Chris Hanlon

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Lovey to be included with these scholars. Also lovely that this is an open access journal.

Moratorium on “you’re fine,” as a response to someone who has apologized briefly for some minor inconvenience they may have inflicted.

Look who we’ve got for the day at ASU, two months after the Peoria School District removed Frederick Douglass from the curriculum. @samcohen.bsky.social ‘s here to speak a lil truth and also, as in this pic, to use superpowers.

Here’s the AI policy my students get today. Prolly won’t be getting any innovation awards this year. youtu.be/YfLmqLlUDvg

Anyone else read this?

Who would have guessed that Ross Douthat, who has used the NYTimes platform to do things like normalize the likes of Doug Wilson, would now be moving to CBS and the post-purge 60 Minutes?

In Arizona, clean energy candidates beat utility insiders backed by business groups and Turning Point Action. Marjorie Kelly and @thomasmhanna.bsky.social report that advocates for renewable energy and affordability now hold a majority on the Salt River Project board.

What better way to celebrate RW Emerson’s 223rd birthday than by joining the @emersonsociety.bsky.social and perusing the latest issue of the Dial? @c19americanists.bsky.social emersonsociety.org thedialjournal.org

Happy 223rd birthday to Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎉 Taking this opportunity to remind you all that The Dial’s latest issue (vol. 2, no. 2), edited by @chrishanlon.bsky.social, is available online!

As usual Matt Seybold breaks it down 👇🏻

I’ve got some thoughts in today’s Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/dont... (Sans paywall:) archive.ph/Blzzk

@andrewmaynard.net , who helped author the six “design principles” ASU published last year, notes that even given a “transmission” model of education, Atomic flouts the principles’ concern for “the rights of individuals’ privacy and agency in the use of their data, individually and in aggregate.”

Fantastic. “I think you can master complex subjects in like 20 minutes. Please let me run your university.”

ASU’s Faculty Ethics Committee on AI Technology: “We have a responsibility to develop and deploy AI models and applications with attention to the rights of individuals’ privacy and agency in the use of their data, individually and in aggregate.” ai.asu.edu/faculty-ethi...

The Chronicle’s coverage iterrogates the ASU Board of Regents’ assertion—in tension with longstanding faculty exemptions under US Copyright definitions of Works For Hire—that it owns faculty teaching materials. archive.ph/MNJN2

Cannot wait to see the new Illinois districting map

Here’s @samleecole.bsky.social describing exactly how awful ASUAtomic makes ASU look: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

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no credit to the lecturers, no names, no sources, no links or references to outside work. just AI summaries, including built-in errors. this one repeatedly references the "riscus" community as a mistranslation of "riskers"

Whatever else doesn’t come of this that should, I very much like that the ASU comms team is currently in a huddle

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“The best class we show, is but a mob of fashionably-dressed speculators and vulgarians.” WW, 1871

Bracing, needed counterpoint to the slop most university admin are pushing. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

Please circulate! The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce its 2026 award competitions: the Research Award, Outreach Award, Undergraduate Student Essay Prize, and Graduate Student Essay Award. For more details see: emersonsociety.org/2026-rwes-aw...

Ollie doesn’t know what this C19 bullshit is but he’s glad it’s over.

Let’s do it again soon, C19

Good morning! And welcome to Day 1 in Cincinnati, C19! @c19americanists.bsky.social

Airplane reading for C19, courtesy of the Emerson Society—our third issue is live! With content by Christina Zwarg, Rachel Banner, Rachel DeWitt, Max Chapnick, Kristin Lacey, Rachael DeWitt, Susan Dunston, Sonia Di Loreto, & Mollie Barnes. thedialjournal.org @c19americanists.bsky.social

The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social

Funny that neither the NYTimes review nor the New Yorker mention that little of the dialogue in “Wuthering Heights” seems actually to come from the novel. Also if this is such an expressionistic rendering would it have killed Fennel to include some puppy-hanging?

Just passed four armored vehicles on Northern Ave at rush-hour.

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Very excited! @c19americanists.bsky.social @asuenglish.bluesky.social asuevents.asu.edu/event/save-y...

@johnubacon.bsky.social ‘s book on the Edmund Fitzgerald is pretty engaging but loses the plot @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social catches: the ship was part of a whole infrastructure of crazy, ecocidal, midcentury extraction the likes of which we seem to be returning. open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

This move toward English Department websites that do not list faculty members, or that place faculty behind labyrinths, is obviously intended to disempower said faculty, but the actual effect is to disrupt the establishment of connections and the flow of opportunities toward the institution.