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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hi all, The Marist University English Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing specializing in Fiction. I am chairing the committee and am happy to answer any questions. Please share widely! careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

With ChatGPT down it's time to email your biggest enemy at work and cause a nervous breakdown as they are unable to respond

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The search for AI ROI continues. University admin gave a presentation to faculty senate on AI. They begged us to discover use cases for them. All they have is a bespoke Ai tutoring agent and hopes and dreams for improved internal operations All senate had to offer was complaints about cheating

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

a graph of data center support rapidly falling

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

sorry, you want me to *revise* and then *resubmit* this shit? dog, i sent it to you because i never wanted to see it again

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Regional networks and support are SO important, but following CCCC‘s dechartering, I believe we need national and international organizing to maintain our discipline and combat the intensifying authoritarianism that brought down our org in the first place.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Joke‘s on me because MOOCs failed at being remembered and but MOOC politics absolutely won the university.

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Veronica Joyner✨🦖🫶🏾 @doctahroni.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

Middle level educators should know that NCTE is willing to decharter the 77 year old organization that supports writing when those 8th graders go to college because they’re preemptively obeying a political regime.

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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's a cold and nasty little piece of PR speak. NCTE "acknowledges the communications it has received"—tell us how many emails, come on, tell us. "For many years"—77 years, you cowards. "In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability"—show us the numbers, please.

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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That "special topics conference" language is really getting under my grill. It reeks of the long history of seeing composition as an extension of and lesser than literature.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Email customerservice@ncte.org to cancel!! Hope we all flood their inbox with thousands of emails!!

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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fuck you @ncte.org. This is cowardly, shameful behavior, especially since YOUR Executive Director was the treasurer of C's, and she fucking refused to bother even showing up to do her job for the last two years. And what's worse? We know that this is a lie. You're rechartering us for our advocacy.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 23/07/2026

I stole this idea from @curiousmagpie.bsky.social but I not only told them I'd cancel my membership but that I would also recommend my library no longer subscribe to any NCTE-affiliated journals

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Imagine signing this statement in April 2025 and then in July 2026 trying to implode part of your own organization because that part exhibited a little too much democracy for the fascist trends of our time. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

aacu.org

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Update: I have a meeting for next Friday. The subject line of the email is "Meeting about CCCC 2027 next Week." There were no details in the email. I'll share once I have the meeting with the NCTE presidential team.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For Rhetoric/Comp/Writing folks wondering about the NCTE/CCCC mess, two things. 1. I recommend telling NCTE that you're canceling your membership until this is sorted out, and until you're satisfied with changes to the governance structure so we don't get blindsided like this again. 1/x

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Students whose teachers had access to the AI tool rated their classes as less enjoyable, less interesting and less important than students in the control group." 👀 This seems...important? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

hechingerreport.org

Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price

Students say AI-assisted classes feel less interesting, less enjoyable and less important

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

my bet is that there is at least one highly placed person at every US university who redirected large portions of institutional funding to go all-in on the following things, in succession: 1) Second Life 2) MOOCs 3) "The AI revolution" my further bet is that this person somehow still has their job

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 08/06/2026

It's publication week! My book, Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, is officially out through University of Iowa Press. Use code MESSINA40 for 40% off: uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...

Book flyer for Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Cara Messina published through University of Iowa Press. There is a QR code and a discount code, MESSINA40, for 40% off.

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Not to be that guy, but if you’re a writing center director and you’ve been leaning into AI-assisted tutoring in sessions, you’re very likely contributing to setting the conditions for all of us to be replaced by shit like this.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just got a survey from my university asking how I use AI in research, wanting details on barriers to use as well as burdens that AI has reduced for me. Not one question about barriers or burdens that the use of AI has created. So the unstated position is that it must be good. This is advertorial.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At this year's music Pedagogy into Practice conference at UBC, I attended a keynote address on the subject of integrating AI into music education, from José Antonio Bowen. It was the most disappointed I have ever been during a keynote talk. At times, it was stomach-churning. Thread:

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19/05/2026

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

windowslatest.com

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Former Microsoft PM says the company's AI push failed, citing Copilot's dismal 3.3% adoption rate and calling for a massive factory reset.

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teh @gokunaruto.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

cackling like a fucking hyena

"Github copilot has finally released a preview of usage-based billing based on current usage" accompanied by a screenshot of a predicted $1063.52 bill for copilot based on his usage on his current $39 plan
"Well it seems the day when an LLM becomes more expensive than a traditional developer is coming sooner than expected. Screenshot with preview - 12 days of use, ~900 premium requests"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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The Original Article was published on 06 May 2025

Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/04/2026

“‘I think the vast majority of people who are angry at AI are regular consumers,’ Hanna said. ‘People who were promised one thing, especially online, and they’re just getting a completely different experience.’”

fortune.com

From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary | Fortune

Gen Z is furious about AI, and so is the American countryside.

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

i asked a magic 8 ball if everything was going to be ok and it collapsed in on itself like a dying star is that good

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Sean @flyingwalruss.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Microsoft is removing CoPilot from Notepad

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 19/03/2026

"People are afraid they'll be criticized if they talk about AI at Cs" man, none of you would last a second as a transsexual woman

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 18/03/2026

its unbelievable that someone who uses activity theory to think about writing would make the claim that we can't refuse AI because we've always engaged with tech before

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The first thing I read and talk to my graduate students about is generous reading as a foundational practice for our class. We're going to assume that I chose each thing on our reading list because we can get something out of it, and we're going to read for that first. Then, we can critique.

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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects?

* Yes
* No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 28/02/2026

I love bcc it's so great that email has a secret "can you believe this bullshit" feature

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/02/2026

“Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities.”

fortune.com

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 19/02/2026

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

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