Jeffrey Amos
@jeffreyamos.bsky.social
Writer, Instructor, Former Non-Fiction Television Producer. I teach and think about narrative form and the environment. PhD University of Tennessee, MFA Purdue
Anything I say here is just me saying it.
www.jeffreyamoswriter.com
Anything I say here is just me saying it.
www.jeffreyamoswriter.com
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
I'm excited that my story "Witness Trees" is out today from American Literary Review. Partially inspired by the 1989 poisoning of Treaty Oak in Austin (I was in fifth grade when I wrote the tree a get well card), it's been haunting me for a while. I'm so thrilled that ALR has given it a home!
Jeffrey Amos
Jeffrey Amos
Witness Trees
The Town Charter.
The town of Ada, Texas was founded in the shade of an apple tree on August 15th, 1887, when Arthur Gentry, Caleb Mills, and Levi Wilkes signed the...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm excited that my story "Witness Trees" is out today from American Literary Review. Partially inspired by the 1989 poisoning of Treaty Oak in Austin (I was in fifth grade when I wrote the tree a get well card), it's been haunting me for a while. I'm so thrilled that ALR has given it a home!
My dog, I’m sure: All you do is look at squares! All day the large glowing square, but sometimes a small glowing square. In the evening, you bang on the hot cube and make treats I can’t have, then stare at a far glowing square, and before bed, the not glowing cube with the flippy parts.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My dog, I’m sure: All you do is look at squares! All day the large glowing square, but sometimes a small glowing square. In the evening, you bang on the hot cube and make treats I can’t have, then stare at a far glowing square, and before bed, the not glowing cube with the flippy parts.
I've been trying to lose weight, but I can't get more than a couple pounds a month. I just don't see how I can lose 135 million pounds by the midterms!
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I've been trying to lose weight, but I can't get more than a couple pounds a month. I just don't see how I can lose 135 million pounds by the midterms!
I'm guessing it's time to do a version of this for publishing professionals? Maybe we should start by highlighting that none of this is inevitable? We, you know, have choices, so I'll stay back here, you know, not being on the bleeding edge of... something.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm guessing it's time to do a version of this for publishing professionals? Maybe we should start by highlighting that none of this is inevitable? We, you know, have choices, so I'll stay back here, you know, not being on the bleeding edge of... something.
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Beanie Babies. Muppet Babies. Dutch Babies. Trump Babies.
Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Beanie Babies. Muppet Babies. Dutch Babies. Trump Babies.
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BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Every new story draft I write, I begin by thinking, “Yes, this will be the one I keep at 3k or 4k words.” And inevitably, they sprawl into 7.5k to 8k drafts. I’m doomed to write shorts that no one considers short (any more! I think a 10k short story is a perfectly reasonable length, frankly).
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Every new story draft I write, I begin by thinking, “Yes, this will be the one I keep at 3k or 4k words.” And inevitably, they sprawl into 7.5k to 8k drafts. I’m doomed to write shorts that no one considers short (any more! I think a 10k short story is a perfectly reasonable length, frankly).
Just grading student papers on a Sunday afternoon, like you do, and lamenting that AI has made it so that more and more of these essays use copious subheadings even if the student didn't use AI to write the piece (entirely possible that they used it to make an outline, I guess.)
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just grading student papers on a Sunday afternoon, like you do, and lamenting that AI has made it so that more and more of these essays use copious subheadings even if the student didn't use AI to write the piece (entirely possible that they used it to make an outline, I guess.)
It’s like a Douglas Adams story. Billions of dollars spent on a machine that consumes incredible resources. Earth has blown past 4C. Fresh water is gone. But at last it’s done. The makers ask, “How do we solve climate change?” The machine whirs and responds, “You can switch to solar 100 years ago.”
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It’s like a Douglas Adams story. Billions of dollars spent on a machine that consumes incredible resources. Earth has blown past 4C. Fresh water is gone. But at last it’s done. The makers ask, “How do we solve climate change?” The machine whirs and responds, “You can switch to solar 100 years ago.”
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I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
“Oh, look, a new Lisa O’Neill song!” I said to myself not realizing I’d be sobbing in my car in a parking lot.
Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right
YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill
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October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“Oh, look, a new Lisa O’Neill song!” I said to myself not realizing I’d be sobbing in my car in a parking lot.
God, I feel this direct to the bottom of my desiccated soul.
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
God, I feel this direct to the bottom of my desiccated soul.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
"US Comedians gonna say,
I, I, I....
will probably play Sun City
if they pay me enough."
I, I, I....
will probably play Sun City
if they pay me enough."
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"US Comedians gonna say,
I, I, I....
will probably play Sun City
if they pay me enough."
I, I, I....
will probably play Sun City
if they pay me enough."
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I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not.
Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.
Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.
Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.
Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not.
Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.
Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.
Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.
Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.
We’re about to get fiber installed at the house, which means that soon I will have another used router and modem to add to the “box of electronics that might one day prove useful” (tm) in the garage.
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We’re about to get fiber installed at the house, which means that soon I will have another used router and modem to add to the “box of electronics that might one day prove useful” (tm) in the garage.
Yes, Adobe. I'm going to need that very long document (the syllabus I wrote this summer) summarized for me because my feeble mind is incapable of reading and digesting twelve pages of prose.
September 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yes, Adobe. I'm going to need that very long document (the syllabus I wrote this summer) summarized for me because my feeble mind is incapable of reading and digesting twelve pages of prose.
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I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.
September 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.
Two years after the poets begin training the LLMs, ChatGPT defines itself:
A DATA CENTER, THAT IS A BLIND CARAFE
AI is a kind of vessel and a pointing. Pointing is a kind of AI with an empty vessel. All this and again, iterative, repetition and a diode pointing to another diode that is a vessel.
A DATA CENTER, THAT IS A BLIND CARAFE
AI is a kind of vessel and a pointing. Pointing is a kind of AI with an empty vessel. All this and again, iterative, repetition and a diode pointing to another diode that is a vessel.
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Two years after the poets begin training the LLMs, ChatGPT defines itself:
A DATA CENTER, THAT IS A BLIND CARAFE
AI is a kind of vessel and a pointing. Pointing is a kind of AI with an empty vessel. All this and again, iterative, repetition and a diode pointing to another diode that is a vessel.
A DATA CENTER, THAT IS A BLIND CARAFE
AI is a kind of vessel and a pointing. Pointing is a kind of AI with an empty vessel. All this and again, iterative, repetition and a diode pointing to another diode that is a vessel.
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