Jaime Cleland
@jaimeclelandphd.bsky.social
Publishing and education, children's lit through higher ed. Day job: book acquisitions, MLA. she/her
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Do you teach Melville’s Moby-Dick in your classes? You can contribute to our latest volume in development by sharing information about your experience in a survey and by proposing an essay. Respond by 1 February: www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHK8VJ8
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do you teach Melville’s Moby-Dick in your classes? You can contribute to our latest volume in development by sharing information about your experience in a survey and by proposing an essay. Respond by 1 February: www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHK8VJ8
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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texaco pumps, marietta, ohio, 1980
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
texaco pumps, marietta, ohio, 1980
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lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted.
Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.
Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted.
Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.
Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit.
Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off.
They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford.
Masking is community care.
Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off.
They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford.
Masking is community care.
When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit.
Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off.
They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford.
Masking is community care.
Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off.
They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford.
Masking is community care.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
Let’s find out what happens when they stop being polite, and start getting real …
Yes, I know it's an image of a Twitter post, but what @philipjboyes.bsky.social writes here remains true.
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Let’s find out what happens when they stop being polite, and start getting real …
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Less than 20 minute wait at Early Voting sites across NYC today, according to the NYC Board of Elections Wait Time Map.
NYC, have you voted yet? Early Voting sites open from 9am-5pm today/Saturday and tomorrow/Sunday.
www.vote.nyc/page/wait-ti...
NYC, have you voted yet? Early Voting sites open from 9am-5pm today/Saturday and tomorrow/Sunday.
www.vote.nyc/page/wait-ti...
Wait Time Map | NYC Board of Elections
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November 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Less than 20 minute wait at Early Voting sites across NYC today, according to the NYC Board of Elections Wait Time Map.
NYC, have you voted yet? Early Voting sites open from 9am-5pm today/Saturday and tomorrow/Sunday.
www.vote.nyc/page/wait-ti...
NYC, have you voted yet? Early Voting sites open from 9am-5pm today/Saturday and tomorrow/Sunday.
www.vote.nyc/page/wait-ti...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”
The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies
AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.
futurism.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”
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Congratulations to the editors of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons for winning the Teaching Literature Book Award!
www.mla.org/Publications...
www.mla.org/Publications...
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Congratulations to the editors of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons for winning the Teaching Literature Book Award!
www.mla.org/Publications...
www.mla.org/Publications...
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Probably best to chase it indefinitely
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Probably best to chase it indefinitely
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I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me
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the used copy i got from the bookstore paid off when i passed it around so everyone could see where the previous reader remarked about rochester, “he a bitch”
insisting students have the correct edition of the book means going to the campus bookstore to pick up a used copy when you forgot yours at home
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
the used copy i got from the bookstore paid off when i passed it around so everyone could see where the previous reader remarked about rochester, “he a bitch”
I submit for consideration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longing...
October 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I submit for consideration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longing...
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Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.