Shakil Rabbi

How I feel editing a paper from a pristine APA to a ramshackle MLA #academicproblems

Installing OpenWebUI Local AI that looks nice

Want to experiment with running small LLM models on your laptop for more privacy, reduced environmental impact, and for free? Ollama + OpenWebUI is a user friendly, open source ways to do that. Check out Brandon Dorman's post on how to get started: skillsandstandards.substack.com/p/installing...

The @aclu.org's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Trump Administration.
www.aclu.org/publications...

The most 21st century Shakespeare play is Othello, a story about a middle manager whose response to a black man getting promoted ahead of him is to burn literally everyone and everything around him to the ground.

Going to #MLA2025? Make sure to catch our very own, Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, and our colleagues Dr. Elena Foulis and Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq on Fri. for 325 Code Switch: Digital Humanities of Peoples and Languages on Occupied Lands
#usLdh #digitalhumanities #humanidadesdigitales #archives #archivos

Paul Krugman on Substack The war on arithmetic has just started

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It’s such a great tool! Going to be my go to for all social media and add hot takes.

i am once again tapping the Benjamin sign, re: trump's expansionist fantasies

All true and totally grim

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We talk about not wanting students to use Gen AI in their assignments, but how many email interactions are we now getting from students that are Gen AI?

A tip-off seems to be the increase in length.

Dune is a good but the sad fact is that its success means he will never make another Bladerunner, which sucks. The world he made with Bladerunner is pitch perfect.

He definitely is the only director that hasn’t made a - not to jinx it - bad movie (yet)

It is also leagues better than Dune

Moderating the Language and Society Forum’s “Issues of Agency with AI” at #MLA25

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? We would rather talk about literally everything else.

Very interesting ideas on men and college. ##HigherEd

celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...

You ever hear this joke: Can the subaltern speak?

We don’t know because Spivak won’t stop talking

Any rhetoric and writing studies folks gonna be at #MLA25? Let us know what you’re presenting! #TeamRhetoric

Peter Lang Verlag - Confronting Toxic Rhetoric Confronting Toxic Rhetoric contributes to the extant scholarship on toxic rhetoric, specifically the negative and extreme political discourse ...

Thrilled to announce our newest collection collection! If you’re a #writing teacher concerned about #toxicRhetoric, this book is for you! #teamRhetoric #writingandrhetoric #compositionstudies #teachingwriting

www.peterlang.com/document/144...

Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org

“If you research government agencies, major institutions, and well-known [figures], you are much more likely to work with digitized text sources. If not, your project may not utilize many digitized primary sources at all…”

Really appreciate the piece’s nuance. (h/t to @kcrowe.bsky.social)

There is a lot to learn from this study--worth a read! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#teamrhetoric #rhetcomp

New article out (co-written with Mijanur Rahman) in a special issue of Across the Disciplines on Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. It’s a great issue with great articles by great scholars: wac.colostate.edu/atd/special/...

Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all We analyse two centuries of scholarly work

The Humanities and SS need to write clearer and i say this as an invester member of the community. This article points out what we all know is a failure across the disciplines: www.economist.com/science-and-...

2025: Don't Think of a Book Club FrameLab is paywall-free thanks to the generous contributions of 525 paid subscribers. Click here to join them if you can – because your support matters! What can Democrats say or do to win back powe...

George Lakoff putting together a book club to talk about rhe political mind.
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ChatGPT Should Not Exist It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.

Feel like I should re-up this periodically.

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Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida

How are students using AI? Generative AI appears to be the newest tool to assist with learning, such as calculators, spell checkers and translators.

Generative AI appears to be the newest tool to assist with learning, such as calculators, spell checkers and translators

People power's unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception? The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.

The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.