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@horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
parent, spouse, rhetoric prof, essayist. Nonfic at The Rumpus, CRAFT, Archetype, etc. Interviews & Craft Essays Editor at CRAFT. Pushcart nom & BAE notable 2021. One handed backhander. she/her/dr
at a certain level of job longevity you start to forget all of the things you are responsible for and then you have a sabbatical scheduled and you have to start offloading all of your tasks and schedule-sending emails and whoo-boy it's a lot!
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
at a certain level of job longevity you start to forget all of the things you are responsible for and then you have a sabbatical scheduled and you have to start offloading all of your tasks and schedule-sending emails and whoo-boy it's a lot!
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"Think raw milk is 'traditional'? Think again. For generations, moms boiled milk daily to keep their kids alive. Forgetting that truth disrespects the brutal labor women did to protect their families."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKDP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKDP...
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Think raw milk is 'traditional'? Think again. For generations, moms boiled milk daily to keep their kids alive. Forgetting that truth disrespects the brutal labor women did to protect their families."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKDP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKDP...
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Exactly this. And I often really interrogate structure as I teach .. what is *driving* this constraint? Is it about pedagogy? Or control?
I also will explain myself - this deadline is driven by the date grades are due, and I need this many days to do finals graded.
I also will explain myself - this deadline is driven by the date grades are due, and I need this many days to do finals graded.
I find requests for accommodations a really useful prod to check whether I’m making other students jump through hoops for the sake of jumping through hoops.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Exactly this. And I often really interrogate structure as I teach .. what is *driving* this constraint? Is it about pedagogy? Or control?
I also will explain myself - this deadline is driven by the date grades are due, and I need this many days to do finals graded.
I also will explain myself - this deadline is driven by the date grades are due, and I need this many days to do finals graded.
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Slightly less tongue-in-cheek points about this: this is why writing studies best practice is to grade writing assignments differently depending on whether their purpose is to demonstrate learning or to demonstrate genre and stylistic mastery
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Slightly less tongue-in-cheek points about this: this is why writing studies best practice is to grade writing assignments differently depending on whether their purpose is to demonstrate learning or to demonstrate genre and stylistic mastery
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The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Could be true. I started writing circa 1952, still at it, still here. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges theconversation.com/writing-buil...
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Could be true. I started writing circa 1952, still at it, still here. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges theconversation.com/writing-buil...
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You don’t have to be in j-school or a fancy elite program, plus I’m proof you don’t need to know a lot about sports. we’re hoping to get applicants from all sorts of places
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You don’t have to be in j-school or a fancy elite program, plus I’m proof you don’t need to know a lot about sports. we’re hoping to get applicants from all sorts of places
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We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
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The @chillsubs Lit Mag Awards are back! There are categories like Career Builder, Hidden Gem, New Writer Friendly, Great Editors, and more! Make your noms here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The @chillsubs Lit Mag Awards are back! There are categories like Career Builder, Hidden Gem, New Writer Friendly, Great Editors, and more! Make your noms here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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iwona b horyn, too, but you don’t see me decomposing about it
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
iwona b horyn, too, but you don’t see me decomposing about it
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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OMGoodness yes. And I am still gobsmacked at how many smart folks say this very thing or similar things like trying to wrap it up in "literacy." HOLD. THE. LINE.
Watching so many MLIS programs essentially say "well, a lot of people are using it so we have to teach prompting" feels like watching a medical school say "a lot of people are anti-vax now so we have to teach alternatives to vaccines." This is a time for experts to hold the line.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
OMGoodness yes. And I am still gobsmacked at how many smart folks say this very thing or similar things like trying to wrap it up in "literacy." HOLD. THE. LINE.
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Striking thing about this @npr.org Sunday Story on AI and higher ed is that it takes as an unchallenged assumption the idea that the primary and/or sole purpose of higher ed is to prepare students for the job market, not to be free citizens of a democracy.
Higher Education’s AI Problem : Up First from NPR
Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to figure out how to incorporate AI into the classroom. ChatGPT debuted almost exactly three years ago. And very quickly, students began to...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Striking thing about this @npr.org Sunday Story on AI and higher ed is that it takes as an unchallenged assumption the idea that the primary and/or sole purpose of higher ed is to prepare students for the job market, not to be free citizens of a democracy.
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The energy required to run machine learning systems is orders of magnitude less than the energy required to run LLM systems. The entire energy gauntlet and data center explosion is only necessary to enable more of the bad stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The energy required to run machine learning systems is orders of magnitude less than the energy required to run LLM systems. The entire energy gauntlet and data center explosion is only necessary to enable more of the bad stuff.
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This distinction is critically important and rarely used by tech journalists.
All of the good stuff we’re seeing from AI: medicine discovery, energy demand management, etc. are machine learning + big data.
LLMs are for cheating, bad poetry, stealing art, deepfakes, and worsening mental health.
All of the good stuff we’re seeing from AI: medicine discovery, energy demand management, etc. are machine learning + big data.
LLMs are for cheating, bad poetry, stealing art, deepfakes, and worsening mental health.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This distinction is critically important and rarely used by tech journalists.
All of the good stuff we’re seeing from AI: medicine discovery, energy demand management, etc. are machine learning + big data.
LLMs are for cheating, bad poetry, stealing art, deepfakes, and worsening mental health.
All of the good stuff we’re seeing from AI: medicine discovery, energy demand management, etc. are machine learning + big data.
LLMs are for cheating, bad poetry, stealing art, deepfakes, and worsening mental health.
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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AI IS MADE BY HUMANS AND CONTAINS ALL OUR BIASES, HOPE THAT HELPS
We need to take these people’s toys away until they understand how they work.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
AI IS MADE BY HUMANS AND CONTAINS ALL OUR BIASES, HOPE THAT HELPS
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
This is so stupid. The defunding and discrediting of the humanities is one of the most colossal own goals in human history. What a fuckin waste
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is so stupid. The defunding and discrediting of the humanities is one of the most colossal own goals in human history. What a fuckin waste
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Also I think we can all agree GOOD GRACIOUS / ASS IS BODACIOUS is up there with anything Keats or Wordsworth have ever written
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Also I think we can all agree GOOD GRACIOUS / ASS IS BODACIOUS is up there with anything Keats or Wordsworth have ever written
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.