Writer, critic, literary journalist, poetry editor. Trained as language philosopher. Follow at POETRY/POETICS/LANGUAGE/COMMUNITY (https://teapawt.net/t.co/bPAJgjYgsM)
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Wikipedia, which went online in January, 2001, is now the greatest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled. Yet in the last four years, it has lost 25 per cent of its traffic—more than a billion monthly visitors. Since the site recruits its editors from its audience, this dip also threatens its growth and quality. Many users have been intercepted by A.I. “It’s a cruelly ironic fate,” Julian Lucas writes. Wikipedia was the single most important training corpus in the history of artificial intelligence. Now artificial intelligence is threatening its survival. Read Lucas’s report on the future of Wikipedia: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
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One important part of rethinking and redesigning the university.
I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
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As a longtime admirer of Dennis Tedlock's work, who was both the McNulty Professor and a founder of the Poetics program at Buffalo, this is rather sad news
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Powerful and brilliant piece by Arundhati Roy on the dystopia of AI and what it’s already done to human beings. equator.org/articles/arundha…
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The @UBuffalo College of Arts and Sciences leadership may have been asleep at the wheel for the past few years but it's not too late for the new dean (and new president) to wake up and fix this mess. Just fill the empty Poetics chairs. Not hard, not complicated, not expensive.
UB Poetics was founded in 1991 & has since been a vital part of the English department & the broader poetry community. Recent administrative actions have placed the program in jeopardy. Please visit our site to read more about our efforts to save Poetics: poeticsinexile.crd.co
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UB Poetics was founded in 1991 & has since been a vital part of the English department & the broader poetry community. Recent administrative actions have placed the program in jeopardy. Please visit our site to read more about our efforts to save Poetics: poeticsinexile.crd.co
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For the Poetry Foundation— “Breathing At the End on the World” — on Auden, Aalto, and a visit to Helsinki in the Dog Days
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OK I'll break my posting fast for Anne Carson: nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books…
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“I write to find out what I think about something.” —Anne Carson
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From a Wittgensteinian perspective the AI consciousness debate is a philosophical nadir for culture. Virtually everything said about AI consciousness represents what Wittgenstein called the metaphysical use of language: words acting like an idling engine, doing no real work. 1/11
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“There's a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. buff.ly/Cgi7mCg
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SCOOP: In August, OpenAI convened around 40 mathematicians to discuss what to do if AI outpaces human capabilities in the field. The company hinted that its powerful models had solved hundreds of longstanding math problems, say people who were in attendance. wired.com/story/openai-is-pi…
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Even as a non-religious person, I personally cringe at the hubris required to personally tell the Pope that you think your company has created an ensouled being, thus rendering Anthropic equivalent to God the creator. Further, that you did it for profit and it is now enslaved.
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Working on the possibility of human extinction can be very stressful.
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look i get that extinction is scary, but what's the alternative? solve our own math problems?
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From petrol pump attendant to Dylan-feted rocker and Judd Apatow muse: the delightfully unlikely life of Graham Parker | Music | The Guardian.
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Ryan Ruby with a 6,000-word opus on Frank O'Hara. It's an essay about criticism, style, and the aesthetic and political valences of the Cold War, enacting O'Hara's own practice of writing directly for and about your friends. poetryfoundation.org/article…
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After nearly 25 years at WBEN-AM and 45 years in radio, talk show host Tom Bauerle was fired Friday, a week before his contract was set to expire. buffalonews.com/news/local/a…
