I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

We thought the future would be Star Trek, but it's actually dystopian cyberpunk.

I’m over 1,000. This is my shelf of go-tos. I have 40-ish boxes of books in a closet downstairs from a previous life. Also, I like a chaotic bookshelf.

Who we become in the process is the real reward.

Proposing a new name for the dopamine addicted: Dopaminions. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

David Foster Wallace, 1996

If AI writes your lesson plans, designs assignments, grades student work, composes emails to families, or "transforms teaching and planning in any way" I hope you're honest about it. Your principal, colleagues, students, and parents have the right to know.

I love this piece by Walt Hunter--both his reflections on how his students are now reading, and the changes he's made in the writing requirements for his course. Generously excerpted below, but do use the gift link to read the whole essay. ** I’ve witnessed the slow erosion of

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives.

You will live on the AI slop farm. You’ll have 10,000 acres and your front door will lead directly to a small 8x8 foot swamp. Three horses will drink from the water, with decapitated jockeys on their backs. One of your horses will be the longest horse in the world. Your fences

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” - Thoreau

According to Lawrence Buell, the Great American Novel: 1. Stands the test of time. 2. Imagines “national rifts” in the “form of a family history or love affair.” (Race often plays a role). 3. Encapsulates the American Dream: “the protagonist rises from obscurity to notoriety.”

Me, thinking about Plato controlling a classroom of 30 middle school students...sure, robots are coming to take teacher's jobs...okay.

I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.

If you come across someone asserting there is "no scientific evidence" that social media is causing harm, please send them this link. We lay out seven lines of evidence, including RCTs, natural experiments, and testimony from victims & perpetrators of harm

“Schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Michigan that once bought devices for each student are now re-evaluating heavy classroom technology use”

My dream of being a poet vanished like a thing in a whatever.