Erin Kappeler
@erinkappeler.bsky.social
English prof turned instructional designer
The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era -- available for preorder from UNC Press! https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!
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The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era -- available for preorder from UNC Press! https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!
erinkappeler.com
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This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.
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starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
Proposal: instead of pouring resources into AI, tech companies first figure out a way for people to be able to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another without the formatting getting all fucked up
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
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I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
tinyurl.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
tinyurl.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
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i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
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This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)
"Like capital punishment, torture, and slavery, deportation is wrong. Always, all of it, no exceptions. People of conscience must not let ourselves be pulled into line-drawing between acceptable and unacceptable instances of this violence"
littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...
littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...
Letter to the editor: Deportation is wrong, period - Little Village
By Nate Holdren, Des Moines I write this letter to the editor on the evening of Friday, Sept. 26 after hearing the news that Ian Roberts, the superintendent of the […]
littlevillagemag.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)
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less punditry and much more organizing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
less punditry and much more organizing.
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be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.
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I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.
I wish for everyone the joy of rediscovering a long-forgotten favorite album that is indeed a masterpiece (Deloused in the Comatorium, my god!)
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.
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I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend
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I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”
I am deceased.
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am deceased.
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You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.
October 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.
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Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle
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The knowledge was already free!! Open textbooks and libraries exist!! The benefit of a professor is having an expert teach it to you in a structured manner with assignments for practice and assessments to keep you accountable. Profs aren't keepers of secret knowledge. We are essentially tutors.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The knowledge was already free!! Open textbooks and libraries exist!! The benefit of a professor is having an expert teach it to you in a structured manner with assignments for practice and assessments to keep you accountable. Profs aren't keepers of secret knowledge. We are essentially tutors.
I wish for everyone the joy of rediscovering a long-forgotten favorite album that is indeed a masterpiece (Deloused in the Comatorium, my god!)
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wish for everyone the joy of rediscovering a long-forgotten favorite album that is indeed a masterpiece (Deloused in the Comatorium, my god!)
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Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture
Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes
Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes
October 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture
Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes
Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes
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I love this.
wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social
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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I love this.
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"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."
I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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