Just in case some other writer out there today needs to know exactly what time of day their character might hear a specific animal cry at a specific location xeno-canto.org

What begins as a festival afternoon becomes something else entirely. Stephen Brown’s “Shooter on the Parkway” follows two friends as celebration turns to uncertainty, and then to flight. A poem-essay hybrid about the moments that linger after the crowd moves on. Author: @scarletwitchy.bsky.social

Shooter on the Parkway

Hybrid: by Stephen Brown

open.substack.com

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive' by Stephen Brown! @scarletwitchy.bsky.social You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. Issue 6 arrives this Summer! #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature

I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience

electricliterature.com

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It's Totally Wrong

Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

futurism.com

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

wired.com

Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably)

✨Directed by John Carpenter✨@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THIS IS INSANE

The point of a student essay is NOT assessment. (I know many colleagues also do not understand this.) Teaching (and "learning") towards assessment is empty, it means nothing. A student essay is an experience in thinking. Assessment is (at best) feedback, but is not essential. The thinking is.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

“…Now, in some Australian schools, once a student finishes an assignment an AI chatbot will interrogate them about it: put them on the spot in a two-way dialogue, to make sure they really understood what they wrote.”

I haven't had to work on a lit mag's website since my MFA lit mag, and boy did injecting AI into Wix make their product shittier and more frustrating. kingsanthology.wixsite.com/whos-the-king

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

It's ME(Jaime)@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

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“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI

Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.

nbcnews.com

The woman who ICE killed was a poet. "i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

poets.org

Ok then.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 9mo ago

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

“I think angels probably communicate wordlessly / Through strange coincidences or through / Other people when you actually listen to them”

Tom Snarsky@tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Claire Dougherty, from SONNETS FROM LENT

Animorphs is better than The Chronicles of Narnia.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Poetry to jailbreak an AI, chalk rings to trap a self-driving car. Technology is going to turn us all into witches.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 10mo ago

this is quite the detail

Thank you @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social !!!

Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar)@metachrosismag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The letter is in the post so I can officially announce our Pushcart prize nominees! Congratuations to @scarletwitchy.bsky.social , @morganblackarts.bsky.social , Richard Oyama, BA Didcock, Andrew McKeown, and Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya. #litmag #pushcartprize

Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Mags Display Name@mags.colvett.online · 10mo ago

Academic intros that go hard

Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI

A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.

publishersweekly.com

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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

thetimes.com

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.