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Min Hyoung Song

@minsong.bsky.social

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English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · Aug 13

Some things I've been working on as chair of my department - sharing in case anyone finds its useful.

1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses

BC English GenAI Framework

Min Hyoung Song, Chair Department of English Boston College, August 2025 GenAI FRAMEWORK FOR BC ENGLISH COURSES While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) programs have become ubiquitous as ...

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 22h

OpenAI has made a $1 trillion worth of deals this year, and I can’t stop wondering if there might be more socially beneficial uses of this money.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 1d

But students can cosplaying writing papers.

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

Was shocked by our electric bill today. Almost 300$ for the month. 120$ is normal for us, and I thought that was high.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 2d

“Over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings” is such a banger.

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe you should have just let yourself go!

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine how different “Darkness”’would have been if he had worn the helmet while writing it.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 6d

I often wondered why Koreans used to insist so much on dressing formally all the time in public (not really as true anymore) and now I think I may know why (unfortunately).

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 6d

Like most everyone, at the height of the pandemic I only wanted to wear comfy clothes, but now I find myself craving more structure—sports coats, button down shirts, dress shoes.

I may be mere weeks away from wearing a tie to work.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Meditations in an Emergency
By Cameron Awkward-Rich
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 12d

I apparently don’t know what a flapjack is.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 12d

Can’t wait!

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12d

Cuomo could never.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 14d

I read the study this article is reporting on, and turns out the authors are very pro-AI. What they are trying to figure out is why AI isn't producing the efficiency they expect.

They seem to conclude it's the workers' fault (surprise).

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 14d

“Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, and 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent.”

Dang.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15d

A study has found that AI 'workslop', where coworkers use AI and their colleagues have to spend time fixing it, is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable."

www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

www.404media.co

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 15d

Wow.

“Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.”

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 16d

What if, despite my best efforts, I somehow lived a virtuous life and end up getting raptured, even though I don’t want it? Can I ask to be returned?

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 19d

This is so sad.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20d

it's not just online dating lol a guy I met hiking sent me some of the weirdest most linked-in-ass texts I've ever received! sir I am a writer, don't disrespect me like that www.thecut.com/article/ai-i...

AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse

What happens when users are inundated with machine-generated profiles and pickup lines?

www.thecut.com

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 20d

Doing it right!

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 20d

We did something similar though it ended up being fairly expensive (less plastic than other options). We don’t miss the fancy features at all, except the ice dispenser.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 27d

Wes Anderson has nothing on these guys.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 27d

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 27d

No during but after... a little bit.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 27d

I don't know if anyone will care about this given everything, but my colleague wrote the minutes for our department meeting all in blank verse.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · Sep 8

You can find a collection of these permits here… each one has crease marks from where they were folded to be carried. Eerie detail.

www.thegearyactproject.com/thecollection

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oooo I like this definition!!

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · Sep 3

“Many secure people — tenured professors, university administrators, lawmakers — have contributed to making academe a pressure cooker, incentivizing cheating.”

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

www.chronicle.com

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