Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
@jessicahindman.bsky.social
Author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Fluent in West Virginian, advanced proficiency in New Yorker.
www.JessicaHindman.com
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The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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This is so good and I have been meaning to share it but have also been sick since October.
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Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years
Young children bring so much joy into their parents’ lives—and so, so many germs.
www.newyorker.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is so good and I have been meaning to share it but have also been sick since October.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Wild that institutions that have condemned generations of students to insurmountable debt don’t hesitate to do other unethical things for money!
March 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wild that institutions that have condemned generations of students to insurmountable debt don’t hesitate to do other unethical things for money!
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“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
Tremendously honored that luminary writer and generous person, @paullisicky.bsky.social has included Sounds Like Titanic in his list about music as self-invention. If you have not yet ordered his new book on Joni Mitchell you are missing out!
These books explore how a life can be created out of bent notes, new chords, silences, and broken strings (@paullisicky.bsky.social)
10 Books About Music As Self-Invention - Electric Literature
Each story makes a life out of bent notes, new chords, silences, and broken strings
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February 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tremendously honored that luminary writer and generous person, @paullisicky.bsky.social has included Sounds Like Titanic in his list about music as self-invention. If you have not yet ordered his new book on Joni Mitchell you are missing out!
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Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
My students write about so many hard things they've lived through. We talk a lot in class about "bad for life, good for writing." I love this beautiful tribute to the opposite.
November 22, 2024 at 11:26 AM
My students write about so many hard things they've lived through. We talk a lot in class about "bad for life, good for writing." I love this beautiful tribute to the opposite.