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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

🚨IT’S MY BOOK’S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!🚨 You can join me on zoom for a virtual launch event tonight at 8pm ET!

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 2d

Universities serve capital even many of us "are alienated from this service to capital. And most try to carve out zones of autonomous agency"-- but we have done so individually rather than collectively. This is a great argument for why that needs to change.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

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Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 3d

well I guess I'm not pitching the WaPo again any time soon

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Well, if only there were a large supply of foreign students who would happily pay a premium price to get access to American higher education.

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 6d

"'There simply aren’t enough students to go around,' said Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota. But the effects of the demographic cliff, he noted, 'won’t be evenly distributed.'"

U.S. Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applicants

Forget a lot of what you thought you knew about higher education.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 7d

Yup-- AI wasn't the only reason I stopped teaching, but it was a major factor. I wrote a piece on this for Time last year and it went viral, which is a good indication that a lot of educators are absolutely despairing

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 8d

Digging into archives this week in preparation for this talk humanitiescenter.byu.edu/events/collo...

Colloquium: Victoria Livingstone

MLN Managing Editor, Victoria Livingstone, will join the Humanities Center on Thursday, October 16 at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. We hope you will join us for this insightful presentation on the journal’s e...

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 10d

On Karen Hao's "Empire of AI" and Richard Powers's "Playground." Also a reflection on what fiction (e.g., Playground) does well. open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

AI Empires, Real and Imagined

What fiction does well + Reflections on Karen Hao's "Empire of AI" and Richard Powers's "Playground"

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 11d

I'm in good company then! I have 2 nearly complete manuscripts (one of which is under contract) + I'm working on a proposal for a trade nonfiction book + I have a publisher interested in a new edition of a book I translated years ago. Some of those projects are on hold however bc I work full-time!

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you! It's probably a terrible idea to work on both at once-- but one book is nearly finished and for the other I am working on a proposal.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 12d

great-- thanks so much! Academic books (as you surely know) are often priced in a way that limits circulation. I have a book coming out w Bloomsbury Academic but I'm also working on trade book (on a different topic).

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 12d

This is a great essay-- beautiful writing and so well researched. You may not have come across this in your research, but I wonder if academic books factor into sales tracks (if the author then pivots to trade nonfiction). Do you have a sense of this?

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 16d

How long have teachers been saying this? 10 years? 15? 20? I'm at around 18 years myself. Reading and writing are experiences first so if we want students to genuinely do those things we have to create the conditions under which these things are done.

Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 16d

HEP author Jonna Perrillo co-wrote an op-ed for @the74.bsky.social, which argues that we should "loosen the grip on standardization and let teachers recreate the sort of experiences with literature that once made us, and them, into readers."

English Teachers Work to Instill the Joy of Reading. Testing Gets in the Way

Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16d

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 16d

This is great. But also I'm sort of fascinated by his reference to "real-life AI slop" to more generally describe manipulation and illusion

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 17d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 16d

Someone just told me that it's a mistake for me (as an immigrant/naturalized U.S. citizen and as a writer) to consider traveling out of the country (for research trips) given the current political climate.
I'm really on the fence about this. Thoughts?

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 17d

Capitalism camp

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17d

“The microschool will also serve as a beachhead for artificial intelligence-based instruction, says Parker, the superintendent, noting that with two instructors for 26 students they will need to rely on Khanmigo’s AI tutor for tailored instruction.”

At This Rural Microschool, Students Will Study With AI and Run an Airbnb - EdSurge News

A rural district in North Carolina is putting its hopes in a new microschool where students operate an Airbnb and study through AI-powered lessons.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 20d

"I’m not expecting solutions...many grad students don’t feel comfortable rocking the boat given how unstable the current climate is already" Everything about this-- the prof using AI and the students feeling they cannot complain-- is incredibly depressing.

Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 21d

Tomorrow 7 p.m. ET! I don't have answers but hoping for a good discussion those in attendance (via Zoom)
summitlibrary.libcal.com/event/14506056

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24d

Editor: You get those photos of Frankenstein and his monster?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22d

That nightmare relationship has been partly formed by $ + ed tech. I keep thinking about this (esp. after hearing from my daughter's kindergarten teachers about why they are obligated to use Chromebooks in class). I was also thinking about this (from @nplusonemag.com)

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22d

Great thread from @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Education is not "the purposeful annihilation of voice."

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22d

I think quite a bit about commenting on student work. It is, in some ways, the most consistently onerous part of the job of instruction, but, to me, that labor is not detached from the broader project of learning in a way that makes it impossible to comment on student work with a tool.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22d

I keep thinking about this-- for-profit ed tech is so deeply embedded in our public schools.

Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22d

Back-to-school night: my daughter’s kindergarten teacher said that she’d love to NOT give the kids Chromebooks but it’s out of her control because the district mandates it. There is a deal with some ed tech company and they are therefore required to assess my five y.o. (and other kids) on devices.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22d

Back-to-school night: my daughter’s kindergarten teacher said that she’d love to NOT give the kids Chromebooks but it’s out of her control because the district mandates it. There is a deal with some ed tech company and they are therefore required to assess my five y.o. (and other kids) on devices.

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