I think this is a very serious question people should ask themselves whenever they think they are being oppressed by a ābig account.ā What power is it do you believe they hold? What are the extents of that power? Does that power exist off this platform?
On every platform I feel like 50% of what I'm seeing is "help me I have no money" and "no one is paying employees their worth, so I have no money" and "large company just fired all staff, now the ex-staff have no money". 30% is about the Palestinian genocide. And the rest is AI filters. ITS BLEAK.
Resurrecting alt-weeklies is such a no-brainer for saving local news. The IP is sitting right there, hiring 10 reporters per publication would be relatively cheap and wildly influential.
Hereās what I tell my student when they express this anxiety: Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too. Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.
finally listening to the Bucket Problem championship reunion pod, and @seltzermom.bsky.social is right - it's wild that Hatsune Miku first coined "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions"
Reminder: "Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators" is happening this Friday. Register here: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...#EduSky
Not to put too much dip on Ace's chip, but I'm of the age (enrolled at UM in January 2005) where this national championship wasn't going to feel complete until Ace wrote about it. One of the essential Michigan fan voices online this century, and I'm so SO glad he got to dip a quill once again. šš
Still riding the high of a Michigan national championship and encourage all CFB folks who want the same for their teams to note that good things started happening for U-M when we started to completely lap the field in the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social charity bowl each year for New American Pathways