Jessica Smith
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner 📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books 🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS) 👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies 🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks 🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Nice thing about archival research is no, it actually really can’t.
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)@bestonetx.bsky.social · 44m agoIf you ask me about my research, and I tell you about it, your next question should not be "Couldn't AI do that?"
My MLS students would like you to know that if you don't post a salary with your job posting, they aren't likely to apply.
Despicable injustice Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers (Gift Article)
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
nytimes.com
Before deciding not to have more kids, I talked to a number of my teenage students and adult friends about their experiences as only children. My conclusion was that it’s fine to only have one. This is a controversial topic, especially for young mothers who are under so much pressure.
John@gemiston.bsky.social · 17h agowww.theatlantic.com/family/2026/... For parents, it can add pressure, guilt, and anxiety. 
"The problem with writing with AI is that it’s mentally enfeebling...As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create & everyone’s reason to care." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
nytimes.com
Looking for recommendations for celebratory zines to teach in my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class--can also be instructional but should have a "this thing/process is great!" quality. I'll purchase my students 20 copies of the ones I choose. @prisonculture.bsky.social? @marc-fischer.bsky.social?
Re-listening to George Saunders's VIGIL today. I think if you liked Lincoln in the Bardo (also by him) or Bewilderment (RP) (or other climate change novels) you'd like it (it is slightly less maddening than Bewilderment, whose ending I hated) ...
I was rereading my diary last night from 2006, when my first book of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar, was published. It shipped to me on 8/1/06 and I was frantically waiting for it to arrive, which it finally did on 8/7. Twenty years ago today I was waiting in my apartment in Charlottesville.
Slowly surfacing after ~6 weeks of being absolutely feral School starts in ~2 weeks, gotta start decompressing
Has your research ever been called “too descriptive?” My co-authors & I got so fed up we wrote 10k words on why descriptive research matters, how it differs from critical research, & why it’s no accident that “critique” is being levied in mass comm at this moment. academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...
In defense of qualitative description: reclaiming “little t” theory as a site of knowledge advancement
Abstract. This article problematizes post-positivism’s stronghold on the mass communication canon and defends the use of qualitative description as a legit
academic.oup.com
Trying to decide how much I want to stress out about sussing out every use of AI. Obvious cases are obvious. Borderline cases? A balance between stress, time constraints, certainty...
Reading George Saunders’s VIGIL now which you will like if you liked Lincoln in the Bardo.
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I like this book b/c my life makes a lot more sense with this framing 😂 I’m doing everything right basically, even failing right V comforting book that I think is especially useful for people ~15-25 or going through big changes in their lives (related to jobs, relationships, not deaths)
1) it’s insane how many minds haven’t caught up to the idea of germs/communicable diseases 2) note the Odyssey reference in the original article title, #gohumanities
Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d agoWe’re about to be reminded again that a frighteningly large proportion of the U.S. population do not believe in the germ theory of disease and are happy to say so publicly
I could give my students 100% on all the assignments they turn in w/o even looking at them and there would still be a range of grades b/c people simply don't turn in their work.
Hm maybe I should get in on these AI copyright class action suits ... are there any that are still open? (I assume they will be ongoing for years, always producing new ones as AI continues eating the creativity of others)
My son did his laundry and unloaded the dishwasher and I didn’t ask? He knew it needed to be done and he did it? Maybe Gen ZA isn’t lost (if they can get off their phones long enough to meet people)
Every college students should read these 2 whole books:
Dutch doctors and activists displayed 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza. This is heartbreaking.
Are you worried about getting your students to read, or keeping them from using genAI? Do you want to shake up a boring lecture class, but don't have the time to do major new prep? I can help! wix.to/Ps4K27i
Watching the 30 for 30 about OJ Simpson with my son (S1E15) … it’s really well-done and it’s also weird how much of our current (US) culture was set up in those days following Nicole’s murder … the rise of the Kardashians, 24/7 News coverage and the way it overlaps with reality TV