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.
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. 😊
So I was listening to this song (for meme reasons) and it refers to Leonardo DiCaprio’s antics — 16years ago, 11 years before TS’s The Man. Is there a whole thread of songs making fun of him?
youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM?...
youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM?...
The Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat (Explicit Version) ft. T-Pain (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheLonelyIslandVEVO
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So I was listening to this song (for meme reasons) and it refers to Leonardo DiCaprio’s antics — 16years ago, 11 years before TS’s The Man. Is there a whole thread of songs making fun of him?
youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM?...
youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM?...
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. murdered this baby.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. murdered this baby.
Tina Darragh. Such a lovely poetry mother. It’s been a hard year for the DC poetry scene.
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substack.com/app-link/pos...
Tina Darragh (1950-2025)
Tina Darragh, a defining figure in the Washington, D.C.
substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tina Darragh. Such a lovely poetry mother. It’s been a hard year for the DC poetry scene.
substack.com/app-link/pos...
substack.com/app-link/pos...
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AI companies are running out of data, humanists hold the key and thus the power on the future of AI. This is my AI collapse thesis. Shortly after sharing this on Meta platforms I was accused of not being human and my accounts (100k+) were shut down. #ai
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI companies are running out of data, humanists hold the key and thus the power on the future of AI. This is my AI collapse thesis. Shortly after sharing this on Meta platforms I was accused of not being human and my accounts (100k+) were shut down. #ai
God, I need an editor. Open apology to anyone who has to read this mess.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
God, I need an editor. Open apology to anyone who has to read this mess.
Studying history is realizing over and over again that humans be humaning.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Studying history is realizing over and over again that humans be humaning.
Well, I wrote for like 4 hours, then cooked, ate, vacuumed, and napped, so I’m going back in to my comps question. I have a lot of notes to work from because I’ve been working on this basic subject for a while now, but I have to organize, edit, and update it and relate it to the question.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Well, I wrote for like 4 hours, then cooked, ate, vacuumed, and napped, so I’m going back in to my comps question. I have a lot of notes to work from because I’ve been working on this basic subject for a while now, but I have to organize, edit, and update it and relate it to the question.
Next time you hate your job just remember that the U.S./allied military was prepared to accept *100%* fatalities on D-Day. 👀
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Next time you hate your job just remember that the U.S./allied military was prepared to accept *100%* fatalities on D-Day. 👀
The archival information about the paper reminds me of this photo of the secretarial pool at Nuremberg and how much *paper* there was
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The archival information about the paper reminds me of this photo of the secretarial pool at Nuremberg and how much *paper* there was
Everyone I know in AL is screaming crying throwing up b/c Doug Jones put his hat in the ring for governor so there’s a slim chance we won’t be stuck with Tuberville (who doesn’t even live in AL!) — best news here in a while!
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Everyone I know in AL is screaming crying throwing up b/c Doug Jones put his hat in the ring for governor so there’s a slim chance we won’t be stuck with Tuberville (who doesn’t even live in AL!) — best news here in a while!
Tired of looking at the big computer screen so I’m scrolling through the little computer screen and then taking a nap.
a cartoon character is sitting on a couch playing video games
Alt: a cartoon character is sitting on a couch playing video games with bloodshot eyes
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Tired of looking at the big computer screen so I’m scrolling through the little computer screen and then taking a nap.
I think TMBG might be the band I’ve seen live the most, and I like a lot of their songs, but the one that comes up on my interior playlist the most is
youtu.be/U49LhUIp16Q?...
Which has that lovely chorus that echoes the Muppet Show theme song
youtu.be/U49LhUIp16Q?...
Which has that lovely chorus that echoes the Muppet Show theme song
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think TMBG might be the band I’ve seen live the most, and I like a lot of their songs, but the one that comes up on my interior playlist the most is
youtu.be/U49LhUIp16Q?...
Which has that lovely chorus that echoes the Muppet Show theme song
youtu.be/U49LhUIp16Q?...
Which has that lovely chorus that echoes the Muppet Show theme song
Finally received my comps questions. See ya!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Finally received my comps questions. See ya!
I really think the authenticity that most of us (artsy neurodivergent genXers) value will become even more valuable in the coming years. Instagram is so dominated by AI and ads now that it’s almost unusable. AND I think GenZ, although they’re swamped with AI, wants and values authentic connection.
double down on who you actually are, have some integrity and you at least have more dignity than whoever's running after the latest thing trying to make themselves over in its image in the quest for popularity, er, dollars
Trying to get us to advertise as: "No AI, small classes, people-first." Or something similar.
November 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I really think the authenticity that most of us (artsy neurodivergent genXers) value will become even more valuable in the coming years. Instagram is so dominated by AI and ads now that it’s almost unusable. AND I think GenZ, although they’re swamped with AI, wants and values authentic connection.
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Today in History:
November 23, 2005
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to lead an African country.
November 23, 2005
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to lead an African country.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today in History:
November 23, 2005
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to lead an African country.
November 23, 2005
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to lead an African country.