Will Canoe-Sick
@willcanoesick.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. he/him. I’m giving the internet one more shot.
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the notion that english is a “skills-based” discipline leaves its “content”—its substance—vulnerable to bad faith actors
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
the notion that english is a “skills-based” discipline leaves its “content”—its substance—vulnerable to bad faith actors
I grew up in a small town in Sean Duffy’s old congressional district. Once, when he was walking in the 4th of July parade, my mom walked INTO THE PARADE and made like she wanted to shake his hand, and then wouldn’t let go until she had given him a piece of her mind. She rules
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I grew up in a small town in Sean Duffy’s old congressional district. Once, when he was walking in the 4th of July parade, my mom walked INTO THE PARADE and made like she wanted to shake his hand, and then wouldn’t let go until she had given him a piece of her mind. She rules
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
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As the Center's sole foreigner, I'm in the office today, in case anyone on campus has a teaching emergency
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As the Center's sole foreigner, I'm in the office today, in case anyone on campus has a teaching emergency
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Anyone have a little “books teachers should read about AI” list? Am reading Kate Crawford’s book now. Going to read Karen Hao’s. Things we should read/share with colleagues and peers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Anyone have a little “books teachers should read about AI” list? Am reading Kate Crawford’s book now. Going to read Karen Hao’s. Things we should read/share with colleagues and peers.
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At one point one says "Maman" & gestures to her offscreen & she says "I'm not getting mixed up in your business" 😭
These French babies arguing 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
At one point one says "Maman" & gestures to her offscreen & she says "I'm not getting mixed up in your business" 😭
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i have no pie ranking — i like all pie — but i will say that my sweet potato pie once won an award
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
i have no pie ranking — i like all pie — but i will say that my sweet potato pie once won an award
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
You know that movie where Joaquin Phoenix dates the internet (Scarlett Johansson) and then the internet (Scarlett Johansson) gets sick of him and leaves the planet forever? We should see if Joaquin Phoenix is willing to date the internet irl
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
You know that movie where Joaquin Phoenix dates the internet (Scarlett Johansson) and then the internet (Scarlett Johansson) gets sick of him and leaves the planet forever? We should see if Joaquin Phoenix is willing to date the internet irl
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No, AI doesn't not "fix" dyslexia or whatever your email is trying to convince me.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
No, AI doesn't not "fix" dyslexia or whatever your email is trying to convince me.
As you can tell from both my skytweets and my reskytweets, I am not a fan of LLMs
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
As you can tell from both my skytweets and my reskytweets, I am not a fan of LLMs
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HUMANS WILL LITERALLY PROJECT THEIR DESIRES/INSECURITIES/YEARNING FOR INTERPERSONAL CONNECTION ONTO AN ENVIRONMENTALLY ANNIHILATING BOX OF BINARY CODE INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
HUMANS WILL LITERALLY PROJECT THEIR DESIRES/INSECURITIES/YEARNING FOR INTERPERSONAL CONNECTION ONTO AN ENVIRONMENTALLY ANNIHILATING BOX OF BINARY CODE INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY
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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 4:15 PM
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.
Francis Ford Copolla’s The Godfather Part III (1976)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Francis Ford Copolla’s The Godfather Part III (1976)
Thank you to the Wicked sequel for making my wardrobe “strangely alluring”
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thank you to the Wicked sequel for making my wardrobe “strangely alluring”
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
My brother and I have just been granted parental permission to be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year. (We’re 41 and 46, respectively)
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My brother and I have just been granted parental permission to be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year. (We’re 41 and 46, respectively)
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float James Carville out to sea on a barge
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
float James Carville out to sea on a barge
Nice chasm of horrors you fell into there
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Nice chasm of horrors you fell into there
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Well? Shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
They do not move, Charlie Brown.
Yes, let's go.
They do not move, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Well? Shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
They do not move, Charlie Brown.
Yes, let's go.
They do not move, Charlie Brown.
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Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
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If i was in the theater audience when everyone thought the train was speeding towards them, instead of screaming, i'd have been coming up with a plan
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If i was in the theater audience when everyone thought the train was speeding towards them, instead of screaming, i'd have been coming up with a plan
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife, Charlie Brown
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife, Charlie Brown