Lisa Dush
@lisadush.bsky.social
Writing professor at DePaul U. in Chicago and Faculty Director of HumanitiesX
Current projects: the experiential humanities, when writing became content, rhetorics of grant funding
TreeKeeper #1669
Current projects: the experiential humanities, when writing became content, rhetorics of grant funding
TreeKeeper #1669
Nice combo of hands-on and bigger picture in this upcoming series of community tree webinars: extension.illinois.edu/news-release...
Tree care expertise grows through Illinois Extension webinar series
URBANA, Ill. — Tree care isn't always led just by certified arborists, so University of Illinois Extension is ensuring that everyone has access to research-backed
extension.illinois.edu
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nice combo of hands-on and bigger picture in this upcoming series of community tree webinars: extension.illinois.edu/news-release...
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What kills me is that from the comms/ media end .
Everyone is complaining that copy ain’t hitting, adds don’t feel good . And there’s no “voice”
It’s not working practically, or strategically
It’s just destroying the planet in the interim
Everyone is complaining that copy ain’t hitting, adds don’t feel good . And there’s no “voice”
It’s not working practically, or strategically
It’s just destroying the planet in the interim
This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
What kills me is that from the comms/ media end .
Everyone is complaining that copy ain’t hitting, adds don’t feel good . And there’s no “voice”
It’s not working practically, or strategically
It’s just destroying the planet in the interim
Everyone is complaining that copy ain’t hitting, adds don’t feel good . And there’s no “voice”
It’s not working practically, or strategically
It’s just destroying the planet in the interim
Want to learn the Latin names of the common trees of Northeastern IL? Spent an hour in Claude and Copilot trying to make an app: Copilot's was better out of the gate, but got worse as I tried to refine it. Here's v1: a few errors and a demon voice, but not bad ladush.github.io/latin-tree-t...
NE Illinois Tree Latin Trainer
ladush.github.io
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Want to learn the Latin names of the common trees of Northeastern IL? Spent an hour in Claude and Copilot trying to make an app: Copilot's was better out of the gate, but got worse as I tried to refine it. Here's v1: a few errors and a demon voice, but not bad ladush.github.io/latin-tree-t...
Here is an excellent description of a feeling: "aware of the fact that my body and mind exist in a tenuous zizz somewhere between life, death, and computers"
Not my most important story of the year, but one of my favorites, I think.
I remember, if vaguely, when we used music to amplify emotions, probably to the extreme of wallowing in them.
Now—and well before AI—music became anesthetizing, a canvas for the void.
I remember, if vaguely, when we used music to amplify emotions, probably to the extreme of wallowing in them.
Now—and well before AI—music became anesthetizing, a canvas for the void.
Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore
“Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here is an excellent description of a feeling: "aware of the fact that my body and mind exist in a tenuous zizz somewhere between life, death, and computers"
Reposted by Lisa Dush
Honoured and hugely grateful to find my book, Terrestrial History, on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Honoured and hugely grateful to find my book, Terrestrial History, on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
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I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...
CAPTCHAs are for training AI?! youtu.be/x2mRoFNm22g?...
AI: Training Data & Bias
YouTube video by Code.org
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
CAPTCHAs are for training AI?! youtu.be/x2mRoFNm22g?...
Great piece, from a student journalist's perspective.
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great piece, from a student journalist's perspective.
Trade show despair meets AI despair: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trade show despair meets AI despair: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
Chapter 18 of Senna's Colored Television--the "Every show lives and dies on it premise" chapter--is a dialogue masterpiece.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Chapter 18 of Senna's Colored Television--the "Every show lives and dies on it premise" chapter--is a dialogue masterpiece.
What unpleasant and disorienting work it is to give feedback on student writing that might be AI-generated...
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What unpleasant and disorienting work it is to give feedback on student writing that might be AI-generated...
One task that Claude is great at: converting a pdf export of a handwritten notebook from the Remarkable tablet to text. The tablet's export function does a middling job, but Claude creates a nearly perfect conversion. Big workflow helper for us longhanders
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One task that Claude is great at: converting a pdf export of a handwritten notebook from the Remarkable tablet to text. The tablet's export function does a middling job, but Claude creates a nearly perfect conversion. Big workflow helper for us longhanders
I regularly teach #grantwriting, which seems like one of the most AI-able forms of writing there is. When I see tools like this, I have to wonder how professional writers will not have a much diminished or much altered role in the process: youtu.be/Y67An9VsOGw?...
Using AI to create a grant proposal draft in 5 minutes | Instrumentl Apply
YouTube video by Instrumentl
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I regularly teach #grantwriting, which seems like one of the most AI-able forms of writing there is. When I see tools like this, I have to wonder how professional writers will not have a much diminished or much altered role in the process: youtu.be/Y67An9VsOGw?...
Enjoyed reading this open-access interview with Sonja Foss about invitational rhetoric: journals.openedition.org/aad/7975?lan...
Sonja K. Foss: Invitational Rhetoric as a Feminist Challenge to the...
Sonja K. Foss is a professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests include contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist ...
journals.openedition.org
February 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Enjoyed reading this open-access interview with Sonja Foss about invitational rhetoric: journals.openedition.org/aad/7975?lan...
Reposted by Lisa Dush
As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
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Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia | Clarivate
New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research
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February 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
This is a good explanation of how data brokers and real-time ad bidding work.
It's time to end this type of advertising and the mass surveillance it's enabling.
To learn more about real-time bidding and the surveillance threat it poses to all, you can read the full article. (11/11)
To learn more about real-time bidding and the surveillance threat it poses to all, you can read the full article. (11/11)
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
www.eff.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is a good explanation of how data brokers and real-time ad bidding work.
Reposted by Lisa Dush
A new grant program from NEH’s Office of Data & Evaluation will support data-grounded research studies investigating the state, impact, & value of the humanities in the US. 2 levels of funding (>$75,000 / >$150,000) will support either 1- or 2-yr projects. ow.ly/Kyiy50UKwu8
NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities
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January 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A new grant program from NEH’s Office of Data & Evaluation will support data-grounded research studies investigating the state, impact, & value of the humanities in the US. 2 levels of funding (>$75,000 / >$150,000) will support either 1- or 2-yr projects. ow.ly/Kyiy50UKwu8
Recommended--well researched and considers more than the usual AI blah blah: www.bloomsbury.com/us/feeding-t...
Feeding the Machine
For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a mo…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Recommended--well researched and considers more than the usual AI blah blah: www.bloomsbury.com/us/feeding-t...