AccordingLee

Today, I've done something I've never done before: I published a preprint of an academic article under a creative commons license on the repository "Knowledge Commons." This raises a question for my fellow #humanities #academics out there: what do you think of disseminating work before peer review?

AI companies could (and for their own good, perhaps should) be remunerating us for the content and data we create—and they steal. Why don’t they? #AI #IP #Copywrite accordinglee.substack.com/p/should-ai-...

Just a little something for the literature nerds, students, and teachers out there: accordinglee.substack.com/p/of-the-dev...

If I read or hear the words "AI is a tool" one more time I'm going to pick up a real tool and bash it into... something. AI is not "a tool." New communication mediums change the world, our relationship to the world, and our relationships to each other. So let's just retire this bland cliche, ok?

New Post. Subscribe for free. (Just ignore the payment options, they aren't set up anyway). substack.com/home/post/p-...

How should we treat Chatbots, an LLM tries to read Jane Austen, Vibe Coding makes fraud frictionless.... and deranged MAGA penguins! Here's some of what I've been brooding on lately. accordinglee.substack.com/p/brooders-r...

“Vibe coding” tools like Claude Code can allow even amateurs to effortlessly spin up entire code, websites, and applications which seem real but are in fact just attempts to mislead and defraud the public. accordinglee.substack.com/p/the-age-of... #AI #deepfake #ClaudeCode #Scams

accordinglee.substack.com/p/can-ai-ana... #literature #AI #NotebookLM

Canadian video essayist Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) is the best (semi-)popular commentator on trash culture that I know of. And boy, is the Trump admin PR team just constantly whipping up an open buffet of piping hot trash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Wq...

More from the vault: open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #literature #litcrit

Just something pulled out of the vault for the nerds out there. #philosophy #Heidegger #LitCrit accordinglee.substack.com/p/on-reading...

The big question everyone should be asking over and over these days is: WHERE THE FUCK IS CONGRESS?!

Am Freitag beendete die schwarz-rote Koalition die sogenannte „Turbo-Einbürgerung“. Am Montag führte sie die „Aktivrente“ ein. Was denken junge Deutsche, neu-Ausländer und arme Rentnern dieser Verschankung von Jobs, Steuergeld und Zukunftschancen an die reiche CDU-Babyboomer Klientel? #Aktivrent

How do you behave when interacting with AI? Does it influence the way we engage with real people? And will it eventually influence the ways in which AI treats us? open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #AI #Technology

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Trump's America is a total police state. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Paramount/CBS cancels Colbert's Late Show only days after he criticized the parent company's bribe-like "settlement payout" to Trump... BOYCOTT CBS, Paramount, and skydance). Just don't watch any of it (except the Late Show... make them feel it in the ratings.) apnews.com/article/step...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

"the antidote to our overlapping crises is not just better data or smarter technologies—it is expansive imagination. And that imagination is cultivated not in labs or spreadsheets, but through the critical, creative, and interpretive work of the humanities." wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...

A brooder's gotta brood. Check out my most recent roundup and recommendations! accordinglee.substack.com/p/brooders-r...

Great read: "...friction has become a class experience. Wealth has always helped smooth over bumps - but when the physical world is such a mess and the digital world is so easy, it’s simple to curate the digital into the physical if you have money." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

I teach a class on podcasting and politics. While I’m focused on explaining theories and elaborating concepts, my students are hyper-fixated on what works. And that’s valuable. Here are some quick-and-dirty lessons we’ve learned together. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

"How do you get a bunch of Democratic Lisa Simpons to all the sudden wile out, because Nelson is now the president." Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...

It's not tough folks. I'm teaching a podcasting politics class rn. The finding over and over is: be "authentic" and go where folks actually are (online & irl). We don't need a Rogan of the left, just candidates who put themselves out there and don't act like sterile, CNN-friendly bots of themselves.

Sometimes the Guardian publishes really good stuff. Want to change minds? Build relationships and lead with action, not words! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI technologies rely upon data sets harvested from the unpaid work we perform anytime we do anything online. It gets turned back on us to manipulate our perceptions and behavoir. Any benefits accrued are captured by techno-oligarchs. Can we reclaim agency? open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

"Curriculum.. taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged... Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Career self-selection explains the political leanings of the professoriate. Students don’t experience “indoctrination,” but rather moderate their views over time. In this light, there’s only one way to describe MAGA’s “viewpoint diversity” demands: as a power play. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

It's. The. Damned. Phones. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Put these headlines under the nose of every person you know today. But especially Republicans. "2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u... "Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Is this how people cope with democratic disintegration and economic catastrophe in a totally consumerist society? I'm deeply concerned; consumer therapy won't save you from the gestapo, friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

If you read nothing else today, I suggest you read this. kyla.substack.com/p/compliance...

Please sign and please repost. This is a big opportunity for us.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Little Sunday night econ lesson for y'all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I_...

"What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy." Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Hurrah! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

"most of the people who make a living off their financial acumen had less understanding of Trump’s priorities than a casual viewer of MSNBC." The fact that these supposedly "smart" people run our economies (innevitably, into the ground) is the the deeper problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Department of grift and evasion.

In Trump's America, tiny screw screws you! Doh!

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Digital subscriptions/paywalls act as "informational tollbooths"-gatekeeping accurate information. This funds newspapers, but drives polarization and social division. But what's all that got to do with coffee shops??? medium.com/@leeflamand/... #paywalls #digital #information #loneliness #isolation

No one is safe.

I've been a brooding maniac this week. Check it out. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei puts a glossy spin on AI in his popular blog post "Machines of Loving Grace." Should we buy the hype? AI is acculturating us to a an often cruel aesthetic of glossy mediocrity. open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #AI #Poltiics #Technology #DigitalMedia #Culture #literature