Em Bee
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university writing instructor | composition studies, peace studies, Appalachian literature, queer(ing) pedagogy | she/her | views my own | embrier.com
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I get it but actually insurance is not like anything else we ever buy. It’s like if we paid the grocery store regularly but sometimes went three years without eating anything but a salad every six months, and then got in a car accident and needed five years worth of celery in an hour.
Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store.
This post is about healthcare.
This post is about healthcare.
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I get it but actually insurance is not like anything else we ever buy. It’s like if we paid the grocery store regularly but sometimes went three years without eating anything but a salad every six months, and then got in a car accident and needed five years worth of celery in an hour.
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Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia
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One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
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It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
Honestly when I try to conceptualize how it’s possible that my spouse & I are making relatively good money and also not able to reach financial milestones, I just need to read stuff like this:
This is stunning -- an absolute must-read: "if you measured income inadequacy today the way [it was] measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200.
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie?open=false#§how-a-broken-benchmark-quietly-broke-america
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Honestly when I try to conceptualize how it’s possible that my spouse & I are making relatively good money and also not able to reach financial milestones, I just need to read stuff like this:
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Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
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The three genders (men, women, and cashmere)
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The three genders (men, women, and cashmere)
This is why I buy books at local bookstores. I bought 2 today.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is why I buy books at local bookstores. I bought 2 today.
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They're deprofressionalizing education and educators so they can let AI take over. Dissolve the department of education and force states to let unregulated AI take over everything it can.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
They're deprofressionalizing education and educators so they can let AI take over. Dissolve the department of education and force states to let unregulated AI take over everything it can.
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Bitch, AI isn't conscious you're just lonely
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Bitch, AI isn't conscious you're just lonely
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Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
The number of tenured or tenure track or early career academics I’ve seen go through like “I’m going to be a writing consultant freelance :)” to like “someone please pay me to do something” to yoga teacher / DoorDasher pipeline is bleak.
"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
“Stella why do you put up with x or y” what would you like me to do man. I was unemployed for 18 of the last 36 months. Jobs don’t exist anymore. We take what we can get now, warts and all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The number of tenured or tenure track or early career academics I’ve seen go through like “I’m going to be a writing consultant freelance :)” to like “someone please pay me to do something” to yoga teacher / DoorDasher pipeline is bleak.
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This is 100% my approach.
If only I could persuade certain of my students that I am serious about them not using it as well - at least in my courses.
A good number of my students are just as disaffected as I am though. I'm proud of their discernment.
If only I could persuade certain of my students that I am serious about them not using it as well - at least in my courses.
A good number of my students are just as disaffected as I am though. I'm proud of their discernment.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is 100% my approach.
If only I could persuade certain of my students that I am serious about them not using it as well - at least in my courses.
A good number of my students are just as disaffected as I am though. I'm proud of their discernment.
If only I could persuade certain of my students that I am serious about them not using it as well - at least in my courses.
A good number of my students are just as disaffected as I am though. I'm proud of their discernment.
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the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
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Back in undergrad I worked at a university press. Part of my job was tracking down which of our titles had been pirated and calculating how much money it had lost the press and our authors. When someone mentions pirating a book, I remember the amount of money a small press loses and I get very sad.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Back in undergrad I worked at a university press. Part of my job was tracking down which of our titles had been pirated and calculating how much money it had lost the press and our authors. When someone mentions pirating a book, I remember the amount of money a small press loses and I get very sad.
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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university administrators rushing to boost AI only shows how much contempt they have for the knowledge produced by science and technology studies
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
university administrators rushing to boost AI only shows how much contempt they have for the knowledge produced by science and technology studies
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Luddite leanings intensifying.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Luddite leanings intensifying.
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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I am "no I don't want to sleep on your couch"years old
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I am "no I don't want to sleep on your couch"years old
15 x 2 is 30
So it’s 30 x 18
18 x 3 is 54
So it’s 540
So it’s 30 x 18
18 x 3 is 54
So it’s 540
It's Mental Math Monday! Pam Harris from Math is Figureoutable wants to know how you would mentally calculate 15×36. Please share how you would do it in the comments.
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
15 x 2 is 30
So it’s 30 x 18
18 x 3 is 54
So it’s 540
So it’s 30 x 18
18 x 3 is 54
So it’s 540
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In addition to "slop", the over-eager introduction of Gen "AI" into everything feels increasingly like the moments when lead went into paint or asbestos when into every ceiling.
Society will be cleaning up the various types of damage for far longer than the profiteers will exist.
Society will be cleaning up the various types of damage for far longer than the profiteers will exist.
Schoolslop. Yes! That's exactly what it is. A great breakdown of what teaching is like in high school rn.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In addition to "slop", the over-eager introduction of Gen "AI" into everything feels increasingly like the moments when lead went into paint or asbestos when into every ceiling.
Society will be cleaning up the various types of damage for far longer than the profiteers will exist.
Society will be cleaning up the various types of damage for far longer than the profiteers will exist.
I'm really excited that after my experience in Denver, NCTE is going to go into my national conference rotation! It felt like a very practical and supportive space for teachers of English. CCCC and NCTE are the two national conferences in my field, and I've also enjoyed SAMLA, SEACS, & PCA/ACA --
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm really excited that after my experience in Denver, NCTE is going to go into my national conference rotation! It felt like a very practical and supportive space for teachers of English. CCCC and NCTE are the two national conferences in my field, and I've also enjoyed SAMLA, SEACS, & PCA/ACA --
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They should write a narrative about trans women that’s still compelling after you’ve done this for a few years
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
They should write a narrative about trans women that’s still compelling after you’ve done this for a few years