Issue One is live and full of nerve!
Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more!
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So far, we’ve covered Styles formatting, creating PDFs (from both physical scans and as an option when saving digital documents), and file management. What additional tools/practices/skills should I highlight??
I wish I did it sooner, but at the midterm mark I started incorporating what I call “Functional Literacy Fridays” into my digital literacies class: 10-minute lectures on specific tools and practices. Increasingly, I find that college students often have *critical* but not *functional* literacies.
I dug into Nicki Minaj’s use of the world “neurodivergent” — Where did it come from? What does it mean? And how does a very niche, 25+ year old social justice-y, lefty activist word end up being used on the far right?
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
Text reads Black History Month: Black Women Abolitionists, with pictures of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Parker Remond, Ida B. Wells, & Angela Davis
A photo of Sojourner Truth labeled with her name. Reads: After freeing herself in 1826, she became a traveling speaker linking abolition & women’s rights. She confronted white audiences, including Abraham Lincoln, about Black liberation.
A photo of Harriet Tubman labeled with her name. Reads: Escaped slavery in 1849, then returned repeatedly to lead dozens of people to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Led a raid on the Combahee River, freeing hundreds of enslaved Africans. Later worked as a scout, spy, & nurse for the Union Army.
A photo of Sarah Parker Remond labeled with her name. Reads: A free Black lecturer & American Anti-Slavery Society agent, she spoke across the North & in Britain to build transatlantic support for US abolition. Later became a physician in Italy.
Today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we want to honor some inspirational Black women abolitionists from the last 200+ years. Swipe through to read! #AbolitionNow 1/2
it's interesting how you continue to willfully misread everything I say without actually trying to engage in genuine conversation about what I do believe. I'm sorry you think that I believe all these random things.
And honestly if that's not a perfect example of what's wrong with social media, I don't know what is.
I keep thinking about how—in the midst of an AI spiral earlier this week (about AI-induced psychosis, the people getting PTSD from training LLMs, its negative impacts on thinking/reading/writing, etc.)—I made a vague post about how AI sucks, and some random person accused me of being ableist.
He recognized my laugh once I started awkwardly laughing, then we enjoyed a nice woods stroll for several minutes talking about what flowers we had noticed, which honestly seems as good a transition as any into spring break.
Note to self: Be less awkward 😅
Normally I let folks in the woods know I’m behind them so I don’t unintentionally scare anyone but didn’t want to impose on said student. After debating my options for 2-3 minutes in classic libra form, the student stopped to let me pass and didn’t recognize me because I mask indoors.
It occurred to me this week that there may be wildflowers popping up in the campus woods. Normally I don’t see anyone I know there (which is for the best because the woods is where I let myself feel feelings), but I ended up on a trail behind a student who wasn’t in class this morning.
At this point I'm just waiting for the AI bubble to pop in hopes that one day I will return to my normal life of reading essays with silly human errors and quirks, not worrying about whether ChatGPT is actively harming my students, looking at art that makes me feel something (other than rage), etc.
It's unconventional for an online (asynchronous) class, but I really enjoy scheduling Zoom conferences with my online students. I am 300% more formal in writing than my speaking/in-person affect, and I like getting the opportunity to show that I, too, am just a sometimes-silly human person.
If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.
@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
My contribution to literally every academic committee: "Why are we doing this?"
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
A woman’s thumb on the cover of a book titled Every Place on the Map is Disabled. Lavender tassel of a book mark hangs above. Two fists push out into a mountainous territory with the sun rising beyond.
A page of poetry. Text reads as follows: VI. Rules had the half-life of ripples so that the encounter of one set with another would hasten the decay as if the pink of the rose were hypercolor and responded to heat in the breath the girl braided her hair into a ring and saved this relic in a wine bottle her mud-encrusted velvet slipper on his desk clock the speed of her river in helicopters a green ribbon attaches the oak to the elm to the birch to the beech across water we will participate in bondings like yeast if letters could form words by mutual attraction god will be there we will play the part the garden will contain violets and impatiens the lexicon will assign value and importance this key will be called sharp will be called flat use ice to kill the body in sections a cool body against a warm body before there was glass insert dance in place of narrative the memory of heat and light in the shell universe and what gives and what pushes and what pushes and gives open open open open open open open enter a procession of women holding candles up the mountain without the women without what is called a woman with an absence at the heart of a life with a life that is life on life life life
So delighted to announce that today is #PubDay for our book. Every Place on the Map is Disabled is now in stores and available online. Wonderful poets in here including Eli Clare, Ilya Kaminsky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Raymond Antrobus. #disabilitypoetics #poetry #disability #publishing
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Does it work out the way I want? Almost never.
But like I said in class today, there are all kinds of systemic issues that I feel hopeless to address, but that doesn't mean that I stop living my life in a way that feels good and ethical. You keep trying, even when it feels hopeless.
I often half-jokingly say that this is both my best and worst quality, but my particular mode of neurodivergence means that when I observe someone do or say something inconsiderate/harmful/unjust and I can meaningfully address it, I'm compelled to do so.
I consider it my due diligence.
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
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Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I had a basic plan for my first class today, so I started class with "moments-of-joy Monday" where I invited students to share things that recently brought them joy—whether personal joys or things they've encountered online.
10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.
whoa this description is 🔥🔥🔥
thank you!
people who are saying it's no big deal to be connected to Jeffrey Epstein are soooo close to getting to exactly what the problem is. "we all are friends with rapists and predators!" — yes! that's what I'm saying!!!!!!!
