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Collin Bjork

@collinbjork.bsky.social
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Rhetoric, communication, podcasting, writing, teaching. From Texas to Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
For those of you who are looking for some Iranian resistance rap right now. I can highly recommend Toomaj Salehi, who has been in and out of prison for his protest rap. Solidarity. open.spotify.com/artist/5mBmr...
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Just finished an article about AI Humanizers, which I describe as “putting AI-makeup on an AI-generated pig.” Also, I use the phrase, “the mountebanks of AI-hype,” which I think is an apt characterisation of the AI bros.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I love that when I search for Grokipedia, the first Google hit I get is for Wikipedia’s page about grokipedia, which says some sassy but accurate things about Musk’s shitty facsimile.
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
More critical reading for the new year!
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Added to the new years reading list!
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Daring, hopefully scholarship.
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The article is indebted to brilliant scholars such as @rcmeg.bsky.social, @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, & @ruha9.bsky.social who dare to ask us to imagine alternative, more hopeful versions of the world.
screenshot from the end of the article. Text reads "Finally, I find it imperative to amplify alternative visions of the world. I suspect many people who are actively standing against the pervasive climates of AI did not envision themselves doing this work. Benjamin, for example, expresses exasperation at being trapped within the imaginations of the artificial intelligentsia (“Who Owns the Future?”). Yet she reminds us that often we need to weed before we sow. Part of weathering the rhetorical climates of AI will entail lots of weeding: the need to talk about heavy things and attend to the here and now with a mētis sensibility, often squeezing the joy out of the room when GenAI is uncritically invoked or when it is impressed upon us as inevitable. This moment of AI oversaturation clouds our atmospheres with shiny distractions that are deadly serious in their consequences. Similar to Benjamin, I believe such distractions are designed to blot out a different kind of AI, an abolitionist imagination that demands the undoing of smothering conditions in order to envision something better. And so, the bigger, more joyful, more community-centered project remains: What can we imagine in the place of heavy clouds? That question, I believe, has long nourished the progress of plotting new dreams, technologies, and conditions of living otherwise. Weathering the rhetorical climates of AI will require weeding, yes, but it will also demand cultivating space for an imagination that lives beyond a climate that is suffocating for far too many."
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Stoked to read this piece. Just the kind of rhetorical criticism of AI that we need right now. And open access too!
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19/12/2025
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Blood Lily 🩸 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 14/12/2025
It's not a glitch if it's doing what it was programmed to do
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This appears to be an equity issue, but it actually opens up speakers of marginalised languages to extractive practices that seek to siphon their culture and then sell it back to those users to benefit AI shareholders.
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Just downloaded the first few episodes!
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4–5 PM ET. Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Event Flyer—Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom, CCCC Fall 2025 Reading Circle, Session 2: Book Discussion of Enduring Digital Damage by Dustin Edwards, Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 4–5 PM Eastern, with brief remarks from the author, facilitated by Hannah Hopkins and Donnie Johnson Sackey.
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"The more people loudly challenge and refuse the extraction and violence of AI Empire, the safer it becomes for others to do so. We can do this work together."
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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flyer for November 17, 2025 Glenn Advancing the Agenda Webinar on AI refusal with presenter profile photos.
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is a fantastic, super accessible piece. Not only does it diagnose the extractive nature of most AI systems, but it also offers other (less extractive) visions for AI.
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price. www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...
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Enduring Digital Damage
Networks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connec...
