Quinn Grover

His sister Maile is a legit great short story writer. Haven't read the novels, but she's got the juice. share.google/GjzqIemKuSq7...

Would be very embarrassing to trip up the stairs out of the dugout during the world series lineup announcements, but I think I could do it.

Sophistry is bad and that’s what “debate” encourages. Dialogue between interlocutors who disagree but who are mutually motivated by a sincere desire for truth is one of the best things humans can do, but you can’t plan that or turn it into a public performance without ruining it.

Really hoping this is a mashup with Springsteen's "Atlantic City"

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I disavow the Smothers Brotherhood.

This is a pretty exceptional op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

If I'm ever in the airport and Billy Bob Thornton starts talking to me about T-Mobile, I'm going to interrupt him and ask him to use the Sling Blade voice to say "French fried potatoes"

Steve Pearce spent decades trying to sell off our federal lands, saying “we do not even need” most of them. Jim Risch voted to put him in charge anyway. Idaho’s public lands aren’t for sale, and they aren’t Risch’s to give away. Not one acre sold on my watch. Public lands in public hands.

When I first transitioned to teaching, I went through the teaching fellows—it was a great opportunity and is why I am where I am now. But it also came draped in a lot of reform rhetoric, including a conviction that teaching could be fixed by some silver bullet. I took a class w Tim Lisante early,

Don't threaten me with a good time

Agree. I cut back on listening to podcasts a few years ago because I realized I prefer listening to books. A good nonfiction book provides depth that podcasts generally do not. And exceptional podcasts do things books cannot do. The genres are responses to different exigencies.

“I sure was Queen Elizabeth!”

you can do three things: 1) basic "where's the bathroom" familiarity with agents 2) fundamental concepts (may or may not be relevant in three months) 3) broad critical reasoning skills the road is long but it leads back to liberal arts, basically

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I try not to be a doomer about the future, but sometimes I think about what a just world requires of an electorate (especially in the US) and then I get really bummed out.

The Phillies

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

wake up babe the Trump administration chatbot is crashing out again

the Phillies

Almost hope my Phillies somehow manage to miss the playoffs because it will be more memorable than losing a wildcard series. But because the baseball postseason is like 50% luck, if they get in they could also win the world series.

two things I think are true -Man City should receive maximal punishment for their decades of bad faith and cover-up -it is mostly neither here nor there in evaluating the "fairness" of the Premier League, which is among the most unfair sports leagues in history

There are many parallels including the fact that quality is remarkably worse. Going from professional journalism to podcasts and TikTok influencers is equivalent to the quality drop as software becomes vibe coded AI slop. But when the choice is between cheap, good and fast; good usually loses.

Every episode of Chad Powers and Steve Zahn gets a little shorter

Flashback to that time I gave my students extra credit for plastering Annie Dillard quotes all over campus in preparation for the eclipse.

Going to need a new greatest living American essayist. RIP to one the best writers of my lifetime. I'm teaching "the chase" next week and spent time this summer reading some of her best stuff. Go read "Total Eclipse" in honor of her. This sucks.

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

The most important thing about the data center backlash is that, in a time of intense polarization and micro-movements, it is astonishingly large—such a big tent mass politics that any time you try and an atomize or explain it you end up diminishing it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opi…

RIP Wendell Berry bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm watching The Batman and they are arresting the riddler and one of the cops says "Let's go, pencil-neck!" and I think, "sick burn, my brother, sick burn."

$2 million a year would cover the salaries of approximately 40 writing instructors (paid a reasonable, but still low wage). I would love to do a John Henry v. the steam shovel experiment to see which has superior effects, whatever this initiative discovers, or 40 additional writing instructors.

Relatedly: I am open to work! If you need someone to write about books, gender in pop culture or in general, and big cultural shifts, I'm your gal.

Passive voice is working overtime here. Trump cut taxes and started the war in Iran which have both massively ballooned the debt. NY Times makes it seem these things randomly happened and have “undercut” his plans to reduce the debt.

Hey literary scholars! Remember fun syllabus queries on the other site back in the day? Can we try it here? The literature of extraction: a syllabus. Please and thank you.

I think The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is a champ. It's like Dylan's third or fourth best album, but such a leap forward. Others: Chutes Too Narrow Separation Sunday De La Soul is Dead The Low End Theory Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Inside you there are two Wokes

This is funny in two very different ways. A+