Will Canoe-Sick
@willcanoesick.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. he/him. I’m giving the internet one more shot.
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Can you believe when we were growing up they didn’t know how to make a little heart with your hands after your athletic event
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Can you believe when we were growing up they didn’t know how to make a little heart with your hands after your athletic event
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Dare to Be Stupid is his manifesto
you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
February 18, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Dare to Be Stupid is his manifesto
Anybody remember what it’s like to not be mad about everything all of the time?
February 18, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Anybody remember what it’s like to not be mad about everything all of the time?
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Read so closely that we memorize it, take long walks and discuss what it means to think. A lot of things have been right for a long time. What went wrong was the attempt to frame our interventions through metrics. AI is basically a bunch of metrics.
It automatically wins in advance.
It automatically wins in advance.
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Read so closely that we memorize it, take long walks and discuss what it means to think. A lot of things have been right for a long time. What went wrong was the attempt to frame our interventions through metrics. AI is basically a bunch of metrics.
It automatically wins in advance.
It automatically wins in advance.
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It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
February 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
Lunchtime thoughts: tortellini is an A+ pasta shape
February 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Lunchtime thoughts: tortellini is an A+ pasta shape
Good morning, everyone! My iPhone is teaching me the value of dominance
February 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Good morning, everyone! My iPhone is teaching me the value of dominance
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we should think about school as though students’ real lives are actually happening right now
February 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM
we should think about school as though students’ real lives are actually happening right now
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Evergreen
I just wish people would read
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Evergreen
I’m happy for everyone, but I usually do still just delete most of my drafts
February 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I’m happy for everyone, but I usually do still just delete most of my drafts
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Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life
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I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
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I either dress like a scrappy steampunk researcher or exactly the way I did in 1993. But that’s kind of the cool thing about adulthood.
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I either dress like a scrappy steampunk researcher or exactly the way I did in 1993. But that’s kind of the cool thing about adulthood.
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Eliminate slop-friendly habitats
An important enabling structure that is helping slop makes its way into institutional life is several decades of built in bullshit bureaucratic bloat that is not meaningfully attached to advancing institutional goal but nonetheless has to be ground out week after week. It’s a natural home for slop.
February 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Eliminate slop-friendly habitats
If you’re looking for a mood booster to go with your morning coffee I recommend SHE’S SO UNUSUAL by Cyndi Lauper from beginning to end
February 15, 2026 at 3:06 PM
If you’re looking for a mood booster to go with your morning coffee I recommend SHE’S SO UNUSUAL by Cyndi Lauper from beginning to end
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wired: scorning academics using twitter
wired 2.0: scorning academics using scabgpt
refusal, you can do it
wired 2.0: scorning academics using scabgpt
refusal, you can do it
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
wired: scorning academics using twitter
wired 2.0: scorning academics using scabgpt
refusal, you can do it
wired 2.0: scorning academics using scabgpt
refusal, you can do it
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Slow, relentless, accountability is not a bad thing to aim for
The Illinois Accountability Commission is gathering precisely the kind of evidence that will hold ICE and the Trump Administration responsible.
Democratic AGs stress importance of citizen-generated evidence in challenging ICE • Stateline
Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to the Trump administration’s version of immigration enforcement incidents.
stateline.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Slow, relentless, accountability is not a bad thing to aim for
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I've had enough AI "woo-woo." If this technology is going to be meaningful and useful we can't surround those discussions with a fog of mysticism. biblioracle.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
Can We Please Stop it with the AI Woo-Woo?
If we're going to deal with this technology we have to cut through the fake mystery.
biblioracle.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I've had enough AI "woo-woo." If this technology is going to be meaningful and useful we can't surround those discussions with a fog of mysticism. biblioracle.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
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Educating about democracy won't defeat authoritarian cults; must educate through democracy by cultivating relationships built on trust, respect, solidarity--those feelings, dispositions, and values precondition truth-seeking and critical thinking.
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Educating about democracy won't defeat authoritarian cults; must educate through democracy by cultivating relationships built on trust, respect, solidarity--those feelings, dispositions, and values precondition truth-seeking and critical thinking.
TW
What a fucking monster. Good god
What a fucking monster. Good god
“It’s Valentine’s Day E Jean!” reads the email Carroll said she received, unsolicited, from Trump’s fundraising campaign... “I love you, and I was pretty sure you loved me back!”
www.rawstory.com/trump-267527...
www.rawstory.com/trump-267527...
Trump sexual assault survivor receives 'love letter' from his campaign: 'Sick and twisted'
Columnist E. Jean Carroll, who a civil court found was sexually assaulted in the 1990s by President Donald Trump, was left stunned Saturday evening after having received a “love letter” from the presi...
www.rawstory.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
TW
What a fucking monster. Good god
What a fucking monster. Good god
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Texas A&M University announced it will cut its women’s and gender studies degree program.
Limiting what students can learn doesn’t protect anyone — it restricts opportunity and weakens education.
Academic freedom isn’t optional. It’s foundational.
Limiting what students can learn doesn’t protect anyone — it restricts opportunity and weakens education.
Academic freedom isn’t optional. It’s foundational.
Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies program
University leaders also said six courses were canceled and 48 exceptions were granted under new rules on race and gender.
www.texastribune.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Texas A&M University announced it will cut its women’s and gender studies degree program.
Limiting what students can learn doesn’t protect anyone — it restricts opportunity and weakens education.
Academic freedom isn’t optional. It’s foundational.
Limiting what students can learn doesn’t protect anyone — it restricts opportunity and weakens education.
Academic freedom isn’t optional. It’s foundational.
Dr Robby got a haircut and a beard trim
February 14, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Dr Robby got a haircut and a beard trim
Today in my fitness class I learned that not everyone is good at pickleball! On the plus side, I only fell to the ground three times
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Today in my fitness class I learned that not everyone is good at pickleball! On the plus side, I only fell to the ground three times
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Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.