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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
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On Being a GenAI Killjoy
Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…
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Podnews podcasting news @podnews.net · 03/10/2025
25 Podcasts Announced as Eligible for Golden Globes podnews.net/press-release/golden-gl…
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25 Podcasts Announced as Eligible for Golden Globes
The awards will be presented on January 11, 2026
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Are you teaching TechComm this semester and wanting to discuss AI? Consider using my short accessible piece about “Extractive AI” that recently came out in JBTC: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Extractive Artificial Intelligence and Its Challenge to Technical Communication - Collin Bjork, 2025
Mainstream artificial intelligence (AI) is an extractive industry that exploits both humans and nonhumans. The extractive underpinning of mainstream AI systems ...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If you’re looking for a critical perspective on AI that’s accessible to students in a course on media, tech comm, or rhetoric and writing studies, consider this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Extractive Artificial Intelligence and Its Challenge to Technical Communication - Collin Bjork, 2025
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Uncivil is a FANTASTIC podcast! I teach it to my uni students in New Zealand. And I teach your Transom stuff on voice and vocal delivery. Congrats!
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In addition to owning Canvas, KKR also owns Simon & Schuster (one of the Big 5 publishers), OverDrive (which owns Libby and has a monopoly on e-lending at public libraries as they get rid of physical books), bankrupted Toys 'R' Us, and bought nursing homes that then became sites of abuse and neglect
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Silicon Valley AI and Academic Publishing are both extractive industries. Not surprising, but still infuriating.
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Good ppl, doing important work. Apply today!
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This is good reporting bc it’s often hard to get the specific numbers. But I’ve written about this before: Turnitin is a predatory EdTech tool that uses mora panics to siphon public edu funding into private coffers at the expense of student IP and educators. calmatters.org/education/hi...
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California colleges spend millions on AI detectors. Is the faulty tech worth it?
Turnitin’s AI detectors are flawed and the company demands forever access to student papers.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“To call AI a con isn’t to say that the technology is not remarkable, that it has no use, or that it will not transform the world (perhaps for the better) in the right hands. It is to say that AI is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking—and, soon, feeling—machines.“
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What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"I had no idea science could be so bad."
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New blog post: Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research (a reworking of my previous LinkedIn post) refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/r...
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Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research
Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University I recently posted to LinkedIn a critique of some AI hype masquerading as research, and I thought to do a blog post on this topic, in case it’s help…
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The Podcast Academy @podcastacademy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#TheAmbies are proud to honor @james.crid.land with the International Impact Award! From launching the first UK radio podcast to shaping the future through Podnews and Podcasting 2.0, he has made a lasting mark on the global audio community. 👏 Congrats, James! @podnews.net
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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Read the article open access: openpraxis.org/articles/10.... Award announcement: facebook.com/share/p/18hN... Judges praised it as “innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship advancing the field” with a critical literacy toolkit for AI discourse.
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Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies | Open Praxis
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eric @ericd.site · 15/05/2025
How much air pollution are people in Memphis inhaling so Elon Musk can make an algorithm that’s better at spouting racist conspiracy theories?
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Computers & Writing Conference @candwcon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to announce our keynote speakers for C&W 2025: @jsanofranchini.bsky.social & @jasontham.bsky.social. We'll share more about our keynotes soon! In the meantime, Early Bird registration is open until 3/31! www.english.uga.edu/computers-an...
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Consider submitting to POROI. We now accept multimodal (video essays, podcasts, etc) submissions too!
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
From 2022, still relevant. www.editorialboard.com/ten-actions-...
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Ten actions every one of us can take to defend democracy
Every sector of society is under threat. We must work together.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Experts on democratic backsliding make a similar argument: goodauthority.org/news/us-demo...
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U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders.
A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.
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eric @ericd.site · 12/04/2025
If you need something to listen to on your way home from #4C25 (or to take a break with whether you’re here or not), I gotta new podcast episode for you! Interview with Ashley J. Holmes on place-based writing and teaching: rhetoricity.libsyn.com/where-the-wr...
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Rhetoricity: Where the Writing Is: An Interview with Ashley J. Holmes
This episode features an interview with . Dr. Holmes is Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, where she leads the Center for Teaching and Learning in supporting ...
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Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
techpolicy.press/data-colonia... Super smart piece from @couldrynick.bsky.social and Mejias about the dangers of Musk’s data colonialism via DOGE
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Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too | TechPolicy.Press
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias write that applying the lens of data colonialism can help explain DOGE and how to resist it.
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