Sebastian Stockman
BLM. Teaching Prof., Northeastern. Reviewer @nytbooks @washpost @BostonGlobe, elsewhere. he/him
Newsletter at sebastianstockman.substack.com
- “She’s old enough to be your sister.”
- Cool! Was wondering which app I use would get shitty next!
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- whoa whoa whoa
- Oh I didn’t realize the plane went to Montessori school
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- Wait are you a Knicks fan and a Chiefs fan?
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- You’re so right
- I’ll bet he did
- <extremely Sigmund Freud voice> “Now Carl, did you hit the home run *for* your mother or *at* your mother?”
- Diversity was the only thing keeping the planes out of the sea.
- Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months wapo.st/4dlyTda
- I was asked to open the reception for our graduating English majors this week, so I made it into a little post. open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...
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- I’d like to suspend Miller’s corpus by its thumbs
- Uh, in Minecraft
- Bobby Valentine sneaking back into the dugout with a mustache ass move www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...
- This time she’s wearing a different sweater
- Let’s goooooooooo www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...
- Cmon, Spelling Bee, isn’t this what the Cardinals just did to Bob Prevost?
Wow, Leo comes out of the gate swinging: "To those who follow me, please know, I do not follow back."- Pope Leo and the Pharmacists
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- Carolina Hurricanes
- Love to chop it up with Mom
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- First pope to have uttered the words “Ryne Sandberg”
- Five hundred years after Martin Luther, the Catholics have finally put a poster in charge.
- 🎶Allllllll night You want the Pope American 🎶
- 🎶She was an American girl/ Raised on papistry🎶
- Jesse Waters asking “so why do they call you Big Balls?” with that “where do you geniuses get you ideas?” tone www.instagram.com/reel/DJJsYXh...
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- The garbage patch about to get some cool shit
- Even Melville’s talking about the president
- “The buck stops here, but the planes don’t.”
- Second fighter jet crashes into the sea after landing failure on USS Harry S. Truman www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- “If you can’t stand the heat, get in the drink.”
- The Rubicon has already been crossed: my house only has gender-neutral bathrooms.
- Conclave Primer: White smoke = new pope Black smoke = rolling coal
- She clave on my con till I smoke bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Local Elementary Students Name Liam LaFavers “King of Second Grade”
- This is one reason why I don’t, and haven’t, put grades on student essays for years. I give them all kinds of feedback, but not that kind. “Grades are pedagogically useless.” Of course they’re important from the student perspective—they have an exchange value—but they don’t have an educative use.
- This is not to say I don’t get LLM-produced essays, but an emphasis on process over product, I hope, lessens the incentive to use it.
- Cincinnati has a runoff system so Vance's brother gets to lose all over again in November.
- Interestingly, media coverage has been mostly focused on Bowman... if you don't click the results you'd assume Vance powered his brother to a competitive race against Mayor Pureval.
- “Outperformed” — not wrong, exactly. But also not accurate!
- About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
- As Clay Shirky put it in a recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Ed: “While the output of any given course is student assignments - papers, exams, research projects, and so on - the product of that course is student experience.” www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
- In my writing classes this means redoubling my emphasis on process over product.
- Read @philipchristman.bsky.social, or at least read this two-paragraph play from today’s newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/philipch...
- Going to start using “Orwellian” to mean “one who doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings”
- When the 15-year-old tells you she spent much of her sick day on YouTube trying to figure out “what Protestantism is” you know Dad’s about to pop off
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- It’s been observed before, but my man was literally the Original Poster
- I’d barely started to cook, fam
- She also asked about the Troubles, and I suppressed a little squeal
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- I mean, the oceans aren’t going to cook themselves
- It was when I said “and then there’s Calvinism” when my wife was finally like “she’s sick and needs to go to bed”
