Will Duffy

He got my first ever vote for president. Sorry, Al..

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It really is silly. Also, AGI is not a thing and never will be outside what will always be for some a fetishized laziness toward history and having to learn it.

Excuse me while I ignore education hot takes from ivy league insiders.

…in the sense that the latter use token to token links without an interpretant

This is not surprising at all if we start from the premise that, on the level of semiotics, human language is triadic, but computational language is dyadic.

This tells that story pretty clearly from the point of view of a higher Ed/industry insider at the time

Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning share.google/Kn6duwUggCwg...

Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨

In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards.

➡️ data-workers.org/france

go off jack white

The one thing I’ll say that AI has done: made a lot of people demonstrate their definitions of learning, most of which are wrong or not backed up by empirical evidence.

Correct response

The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom It's more than AI. A Q&A with Matt Seybold.

As promised earlier my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social on technofeudalism and how edtech has steadily been eroding our freedoms and capturing the value of our labor (and student work) for themselves. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

“capital flows” 😂

Sarcastic parrots

From a Whisper to a Movement

Apropos of ~everything~, I highly recommend this edited volume: From a Whisper to a Movement”

Like chapter 3: “Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing”

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Front Cover of the book Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski. Cover art by Nafís White. Piece is entitled Oculus (Black, Brown, Navy, Teal) and consists of braided hair woven into a pattern.

Back cover text: Barsczewski and Oleksiak collect chapters that tell stories, build theories, and make cases for what a healthy academic life looks like. Acknowledging that the academy will always take as much as you give, this collection gives readers material for imagining their own "adequacy" barometers. This is essential reading for graduate students and early career faculty as they seek to build sustainable careers.” —Holly Hassel, Michigan Technological University “These excellent contributions illuminate how, for so many of us, the dream of a dignified, well-remunerated academic position is just out of reach. Instead, our working lives are mostly shaped by austerity, contingency, overwork, and underpayment. Adequate dares to name these conditions, calling attention to the innumerable falsehoods and broken promises of the neoliberal university, and articulates a powerful new vision of academic labor.” —James Rushing Daniel, Seton Hall University Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection. Adequate reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work. An invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in the rhetoric and composition field, this volume covers the realities of teaching rhetoric and composition in the modern college environment, as well as potential paths forward for educators in need of a better work-life balance.

Print copies of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, came in the mail today! Thanks to @upcolorado.bsky.social for publishing it!

Please report on whether it received a 👍. I would love my kids to discover SpongeBob.

For example, I agree with your assessment about the affect of Ai text (stilted, overlong, etc) but you and I also bring an excess of stylistic knowledge and experience as readers to the table. Personally, I don’t *feel* any change before/after 2022 to how a text reads.

…could be meaningful before the uptake of a reader.

One thing I keep coming back to re: AI and genre, or mechanics, in this post, is that most of us are locked into a dyadic instead of triadic sense of meaning. This is the root of most of our confusion about ai-generated text, I think: that any text, let alone an ai-generated one 1/

Again?

Screenshot with text of an abstract. "In a relatively short time, market and political forces have intensified the reach of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become, in a word, climatic—not only a discrete technological system but also a creeping assemblage of ideological, material, and political forces. This article tracks these forces by developing rhetorical climates of AI as a conceptual framework. In doing so, I aim to (1) link the harms of climate change with the rapid buildout of AI infrastructure and (2) shift the frame of the conversation by emphasizing the extractive, exploitative, enclosed, and knotted supremacist conditions that have been prerequisites for building AI systems at scale. While these pervading rhetorical climates may seem unchangeable, I track how microclimates of resistance have developed, in the past and in the present. In particular, I emphasize the importance of bodily intelligence in navigating asymmetrical conditions of power felt in the AI industry. The article concludes by discussing how rhetoric and writing studies can weather the unfolding rhetorical climates of AI by diagnosing conditions, seizing moments, and plotting futures to imagine a less extractive and less harmful world."

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access!
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Paul Scheer’s legs next to a coffee table with my diploma on it next to various computer parts

@paulscheer.com ‘s legs and my PhD diploma. To me this is like a background pic version of getting one of the hosts of Wait Wait to record a voicemail greeting. Also, no context makes this funnier.

Best take I’ve read on Nuzzigate is from @biblioracle.bsky.social :

“Pardon me for saying the obvious, but for a book to sell, it must please readers in some tangible way that induces those readers to tell others that this is a book they should read”

Sharing because this is the first and no doubt last time I will be acknowledged in the same sentence BEFORE Hans Zimmer, Maya Angelou, and Rick Rubin.

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“Republican Red”

Thank you for sharing this. As the dad of an 11yo as well, one who is at this very moment doing her 2nd community theater audition after not being picked the first time, I appreciate the chance to step back and think about how we think about rehearsal.

SCENE:
@awscloud.bsky.social : remember that battery you bought 2+ years ago? Yeah, the company issued a recall. Go to this email address they gave us to find out what to do.

2 MINUTES LATER:

(Cut to image of undeliverable message because the email address doesn’t exist)

I understand, thanks for explaining. This makes sense—you’re also hitting on the differences that emerge when different levels of expertise are brought to bear on the outputs in specific uses.