Spent the weekend cleaning my home office, and after a lot of hemming and hawing I decided not to throw out my grad school notes yet. Not ready to let go, though I don’t have much time/energy/desire(?) to work on my own scholarship.

Teaching was way more my thing, and the early stages of research!

I’m sorry but you just wrote my New Year’s resolution for me: positive orgy of idly curious decadence for the whole of 2026

Even as someone with a Ph.D. in English and experience as a writing instructor, I worry that these exposures will chip away at my voice and style. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to be just developing one’s writerly voice in this environment!

Even without the tools baked into their word processors and email, a lot of what they might read on a day-to-day basis is AI-generated, from emails they receive to social media posts to the AI summaries and huge swaths of AI-generated articles that turn up with every Google search.

Congrats, Alex!!! Fine taste indeed

I think about the consistently misunderstood case of the Luddites. They were extremely advanced machine users (go try to use a spinning Jenny!), but they recognized a technological regime that displaced expertise (and payment) from the artisan to the tool.

SAME. But maybe all the recently fired military leaders and officers will be on our side defending democracy during the next Jan 6?? As always, I teeter between brutal despair and rageful (+ naive?) optimism

This sounds as incredible as it does horrifying…I wish I were in your class!

We are very much on the same page! General strike is my favorite option, though

Same! You might also be interested in this call: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Not *so* naive but also foolishly optimistic enough to hope is the only way I can function anymore

Best of luck!!!! I hope it’s also in a location you love 💗