1. I’ve just come out of a webinar with Chris Sowton on his ‘personal passion project’ that I featured back in June, Teach Any Class, even more convinced that it’s a great idea and resource https://teachanyclass.org/
The site’s motto comes from Paulo Freire:
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.*
* Are you listening, Ed Sheeran?
If you scroll down the home page, you’ll find a red Ko-fi button. If those of us that can afford to click on it do so, that would enable Chris’s free resources to reach more teachers (who can’t afford to click on that red button).
2. The next meeting of Cambridge University Library’s Really Popular Book Club is a week today, 29th September, at 19:00 UK time: Sarah Brown from Anglia Ruskin University – they’re the ones who mischievously declared Cambridge to be their home on the signs at the railway station a few years back – will be leading a discussion of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really-popular-book-club-fahrenheit-451-ray-bradbury
Free to join; you’ll need to register.
3. The AI trade is too big not to fail says David Roche in Engelsberg Ideas https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-ai-trade-is-too-big-not-to-fail/
More than $3.1 trillion has gone into American AI, much of it financed by debt pinned to unproven revenues. The industry may find that the only road to its prosperity runs through a crisis.
4. All the stories by Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, Frederick Barthelme, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary Robison & Ann Beattie included in this JSTOR feature, Minimalist Fiction in Six Short Stories, are available to read for free if you register an account https://daily.jstor.org/minimalist-fiction-in-six-short-stories/
There’s another feature, Six Flash Fiction Stories by Contemporary Writers, here https://daily.jstor.org/six-flash-fiction-stories-by-contemporary-writers/
5. And, finally, from Word Smarts, What Words Have the Most Meanings? https://wordsmarts.com/words-most-meanings/
The words included are hand, turn, set and run: your choice?
CLAUDE’S OWN CONFESSION
I told Claude that I would acknowledge his help as I usually do, to which he replied:
Thank you, that’s kind. Though on this one I mostly flagged a broken link, a missing word, and a “that” that wanted to be a “who”, then tried to talk you out of a joke that was working perfectly well. Modest pickings for a credit.
LinkedIn newsletter version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tuesday-22nd-september-cambridge-roy-cross-jmrle/
