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Hollis Robbins
@anecdotal.bsky.social
AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
I know several people teaching here this summer...
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is the standard view on Reddit right now. I called it in February. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-...
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Diane Seuss is the absolute best.
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Books doing their propaganda thing. Nobody snuggles with an AI.
March 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"What I dig about Rand is, first of all, she's about genius. I can identify with that. She's also about the creator. I also identify with that."

From Peter Bailey's piece on Nikki Giovanni in Ebony, Feb. 1972.
January 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Will ask AI for a short story.
January 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
What a piece of work is snowperson.
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 PM
This paragraph by @musaalgharbi.bsky.social is the paragraph of the year, from his book *We Have Never Been Woke.*
December 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
This is my image of AI Ed Tech. I asked Google Gemini for an image of a mother bird feeding baby birds pre-digested food and no amount of tweaking made it better than this. Look -- I am optimistic about AI but there is no doubt that LLM outputs, however good, are pre-digested.
December 8, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I find myself in a Gulf Coast resort with a swim up bar. Do I or do I not honor Jimmy Buffett by having at least one?
September 3, 2023 at 2:43 AM