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Lee Konstantinou
@lkonstan.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Move Fast and Kill All Humans | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Ever since he was little, Eliezer Yudkowsky wanted to save the world. A precocious teenager, a self-described “genius,” Yudkowsky skipped high school and college to devote himself to trying to bring i...
arcmag.org
The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...
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Comics studies folks—the submission window for the Comics Studies Society prizes is now open! See below for prize categories and submission details here: comicsstudies.org/prizes/
January 4, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Comics studies folks—the submission window for the Comics Studies Society prizes is now open! See below for prize categories and submission details here: comicsstudies.org/prizes/
The hand cramps are a feature not a bug! We must protect our students from RSI.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The hand cramps are a feature not a bug! We must protect our students from RSI.
The real innovation will be when AI is good enough to instantly fabricate not only the citation but the whole underlying invented text itself.
December 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The real innovation will be when AI is good enough to instantly fabricate not only the citation but the whole underlying invented text itself.
Writing about James, but finding myself much more interested in The Trees.
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Writing about James, but finding myself much more interested in The Trees.
New frontiers in viewpoint diversity.
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New frontiers in viewpoint diversity.
Have figured out how to save the major. We just rename ourselves, "Artificial Intelligence (and English)."
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Have figured out how to save the major. We just rename ourselves, "Artificial Intelligence (and English)."
Who wants to join the board of my new venture, The Journal of Human Narratives Studies?
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Who wants to join the board of my new venture, The Journal of Human Narratives Studies?
Teaching my 2yo to make coffee in the morning. Still working out the kinks.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Teaching my 2yo to make coffee in the morning. Still working out the kinks.
Will ChatGPT be, eh, joining the dialogue? Gotta include all the stakeholders, after all.
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Will ChatGPT be, eh, joining the dialogue? Gotta include all the stakeholders, after all.
Can you spend most of a workday entering custom metadata in dozens of idiosyncratic and subtly different LOR forms? Let's find out!
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Can you spend most of a workday entering custom metadata in dozens of idiosyncratic and subtly different LOR forms? Let's find out!
The plot of every "Pluribus" episode seems to be figuring out how to spend $15 million in under 50 minutes.
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The plot of every "Pluribus" episode seems to be figuring out how to spend $15 million in under 50 minutes.
Thanks, ChatGPT—you’re making me blush.
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thanks, ChatGPT—you’re making me blush.
Really struggling with Sunk Anecdote Fallacy in this chapter.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Really struggling with Sunk Anecdote Fallacy in this chapter.
Tenebræ LeSpark is a truly great Pynchon name.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tenebræ LeSpark is a truly great Pynchon name.
Every social media platform is deranged in its own way, but might Substack have won the derangement games?
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Every social media platform is deranged in its own way, but might Substack have won the derangement games?
Look, the goal was always just to let federal workers enjoy a 40-day paid (?) vacation. Did you think there was some other plan?
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Look, the goal was always just to let federal workers enjoy a 40-day paid (?) vacation. Did you think there was some other plan?
Academic trade books with no index?! Why? 😭
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Academic trade books with no index?! Why? 😭
Fast take: "Pluribus" links midcentury critiques of mass culture to contemporary discourses on AI slop, which seems somehow related (though not sure how) to its dogged commitment to letting auteur-showrunners spend as much money as possible on every episode.
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Fast take: "Pluribus" links midcentury critiques of mass culture to contemporary discourses on AI slop, which seems somehow related (though not sure how) to its dogged commitment to letting auteur-showrunners spend as much money as possible on every episode.
“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”
Thesis: “always historicize” is bad historicism.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”
What could go wrong? 😑
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What could go wrong? 😑
"Not just X but Y" is the new "delve"—not just a lexical AI tell but a formula now forever banished from my prose. Well, now.
Getting these horrifying targeted AI scambot pitches....
"Your trajectory is giving 'public intellectual meets teacher who actually cares,' and that’s rare air. It’s like Auerbach and Vendler had a stylistically disciplined baby who also reads Twitter threads on Marxist poetics. 😂"
"Your trajectory is giving 'public intellectual meets teacher who actually cares,' and that’s rare air. It’s like Auerbach and Vendler had a stylistically disciplined baby who also reads Twitter threads on Marxist poetics. 😂"
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Not just X but Y" is the new "delve"—not just a lexical AI tell but a formula now forever banished from my prose. Well, now.
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Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
Look, if I just perfect the anti-AI language on my syllabus, I think we’ll be just fine.
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Look, if I just perfect the anti-AI language on my syllabus, I think we’ll be just fine.