For anyone teaching courses in digital studies, digital rhetoric, the internet, what have you....check out this (open access!) glossary of 28 keyword to think through the internet vis-a-vis imagination. I contributed "Rhetoric." 🤩 #AcademicSky #TeamRhetoric networkcultures.org/wp-content/u...

This data from @forbes.com highlights what we’re always saying about journalism & communication degrees: They prepare you for a wide range of careers. In the current climate, versatility might be one of the most important factors when determining a field of study for college students.

#TeamRhetoric The University of Florida Press has shared a reading list of LGBTQI sources in honor of Pride month. RHM’s Special Issue 7.1 on Queer and Trans Health Justice is on the list and open access for the month. floridapress.org/pride-readin... journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...

Hot off the press, THE BENEVOLENT GASLIGHT diagnoses the insidious ways in which racial trauma and harm are often reframed by whiteness as a benevolent pedagogical tool for "antiracism." To that, loudly and unequivocally, it responds: "I am not your teaching moment." #academicsky #teamrhetoric

U of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026. Exciting diversity of perspectives + topics: astrology, Christopher Rufo, ancient Egypt, QAnon, + “Afterwards” dialogue of 4 scholars + a journalist. Pre-order + ask library: upittpress.org/books/978082... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #PostTruth

The perfect prepper for The Social Reckoning is obviously this episode featuring @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who is destined to be referred to henceforth as “the Jeremy Allen White character.”

You know how most thinkers periodize using historical inflection points (e.g. the 1968 uprisings; or the 1973 oil crisis)? I’m looking for inflection points drawn from everyday life in the 21st c.—practices/events that are not overtly political/economic but are symptomatic of deeper structural turns

Go, Erin!!! 🤩

I don't mean to imply that nothing good can be published in these venues, nor that independent & nonprofit pubs are absent conflicts of interests, but I would like educators to be cognizant of the capital structure of media & worry less about what ragebait mercenaries have to say about education.

Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news

Has anyone else been getting these strange "AI"-generated spam emails from "communities" (re: loose groups on Goodreads) telling you that they want to feature your (very academic) book?!? And when you don't respond they send dramatic replies until you block them? Wild.

let's check in on the white house

Don't you love it when you apply for what you thought was precious internal funding....for research....only to realize that the opportunity was a fishing hook....and now admins are asking you to do more busy work...which gets in the way of research... 🤪

FRIENDS!!! Especially Deep South ex-pat friends!!!! @biscuit.quest and I are doing the MAY ABORTION FUND-A-THON for @yellowfund.bsky.social, which provides abortion access in AL and MS. Please help us reach our fundraising goal by May 31! Every single $ matters. DONATE HERE ➡️ fund.nnaf.org/expats

Academia: where you agree to do extra labor in February and won’t receive compensation until late May. 🙃

"Hi, I have less of a question, more of an ad"

re: external review requests for tenure and promotion outside of a yes, the next best thing is a quick no with recommendations!

"Couldn’t writing criticism in this way emerge then as a choice for humanity in the face of the conformism that fascism strove for, a way to defy the uniformity and dulled down standardization and commodification that it sought to put into place?" www.boundary2.org/2026/05/arne...

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Damn for a company whose product is intended to “benefit all of humanity” there seems to be a rather small segment doing the benefiting

Got some fun mail today from @aixdesign.bsky.social!

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universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

I'm gonna be in Brooklyn from 5/1-5/5. Any exciting events or talks that you recommend looking into?? Book talks, art exhibits, performances...?! #AcademicSky #TeamRhetoric #STS #CriticalAI

This textile dataviz chapter👇 is very good (& uses my Luddite weaver "AI Ready" print as appropriate illustration!):

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

In _Campus Misinformation_, I wrote that polemics about "free speech crises" and "viewpoint diversity" on college campuses were features of a misinformation campaign designed to control and regulate free speech in universities, not truly welcome it. 1/ academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

In awe of @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social's nuanced + beautiful review of my book. "I have been thinking about doxa more or less constantly since reading Caddie Alford’s debut monograph Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality (2024)." #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #STS parlormultimedia.com/enculturatio...

Lots of insight in this post: "No media can liberate us from mediation." robhorning.substack.com/p/evidence-a...

In our hypervisualized world of ubiquitous networked cameras, we expect to immediately see perfect images of whatever is happening. #AIslop delivers. Regardless of the existence of actual footage, the AI versions are often more dramatic, cinematic and optimized for social media clickbait 2/

As we head to the midterms, election deniers are replaying some of their 2020 greatest hits and the GOP is trying to use these rumors to tilt the playing field in their favor. But now that we know the game, maybe we can prevent ourselves from getting played? katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go...

If you are a mediocre, ethically-flexible white man in higher ed administration, you can fail up for your entire career. All you have to do is find a slightly more powerful mediocre, ethically-flexible white man and attach yourself to him like a remora.

I really wish it weren't so easy to become an education administrator, influencer, thought leader, think tanker, entrepreneur, disruptor, or policymaker without spending any time as an educator. Seems like a flaw in the system.

This is now the 3rd time I’ve had students engage @edzitron.com’s “The Era of The Business Idiot” trilogy. Lemme tell ya: it *clicks* for students. We end up using “business idiot” as shorthand for all things Big Tech, technofascism, cyberlibertarianism, AI C-Suite, managerial rhetorics, + + +

LinkedIn, or tapping "Why am I seeing this ad?" over and over and over and

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

When I see a rhetorician using the word “workflow” 😵‍💫

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#teamrhetoric wowwwwwwwwww

This is cool because we all know how good these companies are at keeping data siloed and secure.

Here is one of El Salvador’s 90,000 supposed gangsters jailed by Pres. Bukele, mostly without trial: Blanca Osmilda, a 60 year old storekeeper who took care of an adult child with schizophrenia and lived in a neighborhood with no gangs. She died in prison.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Who's a thinker you read when you need a spark? For me, it's someone who thinks associationally, reads widely, and questions generously. You don't have to agree with the whole project to think alongside them. For me, some go-tos are Ana Teixeira Pinto, Legacy Russell, Geert Lovink, James Bridle...

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

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...