My most recent book didn't get a lot of love or sell many copies. I know that's the norm, so for all us out there working mostly because we have this weird compulsion, keep it up, your art matters too ❤️

On Black & Asian ppl rating less attractive by White ppl: “This is not homophily; it’s anti-Blackness, & anti-Asian sentiment.'

'Sexual racism is a very real form of racism that can have consequences that extend beyond apps.'

Who gets to be safe while using apps? Apryl Williams

We're proud to launch a show where authors, artists, scholars, and, of course, librarians discuss the importance of libraries, library memories, and more. Episode one features author Meg Medina, 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. bit.ly/48laYX9

'CRITICAL HITS is an uncommonly good anthology. The essays collected here are deeply personal, rigorously argued, and, fittingly playful.' — Harvard Review

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Sunday morning #AWP2024 hotel lobby hot take:

“this year the pretentious hat stole the show from the pretentious scarf”

#AWP24 #overheardatawp

foucault was so real for this

Alwynne Beaudoin Haha! There's a huge difference between presenting characters with profound empathy - which the Iliad certainly does – and making them 'relatable' by modern norms (debatable!). I am glad if the cultural and historical gaps feel palpable for readers of my translation.

Hopping morning at the #AWP24 book fair!! Head over to see us and meet Iowa Short Fiction Award winner Thomas Dodson and grab a signed copy of his book!

Non-binary prospector: “There’s gold in them/their hills.”

What they say: “I am a poet”
What I hear: “I am hot and insane”

A great talk by Cathy O’Neil; these are the things we're discussing in my class on Algorithms and Inequality every week. youtube.com/watch?v=_2u_eH…

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Simping Chatbots: 'I just want you to love me, human.' nngroup.com/articles/sycop…

Some concepts I'm going to be laying out for my students this week (hopefully without completely overwhelming them): algorithm, artificial intelligence, general AI, narrow AI, machine learning, epistemology, determinism, technodeterminism, technochauvinism, partial truth.

Antidepressants are fine but a society that didn’t drive half of its adult population into suicidal depression would be better.

Because I did not like to stop,
I gently rolled right through…

i am begging any other sector of society to do anything for the public