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Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social
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Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 1d
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 1d
dang that's cool

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1d
Attention Trekkies and SF scholars!
Honored to be giving a keynote at this wonderful conference next year in Paris! #StarTrek

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Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 1d
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 1d
I have a pretty good handle on how a lot of online scams work but I don't really understand how the "longtime employee wants to give away their tools for free" one is supposed to pay out.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 3d
damn though

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 9d
financially ruin the AI industry AND get a few thousand dollars in the pocket of your old pal gerry? that's what we call a win-win
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 10d
CFP closes in three days! SFRA 2026: Into the Slipstream: Watering Futures

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
June 17 – 21, 2026

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SFRA 2026 Conference | Science Fiction Research Association
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 11d
happy birthday... to me?
superman looking in a mirror and discovering he has suddenly grown old

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11d
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 12d
Coming up at 3 PM at MMLA today: "University Teaching in a Moment of Danger" roundtable with me, @bpladek.bsky.social, Liza Strakhov, and Meg Paonessa!

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14d
it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14d
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14d
turning a big dial taht says "Mortgage length" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 15d
FHFA'S PULTE SAYS ‘ACTIVELY’ EVALUATING PORTABLE MORTGAGES

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14d
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14d
things getting hot in the Dune class

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 15d
FHFA'S PULTE SAYS ‘ACTIVELY’ EVALUATING PORTABLE MORTGAGES

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 16d
the reason for the season

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 16d
Coming in 2026, the next book in the Mass Markets series: NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL by the great @vincenthaddad.bsky.social...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 18d
lol these are the last days of america
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BREAKING: Trump has announced a $2,000 payment to most Americans, funded by U.S. tariff revenues.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18d
BREAKING: Trump has announced a $2,000 payment to most Americans, funded by U.S. tariff revenues.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 19d
so far so good

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 19d
vince gilligan you crazy for this one

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 19d
assault on precinct 14
ambignostic.bsky.social Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 19d
Everything else? What, are you gonna make THEY STILL LIVE? You gonna follow up Prince of Darkness: What's Behind The Mirror? Just don't. Carpenter is best when you give him the least to work with and that includes the head start of building on a classic

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 19d
Can't wait.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 19d
peter watts waiting by the phone

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 19d
obligatory James Cameron at the white board: THE THING$
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20d
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'

"We'll see"

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 19d
Everything else? What, are you gonna make THEY STILL LIVE? You gonna follow up Prince of Darkness: What's Behind The Mirror? Just don't. Carpenter is best when you give him the least to work with and that includes the head start of building on a classic

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 19d
dang
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Let's make it official:

SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.

If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:

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Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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