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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

superego, id, ego

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 7d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, important step!

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

Memorizing this

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

"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 · 6d

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 · 8d

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

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 8d

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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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 10d

One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 11d

I learned from The Cut that it's literally that!

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 11d

Vincent van Gogh, Butterflies & Poppies, 1889. Note the directness, even offhandedness, of Van Gogh's artistic approach here: the blue line he drew along the edges to frame the composition, and the areas of bare, unpainted canvas www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

Painting of vegetation with red poppies and yellow butterflies

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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