Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
his aunt is married to Daniel Libeskind lol
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
his aunt is married to Daniel Libeskind lol
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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I got to give a talk last week about one of my very favorite topics--prison education! So much gratitude to @ucilifted.bsky.social
What Matters to Me and Why: Annie McClanahan
YouTube video by UCI Media
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I got to give a talk last week about one of my very favorite topics--prison education! So much gratitude to @ucilifted.bsky.social
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I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
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As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah
You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.
thebaffler.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
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Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!
“I don’t understand why so many people have conceded that the university is a left space. Can someone show me a Marxist university president?”
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
www.publicbooks.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!
for years everyone was freaking out about students using AI to do their assignments: the death of the humanities, again!
but we are about to see reams of research activity in our own scholarly fields assigned to AI
will this be mystified as some kind of intellectual windfall?
but we are about to see reams of research activity in our own scholarly fields assigned to AI
will this be mystified as some kind of intellectual windfall?
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
for years everyone was freaking out about students using AI to do their assignments: the death of the humanities, again!
but we are about to see reams of research activity in our own scholarly fields assigned to AI
will this be mystified as some kind of intellectual windfall?
but we are about to see reams of research activity in our own scholarly fields assigned to AI
will this be mystified as some kind of intellectual windfall?
and now those students are struggling to find TT jobs, and postdocs and other short-term funded positions
I can see a scenario in which SSHRC will increasing ask, "do you need money for this RA when AI is available to you?"
so my question is, how are are you going to stop this from happening?
I can see a scenario in which SSHRC will increasing ask, "do you need money for this RA when AI is available to you?"
so my question is, how are are you going to stop this from happening?
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
and now those students are struggling to find TT jobs, and postdocs and other short-term funded positions
I can see a scenario in which SSHRC will increasing ask, "do you need money for this RA when AI is available to you?"
so my question is, how are are you going to stop this from happening?
I can see a scenario in which SSHRC will increasing ask, "do you need money for this RA when AI is available to you?"
so my question is, how are are you going to stop this from happening?
another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead"
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead"
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
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the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
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We are quickly moving from “the inevitable future of existence” to “multilevel marketing wine club hustle”
February 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
We are quickly moving from “the inevitable future of existence” to “multilevel marketing wine club hustle”
this is very funny and true
Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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February 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
this is very funny and true
and I mean, as @mattseybold.bsky.social put it, "every session of Claude Code is like running a dishwasher" -- if academics aren't fighting the widespread adoption of these things then what are we even doing, and that includes IMO acknowledging the underlying compulsions
February 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
and I mean, as @mattseybold.bsky.social put it, "every session of Claude Code is like running a dishwasher" -- if academics aren't fighting the widespread adoption of these things then what are we even doing, and that includes IMO acknowledging the underlying compulsions
easy prey for these pyramid schemes).
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
easy prey for these pyramid schemes).
I think recognizing some of what makes people fall into these traps--and they are traps, because Ms. Hart will tell them this is an easy way to make money and that's just not true--is totally compatible with wanting to guillotine the people developing the AI to begin with (and making us
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I think recognizing some of what makes people fall into these traps--and they are traps, because Ms. Hart will tell them this is an easy way to make money and that's just not true--is totally compatible with wanting to guillotine the people developing the AI to begin with (and making us
Totally--could not agree more. It sucks for many reasons, not least because it makes it even harder for people who care about writing in the genre to make any money doing it.
February 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Totally--could not agree more. It sucks for many reasons, not least because it makes it even harder for people who care about writing in the genre to make any money doing it.
this has been going on in non-fiction and low content books for a long time -- it was only a matter of time; Ms. Hart is selling access to her technique and developing proprietary tech, just taking advantage of how many people out there are desperate for some kind of income
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
this has been going on in non-fiction and low content books for a long time -- it was only a matter of time; Ms. Hart is selling access to her technique and developing proprietary tech, just taking advantage of how many people out there are desperate for some kind of income
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‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale
AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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There's something very important in this from @alondra.bsky.social about how a government of bosses understands its relationship to AI: as a means to avoid preexisting, even nominal, deference to popular deliberation or expert consultation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 6, 2026 at 1:23 AM
There's something very important in this from @alondra.bsky.social about how a government of bosses understands its relationship to AI: as a means to avoid preexisting, even nominal, deference to popular deliberation or expert consultation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...