big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

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NEW from me: the Trump administration is moving new chemicals that have some link to data centers to the front of the line for approvals — creating huge loopholes to push all kinds of chemicals through, experts tell me, under potential political pressure

Don't call it a "bubble." OpenAI, Microsoft, & Alphabet are just fine with that term because they get to tell you that all the dot-com bubble or the railroad bubble or the whatever bubble was, was a shaking out the greats after an intense period of mania. This isn't a bubble. This is a time bomb.

nothing humbles you more than getting the shortest, most cutting comments back on an irb application

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

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

AGI any day now

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.

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...

this is my spot*fy wr*pped

Such vital work. Nearly everyday a new data center proposal pops up across the US—using the same shady, secretive tactics & playbook of promises. We are at an urgent moment to build coalitions against the extractive fossil fuel surveillance factories being built in the name of economic development.

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The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4–5 PM ET. Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!

A dear student and writing tutor extraordinaire preordered my book and happened to get her copy before I got mine. Then, she asked me to sign it 🥹🥹🥹. My first and probably last (lol) book signing!

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).

Also, just gotta say: the schematics for Project Jupiter looks like someone told ChatGPT "make a walmart version steampunk data center in the desert" elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/s...

Proposal: those who are feverishly pushing GenAI in classes, at work, and in institutions should be required to listen to public testimony from communities where AI hyperscale data centers are being built.

To state the obvious: it’s so damn disheartening to overhear conversations about GenAI in the writing center. It’s cultivated such a culture of mistrust.

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness."

Happening this evening! There's still time to register: my.ncte.org/event-inform... (Registration closes at 4 PM this afternoon.) To join CCCC: ncte.org/college/cccc...

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price. www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

This is a fantastic, super accessible piece. Not only does it diagnose the extractive nature of most AI systems, but it also offers other (less extractive) visions for AI.

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you: 1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and 2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

The thing about being vocally anti GenAI is people you know will start confessing their LLM use to you. Seeking what, I’m not sure? Weird stuff.

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website. www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Trying to promote a book in ~these times~

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website. www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Feel like I’m often saying/thinking Mél Hogan said that in 2015.

Ngl I feel justified in largely ignoring his earlier work. Something always felt… off.

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price. www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To have my book mentioned in the same breath as Karen Hao's magnificent Empire of AI is a career highlight. Thank you to Jennifer Sano-Franchini for organizing a CCCC Virtual Reading Circle on Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom.

New episode of Rhetoricity for the first time in a while. I talk with @kendalljoy.bsky.social about her timely and award-winning book Sensitive Rhetorics: Campus Activism and Academic Freedom! rhetoricity.libsyn.com/sensitivity-... #teamrhetoric

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

This is funny (depressing) because half the shit on there is AI-generated these days. Snake, eat that tail.

Building data centers is a way to (territorially) rebuild/maintain empire, as fossil fuel gets (necessarily) replaced by solar energy — I can see no other reason to invest in AI infrastructure, as a technology it has no business model …beyond worldbuilding….

Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization. dhandlib.org/recommended-... #TeamRhetoric #Academicsky #CriticalAI

New blog post: Beyond “Two Sides” and the “Middle Ground” in GenAI Discourse: The Affordances and Limits of Linear Reasoning Models refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... #RefusingGenAI

Feels like a good historical juncture for Bluesky to allow users to make their content “private.”

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.