Dan Martin

You don't need to take a constitutional oath as a citizen to work for the state. This is illegal.

Definitely don't name anything positive for higher ed a compact. Not right now anyway.

It's wild that a top 10 for most important rhetorical situations right now doesn't include the government shutdown.

Assigning writing in school is abt learning & not publishing. Asking students to conduct research doesn't mean they need to find a research gap. They just need to ask questions that are relevant to their learning & then answer them. The learning demonstrated in the writing is important. That's it.

Guns kill more kids than anything else.

They're not dying. They were killed.

If you use AI to assess student work and writing, quit your job and get out of education.

These types of people always go after the most vulnerable students, the absolute smallest populations, whenever they want to cut anything across public institutions. It's systemically evil.

Your plumber has a new favorite tool: ChatGPT | CNN Business The roughly 20 plumbers of Oak Creek Plumbing & Remodeling in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area don’t just bring toolkits with wrenches, pliers and Teflon tape to customers’ homes these days. They also br...

The continued erasing of human expertise. Anyone can do anything if they refer to the computer experts. Just ask ChatGPT. They know best.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/t...

If the compact comes to your university, it's perfectly fine to immediately so no. Like the same day. Don't mull over turning your university into a state sponsored propaganda machine. Seriously. WTF. The answer is an Immediate NO!!

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

They bought a voting system company that was falsely accused of rigging the election so they can rebrand the company and accuse, again, the voting system they bought of rigging elections after it won in court.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Yeah, wait for Northern Idaho to to find out about this.

Who else rejected it?

But Joe Rogan literally just podcasted about how Republicans are bringing back free speech and finally everyone can just do comedy.

Lee Greenwood and his 5th wife who's like 30 years younger. I'm seeing a pattern here.

These articles are part of the whole "let's do a fascism grift because it's so profitable" that Americans believes they can dip their toes in without going full Nazi.

This is pure inspiration

This sounds like a podcast. The American government is now a podcast. "There are two studies out there, bro. They say it is highly likely, dudes."

This is not sustainable. We're already being asked to do too much. We're unable to hire enough staff from budget cuts so everyone is doing 2 jobs & now universities are relentlessly pushing AI without any concern of the consequences to the learning community. It's breaking the soul of learning.

Universities are going to destroy learning and critical thinking if they keep making deals with AI companies that put these tools in front of students who have nothing to lose. Faculty across the nation are now wasting hours trying to curb AI use that their university manufactures and promotes.

It's wild that people bring down the hammer on plagiarism but have Zero to say about AI stealing everything without any consequences.

A rip off degree is when the government forces everyone to go into debt for 30 years to get educated. Claiming any form of education is a rip off shifts the blame for joblessness and low wages onto students and colleges instead of the evisceration of federal funding for higher ed.

America has been stealing labor forever. That's literally what it does. This country is rich because it steals land and labor. That's not new.

Just monitoring a fake crisis that will require federal troops with weapons. America is super fun.

Every single professional development session this term is about AI and it's so annoying. It's just a bunch of people overreacting to the implementation of AI and rushing to be on the front line even though all of this is so terrible for students and the environment.

Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

The privatization of school loans has been absolutely devastating to student debt, keeping people chained to interest rates for decades. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The news will not cover ICE brutality.

It's not even recognizable from those good ole days.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

I have concerns abt students going into classes that allow & promote AI use & then going into classes that do not. I'm not sure they will fully understand those mixed messages.