AWS and the Enshittification of Educational Workflows

Canvas is down.

Less Nerd, More Punk

We’ve ceded too much ground to nerds. We need to bring back a digital-punk ethos.

Genre’s Normative Function

Brief and wandering thoughts on genre.

Two Books (and Bookwyrm)

Thoughts on books I’ve read so far this year.

Link Roundup: January 27, 2025

Two articles on how we hide unethical behavior as “apps” and the need to dependencize everything.

Link Roundup: January 20, 2025

The old Internet was good. Or, at least, less bad.

2024 Review: The Movies

Visualizations of, and thoughts on, my year watching movies.

2024 Review: The Books

A collection of thoughts on the books I read this year.

Link Roundup: November 4, 2024

Fritz Lang on his film M and a tutorial for HTML-based resumes.

Content Management Pedagogy

Learning management systems have turned teachers into content managers. That’s bad.

Joker: Folie à Deux

Genre bending is played out. It just is.

Link Roundup: October 8, 2024

Book reviews and article writeups for the week.

The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (A Review)

A review of Jacques Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster and a reflection on his critique of rhetoric.

Cannon Shot Epistemology

Maybe we can’t shouldn’t base our thinking on what AI is now. Maybe we should think harder about what it could become.

I Don't Know What to Do About AI, and Neither Do You

This is a rant.

Bookish Thoughts

Brief notes on good books I’ve read this year.

Link Roundup: September 9, 2024

A link roundup of articles and thoughts on practices of reading, why ChatGPT is still extraordinarily limited at writing, and the “missing questions” in our conversations about the future.

Link Roundup: September 2, 2024

A strange combination of a 1998 interview with Paul Virilio and a blog post about ways to make better decisions.

Link Roundup: August 26, 2024

A link roundup up full of technical skepticism and the benefits of cutting back.

Stay on the Bus: or, Optimization is a Dirty Word

A grammar-based argument about why seeking optimizations might just be a big waste of time.