Gen X sure does love Box

New Composition Forum issue is out- check out some great book reviews! compositionforum.com

Composition Forum published Volume 56: compositionforum.com. A lot of wonderful work! I hope you give it a read.

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Boycotts work. We MUST show corporate America that there are consequences for folding to fascism. #teslatakedown stands shoulder to shoulder with #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC. Check out the linked doc below for actions YOU can take.

College football returning reminds me that one of my past students is a Dallas Cowboy!

My meaningless opinion is that large conferences shouldn't generally have themes. The theme is the conference's name!

Stop saying you are "ethically using AI." That's not possible when Open AI and all other companies are eagerly spilling massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Just own up to doing something unethical because it's convenient! People do unethical but convenient things all the time!

How many times using "amongst" is too many in a single article? 3? 4?

One underrated problem with AI's use in writing is that it conveys to the writer they don't need to read because the AI will supposedly summarize and incorporate insights from some nebulous process of "reading" into whatever it spits out. Reading is where the best thinking often happens!

Y'all, Composition Forum has just published some seriously awesome book reviews that confront some of the most pressing issues within rhetoric and composition. They're all excellent and stand to benefit the field in many different ways: compositionforum.com

The Education Secretary saying universities need to align with the political priorities of an administration if they want to continue to conduct research is really just diving head first into the authoritarian playbook

Tesla's reputation is worse than United Health's lol

I think a lot about whether I'm actively doing enough to help my cat self-actualize

When did we decide on the IA abbreviation for Iowa and is it too late to change it

#cwcon25 presentation went great! Talked about digital-material rhetorics, consequentially, climate activism, and social media. Fun panel about content creators and algorithms.

Working in DC means experiencing 11AM coffeeshop Hinge dates where both people talk about losing their jobs with the federal government

It looks like Tesla Takedown protests/backlash to DOGE, alongside other factors, have cost Elon Musk about 25% of his total wealth, in case you were wondering whether people-led protests could still exert meaningful consequences in 2025: newrepublic.com/post/194568/...

I was going to get so much done today but got caught up reading about Basque origin theories again 😤

Sometimes I feel my university tries to sabotage teaching and learning by making us use Blackboard as some sort of joke or performance art

We are being governed by a collective fallacy about things that deluded folks perceive as happening but that never ever actually did happen

It's the most tired comment ever, but imagine if Biden or Harris was falsely maintaining something clearly photoshopped was real and refused to admit the mistake. The collective double standard/lack of any basic expectation of competence & honesty from Trump is one of his greatest strengths.

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

I’m leading over 175 Members of Congress to fight for the government’s free, easy-to-use tax filing service. Trump and Musk want to kill Direct File. Instead of caving to the billionaire tax prep industry, how about standing up for working Americans?

“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.” — Pope Francis

The moral case to not use AI in FYC (elsewhere... maybe. But not FYC).

Does anyone else who routinely directs students to the Purdue OWL ever feel like they're trapped in recommending the worst possible website designed in the most confusing and least useful way possible that also totally ignores many of the most common citation head-scratchers for students?!

half of the posts on twitter remind me that the dead internet theory is very real

Incredibly consequential stuff coming from the NC Supreme Court lately that shows election denial and vote nullification, even at the highest levels, will be an enduring part of the voter suppression playbook.

Even if I forgot to travel with an umbrella, it’s been a really fun CCCC full of great panels and people #4c25

Had a wonderful time at my local #TeslaTakedown event yesterday! My sign is hard to read, but if you can peacefully use the power of your wallet to resist Trump, Musk, DOGE, and Tesla, you should. Delete your X, sell Tesla stock, and never buy a Tesla again.

Sign and make your voices heard.

LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29 Every showroom in America 500+ around the world Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com

"March 29 is my birthday, and there's only one thing I want for my birthday. That's to see Elon taken down!" C'mon y'all, let's make @jasmineforus.bsky.social's birthday one for the record books! Sign up to host or attend a #teslatakedown action on the global day of action! teslatakedown.com

This level of naiveté, magical thinking, and sheer ignoring of all possible evidence is disqualifying in and of itself (if true...)

Even worse: Common App is now auto-suggesting text in the -pre-upload boxes when submitting letters of recommendation. Why are we doing any of this?

"Across platforms — YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82% of the total following of the online shows we assessed."

DC was always littered with cybertrucks even before Musk came here, but two that I've seen this week have had rubber logos from Ford and Toyota covering their Tesla logo, so....?

This is Tesla over the past six months

We live in what is a fundamentally broken and dishonest media ecosystem when a post that is a straight-up lie can garner 4.5 million views with only the most tepid community note being added on later. There is no saving it unless there is a fundamental change.

Apple’s new text-summarizing AI is a solution in search of a problem. You know what’s not hard? Reading a short text. You know what’s harder? Reading a vague sort-of accurate summary and then also reading the short main text

If you're still on X regularly at this point, yeah I am judging you

I completely forgot about this but I included at least 3 Easter eggs in my dissertation

Tech CEOs are about to learn, like everyone else did years ago, that loyalty only goes one way. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat happily at the inauguration. Two weeks later, Google is hit with a Chinese antitrust investigation. Huh.

Serious: This is the most hopeful, inspiring, and most of all necessary message I've seen from a Democrat in years.

Some shows are best watched alone, but some (like Game of Thrones/HOTD) need to be watched with others in-person and others (like Severance and Succession) benefit SO MUCH from social media and especially TikTok. I would enjoy the shows 1/2 as much without the discourse.

This is the meritocracy DEI cuts are supposed to be supporting? Every day there's a story like this

One of the great annoyances of the Trump-Musk media era is that they’ll just blatantly and shamelessly tell full-on lies and then people will be like “it seems like it could be untrue, but who can ever really know for sure🤔” come on everyone he definitely, definitely paid for this!!!