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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 21h

Grudging respect to the lady on the running trail who intuited I was listening to St. Vincent and blew vape smoke in my face.

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 1d

What work did objects like this do for their owners? Why have them? This one seems like an ode to the Lost Cause, but what about the horse's eyes?

Gold frame, green mat, color pencil drawing (I think) of a confederate solider on horseback holding a gun. The bit is pulling the horses mouth and his eyes are rolled back.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse
came across tiny postman's gardens in old London where there is a wall of plaques, set up in 1900, for ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to save others...

Beautiful small garden and beautiful tributes

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d

wrote a book about the B of E and the history of financial crises, so, obligatory:

"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 5d

But Hamlet as fboi, thank you Taylor. My Shakespeare students were yelling at me about the song as soon as I walked in the room. We close read the video, and I showed them your tweet. A good day!

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 6d

superego, id, ego

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 6d

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor is like “thank god you, my boyfriend, didn’t tell me to get to a nunnery, kill my father, and then get into a huge fight with my brother literally in my grave, after my muddy death!”

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 6d

It was the great “as though,” the how the day went,
The excursions of the police
As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
Vibrating to the distant pinch
And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.

John Ashbery, "The Chateau Hardware”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

something good to look forward to in chicago in a few weeks, Kashana Cauley and Jason Wozniak talk student debt and heists! interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

What’s Funny About Student Debt?

For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe part of the same trend, I was in a Barnes & Noble yesterday and it was packed, mostly with young people. The indie bookstore in Seguin is also always crowded, but I'd assumed that was a one-off.

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 10d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 7d

First time deadheading roses, some pink ones that came with the house and remind me of my grandmother, who wore rose perfume. The roses blooming feel like her checking in. Hoping to hear from her even more now, with the path cleared. (This is a "before" pic)

Wilting pink roses on green leaves in a backyard.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 7d

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 14d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 9d

As there is Better Than Ezra, so there is a worse Ezra. And it is always Pound.

Image from a 1915 letter from Ezra Pound: "I wonder if it would be possible to make a really bold plunge and hoist the banner 'No woman shall be allowed to write for this magazine.'"

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 9d

Out of all the hundreds of Beatrix Potter's illustrations, I think this one, from 'The Tailor Of Gloucester', is probably my favourite. It's just exquisite.
#BookWormSat #BeatrixPotter

A mouse in high 18th century women's fashion examines herself in a mirror, seated on a sumptuous sofa while another mouse is peeping through a gap in the fabric behind her.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 9d

Residents have until Oct. 6 to register in order to have an opportunity to weigh in on several issues, including raising the venue tax for a downtown San Antonio Spurs arena.

Read More👉 ebx.sh/KPqF9d

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 9d

A log with a white snail shell on green leaves, some yellow flowers

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, important step!

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 9d

We just need to outlast the bubble. Is what I tell myself.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 10d

this great point about the social character of knowledge —how knowing real things relies on others signaling when you’re wrong—is another way of highlighting the political importance of social shame. It also clarifies the fundamental nihilism of the AI-industrial complex

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10d

Memorizing this

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 10d

Drake meme. Holding hand up: "Can't find my purse." Looking happy: "oh yeah, that's where I put my purse."

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 10d

"One of the neat things about wildflower seeds is that if they don’t grow in year one because of a lack of moisture or other reason, they will grow in year two or sometime in the future."

San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 10d

Now is the time to plant wildflower seeds in sun or shade for spring color, plus best seed mixes, bluebonnets and trusted Texas seed sources.

Plant wildflower seeds this fall for spring blooms

Now is the time to plant wildflower seeds in sun or shade for spring color, plus best seed mixes, bluebonnets and trusted Texas seed sources.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 11d

The Collected Emails of a Modern Woman's Increasingly Accusatory Correspondence Between Her Work and Home Accounts.

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 11d

I did this yesterday, but it was that class breaks used to be for smoking and chatting, not the weird silence of everyone pulling out their phones.

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