Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Just found out that, next semester, I’ll be teaching two of the same courses I’m teaching this semester but with DOUBLE the students in each because course caps have been inexplicably raised in the middle of the school year, pardon me while I turn into the joker
I got proofs for my book NO PLACE FOR HOME: TERROR AND RACE IN LITERATURE AFTER 9/11 from @uminnpress.bsky.social! The press has also offered a 30% discount for those who pre-order before January 1st! To order, click the link in my bio.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?
Spent the weekend hunting the Blair Witch, I mean hiking. Anyway, she says “hi.”
Just another Anne-Carson-changed-my-life appreciation post, that is all
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I'm in The Crimson today asking Harvard to "reboot" our relationship with AI by: matching investments in AI with investments in reading and writing; (re)constructing "analog" education infrastructure; and developing regulations from the bottom up (incl. departments and faculty committees).
Reboot AI | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard is overwhelmed by the volume and variety of issues related to AI. Trying to load too many processes simultaneously, we are incapable of running any of them. We need to reboot.
thecrimson.com
Yesterday, a friend told me about a book that she has checked out of the library 29 times now and I immediately ILLed a copy. Any book that generates that kind of zeal is clearly one I need to read.
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
“It’s not just that women are doing more of the jobs and that the jobs are getting worse. Women are doing more of these jobs precisely because they are worse …”
madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉@lalouverouge.bsky.social · 6d agoHad the immense pleasure of reviewing Content Machines by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social for Defector. It's a must-read on the state of the "literary," and much else. Thanks to my editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social!
Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 7d agoNorway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d agoArchive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
I would just like to enjoy one fall semester without having to go begging for letters of recommendation for anything Can I just have this one nice thing?
it’s season of mists and mellow fruitfulness season, mthrfkrs
Good morning, comrades! Let's start the week with some thoughts on institutional and student emailing.
I love fall so much. I've lived in Vermont my whole life and foliage season still seems like such a completely bonkers and beautiful thing to happen every year. It never gets old. 🍂
Hey everybody, go listen to the new Greg Freeman album! It came out today and it’s really good. This is not a request, it’s an order. Get marching.
Had to grade a ton of student writing this week and developed a list of “real talk” questions to ask them about common issues I saw in their papers. It turned into a surprisingly productive conversation.
And we wondered why CMU needed the humanities to be “more synergistic” rather than “antagonistic” with the mission of the university. It won’t save ya’ll.
Sheila Liming@seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2w agoCongratulations to CMU for taking dirty hedge fund money from a guy who believes neither in education nor in free speech! We always knew you had it in you!
Congratulations to CMU for taking dirty hedge fund money from a guy who believes neither in education nor in free speech! We always knew you had it in you!
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When asked by the Financial Times what Harvard should do next, Griffin replied, “Harvard should put front and center [that it] stands for meritocracy in America and will educate the next generation of leaders in American business, government, healthcare, and the philanthropic community. Harvard will embrace our Western values that have built one of the greatest nations in the world, foster those values with students, and ask them to manifest these values throughout the rest of their life.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdb2v3lkf3ydb64xyyhc4ymv/bafkreigqiowiy2qukqnumbssnembfxp3rsbhfkcyeghftq5s5dt6sx74ee)
Carnegie Mellon University@cmu.edu · 2w agoToday, Carnegie Mellon University and Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst, announced a historic $3 billion gift to elevate Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami. #CMUMiami Read more: cmu.is/Miami-new-b
taught my students the difference between wangle and wrangle today and they were visibly upset
IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.
One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.
And now, raise your hand if *your* small college recently launched a new degree program in AI, in spite of this rather foreseeable turn of events? 🙋♀️
Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 4w agoPoll: Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools Last year, a slim majority thought schools that integrated AI would be better for students. Now a majority say schools that ban AI are better, according to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
A big plastic skeleton is just about the most fun you can have for $20, I’m telling you
Just completed a new athletic feat that I believe has Olympic-style potential, it’s called walking around all day with not one but TWO copies of Mike Davis’ CITY OF QUARTZ* in your backpack *hardback editions, obvs
