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If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/

#writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric

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🤯 Sounds promising 😸 wish I could join! Sharing in case others are interested and able.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

Save OSAP Save OSAP from Doug Ford's cuts. Fund Education Now!

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I'm doing a Catherine O'Harathon with my friends. So far it's been:
1) Best in Show
2) For your Consideration

Also on the list:
- Beetlejuice
- Some SCTV eps if I can find them

Schitt's Creek is obvious. Home Alone is a no (watched it so many times). Any orher lesser known gems?

Join us! 👇🏾✨

Whale Evolution:
Flamingo-Legged Watermelon Mouse
Mutant Sewer Rat King
Gator Wolf
Steel-Jawed PollyWorg
Titan MerSausage

I remember reading Terraformers by @annaleen.bsky.social and thinking yeah wow how might life look different if we could talk with worms and ask them for their perspectives and suggestions. And that's just one book. Please, share other works written by your favourite authors!!

The very idea of what is recognized, broadly speaking, as technology—or what is not—is so tangled up with Eurocentricism & settler colonialism that it may hard to envision a future w tech that differs from what 'we' 'see' RN but wow thank goodness worlds & tech exists beyond settler colonial views.

😜 I'm with you on that... 3+ years and onward with bébé #2

Your decolletage will be so fire tho

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o : The Language of Languages | Milkweed Editions Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...

"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

Impressive community organizing 🤟🏼

a close up of a woman 's face with #schitts creek written above her ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with #schitts creek written above her

Catherine O'Hara.
Not enough said.

Which brings me back to one of my rules, it doesn't matter if you're right when you're an asshole, because someone else is making the same point without being an asshole.

Life:
Beautiful,
Broken,
Simultaneously.

Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.

“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social.

Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @wired.com and @404media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.

Event: Embedding an Equity Lens to Generative AI’s Impact on Libraries. February 3, 1 PM Eastern. Speaker: Janice Kung. Register here:
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#writingstudies scholarship is often invisible when people talk about „the essay“ or in this case „the formal essay.“

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A noir-style illustrated poster titled “The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.” The Lockette—a cartoon character whose body is an open yellow padlock—cautiously steps out of an open vault marked with a copyright symbol. A strong beam of light shines from outside the frame, casting a large copyright symbol onto the floor. Floating eyes and a magnifying glass with a question mark evoke a detective mystery. Red footprints lead toward the open vault door. Text reads: “Public Domain Day 2026” and “Jan 21st @10am PT: Virtual.” Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

🎊 Celebrate Public Domain Day with us online January 21! Our virtual event brings together artists, librarians, scholars, & creators to explore what happens when culture becomes free again.

Revisit iconic characters & stories from 1930 now in the #publicdomain.

🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1977502652...

A great talk with @glynmoody.bsky.social about his book. Thank you for this great series, @archive.org, so proud to take part.

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them Bose speakers un-bricked

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

I agree with Huang: "You have to ask yourself…what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions?"

As in—what intentions might someone "who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started" have for saying we should stop being so negative about AI?

As a Canadian who is well aware of how similar the US and Canada are, I have been taking notes (and joining / supporting when I can). The Defend & Recruit organizing by Siembra NC is particularly *chefs kiss*
(ICYMI: truthout.org/audio/fight-...)

Beyond any immediate electoral implications, organizing is how you amass the kinds of local resources - relationships, plans, organizations, money, and proto institutions - that allow you to say no when a regime tries to compel you.

Breathing in, I am writing this post.
Breathing out, I am writing this post.
#minimeditation

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[WEBINAR] We're joining @bodleian.ox.ac.uk TOMORROW to talk about the challenges & solutions for preserving #OA monographs & #Theses

✍️ Bodleian Open Scholarship series
📆 13 Jan 2026
⏰ 2 PM GMT

Book your place now 🔗 buff.ly/nnrT0fk

#OpenAccess #DigitalPreservation #Archiving

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