What an utter dereliction of duty by America's premier university. They've got untold billions in endowments, there's no need to carry water for fascists.

I stg Pace admin are practically contortionists with how hard the entire deanery, provost, and president are bending over backwards to protect academic abusers and help perpetuate their abuse But "retention and admission" like this shit isn't palpable in the classroom

Gotta say watching my university destroy itself in real time through terrible anti-writing and anti-core decision-making after landing an FT position was not what I had on my bingo card

Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing. Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...

TFW you work at a bicampus uni that doesn't know the diff between lit & rhet & lit folks in the other English dept are all juris-my-dick-tion crap about everything & win wars of attrition about core writing & WAC with toddler tantrums even though your dept knows what it's doing &

Absolutely love when a new doctor throws shade at your established care team, proceeds to ignore your reported symptoms, and inserts their own biases into your chart. Oh and also completely lie about assessing a const system in a way that could fuck up future care, that's great

Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.

I suspect that a not insignificant amount of the outrage and horror at Kirk's death is that theres an entire class of people in America who are more or less safe and stable and used to being able to speak and act without fear of any consequences whatsoever because they've insulated themselves well.

In the middle of collecting evidence of social impact to prove myself for A Thing (The Thing, even) and hoping to address what some might call a gap in my record... so I was wondering if anyone out there has been influenced by (in any way)/has taught any of the following pieces:

Maybe awards were always popularity contests but its like the metric has explicitly shifted just now to reward campaign stamina & highlighted how much harder it'll be for junior/precarious/disabled/caregiving faculty to succeed over those w/ privilege (& a suggestion of cronyism)

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

Next up, #L24 "Resisting AI Hype and Remixing Critical and Creative Resistances to GenAI in Writing Classrooms and Programs" with many awesome folks! #4C25

What with everything I missed that the new Peitho just dropped--got a piece in it from the WIP book, on culturally specific writing & archival preservation & (re)construction as Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled resilience in the face of genocide & erasure wac.colostate.edu/peitho/

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... @chalkbeat.org

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

AI is a technology of non consent and at this point decentralization is about unpaid extracted labor

If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs. Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Kairos is seeking submissions for our Disputatio section! The co-editors are particularly interested in submissions that offer provocations to and for the field, including but not limited to:

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, featuring exciting new webtexts, interviews, and reviews: kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

This is insanity. If you're researching Tay Sachs Disease or Sickle Cell or hypertension understanding the makeup of your sample--age, gender, ethnicity--is central and necessary. www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

Brb screaming that I landed a parser game about chronic pain and intergenerational trauma and torture and gaming and writing and academic racism and ableism anywhere let alone in @kairosrtp.bsky.social kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

Ableism is what transforms disabled lives into lesser or inferior lives.

Aetna and Evicore just denied a shoulder MRI and explicitly told me to do six weeks of PT instead, when my therapist told me that without knowing the exact nature and location of the injury, we might fully tear my arm free

Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

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This isn’t even correct! The “human shields” bullshit (of which “Israel” is guilty many times over, on camera, and which is falsely thrown at Hamas) doesn’t make it legal to murder children! What the fuck!!

Amazing: the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour says if U of T wants to raze the encampment on Monday and “move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” A solidarity rally of unions will be held at the university’s deadline of 8am Monday. ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...

Set 2 weeks before Mullivaikkal Remembrance, #MillionsMissing week is strangely timed for me every year; often I forget or am too drained to post anything. This year, here I am, more drained, more isolated, sicker. #MEAction @meactnet.bsky.social

the neoliberalization of culture has meant installing this cia cold war mindset so deep into the zeitgeist that practically any random person can be relied on to do it for free: the stochastic psyop

From the CUNY/GAZA Solidarity Encampment’s Instagram page:

Look at all the dangerous protesters sowing chaos at CCNY. This is from law professor @profhuq on 🐦 The CUNY law school students have taken the lead. Which bodes well.

"Emergency Emory Bail Fund Your support is needed to bail out and support arrested protestors at emory university Venmo: @ HALLESTEWART" please support an amplify....Any extra funds will go to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund

TikTok owner ByteDance would reportedly prefer shutting down its app in the U.S. rather than sell it to a potential American buyer if all legal options fail A shutdown would have limited impact on its business while not having to give up its core algorithm

Solidarity with our students putting it all on the line in the face of hostility and repression, and with our colleagues supporting and protecting them Donate supplies and/or to bail funds if you're able!

I do not have the words to express my grief so what I will say is that I've always felt like an imposter, but Bill always made me feel like I belonged in any interaction we ever had, like I had something worthwhile to say. He was kind and brilliant. What a devastating loss.

So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.

Depressingly, this is about allegedly substandard health insurance provided by the Mayo Clinic to its own employees

Join us at #4c24 to urge CCCC to break their silence around Pal*st*ne and academic freedom; Thurs, 4/4 at 8am outside of the grand ballroom (virtual participation included). Join us and share this info with your network!!

And "understaffing" was retail industry language used to cover for not being willing to compensate humans what they're worth, and instead being willing to make everything just worse enough to save some money, but not so bad as to keep customers from coming back

Sandy Wood, retired announcer for StarDate (the first radio show I wrote for!) passed away last week. One of Google's top results for her obituary is an AI-written travesty that claims she worked, not for UT's McDonald Observatory, but "At the McDonald’s restaurant on the University of Texas campus"

Sharp overview of Signal's new phone number privacy features & why they matter Grateful to @camillefrancois x @RidT for cutting to the marrow of the stakes & illuminating the imperative of private comms in 'uncertain times' https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/at-signal-a-revolution-in-messaging

I obviously knew I was doing this but I still did a double take

I saw a TikTok comment a few weeks ago that said, “why do I need to spend most of my day at work while AI gets to write poetry and paint?” I think about it constantly.

Did some other site's owner try to monetize the Holocaust and you finally GTFO? Are you feeling a bit lost in this new website? Here are some tips for you. Share widely for all the newcomers.

About 1 week post-op (iykyk), still recuperating, doing well overall. Conserving my energy for a long recovery but it was a shockingly good experience and I resent the medical gatekeeping that prevented me from accessing this care before and forced me to live with complications for 10 years