Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fun that Amazon's Built Together data center announcement is not only greenwashing but it's also gaslighting! www.aboutamazon.com/news/company... 010
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know the job market in rhetoric and writing studies has been on the decline, but whew it looks BAD bad out there this year. 000
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Jodi Dean on Large Language Mommies jodi7768.substack.com/p/whos-your-...jodi7768.substack.comWho’s Your Mommy?Absorbed in AI’s Embrace 000
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 23/08/2026man, the ~teaching with AI~ posts that include GenAI images are so corny. what are we even doing 170
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”… 362167664
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026ijoc.org/index.php/ij... 👀 @zgtcooper.bsky.social 👀 @dustinedwards.bsky.socialijoc.org Infrastructure Intermediaries: A Framework for Digital Infrastructure Research | International Journal of Communication 032
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026shorter NCTE message: we want to get rid of all the infrastructure that costs money and carries any political risk, BUT we will take your membership money. For what? Isn't it exciting that we don't know?!!! 2183
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A Battle of Narratives: Community Resistance to the Material Costs of AI www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2026/07/29/c...digitalrhetoriccollaborative.orgCommunity Resistance to the Material Costs of AI with Dr. Dustin EdwardsDustin Edwards is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and the Director of the Writing Center at San Diego State University. His research examines the unmet promises and lived harms… 141
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsLeigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Feels like a good time to share my most recent (open access!) publication: “many [participants] see state DEI bans as a warning shot of sorts, a preface to the larger project of dismantling higher education.” publicationsncte.org/content/jour...publicationsncte.org“While I Stay Mad, I Also Stay Ready”: Navigating DEI Bans in Writing Studies Classrooms | ncte.orgWelcome to the new NCTE Publications site, your gateway to NCTE journals, ebooks, and the Council Chronicle. 194
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Doing Great as the Summer Ends and the Profession Reels from a Fabricated Crisis* *listening to Carrie & Lowell on repeat 150
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It does not feel coincidental that this is happening the same week as the Conference on College Composition and Communication (colloquially known as the C's or CCCC) is effectively being shuttered. 3256
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsMegan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Imagine the conversation we could have about this travesty if NCTE didn’t require Cs officers and executive committee members to sign confidentiality agreements. Folks should also ask NCTE about how and whether their lucrative grant/partnership with Google was part of what Cs “culture” threatened.insidehighered.comNCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition AssociationThe National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co... 33925
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Writing to cancel my NCTE membership and demand a refund. 0170
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsLeigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... 12611
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsAmber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...ncte.orgNCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive CommitteeThe following is a message from the NCTE Executive Committee. 2326
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsMichael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The Cs was a place where precarious academic workers could dream of a better higher ed, as well as make it. Adjuncts and community college faculty were especially welcomed rather than just being stigmatized for where/how they taught. I loved hearing people’s 4Cs report backs! 1276
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsMichael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026College writing instruction is one of the places where academic labor exploitation is very high, and at the same time these same academic workers are at the front lines of the literacy crisis and are also the most committed to a truly inclusive university. 1268
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsCara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 24/07/2026This is because NCTE complied with fascists and has a partnership with Google, while CCCC continued to advocate for anti-racism and caution against AI. I just emailed customerservice@ncte.org to request a refund and you should, too. Absolutely devastating. 05921
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026what a corny ass email, no doubt written by that person with the corny ass linkedin bio and then run through Grok for good measure 2150
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsLeigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026@ncte.org I’ll be calling first thing Monday morning to cancel my membership. I’ll spend the weekend encouraging all my CCCC colleagues to do the same. 13610
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsJoshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Fuck @ncte.org . I'll never give you a dollar of my money 2153
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsChen Chen @chenchen328.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“The process of making this decision spanned several years” yeah they been wanting to get rid of us 091
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsClaire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 24/07/2026@ncte.org should be ashamed of themselves 1193
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just -- 4546
