Adam Houle
@houle.bsky.social
Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC.
www.adamhoule.com
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If efficiency is your lodestar, enjoy your brethren, the robots.
February 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
If efficiency is your lodestar, enjoy your brethren, the robots.
We should be asking both questions. I do not welcome being dehumanized by unhumaned text. What are we actually buying with that saved time? We buy more automation of what should be deeply human practices.
"The question I keep coming back to isn’t whether individual teachers are wrong to use these tools, but what it means that such tools now exist in the first place..."
Today: Brad Robinson writes about human connection and "synthetic affect."
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/i-hope-...
Today: Brad Robinson writes about human connection and "synthetic affect."
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/i-hope-...
I Hope this Blog Post Finds You — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements New! Technology Audit Curriculum: This activity provides a structured way to surface the ethical dimensions of technology tools. Drawing on four analytic ap...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
We should be asking both questions. I do not welcome being dehumanized by unhumaned text. What are we actually buying with that saved time? We buy more automation of what should be deeply human practices.
This is true
I think if I met a mountain lion in the wild it would understand that I love it and would take a gentle nap curled up with me. If I met a bear it would understand my love but would not let me cuddle it. If I met a rhino it would neither comprehend nor care how I felt and would kill me immediately
February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
This is true
If it’s “not true,” explain the drawings then.
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
If it’s “not true,” explain the drawings then.
Just an assistant professor in search of clarity and grace and communion over a love of learning. Professor Throatpunch here is a punk ass.
Tomorrow on The Rooster: A visit to Ohio State’s Right-Wing Free Speech Centers ends with a vicious assault from an … assistant professor?!?!
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Just an assistant professor in search of clarity and grace and communion over a love of learning. Professor Throatpunch here is a punk ass.
They’re delisting the wood stork so the can drain swamps and build strip malls and let DR Horton Homes throw up some stick piles for the exploding coastal population. Seeing it any other way is hope casting.
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
They’re delisting the wood stork so the can drain swamps and build strip malls and let DR Horton Homes throw up some stick piles for the exploding coastal population. Seeing it any other way is hope casting.
Jupiter’s right there in the middle
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Jupiter’s right there in the middle
The bitterest thing? Her farm is in Allendale County, SC, one of the poorest counties in the state and very likely to be one big data center in a decade.
There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The bitterest thing? Her farm is in Allendale County, SC, one of the poorest counties in the state and very likely to be one big data center in a decade.
Augie is pining PINING for my Red Vines, which are stacked like lumber on the arm of the couch. #caturday #twizzlerssuck
February 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Augie is pining PINING for my Red Vines, which are stacked like lumber on the arm of the couch. #caturday #twizzlerssuck
I had to borrow my neighbor’s F150 this morning. That thing had nearly 400k miles on it. Tape deck, manual windows. One key on a lanyard and a busted tailgate, but shoot, she takes good care of that truck. It drove so smoothly.
February 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I had to borrow my neighbor’s F150 this morning. That thing had nearly 400k miles on it. Tape deck, manual windows. One key on a lanyard and a busted tailgate, but shoot, she takes good care of that truck. It drove so smoothly.
Good for Heather Anderson. If a yoga studio can’t condemn terror and violence because of corporate signage rules, it’s probably a high honor to have your membership revoked.
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Good for Heather Anderson. If a yoga studio can’t condemn terror and violence because of corporate signage rules, it’s probably a high honor to have your membership revoked.
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Gertrude Stein - BOTD
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Gertrude Stein - BOTD
Awful rush job by Marion County Council. Data centers aren’t here to rescue rural counties.
NEW: Developers are using NDAs to keep data centers hidden while systematically choosing communities — often majority-Black rural counties — with less organized political and economic power.
In rural SC, a $2B project got pushed through during the ice storm: capitalbnews.org/secret-data-...
In rural SC, a $2B project got pushed through during the ice storm: capitalbnews.org/secret-data-...
A Rural S.C. County Quietly Approved a $2B Data Center During the Winter Storm
Data centers are the nation's fastest-growing energy demand driver, but developers are using nondisclosure agreements to keep projects hidden.
capitalbnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Awful rush job by Marion County Council. Data centers aren’t here to rescue rural counties.
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Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
“They quickly put together a bottle and watched as the child’s body relaxed. The baby drank the whole bottle and fell asleep.”
A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half.
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
19thnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
“They quickly put together a bottle and watched as the child’s body relaxed. The baby drank the whole bottle and fell asleep.”
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Andrew Wyeth, Groundhog Day, 1959 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
February 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Andrew Wyeth, Groundhog Day, 1959 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
No sun dog. A street light. Can’t believe this is Darlington, SC.
February 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
No sun dog. A street light. Can’t believe this is Darlington, SC.
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In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.
–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment
–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment
January 28, 2026 at 2:33 AM
In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.
–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment
–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment
Todd Blanche reminds me of the fixer lawyer guy Mark Hamill played on that remake of The Fall of the House of Usher without the grimness and grime. Blanche is just wormy.
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Todd Blanche reminds me of the fixer lawyer guy Mark Hamill played on that remake of The Fall of the House of Usher without the grimness and grime. Blanche is just wormy.
Reposted by Adam Houle
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January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Moon Dog — Fridtjof Nansen, 1897
January 23, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Moon Dog — Fridtjof Nansen, 1897
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Every child deserves a safe, inclusive place to
PLAY.
LEARN.
GROW.
The SPACES guide shows how cities can be designed in children’s interests, putting health, safety, equity and sustainability first 👉bit.ly/4jZyksQ
PLAY.
LEARN.
GROW.
The SPACES guide shows how cities can be designed in children’s interests, putting health, safety, equity and sustainability first 👉bit.ly/4jZyksQ
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Every child deserves a safe, inclusive place to
PLAY.
LEARN.
GROW.
The SPACES guide shows how cities can be designed in children’s interests, putting health, safety, equity and sustainability first 👉bit.ly/4jZyksQ
PLAY.
LEARN.
GROW.
The SPACES guide shows how cities can be designed in children’s interests, putting health, safety, equity and sustainability first 👉bit.ly/4jZyksQ
“Improper ideology”
Don’t send them anything.
The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f
January 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
“Improper ideology”
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Angular structure, Wassily Kandinsky 1930
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Angular structure, Wassily Kandinsky 1930