Dez Miller
@dezmiller.bsky.social
~ PhD candidate at Emory doing a dissertation on urban rivers, using NLP and literary criticism in combo
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Hard to overstate how important ACPC is and has been, and not only to the people of Atlanta.
This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.
This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.
Hey, it's Matt.
For nearly five years, ACPC has been committed to journalism that holds power accountable, gives everyone a way of knowing what happens in our city government and ensures the voices of protesters are represented in the news.
Now our ability to keep doing that is in jeopardy.
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Now our ability to keep doing that is in jeopardy.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Hard to overstate how important ACPC is and has been, and not only to the people of Atlanta.
This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.
This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.
New theranos company: just one drop of blood and you can sign in to your gmail on a different computer
February 11, 2026 at 12:38 AM
New theranos company: just one drop of blood and you can sign in to your gmail on a different computer
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It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)
Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E4 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
A joy: my son reading about a meal in a novel and deeply craving that meal (tea and buttery brown toast from wind in the willows) and then getting to eat it and being so happy
February 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
A joy: my son reading about a meal in a novel and deeply craving that meal (tea and buttery brown toast from wind in the willows) and then getting to eat it and being so happy
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
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I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...
ICE protest songs and chants, Minnesota general strike (January 23) and beyond
Transcriptions of singing at ICE protests by faith leaders and protesters. Songs about ICE’s masculinity issues. Other songs about the ICE…
medium.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...
Just donated to this program at the middle school my partner’s cousin works at in Minneapolis. They are currently delivering groceries to school families in hiding www.icafoodshelf.org/community-ma...
School Markets — ICA
ICA Community Markets
www.icafoodshelf.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Just donated to this program at the middle school my partner’s cousin works at in Minneapolis. They are currently delivering groceries to school families in hiding www.icafoodshelf.org/community-ma...
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It’s sad how they are undermining trust in government. The official White House account has made at least 14 posts with AI. This one altered a woman’s face who was arrested while protesting ICE. They made it look like she was crying and darkened her skin. This is sickening.
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:36 PM
It’s sad how they are undermining trust in government. The official White House account has made at least 14 posts with AI. This one altered a woman’s face who was arrested while protesting ICE. They made it look like she was crying and darkened her skin. This is sickening.
Chronology of water is an incredible film, very confident, very singular. It feels like life. It’s a wonderful testament to the source material. Probably they (barely) allowed Kristen Stewart to make the film bc of her name, but I’m hopeful that because it exists there will be more films like it.
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Chronology of water is an incredible film, very confident, very singular. It feels like life. It’s a wonderful testament to the source material. Probably they (barely) allowed Kristen Stewart to make the film bc of her name, but I’m hopeful that because it exists there will be more films like it.
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For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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@miriamposner.com bringing it like she always does
I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
miriamposner.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
@miriamposner.com bringing it like she always does
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
Lately I’m thinking a lot of my spouse’s grandfather, Randolph Thrower, who was commissioner of the IRS under Nixon and when asked to do immoral and illegal things responded with incredulity and refused to commit crimes www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/u...
Randolph Thrower, I.R.S. Chief Who Resisted Nixon, Dies at 100 (Published 2014)
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Lately I’m thinking a lot of my spouse’s grandfather, Randolph Thrower, who was commissioner of the IRS under Nixon and when asked to do immoral and illegal things responded with incredulity and refused to commit crimes www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/u...
Excited to land in Toronto for MLA and remember snow exists
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Excited to land in Toronto for MLA and remember snow exists
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I didn't want to have to delete these sites but I can see I must.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I didn't want to have to delete these sites but I can see I must.
Fascinating project on historical LLMs. github.com/DGoettlich/h... I have so many questions! I just submitted a Humboldt Research Fellowship proposal on making small LLMs that would've cited this if I'd known about it.
GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs.
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Fascinating project on historical LLMs. github.com/DGoettlich/h... I have so many questions! I just submitted a Humboldt Research Fellowship proposal on making small LLMs that would've cited this if I'd known about it.
Once again tempted to discuss the "vibe" of a quotation in my diss chapter
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Once again tempted to discuss the "vibe" of a quotation in my diss chapter
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Epistemic violence perpetrated by striking at the most exposed truth-making systems.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Epistemic violence perpetrated by striking at the most exposed truth-making systems.
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Excited and proud to share my new essay in ELH! “The Political Climate: Ecocriticism and the Apocalyptic Tone” focuses on John Guillory and Amitav Ghosh as examples of internal and external narrative contextualizations of a crisis in literary criticism muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Excited and proud to share my new essay in ELH! “The Political Climate: Ecocriticism and the Apocalyptic Tone” focuses on John Guillory and Amitav Ghosh as examples of internal and external narrative contextualizations of a crisis in literary criticism muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why?
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why?
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
English is ideas French is feelings German is things
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
English is ideas French is feelings German is things
Is good writing like 85% good structure?
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Is good writing like 85% good structure?
Was just thinking today that I would love a new Kelly Reichardt movie and then found out about the Mastermind. Maybe my 7yo self was right, maybe I do have powers.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Was just thinking today that I would love a new Kelly Reichardt movie and then found out about the Mastermind. Maybe my 7yo self was right, maybe I do have powers.
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.