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2026idk man, but it sure looks like the encroachment of big tech on executive boards for professional orgs may be the death knell for my discipline 05714
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsAmber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The CCCCs organization is the center of our discipline. Absolutely horrible decision by NCTE with no consideration or care for the community or anyone who has put their work into the organization, an org that is needed more than ever. 1276
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsDonnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all. 56531
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The Backup Plan, a new podcast series exploring the use of DNA to store data (instead of tape or hard drives etc). 2145
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 14/07/2026shout out to the guy in the sauna next to me this morning who was quick applying to jobs on LinkedIn 110
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I think (??) Tressie McMillan Cottom used the phrase "beneath analysis" for some of the bs happening right now in the AI space. And that's how I feel about data center discourse these days. It's cartoonishly evil and extractive -- and it's like what more can be said? 160
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsClaire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 01/07/2026I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old (from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal) 02615
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As a fan of both Sylvia Wynter and Gabriela Raquel Ríos, this is def on my to-buy/read list uapress.arizona.edu/2026/04/exce...uapress.arizona.eduExcerpt from “Indigenous Genres of the Human” | UAPressExcerpt from the introduction of “Indigenous Genres of the Human: Locating the Intersections of Indigeneity and Latinidad,” by Gabriela Raquel Ríos 010
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsHart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸 40758262616
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 10/06/2026the signs say it all: un mundo mejor es posible / a better world is possibleelpasoinc.comEl Paso City Council votes to keep Meta economic incentive deal intactThe economic development agreement for Meta’s data center, under construction in far Northeast El Paso, lives on after City Council rejected efforts to cancel the contract. 000
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsVivek @vivekster.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It's really frustrating to have to spend time swatting at shitty articles like this when the developers of the data center we're protesting IN THE PHOTO has permits to drill wells and extract up to 31 million gallons of groundwater each year. www.vox.com/future-perfe... archive.is/DqPNZvox.comAmericans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI. 042
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsKendall Gerdes 📚🐦⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Stealing this conference bingo from a different #RSA26 022
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Really grateful for this article, but also unsettled with the Jacobin piece referenced. It's clear (to me) that the author hasn't spoken w/ communities who are organizing in astounding ways to slow, stop, or question the buildout of data centers. This is a profound coalitional movement — + 162
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul LevinClaims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions 16691291
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Life comes at you fast. Over the weekend, I received a royalty check for sales on my book (a nice steak dinner, lol!). On Monday, I see I have one review on Amazon (one star, lolsob). 130
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 20/04/2026after a pretty busy spring semester, I'm delighted to announce that I am planning on taking more naps, reading more to my kids, and enjoying longer walks. 170
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Looking forward to talking with folks at UMD this week! My talk is "Accelerate or Die? Digital Damage After AI Acceleration" 093
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 03/04/2026All this to employ maybe 200 people and emit more carbon that the whole state of New Mexico. I hope the bubble bursts tomorrow. 2115
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 01/04/2026researching the financial arrangements (shell companies, political consultants, law firms) of the Stargate Project (openAI/Oracle) has me wrecked 030
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 31/03/2026can't a guy (me) go to a coffeeshop without seeing another guy vibe code on claude ? 040
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2025The fight for the living world is upon us... back to writing!! 😰 728458
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"If the data centers we rely on are built on the infrastructural remains of colonial and imperial ideologies, we must interrogate how these spaces and histories shape our engagement with the newest manifestation of these ideologies."digitalrhetoriccollaborative.orgThe Rhetorical Power of Data Centers: Case Studies from the Global North and Global SouthThis Yack article explores the rhetorical power of data centers from Global North and Global South perspectives. 1119
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsJennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I think part of the problem, at least in rhetcomp, is too many people never took comparative, BIPOC, and global nonwestern rhetorics and rhetorical histories seriously. Planning to present on this at RSA. 061
Reposted by Dustin EdwardsOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/03/2026Cameron Tonkinwise thank you for transcribing my sick burn "I see most people being obsessed with [...] your H index or how many papers you've published. This is all nonsense. And it's completely radical to say, I don't care about this. And what I care about is doing a good job at my actual job.” 45812