Nicole Cesare
@nicolec.bsky.social
My job is just...teach. Associate Teaching Professor of Writing Arts. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD collecting dust on my shelf. Amateur birder, voracious reader. Philly Philly.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
My brain processed the "6X" here in an unsanctioned way and now I've lost the will to live.
Epstein, who sexually abused underage women at his homes and one of his private islands in the Caribbean, also kept images of sex toys, according to the new release.
One of the photographs shows novelty condoms with Trump’s likeness on them. A sign reads, “Trump Condom $4.50.” (6/x)
One of the photographs shows novelty condoms with Trump’s likeness on them. A sign reads, “Trump Condom $4.50.” (6/x)
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My brain processed the "6X" here in an unsanctioned way and now I've lost the will to live.
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Oh, you say that AI is a scam that exploits the same people hardest hit by the economic ravages of colonialism? Huh
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oh, you say that AI is a scam that exploits the same people hardest hit by the economic ravages of colonialism? Huh
Why is @nytimes.com search so, so, so terrible? I'll do a search for a very specific phrase in quotation marks (say, the name of a movie that I know they reviewed) and the results will be, like, "Bosnian waterways flooding" "Try this iced tea recipe!" "Transcript: Ezra Klein on Abundance."
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Why is @nytimes.com search so, so, so terrible? I'll do a search for a very specific phrase in quotation marks (say, the name of a movie that I know they reviewed) and the results will be, like, "Bosnian waterways flooding" "Try this iced tea recipe!" "Transcript: Ezra Klein on Abundance."
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
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Honestly, I think GenAI art is some loser shit
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Honestly, I think GenAI art is some loser shit
Anyone else just blasting the Monsoon Wedding soundtrack today?
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Anyone else just blasting the Monsoon Wedding soundtrack today?
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From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
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Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?
Did the organist just play Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus Luzardo struck out Ohtani?
October 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Did the organist just play Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus Luzardo struck out Ohtani?
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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.
www.inquirer.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Anyone else when they see Rizgod? #survivor #survivor49
September 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Anyone else when they see Rizgod? #survivor #survivor49
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Trying to get my Gen Z students to engage in class discussion, so I’m replacing the desks with couches and giving them all lavalier mics they have to hold in their hands for some reason
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trying to get my Gen Z students to engage in class discussion, so I’m replacing the desks with couches and giving them all lavalier mics they have to hold in their hands for some reason
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I suspect everyone screeching in horror about this new Wuthering Heights trailer is giving Emerald Fennel exactly what she wants.
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I suspect everyone screeching in horror about this new Wuthering Heights trailer is giving Emerald Fennel exactly what she wants.
Again, if you are not using snake oil, you are badly missing out.
-Signed, CEO of Snake Oil Industries
-Signed, CEO of Snake Oil Industries
Again, if you are not using generative AI tools as as your research analyst, red-teamer of your ideas and as an editor of your writing, you are badly missing out. The generative AI models are getting better by the month.
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Again, if you are not using snake oil, you are badly missing out.
-Signed, CEO of Snake Oil Industries
-Signed, CEO of Snake Oil Industries
Marian: AURORA I WILL NOT LEAVE YOUR SIDE!
[sees Larry once]
🏃🏼♀️💨
[sees Larry once]
🏃🏼♀️💨
August 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Marian: AURORA I WILL NOT LEAVE YOUR SIDE!
[sees Larry once]
🏃🏼♀️💨
[sees Larry once]
🏃🏼♀️💨
August 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just deleted my Substack account (I know, I should have done it sooner!) and looking for tips on how to replace it in my scrolling routine.
July 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just deleted my Substack account (I know, I should have done it sooner!) and looking for tips on how to replace it in my scrolling routine.
I heard a podcaster saying ChatGPT gave her a meal plan which included Zoodles and Ezekiel bread. Congratulations on discovering diet culture of the aughts I guess.
People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”
I’ve never had someone in real life tell me how amazing ChatGPT has been for them with a concrete example but I’m hearing more and more stories of people’s lives being significantly disrupted by it in a bad way (ex from this morning: a friend of a friend’s dad is “dating” ChatGPT)
July 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I heard a podcaster saying ChatGPT gave her a meal plan which included Zoodles and Ezekiel bread. Congratulations on discovering diet culture of the aughts I guess.
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Feels like Kendall Roy talking about Vaulter:
"generations of artists & audiences are bypassing traditional institutions, smartphones have Balkanized fandoms even as they have made culture more widely accessible than ever" "with essays, new story forms, videos & experimentation with other platforms"
"generations of artists & audiences are bypassing traditional institutions, smartphones have Balkanized fandoms even as they have made culture more widely accessible than ever" "with essays, new story forms, videos & experimentation with other platforms"
July 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Feels like Kendall Roy talking about Vaulter:
"generations of artists & audiences are bypassing traditional institutions, smartphones have Balkanized fandoms even as they have made culture more widely accessible than ever" "with essays, new story forms, videos & experimentation with other platforms"
"generations of artists & audiences are bypassing traditional institutions, smartphones have Balkanized fandoms even as they have made culture more widely accessible than ever" "with essays, new story forms, videos & experimentation with other platforms"
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Hitting the post button once again to say how profoundly a betrayal of the core mission of education it is to see one of the two biggest teacher's unions in the US go in on AI.
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hitting the post button once again to say how profoundly a betrayal of the core mission of education it is to see one of the two biggest teacher's unions in the US go in on AI.
As a postcolonial studies person who read Mahmoud Mamdani in grad school and a film dork with Monsoon Wedding in her Letterboxd top four, this Zohran win is very big for me personally. And also for NYC I suppose.
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As a postcolonial studies person who read Mahmoud Mamdani in grad school and a film dork with Monsoon Wedding in her Letterboxd top four, this Zohran win is very big for me personally. And also for NYC I suppose.
Really struggling as a Philadelphian with how much @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes me appreciate New York.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Really struggling as a Philadelphian with how much @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes me appreciate New York.