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/
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
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Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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"Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything."
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
www.merriam-webster.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything."
Went walking in a winter wonderland.
December 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Went walking in a winter wonderland.
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Also, @nearleft.bsky.social is a treasure.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Also, @nearleft.bsky.social is a treasure.
“innovated away” ✔️✔️✔️
No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away.
Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“innovated away” ✔️✔️✔️
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Incredibly proud to have participated in this article
As the last PhD student accepted into the LCS program, I continue to feel the impact of these decisions
As the last PhD student accepted into the LCS program, I continue to feel the impact of these decisions
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Incredibly proud to have participated in this article
As the last PhD student accepted into the LCS program, I continue to feel the impact of these decisions
As the last PhD student accepted into the LCS program, I continue to feel the impact of these decisions
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Harrowing (literally). And one of the knock-on effects from this kind of curricula violence is that legitimately interesting and promising computational work—including, yes, involving AI—is inevitably tainted by association. It’s not good for anyone, except administrators.
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Harrowing (literally). And one of the knock-on effects from this kind of curricula violence is that legitimately interesting and promising computational work—including, yes, involving AI—is inevitably tainted by association. It’s not good for anyone, except administrators.
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
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Workers made invisible and replaced by bosses, a perfect document of elite historical-political-artistic illiteracy
The people out on the steel girder of AI are the ones doing subcontracted content moderation in the global south
The people out on the steel girder of AI are the ones doing subcontracted content moderation in the global south
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Workers made invisible and replaced by bosses, a perfect document of elite historical-political-artistic illiteracy
The people out on the steel girder of AI are the ones doing subcontracted content moderation in the global south
The people out on the steel girder of AI are the ones doing subcontracted content moderation in the global south
“One learns through the review the bitterness of academe’s priorities: Yes, being reviewed is important (until it is not); no, reviews “count” for little to nothing on the vitae (but the expectation is that you will do them anyway).”
The academic book review is both a craft and an insight into the life of the mind. My thoughts on the genre in today’s Inside Higher Ed.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
Why Review? (opinion)
We review because it’s what we do, and it’s who we are.
www.insidehighered.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“One learns through the review the bitterness of academe’s priorities: Yes, being reviewed is important (until it is not); no, reviews “count” for little to nothing on the vitae (but the expectation is that you will do them anyway).”
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
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My first book pubs today, and among other things it is a love letter to Chicago — the city and the communities that have been a tenth muse for me.
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My first book pubs today, and among other things it is a love letter to Chicago — the city and the communities that have been a tenth muse for me.
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
All hail the Prince of Cats
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
All hail the Prince of Cats
Some really good points in this speech by Cory Doctorow about how to strategically counter AI boosterism.
Reminding people that AI will ultimately lead them to **pay more for reduced quality goods and services** is a useful antidote to corporate propaganda.
Reminding people that AI will ultimately lead them to **pay more for reduced quality goods and services** is a useful antidote to corporate propaganda.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Some really good points in this speech by Cory Doctorow about how to strategically counter AI boosterism.
Reminding people that AI will ultimately lead them to **pay more for reduced quality goods and services** is a useful antidote to corporate propaganda.
Reminding people that AI will ultimately lead them to **pay more for reduced quality goods and services** is a useful antidote to corporate propaganda.
Sarah Kendzior writing in 2013 about what personal experience taught me a decade later.
(I still haven’t been paid.)
(I still haven’t been paid.)
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sarah Kendzior writing in 2013 about what personal experience taught me a decade later.
(I still haven’t been paid.)
(I still haven’t been paid.)
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Me when I cite myself:
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Me when I cite myself:
I stopped dancing 20 years ago.
But then I moved to Vermont and met a group of retired dancers who meet on Sundays in the basement of a local library to chat, drink tea, stretch, do light pilates and, yes, DANCE, in fun and completely non-serious way. ❤️
But then I moved to Vermont and met a group of retired dancers who meet on Sundays in the basement of a local library to chat, drink tea, stretch, do light pilates and, yes, DANCE, in fun and completely non-serious way. ❤️
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I stopped dancing 20 years ago.
But then I moved to Vermont and met a group of retired dancers who meet on Sundays in the basement of a local library to chat, drink tea, stretch, do light pilates and, yes, DANCE, in fun and completely non-serious way. ❤️
But then I moved to Vermont and met a group of retired dancers who meet on Sundays in the basement of a local library to chat, drink tea, stretch, do light pilates and, yes, DANCE, in fun and completely non-serious way. ❤️
Woke up to find a crack in the morning
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Woke up to find a crack in the morning
Eating macaroni and cheese alone by candlelight—like my hero, Kevin McCallister
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Eating macaroni and cheese alone by candlelight—like my hero, Kevin McCallister
Aka how it feels to be building next semester’s Canvas courses while grading this semester’s finals
Hans Hauser, ca. 495
Woodcut with hand-colouring
Woodcut with hand-colouring
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Aka how it feels to be building next semester’s Canvas courses while grading this semester’s finals
“Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane / The silver pencil of the winter draws.” (Stevenson)
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane / The silver pencil of the winter draws.” (Stevenson)
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Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
In a dark cozy pub, cutting the pages of a novel open, like a wayward Wharton character.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In a dark cozy pub, cutting the pages of a novel open, like a wayward Wharton character.
Thrilled about this essay cluster on modern ghosts (featuring our pal @jshelat1.bsky.social and others).
asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...
asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...
Hauntings - ASAP/Review
asapjournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thrilled about this essay cluster on modern ghosts (featuring our pal @jshelat1.bsky.social and others).
asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...
asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.