You may think spending Sunday in the office would be sad and miserable, but I was perfectly content to put my head in the syllabus sand and pretend that the world's biggest problem was figuring out my assignments. And not, you know, everything but.
Laura Kremmel
@lkremmel.bsky.social
Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Every time someone says, "A.I. is here to stay," I've started saying "We'll see" with my most Virgo-y look. People actually seem pleased and relieved to encounter this response. So I'm gonna keep doing it.
And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5
The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy
Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...
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A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
A big thing giving me hope right now is all the horror bookstores that have opened recently or will be opening. Dying to visit them. In case you were wondering, this is what I would do with one of the many empty storefronts on the main street in my town.
One of the benefits of AI going forward will be to easily identify people who are incurious, lazy, & shallow. It will be increasingly easy to simply weed them out of work that requires critical thinking & problem solving skills. The problem is that AI is revealing just how *many* of them there are.
Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 6d agoI‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
Favorite British ghost short stories published in the last 50 years?
Very pleased to share this Featured Essay I co-wrote with the wonderful Charlie Tyson for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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A lovely moment during my summer travels: finding my book on the shelves of the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social library while doing some brief research there. 🤓🥰
God damn is this @jessecoburn.bsky.social story good: “A robot was on fire. Again.” www.propublica.org/article/gene...
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...
In these dark times, I feel especially privileged to have the supportive community of the IGA. It was wonderful to spend time w/ old/new friends celebrating thoughtful, innovative scholarship. So many people I didn't get to spend enough time with, but it was a truly great conference! #IGAHull2026.
I have returned to the land where I'm afraid to eat salad or berries. I've been gone for two weeks. How is this not resolved yet?
The age-old question: how many black dresses to pack for the IGA? 💀
📚️ New Catalogue! 📚️ We are so excited to share our Autumn Winter 2026 catalogue! Follow the link below to browse our fascinating upcoming titles 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/... Including titles by @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @knick666.bsky.social, @bodhisattvac.bsky.social ... (1/2)
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · last mo.
So then what explains the high numbers in NY?
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · last mo.They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/
It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...
This is a sad thing to see from my alma mater: adjuncts teaching core classes in an exclusive honors college that once valued community and justice. Faculty exploitation; what, therefore, should we do? www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...
Cook Honor College Part Time Temp Faculty - Indiana, PA 15705 - Indeed.com
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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This year we are celebrating 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous works with a conference focusing on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic. 22nd and 23rd August. All online. Open to all! Writing workshops! Panels! Keynotes! Poetry reading! Tickets from £10!!
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · last mo.What's this I see before me... a Romancing the Gothic online conference!!!! With discounted tickets for the next two weeks!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-terro...
George Lucas dismisses people resisting worker exploitation. It's not just creator-types who are exploited to make genAI products. People in Global Majority countries are exploited and traumatized doing data labelling jobs that don't pay a living wage even in a country with a weak currency. 1/
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
As an epidemiologist, I declare this to be an excellent substitute for fruits and vegetables during the cyclosporiasis epidemic.
