#SilentSunday is a thing on Mastodon, and it would be nice to see it take flight on #Bluesky On Sundays, post an image you took of something quiet and calm. Add Alt text and the hashtag #SilentSunday
Robert Dale Parker
@robertdaleparker.bsky.social
Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction & speculative fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging fiction writer. https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 3d agou.s. public universities are great and it's kind of a shame so many legislators have decided they hate them
“They’re acutely aware of the impact that this project will have on Indian Country, and they just flat-out ignored it." truthout.org/articles/us-... #NativeAmerican #Environment #Michigan
US Army Corps Pushes Michigan Pipeline Project Ahead Over Indigenous Opposition
The project, which tribes say violates treaty rights, has been the subject of heated controversy and legal battles.
truthout.org
We are still looking for one or two more short reviews (200-300 words) of publications from 1926! Enduring, popular or forgotten, we welcome any suggestions. If you are interested in contributing a mini-review in our next issue please email spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com
In that photo, it looks like Trump is dating the censored Epstein files.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w agoOne America, where sociopathic couples opportunistically use each other to get money/power with icy distance. Another America, where affectionate couples actually love each other and enjoy each other's company.
The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇
An amazing public service! Adding to my syllabus now!
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 3w agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
www.news.com.au/technology/o... #Booksky #Monsters From the company destroying books to feed them to AI: “A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted & encoded into an AI model, . . . 1/2
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
Informative article by an established author about not using AI in your writing, as well as not in your publishing ("Don’t incorporate ‘AI' into any part of your publishing process, either: Don’t use ‘AI' editing, don’t use ‘AI' art, don’t use ‘AI' translation…") #writers #writing #AI
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w agoI've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...
Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
We need to trust historians for history, real museum experts for museums, librarians for libraries, and teachers for schools. The idea of trusting the world's most determined liar to tell the truth about our history is beyond laughable. #Museums #Libraries #Education #History
bookswain.bsky.social@bookswain.bsky.social · 4w ago“The bequest is for the benefit of mankind. The government of the [U.S.] is merely a trustee to carry out the design of the testator.” “The will makes no restriction in favor of any particular kind of knowledge.” Page from my copy of the Smithsonian Annual Report for the year 1861.
Update on the Anthropic copyright settlement. How much money will writers & publishers get, & when? writerbeware.blog/2026/07/23/a... #Booksky #Writing #AI #Publishing
Anthropic Settlement Update: Final Settlement Approved - Writer Beware
On Tuesday, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval to the historic class action settlement in the Bartz v Anthropic copyright infringement lawsuit. At $1.5 billion, it’s the largest reco...
writerbeware.blog
The White House didn’t weigh scientific merit or alleged noncompliance of grant terms when they cut billions in life-saving research, they just looked for words they didn’t like. Blue states were specifically targeted for defunding.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · last mo.A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
How do you measure "earn more money"? In the early years after my university education, I made low wages in an editorial job, and then made a meager living as a freelancer. Eventually I did very well, and I like to think what I've done means more to me and a few others than, say, me as a banker.
NPR@npr.org · last mo.If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
chronicle.com
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social
Yale Professors Vow to Fight Trump if the University President Won’t
The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.
chronicle.com
If you are a faculty member and worried about the fact no one seems to be fighting back against the attacks on academic freedom, it might be time to join @aaup.org
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In a win for the 1st Amendment, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has struck down the higher education provisions of Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act, and called the law a "breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse": www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law | American Civil Liberties Union
The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the...
aclu.org
William Cuthbert Faulkner. 25 September 1897-6 July 1962. "Wonder. Go on and wonder."
My 2nd published crime-fiction story is the lead story in the new Black Cat Weekly. blackcatweekly.com Aspiring crime novelists at a NYC writers’ conference pitch their manuscripts to a literary agent & then discover that the agent might not be on the up & up. #CrimeFiction #Writing #Booksky #MSWL
I have just seen the appalling SLOP of a Google ad that asks "what if Jefferson, Adams, & Franklin had had our AI products when writing the Declaration of Independence?" What I hate most may be its assumption that the 3 were worrying about getting through the task EFFICIENTLY, time being money, &c.
400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.
