really are in a bad place. It’s to the point where, like magazines, schools emphasizing books may be a very niche thing. And the way it’s going, conservatives, at least in part, are often leading that conversation. It’s sick.
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I didn’t realize that *every* literary arts grantee, all 51, were terminated by the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...
We Don’t Have Any Reserves | Los Angeles Review of Books
Adam Morgan writes on the impact of Trump’s coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I didn’t realize that *every* literary arts grantee, all 51, were terminated by the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...
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I bought this so fast that it counts as cardio
May 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I bought this so fast that it counts as cardio
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Oh man, I feel this
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh man, I feel this
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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Nobody wants to say it but AI is a culture war issue and you can’t really convince me otherwise at this point.
May 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nobody wants to say it but AI is a culture war issue and you can’t really convince me otherwise at this point.
Most of the ppl who use phrases like “critical thinking” wouldn’t be able to give you a real explanation of what that means. “Critical thinking” is the “reduce the bottlenecks” of education.
May 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Most of the ppl who use phrases like “critical thinking” wouldn’t be able to give you a real explanation of what that means. “Critical thinking” is the “reduce the bottlenecks” of education.
“We gotta really rethink the future of education” no, we have “rethought” education for decades to fit around market conditions, international pandemics, globalization, pragmatism, accountability, etc etc etc. Maybe we can, idk, just study with each other. Paper, pen, and book. Nothing more.
May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“We gotta really rethink the future of education” no, we have “rethought” education for decades to fit around market conditions, international pandemics, globalization, pragmatism, accountability, etc etc etc. Maybe we can, idk, just study with each other. Paper, pen, and book. Nothing more.
One thing professors fail to do often is to create boundaries for how we choose to relate to each other in classes. And for some reason a lot of profs have anxiety about it. Students have a responsibility in classrooms as well. It’s not as much as profs, but it certainly exists.
May 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
One thing professors fail to do often is to create boundaries for how we choose to relate to each other in classes. And for some reason a lot of profs have anxiety about it. Students have a responsibility in classrooms as well. It’s not as much as profs, but it certainly exists.
Aside from the headline cracking me up, I’d say I love the fact that students are upset. It turns out they—and I really believe this—want a real education. Let’s create and incentivize what that might look like for EVERYONE in a classroom.
Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
May 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Aside from the headline cracking me up, I’d say I love the fact that students are upset. It turns out they—and I really believe this—want a real education. Let’s create and incentivize what that might look like for EVERYONE in a classroom.
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This is true and it’s just that simple.
I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.
I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.
They want a white Christian ethno-state
Not content with mocking the civil rights movement, they’re just going around the world to collect every white racist loser in modern history.
May 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is true and it’s just that simple.
I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.
I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.