victoria l. braegger

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

May be the only time it's appropriate to say, "damn, you look so good after losing 280lbs."

You radiate happiness and confidence.

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

a black cat is holding a pair of scissors in its paws and says `` well '' . Alt: Gif of a black cat filing its claws with the caption, "Well..."

not to make it a competition, but I've been on the phone for an hour (so far) with the drug manufacturer, insurance, and the specialty pharmacy trying to get my monthly dose of way-too-expensive-MS-disease-modifying-drug.

how's your healthcare going?

Sure! I'll send a DM with some links.

a close up of a stuffed animal wearing a santa hat looking at a christmas tree . Alt: Gif of Elmo, a red hand puppet monster from Sesame Street, looking up at someone before slowly turning and walking away.

I read the text. I clicked play. That was a choice I made.

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A "coding error" that removes pieces of one content block (section 8) and two entire content blocks (sections 9 and 10) that the current administration rails against on the daily is perhaps the most serendipitous (magic) "coding error" there's ever been.

"coding error" lolol

All the punitive deplatformization & surveillance that gamers egged on against hot tub/"egirl"/OF streamers is a rehearsal for attacking that freedoms of expression that YOU love, sooner than later

How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

if you read one thing about higher ed or tech or venture capital this week, make it this

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

I interviewed Kishonna Gray for _Historiographies of Game Studies: What it Has Been, What it Could Be_.

It was published today and I'm so excited to see it in print!

This book contains 31 chapters of awesome scholarship *and* it's open access. So... >>>
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Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler' Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

(... but I never had that same patience for myself. *I* have to be perfect first time, every time, or I'm an absolute failure.)

I think about this often, as well.

Teaching martial arts before/during uni definitely taught me a great deal of patience and the importance of process over product. Grading/ranking? Just a very short demonstration after months and months of learning/feedback/training.

All power to ADAPT, who saved Medicaid last time and of course got us the ADA many years ago. Probably the most serious contemporary American direct action outfit.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

This has been on my mind since I left games media. It's readily apparent how many marginalized folks have been pushed out over these last few years and it's no coincidence that there's generally been a lot less interesting coverage as a result. The whole games space feels like it's sliding backwards

Today I would like to find content and course creator bsky. Where are you all? I don't mean like, academic course creators, I mean people who are building out courses as part of their side hustles or main hustles. I want to find you!

Donate | Support a Better Future — OUTMemphis Make a difference with your donation to OUTMemphis and support impactful programs for the LGBTQ+ community. Your contribution empowers advocacy and creates long-term social change.

In light of today's SCOTUS ruling upholding Tennessee's ban on youth gender-affirming care, it would be amazing to see donations flood into OUTMemphis, the mid-south's longest-running LGBTQ+ org.

OUTMemphis offers material and social support for trans kids and adults and has since 1989.

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

Text: Gamergate is occasionally framed as a battle for the soul of the internet between a diverse, progressive set and an angry collection of white males who feel displaced. And it is that, too. But its most powerful legacy is as proof of concept of how to wage a post-truth information war. [Highlighted in yellow] The lesson of Gamergate — the one we feel reverberating throughout our politics every day in 2019 — is that there’s a sinister power afforded to those brazen enough to construct their own false realities and foist them on others.

I presented at #ATTW2025 yesterday on 10 years of GG & the alt-right. I used this quote from #CharlieWarzel to introduce the importance of GG when discussing modern politics and what we're seeing in online spaces.

Disinformation on yesterday's political assassinations is already spreading.

I’m sorry, this has such “now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge” energy.

Amazing.

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

If you ain’t doing propaganda, the NEH ain’t interested.

Peak 90s school drama. You could either like Pokemon or Digimon. You could not like both (the scandal).

i still get the theme songs to both in my head.

new tenure checklist item added: use _shouldn't've_ in an academic article

Hello #ATTW! We are 11 days away from our hybrid conference!

Check out the conference website for information about the schedule, keynote speakers, and Missouri S&T and Rolla!
sites.mst.edu/attw2025/

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