Melanie Dusseau
@melaniedusseau.bsky.social
Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Every novelist, agent, professor, editor, & imprint, trad & indie, should read this. When I talk about the disconnect between academia & publishing, this is what I mean. LLMs do not belong in the writing process OR classroom. #EduSky @ecniumata.bsky.social erinniumata.substack.com/p/the-25-mil...
The $2.5 Million Question
What the latest AI scandal tells us about publishing, trust, and the writers who are about to pay for it
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There Will Come Soft Rains (Animation)
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AI detectors are deeply flawed. The same ethical concerns about the training corpus of most commercial chatbots applies to these punitive, unreliable, and potentially reputation-destroying detection technologies. The Atlantic owes HM Wolfe a public apology. www.thebookseller.com/news/tor-bra...
Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth
Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.
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Beyond excited to be chatting about analog craft inspiration & automation-free pedagogy with @kconrad.bsky.social at this amazing conference. @civicsoftech.bsky.social #EduSky #AIresistance
Please read this stunning piece of investigative journalism by @heidiblake.bsky.social Don't look away. 👇
Heidi Blake@heidiblake.bsky.social · 2w agoAndrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami on new charges of rape, trafficking, and child pornography. Here's my @newyorker.com investigation into how they built a vast empire of sexual exploitation in plain sight. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Hold on, boys. Pete's Big T ©️ testosterone supplement is on its way. Hair gel and Fireball not included. www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-e...
The AI burn book: Decoding the cat fights between Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic
The AI industry's burn book is growing as Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly rip each other on X, with Altman throwing shade at Anthropic.
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Unethical tools made by the worst men on the planet for the most corrupt administration in modern history. It's not too late to refuse to carry water for the mad king and his broligarchy bootlickers. #EduSky #ResistAI @edzitron.com is right: www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/
Let AI Burn
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"THE HUMAN CHORUS IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT YOUR VOICE." -Dave Eggers www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
Dave Eggers on why using AI to speak for you "is such a crime against yourself" : Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Dave Eggers isn’t about rushing creativity. His latest novel, "Contrapposto," has been on his mind for about two decades. And he tells Rachel he believes many artists do their best work in their 80s a...
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Is querying messing with me? Why, did someone say something? 😀 #amquerying #writinglife #booksky #romancewriter #queryingauthor
FU, Joe Rogan & your masculine rage bait, incel apologist spectacle of stupidity, rubes & propaganda enablers. UFC's circus of cringe-inducing nationalism isn't fit to carry Michelle Obama's bags. If there was any truth-telling in your sorry platform, you'd say so out loud to your dumbass followers.
Don’t forget to submit your abstract for our Life After Data conference, happening at Georgetown Law in October. Deadline is about a month away! www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication
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I'm just here to support the wizards of Scotland and Nessie, our underwater ally. 🐍🏴🧙♀️ #Scotland #Studyabroad #EduSky
Zine making workshop: building creative communities of resistance at #edtech26 www.conftool.net/edtech-annua...
Once more, with feeling: respect readers. If writers publish without disclosing their use of AI, they will lose their audience & the trust of publishing houses and journals. LLM syntax, especially in fiction, is cringe-inducing in its obviousness. #publishing #AI www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize
Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
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Are you there, Orwell? It's me, Ohio. #EduSky #DEI #academicfreedom ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/19/o...
Opponents testify against bill tying funding to compliance with Ohio higher education overhaul • Ohio Capital Journal
More than 150 opponents flooded an Ohio House committee last week with written and spoken testimony against new legislation that looks to tie college and university funding to the anti-diversity highe...
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I'm so thrilled to have two poems published in issue #21 of Steel Jackdaw. What a delight to share these pages with such wonderfully uplifting & subversive words & art: all 100% human made creativity. Thank you @daydreamacademy.bsky.social for this gorgeous issue 👇 www.steeljackdaw.com/edition-21
dear diary: we knew launching LLMs despite pedagogical & psychological evidence was wrong, but making for-profit bots "edu" was insanely easy. also, we wanted to be billionaires. millionaire is so early aughts. your real live boyz, OpenAI #EduSky #AIrefusal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beware what you tell your AI chatbot. It’s not a shrink – it’s a snitch | Arwa Mahdawi
In a case of ‘oh dear diary’, the OpenAI president Greg Brockman is having to read extracts from his musings about Elon Musk in court. It’s a terrifying reminder that what’s divulged to AI really isn’...
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If it wasn't posted to the Canvas gradebook, did it even happen? If only there were another way to "manage" learning. ✍️📚🚫🤖 #WOKEuplikethis #HippiePedagogy #Analog #EduSky #AIresistance #AutomationSucks #LuddLikeMe #FreeStudentsFromCorporations
If you were putting together a set of critical learning management system (LMS) studies readings, what’d you include?
Countdown to Ireland! I'll be: helping students with their projects, mining uni archives for my paranormal project, searching for gingers for my poetry chap, & presenting at ILTA in Dublin with my Library of Babel comrades. 🇮🇪 #studyabroad #amquerying #travelingprof #writinglife #poet #romanceauthor
Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’ — theonion.com/sam-altman-i...
Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’
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When historians reckon with the ease that AI found a foothold in higher ed despite its many failings, they'll be left with a story of misogyny & eugenics that should make it obvious why DEI had to be destroyed for automation to flourish in our universities. #EduSky www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Say it loud for the kids in the back row: it's time for a pedagogy of resistance and hope. @girouxh.bsky.social #EduSky #TeachingMatters #hopepunk #resist #AIrefusal www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
Pedagogy in Dark Times: Resisting the Technocratic Takeover of Education
Long before teaching and learning centers began codifying pedagogy into a set of transferable skills, critical educators were arguing that education is never merely technical.
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