Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
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Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
· Aug 13
BC English GenAI Framework
Min Hyoung Song, Chair Department of English Boston College, August 2025 GenAI FRAMEWORK FOR BC ENGLISH COURSES While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) programs have become ubiquitous as ...
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Some things I've been working on as chair of my department - sharing in case anyone finds its useful.
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
“Entering Hell was easy; leaving was hard.” - RF Kuang
January 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
“Entering Hell was easy; leaving was hard.” - RF Kuang
Ok but why did he call his chain “Mexican Chicken”?
this guy is a fucking hero
the man widely regarded as creator of Korean fried chicken has died www.koreaherald.com/article/1065...
January 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Ok but why did he call his chain “Mexican Chicken”?
By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
In "Racial Beings," Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. #AsianAmericanStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eWFhHKY
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
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Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We went to a vinyl cafe (you buy an expensive drink and listen to albums on headphones all you want) and I took this photograph as the sunlight came through a record.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We went to a vinyl cafe (you buy an expensive drink and listen to albums on headphones all you want) and I took this photograph as the sunlight came through a record.
Finished rereading Moby-Dick (very slowly!) and the last pages show that Melville really knew how to write taut, fast-paced, plot-driven prose, and so just chose not to for hundreds of pages.
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Finished rereading Moby-Dick (very slowly!) and the last pages show that Melville really knew how to write taut, fast-paced, plot-driven prose, and so just chose not to for hundreds of pages.
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Grades are submitted; the semester is officially done; the students were amazing; I’m ready for a drink, and a goodbye to a terrible, no good, awful year.
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Grades are submitted; the semester is officially done; the students were amazing; I’m ready for a drink, and a goodbye to a terrible, no good, awful year.
Grading season is here.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Grading season is here.
Note to self!
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Note to self!
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"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
We seem to have finally reached a moment of epistemic collapse because we can no longer tell if a photo is machine generated.
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos
We’re cooked.
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We seem to have finally reached a moment of epistemic collapse because we can no longer tell if a photo is machine generated.
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
I love the design of this cover.
Our Spring 2026 catalog is out now, featuring #NewBooks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@julesboykoff.bsky.social, @jcmezo.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, @woeser.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, and many others! Explore the #NewBooks: bit.ly/3Ki2ha5.
@julesboykoff.bsky.social, @jcmezo.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, @woeser.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, and many others! Explore the #NewBooks: bit.ly/3Ki2ha5.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I love the design of this cover.
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Re-upping this piece, and also thinking about how in discussions of GenAI and the humanities we remain focused on writing to the exclusion of reading.
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Re-upping this piece, and also thinking about how in discussions of GenAI and the humanities we remain focused on writing to the exclusion of reading.
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
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Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
The official poverty line is mid$30k, but what if it’s actually $140k, as this piece argues?
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The official poverty line is mid$30k, but what if it’s actually $140k, as this piece argues?
Armed lifeboats everywhere
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Armed lifeboats everywhere
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.