if anyone has any freelance or (remote) staff opportunities, plz DM! can do writing, fact-checking, research, copy editing, book indexing, org consulting on outreach & reenvisioning, event planning & other similar such things...

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

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[From listening to recorded conversation between Nadella + Fink]: they've "largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." @mattseybold.bsky.social theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

A good friend read this + wrote “(neuro)divergent thinking plays out amazingly in your writing...purposeful repetition, offering literal examples for sense-making, playing w/“all or nothing thinking" re: "or or or." It's so big + affirming to these working as effective + relational writing moves” 🥹

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I love that Anthropic is somehow both a big powerful ai lab with such powerful unique tech and also a tiny small bean trembling in fear and screaming in agony that somebody was able to extract the value of its product by using its outputs. Both hypocritical and pathetic. Washed.

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

One of the easiest things you can do to help put others at ease is to never comment on people’s age—no matter how funny or casual you think you’re being. Just don’t: don’t assume they’re younger or older and don’t assume they care. Let people open up to you if they want to. It’s really that simple.

Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

this is, quite literally, a stacked collection of contributors

New: I spoke w/ @hypervisible.blacksky.app on Techtonic about Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...

A two rejection day and it’s not even 5pm. Living life on the edge.

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Kairos is hiring! We have immediate openings for multiple Assistant Editors, who are responsible for collaboratively copy- or design-editing accepted webtexts, wiki entries, and associated media for publication with attention to style, accessibility, readability, and usability.

Finally FINALLY reading Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet. My first thought: I love this. My second thought: I wish there were more infrastructure, support, and mentorship around enabling people--if they want--to turn dissertations into dreamily hybrid and inductive projects like this one. 🤩

I'm late to this essay too. I'm getting tired of the assumption that this tech can be separated from the companies producing it and all the harms that go into its design/implementation. If you could, it would be a different tech entirely rather than simply an "ethical" parallel of what we have now

This this this. Sometimes the data, histories, implications, effects, EVERYTHING can only, in the here-and-now, point to refusal.

I think part of this is academic-brain. We've disciplined ourselves into believing that refusal or simply identifying something as irredeemable are not respectable intellectual positions. Instead, the clever posture is to wishcast a scenario on to which we can project our own smart version of sthing

The devil doesn't need any more advocates, but also: do you see the dehumanization in the move you made there? We don't "sample", we interact. Language is fundamentally social and reducing people to their "output" is the basic problematic move of the AI boosters.

I think all the time about how every tech company desperately tried to get us on board with crypto/NFTs in 2022, including all those Super Bowl ads. They wasted a bunch of energy, spewed a bunch of emissions, got vulnerable people hooked on pyramid schemes, and then just pretended it didn't happen?

Minneapolis/Twin Cities mutual aid opportunity - Alexis is a friend, this is legit!

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Can confirm in my research on "AGI" (lol) + "rationalism: "The ideas Epstein exchanged inside those circles – who is worthy of power, who should be engineered + who can be written off – now shape the technologies + institutions" of a new political order. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

folks on #TeamRhetoric and anyone interested the ways that digital media shape (and fuck with) the lines between TRUTH and OPINION will want to prioritize this astonishing book www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736141...

This is such an amazing and thoughtful review of my book!!! Allison really got what I was trying to do. 🥹🤩

This is a fascist technology that fundamentally -by its core design and characteristics as a technology- serves the goals of bigots, racists and bloodthirsty white supremacists It has no role in progressive or left advocacy, no matter how much time it saves you. When you use it, you're helping them

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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

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

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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.*