JS
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
👩🏼🏫Instructor, Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Research: Archives, Material Media Studies, Pedagogy, 20thC+ American Poetry, Artists’ Books (everything is related)
⚛️Teach: Writing, Graphic Design, Games, Gender Studies
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
📜Research: Archives, Material Media Studies, Pedagogy, 20thC+ American Poetry, Artists’ Books (everything is related)
⚛️Teach: Writing, Graphic Design, Games, Gender Studies
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
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JS
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
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Your brain is not a computer.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.
Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.
Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
I’ve had a cold for a week now and it’s getting better but it also sucks. Today it seems to be winning again.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I’ve had a cold for a week now and it’s getting better but it also sucks. Today it seems to be winning again.
I really don’t want the national guard or civilians to get shot. Stop trying to create a civil war.
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I really don’t want the national guard or civilians to get shot. Stop trying to create a civil war.
Every Thanksgiving, my kid goes with his dad to visit that side of the family, and they run the turkey trot in the morning. Although I miss my son, I’m glad I don’t have to pretend to do that anymore.
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Every Thanksgiving, my kid goes with his dad to visit that side of the family, and they run the turkey trot in the morning. Although I miss my son, I’m glad I don’t have to pretend to do that anymore.
It’s Thanksgiving and Easter that make me miss my dead relatives, rather than Christmas, at least in this part of my life.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s Thanksgiving and Easter that make me miss my dead relatives, rather than Christmas, at least in this part of my life.
So many of the theories in information theory seem so obvious. People change their query while looking for information? Omg name it, you’ve got a theory. People talk about their interests to other people? Theory. You get a theory and you get a theory and you get a theory!
a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone and says you get a car and you get a car
Alt: Oprah in a red dress is holding a microphone and says you get a car and you get a car
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So many of the theories in information theory seem so obvious. People change their query while looking for information? Omg name it, you’ve got a theory. People talk about their interests to other people? Theory. You get a theory and you get a theory and you get a theory!
I have Capricorn rising which is very annoying, and my advisor is a Capricorn, which I think is optimal. If you’re stuck with Capricorn in your chart you need other Capricorns around to remind you to take it down a notch.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I have Capricorn rising which is very annoying, and my advisor is a Capricorn, which I think is optimal. If you’re stuck with Capricorn in your chart you need other Capricorns around to remind you to take it down a notch.
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Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver https://theonion.com/medical-student-practices-fat-shaming-on-cadaver/
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver https://theonion.com/medical-student-practices-fat-shaming-on-cadaver/
I feel like Comps should be more standardized both intradepartmentally and broadly. I would like to see, for example, good examples of answers so I know whether I’m over- or under-performing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I feel like Comps should be more standardized both intradepartmentally and broadly. I would like to see, for example, good examples of answers so I know whether I’m over- or under-performing.
I want to just hand in the draft of my dissertation as the answer for each of my comps questions and be like “apply”
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I want to just hand in the draft of my dissertation as the answer for each of my comps questions and be like “apply”
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November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
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If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
After a few frantic “where is my question?!” Emails I am maybe going to get my second question? I feel like there is a better way to automate this than having to ask people to release them when people are supposed to be on vacation.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
After a few frantic “where is my question?!” Emails I am maybe going to get my second question? I feel like there is a better way to automate this than having to ask people to release them when people are supposed to be on vacation.
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Coming March 2026 from @yalepress.bsky.social - Sumana Roy's beautiful translations of Jagadish Chandra Bose's work on plants, whose voices he recorded through stunning technologies + vocabularies.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Man Who Made Plants Write
An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose’s revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communicationJagadish Chandr...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Coming March 2026 from @yalepress.bsky.social - Sumana Roy's beautiful translations of Jagadish Chandra Bose's work on plants, whose voices he recorded through stunning technologies + vocabularies.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I guess I could have kept working on Q1 since Q2 hasn’t been released yet… I wanted this to work a bit more smoothly.
However, I’m also reading this book about D-Day which *really* did not go smoothly (was kind of a clusterfuck) so that puts it in perspective quickly.
However, I’m also reading this book about D-Day which *really* did not go smoothly (was kind of a clusterfuck) so that puts it in perspective quickly.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I guess I could have kept working on Q1 since Q2 hasn’t been released yet… I wanted this to work a bit more smoothly.
However, I’m also reading this book about D-Day which *really* did not go smoothly (was kind of a clusterfuck) so that puts it in perspective quickly.
However, I’m also reading this book about D-Day which *really* did not go smoothly (was kind of a clusterfuck) so that puts it in perspective quickly.
For bonus points, I asked my Games students to turn in a screenshot of their favorite character, avatar, or skin that they play any game with. I graded them tonight and they were delightful. It was fun to see how they represent themselves in games.
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
For bonus points, I asked my Games students to turn in a screenshot of their favorite character, avatar, or skin that they play any game with. I graded them tonight and they were delightful. It was fun to see how they represent themselves in games.
This book, When the Sea Came Alive, is a book of fragments of oral history telling the story of D-Day, and it’s very interesting (I’m listening to the audiobook, which is done with “a full cast”). One interesting thing is how many people “we know” were there, like Hemingway and Salinger.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This book, When the Sea Came Alive, is a book of fragments of oral history telling the story of D-Day, and it’s very interesting (I’m listening to the audiobook, which is done with “a full cast”). One interesting thing is how many people “we know” were there, like Hemingway and Salinger.
I turned in my first question but the second question hasn’t unlocked yet, which is annoying, but it does kind of force me to to go bed and not manically stay up for a week
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I turned in my first question but the second question hasn’t unlocked yet, which is annoying, but it does kind of force me to to go bed and not manically stay up for a week
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"Authoritarian gov'ts view culture as a threat bc in [art] you can 👀 alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable [+] the ppl with the most 💰 will get to decide who + what survives. The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes"
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Authoritarian gov'ts view culture as a threat bc in [art] you can 👀 alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable [+] the ppl with the most 💰 will get to decide who + what survives. The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes"
The only weird thing about this D-Day audiobook is that I’m 90% sure one of the readers is Bob/Archer — he has a great voice but it’s too instantly recognizable at this point
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The only weird thing about this D-Day audiobook is that I’m 90% sure one of the readers is Bob/Archer — he has a great voice but it’s too instantly recognizable at this point
You know how most of the time when you read your own marginalia, it’s cringe? I laughed with, not at, Past Jessica on this one:
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You know how most of the time when you read your own marginalia, it’s cringe? I laughed with, not at, Past Jessica on this one:
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"There is no Substack or interactive website... We want people to hold it, touch it + seek it out... That physicality gives the work its value, adding presence to information, relationships + the neighborhood itself. This is active engagement with your neighborhood + your neighbors."
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"There is no Substack or interactive website... We want people to hold it, touch it + seek it out... That physicality gives the work its value, adding presence to information, relationships + the neighborhood itself. This is active engagement with your neighborhood + your neighbors."
My mom asked what she could do to help me during my exam period and I said can you make me a cake? And now I have a whole cake all to myself. 😊
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My mom asked what she could do to help me during my exam period and I said can you make me a cake? And now I have a whole cake all to myself. 😊