Emily Finck
banner
emfinck.bsky.social
Emily Finck
@emfinck.bsky.social
Theatre Historiography PhD candidate
TL;DR: bodies mean things; poststructuralist interested in people moving through structures; phenomenology rules, semiotics drools. she/her
Reposted by Emily Finck
Using AI is like slathering yourself in hamburger juice so your boss can feed you to his dog
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s infuriating and so deeply American
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"

Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.

When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Emily Finck
This is the spirit! 😉😂
My writing is shit, but it's *my* writing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Emily Finck
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Don't you love it when people prove your point for you?

The right uses oppressive strategies to continually disenfranchise Americans, grasping power with white knuckles, because they know the majority of Americans are not on their side.
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Emily Finck
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Emily Finck
AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social

LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...

www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I genuinely love when my students receive some of my feedback and respond like, "Wow, that's a really good idea, actually!"

Why, thank you. It's almost like I've dedicated my adult life to learning, writing, thinking, and creating work about this subject.
a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words you 're welcome
Alt: A cartoon of Alice from Alice in Wonderland curtseying with the words "you're welcome!" below her.
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It was not until someone mentioned Labyrinth that I realized Jennifer Connelly was the star of Phenomena and not Jennifer Coolidge.
November No-schmember! We're SCREAMin' through the weekend!

DARIO ARGENTO

Drafted by @daveschilling.bsky.social & @danielleradford.bsky.social

Listen everywhere!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

#SCREAMDraftsVIII
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Emily Finck
because it’s not coming down to build something better, it’s coming down to build a shrine to himself
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Emily Finck
“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The dream.
Seeing Rilo Kiley tonight, and the shuttle to the venue is filled with people between the specific ages of 34 and 46. I am at home here.
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I love my students - they are strong, smart, funny, and kind.
October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
🤬
Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.
37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Rereading Camus as I write my Theatre of the Absurd lecture - not sure how my students are going to connect with these concepts...🫠
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
YES
“What works best for student learning is challenge, care and attention from human teachers. Drivers from outside of education are pushing yet another technological solution. We need investment in people.” #edusky www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Faculty Are Latest Targets of Higher Ed’s AI-ification
A new partnership between OpenAI and Instructure will embed generative AI in Canvas. It may make grading easier, but faculty are skeptical it will enhance teaching and learning.
www.insidehighered.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Why are private institutions so quick to sellout?
Absolutely shameless, pitiful assholes
Brown also agreed to adopt Trump’s definitions of a male and female, which were laid out in an executive order in January, for women’s sports, programing, facilities, and housing.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...
July 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Emily Finck
its ok.
i know.
you would rather pretend.
but i have been in the pretend business a long time,
and it used to be abt the truth.
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I would have to talk to my student about ai and academic integrity if they submitted this because it is some pretentious word salad.
This may be the worst writing to appear in a national publication since the 1890s
July 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
🤣
“Mamdani’s box-ticking gambit backfired” why are these losers still talking about a school he didn’t go to
writing about this as if it were high stakes diplomacy is incredible, I doubt anyone at Columbia University spent more than 5 minutes on this, let alone however long it took Rufo to come up with this drivel
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Very much looking forward to @lindaholmes.bsky.social performing her annual gentle roast of the @screendrafts.bsky.social rules.
June 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It is literally impossible to send emails from little internet.
i only really trust big internet tbh there is just something suspicious about little internet
just a little too convenient for its own good tbh
Sometimes I close my laptop and pick up my phone to see what the little internet is up to, presumably.
May 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One of my professors at WashU challenged me to limit myself to one semicolon per paragraph; it was painful.
DOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEET
meanwhile I'm over here writing maximalist prose with like 2-3 semicolons per sentence
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Just finished Andor and I’m a wreck.
a man with a beard says " i 'll find you " in a dark room
Alt: Cassian Andor says “I’ll find you”
media.tenor.com
May 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM