Like a magic ring, it draws an energy out of people, amplifying our capacity for the demonic as well as the prophetic insofar as it serves the ends of public dramatization, escalating and heating things (or our perception of things) up. daviddark.substack.com/p/nobodys-an...

Sure, two seconds of user research would have told you this was a stupid idea, but it was much more fun to do it the slow and expensive way that makes everyone hate you

My linguist colleague just referred to pollen as “allergy squigglies” and I approve.

That response is really interesting to me because by mindset I'm immune or even hostile to a productivity mindset, but I think so much of our culture treats productivity as a virtue in and of itself, so having the AI agent do it just feels good to them, so why stop?

I can confirm that this collection is spectacular. Congrats to @emilyskaja.bsky.social.

I'm on a podcast! And @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social too! Come listen to us promote Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. We're a fucking delight, if I do say so myself.

Excuse me while I ignore education hot takes from ivy league insiders.

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go off jack white

The one thing I’ll say that AI has done: made a lot of people demonstrate their definitions of learning, most of which are wrong or not backed up by empirical evidence.

As promised earlier my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social on technofeudalism and how edtech has steadily been eroding our freedoms and capturing the value of our labor (and student work) for themselves. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

Apropos of ~everything~, I highly recommend this edited volume: From a Whisper to a Movement” Like chapter 3: “Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing” sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...

Print copies of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, came in the mail today! Thanks to @upcolorado.bsky.social for publishing it!

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access! publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

@paulscheer.com ‘s legs and my PhD diploma. To me this is like a background pic version of getting one of the hosts of Wait Wait to record a voicemail greeting. Also, no context makes this funnier.

Best take I’ve read on Nuzzigate is from @biblioracle.bsky.social : “Pardon me for saying the obvious, but for a book to sell, it must please readers in some tangible way that induces those readers to tell others that this is a book they should read”

Sharing because this is the first and no doubt last time I will be acknowledged in the same sentence BEFORE Hans Zimmer, Maya Angelou, and Rick Rubin. 🤣🥸

SCENE: @awscloud.bsky.social : remember that battery you bought 2+ years ago? Yeah, the company issued a recall. Go to this email address they gave us to find out what to do. 2 MINUTES LATER: (Cut to image of undeliverable message because the email address doesn’t exist)

Random #teaching and #highered hot take: Everyone who complains about how college students don’t, can’t, refuse, etc. to “read” don’t understand students as end users.

I don't wish I lived in Tennessee, but I'd be honored to vote for him. He's a badass.

#teamrhetoric here’s an OA choose-your-own-adventure style introduction to rhetoric. wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/w...

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As a birthday bonus, here’s one more audiogram for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 63 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman

When faculty are silenced it's not just about what those individuals. The community is also degraded. A new project is documenting these injustices. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/a-new-proj...

What if we got this kind of Big Energy for the National Endowment for the Humanities so that all the fired staff, terminated grants, and cancelled programs were reinstated? Hmm hmm? #NEH

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social Yes, duh

Everyone in the room is shouting and arguing, “Can anyone help us make sense of how this works. I thought language was easy?” Humanist in the room:“Better not get involved. But I’ll express my displeasure”

by the by, you can win a free copy right now: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

*freeze frame* *curb your enthusiasm music plays*

The DRC Writing with Data Syllabus Repository is LIVE: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/syllabus/wri... Check out and share this incredible collection of teaching materials on writing with data in composition, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional communication classes!

I'm proud to share my newest study, completely open-access. "When collaborating turns into dishonesty: A data-driven heuristic comparing human and AI collaborators"

Blessings to Michael Roth going to the HxA conference and telling it like it is to their faces. These people seem happy to let higher ed be destroyed provided they get to be in charge of the ashes. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Still playing with this but I've been trying to write about an emerging peddler of false claims on Canadian X but they produce SO much stuff. This allows me to dump in screenshots of the feed. Are the results gospel? No. But it points me at more reading way faster than I'd do on my own.

I’m offended no one engaged with this.

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MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social: “We deserve clean air. That’s not radical. It shouldn’t be political.”

At the #aupresses25 panel on Advancing #HBCU Scholarship and hearing a lot about scholars' need for $ support for indexing, etc. Seems a good time to remind folks that @upcolorado.bsky.social has MMU Mini Grants to help with just that. Obvs we'd hope you publish with us, but it's not a requirement!

I swear I will never watch a TV show or any form of media for that matter about golf.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

I read David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew a year ago and was moved. The author's recent appeal on Instagram has reinforced the impression. It is prescient and timely, taken during an era when we are told to ignore the truth and turn from history. It hits! Read it soon. @davidjoy.bsky.social

Last cup of coffee before a 30 hour trip to Nepal to talk #AI literacy and #teamrhetoric at #Pokhara University and #Tribhuvan University.

Released a new episode. Episode 173: Travis Margoni + Teaching at Yakima Valley College in central Washington + Technical communication + Standardized English + Teaching across different institutional contexts, from high school to senior centers to Two-Year Colleges + Sonic rhetoric

Any meta analysis of this take will miss the point. The message of Easter is “no prison ever built is recognized by God.” This is both a message of liberation and an indictment of the world we are complicit in having built. The prophets attest that jail is inherently satanic.

What Jen says, x100

"So I confess that I have been imperfect, I confess that I have been inadequate to the moment, I confess that the Democratic Party has made *terrible* mistakes that have given lane to this demagogue." - @corybooker.com More of this, honestly, please. Acknowledge it. Please.

This is gold. Thank you, Brian Eno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh7C...

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure.

My FIL, a life-long conservative, called the local PD to inform them he was showing up at the Txsla dealership today to protest because it was his constitutional right. They told him it was, and invited him to stay safe ❤️

Listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4J...