Emman Shehu

Writer/ Activist. QUESTIONS FOR BIG BROTHER, OPEN SESAME,ICARUS RISING & THE RIVER NEVER RETURNS

In every situation still...GRATEFUL and learning from LIFE.

[Emman Shehu @prohabe]

"The range in Emman Usman Shehu's fourth poetry collection,The River Never Returns, is a digest of universal issues from Rising, a swift sketch of the creative process through Cityscapes, a mind spinning travelogue to the apocalyptic Apocalypse."
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[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Kurt Vonnegut: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” #writing

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

Do not despise the wilderness season. Some of the most important things God will ever do in you happen in the in-between places.

[Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà @ChukwuderaEdozi]

The critic has always been under attack.

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Kurt Vonnegut: “Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.” #writing

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

I can't stop thinking about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was a prisoner in the Soviet gulag between 1947 and 1952. He had no pen and paper because anything written would be confiscated and read by guards, so he composed a 7,000-line autobiographical poem (The Trail) entirely in his head while using matchsticks and a rosary as mnemonic tools. That's how badly people have needed stories to survive the unsurvivable. Why does it feel like we're several generations deep into deciding that need is optional?

[Felix Eshiet @Felix_Eshiet_]

“read more than you write & if made to choose between attending a workshop and being given access to more poetry and fiction, choose reading instead”

—mary oliver, a poetry handbook

[PortHarcourt Sailor @GodsgreatG]

This is Ukrainian gun instructor, Instructor Matto, demonstrating his speed and gun-handling skills in a challenging close quarters environment.

Such skills can only be acquired through many years of dedicated practice.

[Donna Tartt @AdwersJeni28228]

Someone out there is waiting for the story only you can tell.

Keep writing.
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[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

https://t.co/L91ldtXP05

[The Republic @republicjournal]

Kelani left school at 18 because he could not wait to learn how to use a camera properly. He worked as a cleaner in London to pay for film school. He sorted mail at Christmas to complete his diploma.
He has been making films for over 50 years. He is currently learning how to use AI.
This essay is a portrait of what dedication actually looks like over a lifetime. https://t.co/616YCwzkGL

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

'Intentarán matarme y sumir al Congo en guerras interminables porque saben que una África unida e independiente, tanto política como económicamente, marcaría el fin de su dominio y el comienzo de nuestra verdadera libertad".

Patrice Lumumba, lider anti-colonial congoleño, vaticinaba en 1960 lo que pasó en el Congo, fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por Bélgica y EEUU.... apenas un año después de estas palabras.

[Cтрикoза 🇺🇦 @strykoza_ua]

Just a friendly reminder to the world that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won Ukraine's 'Dancing with the Stars' in 2006.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I just found another beautiful verse❤️

MALACHI 3:10 the Bible says
"I will pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." May this be your story today!

[Er. Mansoor @MANSOORNABI12]

Intelligent people are OBSERVANT. They read people quickly but pretend they didn’t notice. They let you talk, reveal yourself, cross lines, and expose your intentions. Then they act once they know exactly who you are.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

Before you were ever born, God had good works already prepared for your life. You were made with intention and you were made with purpose. (Ephesians 2:10)

[Kieran Drew @ItsKieranDrew]

Don't waste your life hiding in the shadow of other people's opinions.

[Donna Tartt @AdwersJeni28228]

The first draft is about telling yourself the story.
The second draft is about telling it to everyone else.
#AmWriting

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

God has never once run out of mercy. Every time you have needed it, it has been there.

[𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒆 @DearAsiaNicole]

As an artist and creative, I believe creating in private is essential. There is something different about making work that no one will ever see. IMO long before an artistic identity is recognized publicly, it is formed in private through experimentation, curiosity, and practice.

[Kingmaker @MindHealthMaker]

Good people have high levels of empathy, but once that empathy is exhausted, they switch to a state of objective observation. They see you for exactly who you are, without the filter of their love. This is why their anger feels so cold, it is the absence of the warmth you took for granted