🔖 Read The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing by Vauhina Vara (Wired).
This is an excellent long read. There are a lot of good questions here. How can we scale non-capitalist initiatives in a capitalist world? How can we acknowledge volunteer labor in that scaling? How can we support local action without resorting to geographic discrimination?
🔖📝 Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION.
This is a really helpful piece that reframes rejection as the water writers swim in.
🔖🎓 Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes.
I love the assignment here that asks students to work with ChatGPT as if it were a student and they were a teacher coaching it to get better writing out of it.
🔖📝 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield.
This is one of the reasons I want to study creative nonfiction, to dig into public communication of the social sciences.
🔖📚📝 Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks.
Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.
🔖 📝 Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable model for educators to use to teach students how to use these tools ethically and for effective writing.
🔖 Read Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice.
…the people who live in the shadow of the refinery often don’t have the bandwidth to think about attending an experimental physical theater show on a bus.
“The problems in these communities – where am I going to live? Do I have enough food? – are so large, that it’s hard to even talk to people about any of the environmental injustices,” Cummings said.
🔖 Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKER’S MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS.
A+ geek satire.
