For the attention to the PGRs working on #rhetoric and #democracy-In connection with the 10th Nordic Conference for Rhetorical Research,a two-day PhD course on the democratic value of rhetorical encounters will be organised. Deadline for app: 1 March 2026. More info 👇 www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

Now that's art. futurism.com/artificial-i...

New article: "But who will protect them from us once they've all retreated to their underground shelters?" F*ck the billionaires. Eat the rich. Down with the oligarchy. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/tech-billi...

I am consistently grateful for Robin Kelley.

I wrote a book review of my dear colleague Laura Elliot Tetreault's Truth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in "Post-Truth" America--an essential intersectional approach to "post-truth" vis-a-vis American politics + race. #TeamRhetoric www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NFIP7...

I liked this from @superwuster.bsky.social

Proud and grateful to be ending the year with this piece out in Quarterly Journal of Speech! 50 free downloads here - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHIAF...

I have emerged from a fever dream of a week with CLEAR EYES AND A FULL DRAFT. Can't lose.

Quick reminder for the new followers

Just found this lovely review of The AI Mirror in Critical Inquiry, from Jaehoon Lee. It's nice to see reviews still coming out!

Excellent opportunity at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci #sts

🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨 From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown. Who will win? You decide! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final

I've got a tab open describing shrimp anatomy just to figure out one word choice, so you know I'm in it.

🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨 We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025. Don’t miss your chance to vote! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf

Fav pic from the Suzie Wiles self-immolation. The administration she manages is one of darkness and shadow—a collision of edges, a clash of banal planes. It’s a long, dark passage, a gauntlet of corners, fragments of frames within frames. (📷: Christopher Anderson for Vanity Fair.)

Excited to share "The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric." Took some big swings, leaned on community, + embraced my POV. Check it out for theoretical provocations + anticipations re: platformization + digital rhetoric. #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Truly. If you want to know more about how Twitter got to this enshittified place, check out our article on the rhetorical effects from changes Elon made: contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-content/u... #TeamRhetoric

“I made it simple for baby boy”

Magic Bean Adoption Flatlines as Magic Fails to Ensue

Missing my former colleague David Golumbia a lot today, as I keep working on a chapter about the gross tech rationalist community. I wish I could have talked to him about *all of this.*

Anyway. I wrote about this in my pinned article (not re-posting bc I'm as sick of my re-promoting that piece as you all probably are). But the exploitation of progressive or social-justice etc language to sell tech has been ihappening since the '90s. Golumbia _Cyberlibertarianism_ is great on this.

“Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a memo outlining methods for bringing charges against various entities they accuse of being aligned with antifa.” thehill.com/policy/natio...

Ohhh no....I did....too much this semester.

OBSESSED. These are the kinds of interventions that I live for.

February 2022 www.wheresyoured.at/mark-zuckerb...

Today was a great reminder why I love working in higher education. Getting to sit next to and learn from sharp, courageous colleagues in different disciplines like @caddiealford.bsky.social is really pretty awesome.

Please be thinking about me today: I was asked to be the lone critical AI perspective at a continuing education conference….and someone in our planning meeting said “AGI is coming” unironically. 🤢😶🫠

i'm told chatgpt had a birthday

"A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination” is out! @jonathanscarter.bsky.social + I synthesize “free speech” paradigms via Twitter/X’s moderation practices to demonstrate that X initiates adoxastic enshittification of free speech. #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky contemporaryrhetoric.com

This is a nuanced + generous conversation about "post-truth" rhetorics + rhetorics of post-truth via wider political contexts. A DREAM panel! This is the podcast version of our "afterwards" for the "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth" collection I'm co-editing w/Scott Sundvall + Ira Allen.

Is it even the dentist without Gin Blossoms?

This is a nuanced + generous conversation about "post-truth" rhetorics + rhetorics of post-truth via wider political contexts. A DREAM panel! This is the podcast version of our "afterwards" for the "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth" collection I'm co-editing w/Scott Sundvall + Ira Allen.

We need more honest language: Theft Tech (AI) Grift Tech (crypto) Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

I got the video. We shouldn't get acclimated to this racist, edgelord shit.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Job in feminist/queer STS at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo: #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I say it nearly everyday about the rapid expansion of AI data centers and the immense extraction that is happening in the name of a failing business model but I'll say it again: REAL SICK STUFF.

Meanwhile on Facebook, a central Alabama food influencer posted photos/videos of a large anti-ICE protest last night in Jemison, AL, about 45 minutes south of Birmingham. Many folks detained there and held in city hall for processing. The local community is OUT

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

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...

Great responses so far—keep ‘em coming!!

always remember:

This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited! #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky

Dear @abigailspanberger.com, Congratulations on your historic win. Please now fix UVA, your Alma mater.

OPINION | Dick Cheney Was Practicing Politics The Right Way By Ezra Klein

The Platform Economy strikes again. OpenAI is now dependent on Amazon, who is already heavily invested in one of OpenAIs greatest competitors, Anthropic. In terms of power, Amazon just became the biggest AI player, simply by controlling dominant platforms and infrastructure. Platforms über alles!

arXiv is changing its submission rules because it's getting spammed with AI slop "research" www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

Make the obvious bullshitting of rich racist assholes not newsworthy again

Sitting around thinkin (how executive orders have cut regulations and sped up AI data center growth, how private equity firms are buying up utility companies to profit off of energy demands, and & how AI companies are building fossil fuel microgrids to fuel slopbots).