Lady Pink 1982 photo by Martha Cooper. She’s a graff legend

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Any educator who embraces AI on the basis that students will need to engage with AI in the world of work has missed the point that AI is a fundamentally anti-worker technology which will immiserate students' prospects of getting work and their experience in workplace itself

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious… A 🎂🧵 1/7 scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z…

i'm doing a panel on mecha ttrpgs at big bad con and i am writing a panel outline

We're hiring! As department chair, I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about Duke English, the university, or Durham. Please circulate widely! english.duke.edu/18thcentury

Apply! Tenure-line job at flagship R1 in English department: Assistant Professor of Digital/New Media Studies and Transmedial Storytelling, University of Tennessee Apply: apply.interfolio.com/152629 #AcademicTwitter #digitalhumanities

today’s morning berger is “a place weeping” from 2009 (published in threepenny)

If you got this please reach out to me or Cait. This keeps happening and we should atleast talk to eachother so the less experienced of us dont fall for the tactics of contractors like this. x.com/caitmayart/sta…

Catching up on some essential tabletop gaming reading. Love @senetmagazine and Wyrd Science Magazine magazines. If you are into tabletop gaming, it's definitely worth checking out their issues.

Next week you’ll get a new episode of American Vandal for the first time in more than six months. Sorry. At no point during this hiatus has the podcast not been on the Apple Charts somewhere in the world. 120K “old” episodes have been downloaded. nOBodY CArEs aBouT cRiTIciSM.

“Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza.” UN Special Rapporteur right to food ⁦Michael Fakhri⁩ on Israel’s starvation policies apnews.com/article/israel…

My entire high-school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional career, there's this recurrent question of: Is it possible to interpret a work of art? The answer is: yes. The answer is also: you will need to provide a basis for your interpretation, even if it's just "vibes."

a fun thing you can do, if you’re from the southern USA, is make sweet tea in front of a British person and just like watch their face

Added level up: Sun tea.

There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.

grad unions are important and raising stipends is important but no one ever wants to talk about the relationship between funding gaps and outcomes.

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…

A new report from about online toxicity points to cultural shifts as the scalable, long-term solution ...something very near and dear to my own heart (and research agenda). #gamestudies The full report can be found here: offlimits.nl/assets/downloa…