Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled) www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

An incredible, must-read piece! “Whether end products created by AI hold legitimate creative value is, in our view, irrelevant here; our concern is with systems of power and their relationship to fan cultures.”

No surprise: “AI peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found.” Surprise: the article still tries to spin it positive for “human-AI collaboration.” People, please draw the correct conclusion.

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal" refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

It’s so weird that social media will be like a 30 year blip in human history.

I miss MySpace. We took it for granted.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.

yesterday I listened to some undergraduate writing tutors present some research on AI in the writing center and I was especially struck by this slide:

...so it's an MLM? That sounds about right.

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

🐸 - KH

People *without* executive dysfunction are finding that using chatgpt buries them under multitasking: they have to expend more effort and attention in more tasks to check that it hasn't outputted *absolute fucking nonsense*

ideally, the only places i want to be in AI are spaces for resistance, refusal and community organising in reality, i find myself in spaces where AI governance, regulatory or institutional/scientific decisions are made where either i my input is paid lip service or entirely ignored

the ick I get at Sam Altman describing Sora as fanfiction... copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

Some good news: “In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment.” www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Your daily opossum break:

I wish more journals had stronger policies like this.

This is really starting to get out of hand. A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.

For a moment, I thought I was being raptured. But I realized it was just gas.

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

New special issue of Popular Communication Queer Women's Fandom #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

I created a template academic job market folder for folks to use Feel free to share around! bit.ly/AcademicJobF...

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

Trans rights are human rights.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Ethical use for thee, but not for me! (there is no ethical use)

The Yankees paid tribute tonight to Charlie Kirk, for seemingly no reason as Kirk wasn't from NY or lived in NY. President Trump will be at Yankee Stadium tomorrow to mark the 24th anniversary of 9/11 attacks. As a Yankees fan, I am embarrassed and sorry.

I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."

This whole thing is so infuriating. Here’s a link to donate and support Dr. McCoul gofund.me/ebe3b75ad

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

LLMs are not like students because they are not people. They cannot be “socialized.” And the fact that three of these people are affiliated with OpenAI gives me even more pause about this.

I understand science matters, but what would happen if politicians stopped playing defense and starting loving, defending, and supporting autistic people fiercely? Fascism is playing to right-wing moms who want an answer to this Q bc they’re full of hate and are struggling to support their kids.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social