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Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
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literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly

https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 19h
his aunt is married to Daniel Libeskind lol

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 1d
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/...
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

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d
Incredible, horrific piece.

thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...
I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah
You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.
thebaffler.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d
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*.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d
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

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 4d
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
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
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...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 4d
Hell yeah.
In addition to their latent insurgent potential, the Twin Cities' rapid response networks signal the possible resurgence of a proletarian civic life independent of the mainstream two-party system and the institutions of a decrepit civil society and left-wing milieu. In the suburbs especially, thousands of working-class people have glimpsed the prospect of a more meaningful experience of community, following decades of atomization and a decaying social fabric. The formation of these networks, from Minneapolis and Saint Paul to the suburbs, and even into parts of the exurbs and rural hinterland, has provided a rich supply of oxygen and nutrients to the formerly comatose brain of working-class civic life, spurring the formation of new socio-neural connections. These proto-political networks harbor the potential to mature into class institutions tasked with coordinating sustained oppositional political and economic action, while restoring a social fabric promised, but never delivered, by so many astroturfed campaigns that too often accomplish little more than channeling our longing for collective agency into transferable email lists.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 5d
“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

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 5d
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?

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 5d
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?

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 5d
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

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 5d
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/
Chapbook Contest 2025 Flume Press Chapbook Contest Winners & Finalist We're excited to announce that the winner of this year's chapbook contest is Animals / Never Saw, by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. About the winning hybrid-genre collection Rae Gouirand had this to say: "Insofar as it is extricable from desire, we might be the only species capable of feeling hope," notes Kimberly Quiogue Andrews in the opening lines of this stunning prayer of a chapbook, crashing the spontaneous kinesis of the poetic line straight into the unforgiving territory of confirmable fact. Andrews returns the sky to the foreground of our attention, and opens a place inside where grief songs can not only take root, but begin to lead us back towards something more closely resembling life.”

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 5d
LLMLM?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5d
We are quickly moving from “the inevitable future of existence” to “multilevel marketing wine club hustle”
4 chatgpt prompts to help you launch a side hustle in 2026

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 6d
the internet is straight up not interesting anymore as either a fictional subject or a modality by which fiction is produced sorry

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 6d
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.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
❤️‍🔥

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
this is very funny and true
Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
youtu.be

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
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

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
easy prey for these pyramid schemes).

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
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

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
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.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 6d
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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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6d
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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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 6d
make it stop

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d
‘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 · 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

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 8d
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/...
The Trump administration is engaged in norm destruction -breaking expectations about transparent governance and public oversight while installing new assumptions about how technological development should be directed. What it has advanced is not the absence of Al regulation but its rearrangement, often by caprice: intensive state intervention operating through industrial policy, trade restric-tions, immigration controls, equity stakes in private firms (selected by the state), the redirection of research funding, and the strategic preemption of state authority. Many of these actions face legal challenge, and some may not survive judicial review. But the pattern itself-the systematic preference for executive discretion over deliberative process-reveals an approach to governance that will shape Al policy regardless of how individual cases are de-cided. This is not deregulation. Not in the least. It is hyper-regulation by other means.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 8d
screaming, crying, ordering ten copies 💖❤️‍🔥