Dr. Annaliese Hoehling
@evenannaliese.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Baroque Modernism. Crime Narratives and Culture. No kings, no tyrants, no billionaires, no concentration camps. More Aunties.
I have this assignment/activity in my FYS in which I show students how to look up physical books in our library (related to course topic), grab a call number, then go to the shelf and BROWSE until they find an interesting book, and check it out.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I have this assignment/activity in my FYS in which I show students how to look up physical books in our library (related to course topic), grab a call number, then go to the shelf and BROWSE until they find an interesting book, and check it out.
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I phrased the search a different way and the bot happily gave the opposite claim also as true, once again connected to a different set of semi-credible sources. Among the other issues, then, is that we are dealing with de-contextualizing tools. Information lifted from its chain of reference.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I phrased the search a different way and the bot happily gave the opposite claim also as true, once again connected to a different set of semi-credible sources. Among the other issues, then, is that we are dealing with de-contextualizing tools. Information lifted from its chain of reference.
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Part of what makes this different from previous iterations of misreading/misunderstanding is that these claims do not arrive to the students within specific sources and contexts, but rather appear as generalized un-sourced truisms.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Part of what makes this different from previous iterations of misreading/misunderstanding is that these claims do not arrive to the students within specific sources and contexts, but rather appear as generalized un-sourced truisms.
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Column: "On Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter," writes Richard Coolidge. And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
Column: This Black Friday, do something different. Get outdoors
This year on Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Column: "On Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter," writes Richard Coolidge. And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Kids currently only use the broad internet with supervision, but when we are looking something up or watching insta reels with them, we play spot the AI and spot the problems with the search results. For example, we looked up kasuqis (a chiton) mentioned in Molly of Denali and it gave us this:
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Kids currently only use the broad internet with supervision, but when we are looking something up or watching insta reels with them, we play spot the AI and spot the problems with the search results. For example, we looked up kasuqis (a chiton) mentioned in Molly of Denali and it gave us this:
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It’s easy to do theory on things you dislike. Can you critique something you love? Can you hold the duality of loving it and understanding it? Or that’s what I was trying to do. Hope springs eternal!
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s easy to do theory on things you dislike. Can you critique something you love? Can you hold the duality of loving it and understanding it? Or that’s what I was trying to do. Hope springs eternal!
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It’s like folks *want* to act like humans, but don’t trust their own human bodies or the humans around them? Humanity without humans is not humanity, folks.
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s like folks *want* to act like humans, but don’t trust their own human bodies or the humans around them? Humanity without humans is not humanity, folks.
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
I became the “old” this year trying to explain to my college students that Google used to be great and that I truly feel sorry for them that they have a different internet. If someone could build an AI-slop-free, SEO-resistant search tool right now…
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I became the “old” this year trying to explain to my college students that Google used to be great and that I truly feel sorry for them that they have a different internet. If someone could build an AI-slop-free, SEO-resistant search tool right now…
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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La semana pasada en DC, un agente de ICE fue descubierto removiendo letreros que indicaban lugares donde ICE había detenido a alguien de la comunidad. Creemos que lo hizo por ira, culpa o, mejor dicho, por vergüenza? Si ellos creen que lo que hacen está bien, por qué intentan ocultar las pruebas? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
La semana pasada en DC, un agente de ICE fue descubierto removiendo letreros que indicaban lugares donde ICE había detenido a alguien de la comunidad. Creemos que lo hizo por ira, culpa o, mejor dicho, por vergüenza? Si ellos creen que lo que hacen está bien, por qué intentan ocultar las pruebas? 👀
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.
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trans day of rest. trans week of chill. trans year of taking a nap
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
trans day of rest. trans week of chill. trans year of taking a nap
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Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
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Tbh I'm not even keen on machine learning. I'd love to see more use of "predictive model" which imo leads naturally to "what does it predict / model"
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Tbh I'm not even keen on machine learning. I'd love to see more use of "predictive model" which imo leads naturally to "what does it predict / model"
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THIS
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 1:35 AM
THIS
Just the existence of AI in my professional life makes me less efficient and just a bit dumber. It is the ultimate gaslighter to my professional identity: what is writing? what is knowledge? what is expertise? what is academic integrity? what is a colleague?what is reading? what is thinking?
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just the existence of AI in my professional life makes me less efficient and just a bit dumber. It is the ultimate gaslighter to my professional identity: what is writing? what is knowledge? what is expertise? what is academic integrity? what is a colleague?what is reading? what is thinking?
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This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
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November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings