Will Canoe-Sick
@willcanoesick.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. he/him. I’m giving the internet one more shot.
My jacket needs a bigger pocket
January 5, 2026 at 1:46 AM
My jacket needs a bigger pocket
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all of this
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
all of this
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
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I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
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One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
January 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
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With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 AM
With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come.
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staring contest
How else can professors prove "merit" besides SAT scores? Wrong answers only. I'll go first: ability to do sixth-grade geometry homework (two professors in my house fail)
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
staring contest
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Pie casts a spell on you
But you won't forget me
But you won't forget me
January 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Pie casts a spell on you
But you won't forget me
But you won't forget me
Currently watching ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Sean Penn should get a lifetime achievement award for the worst haircuts in cinema
Might watch that new movie where Leo DiCaprio wears a stocking cap today
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Currently watching ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Sean Penn should get a lifetime achievement award for the worst haircuts in cinema
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thinking about how my own teachers and professors are either nearing or at retirement age, weird to contemplate what happens to liberal arts education when very few people in the public school system remember what it even was
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
thinking about how my own teachers and professors are either nearing or at retirement age, weird to contemplate what happens to liberal arts education when very few people in the public school system remember what it even was
Alien
Name a horror film that's actually scary
January 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Alien
Sunday scaries but for 2026
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Sunday scaries but for 2026
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Let’s see how many more executive orders we can overturn by the end of the decade
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Let’s see how many more executive orders we can overturn by the end of the decade
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My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
January 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
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My niece, as Harry starts running to the tune of “It Had To Be You”: “I hope he gets run over by a car.”
I am showing my niece When Harry Met Sally for the first time.
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 AM
My niece, as Harry starts running to the tune of “It Had To Be You”: “I hope he gets run over by a car.”
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I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
365 days is so many days
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 AM
365 days is so many days
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I hope you continue to be the thing that you are and want to be. I am a bear.
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I hope you continue to be the thing that you are and want to be. I am a bear.
Might watch that new movie where Leo DiCaprio wears a stocking cap today
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Might watch that new movie where Leo DiCaprio wears a stocking cap today
