There's a difference between calling out AI "tells" because they are AI and calling them out because they are repetitive, misleading, and corny. The "its not x its y" feels like the latter.

As a lot of people expected, it's fun to see new aesthetics emerge in a period of AI influence. There are purposeful slop 'narratives' like Fruit Love Island, but there's also stuff on the other end like Angine de poitrine that's so purposefully human.

I'm seeing longer and longer blog posts and facebook posts, plagued by the idea that longer = better. The mere generation of text is easy! The careful edit is what stands out.

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

I have SO MUCH ENERGY from hitting up #4C26 last week. I feel revived.

I missed survivor and it kills me!

So far Cleveland feels like big-Milwaukee in a comforting way. #CCCC26

Last night I had students use infinitemac.org to play with early word processors, specifically to see how hard it is to format an MLA style paper. Where is the heading? What are these fonts? It was a fun exercise to help us talk about interfaces and affordances.

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

I teach from around 11:15 to 1:30 this semester so its gonna be a gambit between early lunches and late lunches lol

better to do beer-infused soup than the other way around

Woot! 🙌 I'm FINALLY getting a chance to do it again after cycling off our service tech comm course for a few years.

Why do they need to update it with every president? It seems so wasteful.

New!! Asst/Assoc professor of Creative Writing/Poetry job at the U of Illinois ✨

A university not currently in total free fall 😄

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it will change the WORLD...except for any important tasks.

We've definitely talked about it with the team for More Than Memos. It's so critical and is yet another area where we've had to resist our academic impulses to keep adding more text. 😅

Mastered how to eased my back pain with the 1-minute stretch after reading this!

There's nothing like finding a good work spot in a new city.

Applying for grants? Can be hard.

Spending the grant money? idk i'll let you know if I ever figure it out.

Omg, they used AI to write this.

You'd think after touching chilies and then my eye every week that I would start to develop a tolerance.

my students are CONSTANTLY complaining they can't keep the syllabus after the semester ends.

#4C25 promoting APA Style from the start! Honestly I'm here for it #authordate

Chiqui Esteban: inside the Washington Post graphics team and how to visualize opinion The Data Journalism Podcast · Episode

Reaching my career peak by being interviewed by @albertocairo.com, @simonrogers.bsky.social and @kleinmatic.bsky.social for the Data Journalism Podcast

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You need this, trust me.

Forbes is the Buzzfeed of business news except there are no fun personality quizzes to see which character from Office Space I would be. (it's the stapler guy)

Truly "where does the money come from and where does it go" is such a missing piece. I'm always quick to tell students that the fee per article download doesn't go back to the authors or the editors of journal articles.

Crowdsourcing: do any tech comm or professional writing colleagues have a basic intro to UX principles powerpoint that they would be willing to share? I'm introducing some best practices tomorrow to scaffold a recipe design assignment and I would like to what I might be missing.
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Making a rate appearance on social media to remind y'all to get those SIGDOC proposals in. Deadline is Tomorrow Feb. 1. Looking forward to your amazing work.