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"Employers today need workers who can move beyond task-oriented reading ... to something more nuanced and adaptive." An incredible bonus is that this good and true essay is written by a former student and Georgetown English alum, Grace Aldridge Foster (M.A. '17) (!) ✨👏

English Majors Can Teach Us How To Be Indispensable In The Age Of AITo increase their durability in the job market, professionals can borrow a page from the English major handbook and start honing their close reading skills.www.forbes.com

I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for

What an honor it’s been to be in dialogue with @sorourke25.bsky.social about our (very closely aligned!) projects — I’ve learned so much from her and can’t recommend her book highly enough, it really is so good. Hooray! 🌿

I finally have a physical copy of this astonishing book and cried reading the dedication & acknowledgements: what an immense accomplishment. I really do encourage everyone to find a way to read this— it’s unbelievably, inspiringly smart. Thank you, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, for writing it.

"Nature Bats Last"

in all seriousness it is absolutely true that a logic of accumulation developed in the context of mineral extraction (predicated on a model of luck, chance, intuition rewarded—akin to the ideology of a lottery) is entirely antithetical a (bourgeois) model whereby sustained effort yields results

this is gorgeous and haunting

"[T]here is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms."

proofs! 💖💖💖 @devingarofalo.bsky.social

“Vanderbilt is currently seeking a founding dean to lead the newly christened college.” via @eireannmor.bsky.social

“The conduct and behaviour of the mob appears very determined, and great fears are entertained that the day will not pass over without some collision.”

“Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. ...Physical books published before [2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools.” AI companies know **better than anybody else** that knowledge generated without AI is the only real knowledge

“I am rarely astonished like I once was. …Instances become types, phenomena taken care of by reason. …After years of muted but rising melancholia I am embarking on a project to explore perception when reading, to revive my capacity for it.” — @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on reenchantment 🌿💙

Highly recommend this book (pub. 2018), which contains field interviews w/ scientists grappling with what it feels like to work your whole life trying to convince the world to avert the Great Barrier Reef’s bleaching to death & still watch it go white

Coral Whisperers by Irus Braverman - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.www.ucpress.edu