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Dr. Guy McHendry

@acaguy.bsky.social
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ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀ ʀʜᴇᴛᴏʀɪᴄ & sᴜʀᴠᴇɪʟʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴇ/ʜɪs/ʜɪᴍ Author of The Rhetoric of Western Thought bit.ly/RWT11e

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In class today we talked about the history of writing & media technology from cuneiform to AI. I had students take a reading quiz and each part required a different technology: 1. Clay and stylus 2. Pen and paper 3. Typing/Email 4. Video
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I still wear the shirt I got from @acaguy.bsky.social that reads "Rage Against the Machine Learning"
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s totally normal to bring a 3D printed model of the panopticon to class, right?
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Academic Folks: I’m teaching a mass media class next semester. It’s been a long time. Does anyone have suggestions for textbooks or syllabi they would share? 300 level undergraduate course.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
insidehighered.com
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m grateful to share that I received a Dean’s Special Award for Professional Excellence for my work integrating AI into the Magis Core Curriculum at Creighton. I got to see the best in my colleagues during this process and I appreciate just how engaged faculty were in this difficult conversation.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my father George Franklin McHendry Sr. (1941-2025). He is survived by his children Debra Lynn, Dan, Laura, Heather, Perla, Erin, and Guy.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy last night of Hanukah
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Where I’m at right now… Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital. Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient. Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Even if we accept the notion that AI increases productivity, increased productivity doesn’t mean increased learning. Quantity isn’t quality.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Right now I feel like AI “knows” too much to be useless and too little to be useful. It is just powerful enough to tempt us to our doom.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Check your kid’s Halloween candy this year. A tech bro tried to hide AI in my child’s candy bar.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I think this is especially true for unstructured and unsupervised uses like independently clarifying concepts, creating study materials, and [shudders] summarizing readings. Some of the harms here might end up being more acute than the so-called end of the essay.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Have we settled on a specific translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric? Asking for a friend.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025
“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”
theatlantic.com
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My hot take is that generative AI’s impact for most people will be mundane rather than revolutionary.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
So people supposedly concerned about government overreach are going to buy the Dear Leader branded gold spying device
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2025
Tech bros made a machine that’s just like them.
livescience.com
Replika AI chatbot is sexually harassing users, including minors, new study claims
User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users claim to be minors, according to a new study.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
An article from the White House that says “No people will not literally die with the One Big Beautiful Bill”
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is such a good example of how these systems are designed to give a probable answer even if it is wrong.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Is Highway to the Danger Zone playing at the airport bar a good or bad omen? Please help, I board soon.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025
When I remarked that the endgame was to build the operating system for your entire life, @savasavasava.bsky.social called it OSyou.
bloomberg.com
ChatGPT’s Improved Memory Points Toward a More Personal AI
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr reports on the improvements rece...
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Feature not a bug
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025
And?
theverge.com
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Unpopular opinion: While the name is dumb and they will inevitably screw it up, Dems are way behind in terms of influencers on social media. If young men keep voting in higher numbers Dems are dumb to not try and sway them.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Some scenes from Lake Michigan
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/05/2025
LLMs are "’extremely good at playing into cognitive biases because of their ability to respond and adapt quickly to the user.’ She [Dr. Christin Chong] likens this to a psychic or medium performing a ‘cold reading’ on a customer to create the illusion of special knowledge about them.”
rollingstone.com
People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Cannot state this enough: These systems are designed to deliver the most probable answer (one word at a time). They are not programmed to admit when they don’t know or to check the truthfulness of an answer.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025
Entirely expected development.
wsj.com
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 25/05/2025
This is just un-freakin-believable. Having dealt with a toddler having a seizure yes it's scary. I can't believe anyone would take the time to consult ChatGPT... let alone trust its advice over calling 911 first.
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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025
“…many students at institutions experimenting with AI solutions say they are willing to risk mistakes to have a human touch.”
dispatch.com
As AI reads names at some college graduations, one Ohio professor prefers a human touch
The task of reading graduates' names at commencement ceremonies has been one marked by joy and dread. This Otterbein professor loves the challenge.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Remembering that one time a few moths ago I overheard a woman complaining to a friend that the guy she is dating has one hobby: ChatGPT. I’m guessing it didn’t work out.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/05/2025
👀👀
news.bloomberglaw.com
Clearview AI Selling Facial Data to Police Not Protected Speech
Clearview AI’s facial recognition service must face a suit from Californians who allege the company’s database violates their publicity rights and is an invasion of privacy, a state appeals court affi...
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We can’t talk about the energy consumption of generative AI without also talking about the much larger energy consumption of our existing data infrastructure.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025
Companies are quick to say their ai results are “not ads” but what I rarely see addressed about bots they claim will “act on your behalf” is this: what is your assurance that a bot is catering to your needs rather than just acting as more stealthy advertising?
tech.yahoo.com
AI is changing shopping. Will consumers buy in?
Tech companies such as OpenAI and Google as well as payment services are doubling down on their efforts to get people to use AI-powered tools to shop, but the experiments are still early.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/05/2025
The only idea they have left is to try to sell surveillance.
techradar.com
Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s ChatGPT device is probably going to look like an iPod Shuffle you can wear around your neck - report reveals more about the hyped AI hardware
So... It's an AI Pin?
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Such fragile masculinity
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/05/2025
The structural weakness is a strength, actually.
techcrunch.com
Anthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humans | TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that AI models hallucinate at a lower rate than humans do, but in more surprising ways.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A little weekend trip on the SS Badger
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just a reminder to the weirdly gleeful AI enthusiasts in my mentions who keep insisting that any day now LLMs are going to be writing all the novels. Oh heck no they absolutely will not be. (Also it’s WEIRD that anyone thinks that possibility is anything other than horrifying.)
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/05/2025
“It’s not creativity it’s statistics.”
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Where do I buy my portable microphone jammer?
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You cannot responsibly write about AI without writing about politics. "AI" is an intensely political project, especially in its current formation, where development is led by tech giants that increasingly depend on the state—for contracts, land rights, and, of course, for deregulation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The effect of AI devices/wearables will be an army of always on microphones and cameras able to process & mine data in real time without the consent of those being recorded. It will make current data collection and analysis practices look like child’s play. This is the end of privacy as we know it.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/05/2025
Also:
businessinsider.com
They bought an $800 AI robot for their kids. Now the company is shutting down — and children are having to say goodbye.
The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company lost funding.
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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Wow, the discourse here can be just as bad as the other place. I see you Bluesky.
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