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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your beef with apples has gone on long enough.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Free preview of AI Through the Experts’ Eyes! (introduction) upittpress.org/wp-content/u...

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Welcome to middle age iPhone 27, amiright?!

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We’re using it to facilitate credit transfer pathways for folks with technical certs, work experience, applied degrees, etc. into out BAS programs. And then I’m working with a team of engineers and education faculty to design elicitation processes that facilitate learning transfer.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 19/08/2026

“We have decided not to renew our contract beyond the end of the 2026-27 academic year and will begin phasing out the use of [Turnitin] immediately." Link (must be logged in with free account): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam...

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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wish doctors prescribed a month in the archives as a cure for certainty.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my friends, we might even call it template rhetoric. I wrote about it in my book, Update Culture. Chapter 1 is titled template rhetoric. And in the last chapter, I ask, “In what ways are machines becoming audiences for our writing?” Full book as a PDF below! www.researchgate.net/profile/John...

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JB Smiley Jr. @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Here’s a snippet from my official statement regarding the data center moratorium I am sponsoring: “When discussions about expansion occur without notifying elected officials or the communities we represent, it becomes difficult for us to effectively serve as the voice of the people.”

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“You get the hammer” -A real professor talking about his students who violate his AI policy

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anything that disrupts the transactional mindset around education is an experiment worth doing. I'm indifferent as to whether or not this will help student mental health. I acknowledge that grades creature pressure, but I'm more interested in the way they interfere with learning.

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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please fill out this survey and share your experience as a faculty member in the South.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Whoever made this is bad at history

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thanks for this! It’s really helpful or framing AI-assisted inquiry, and more largely, for not losing sight of the plot as you say.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I don’t know. Writing still exists.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Like a magic ring, it draws an energy out of people, amplifying our capacity for the demonic as well as the prophetic insofar as it serves the ends of public dramatization, escalating and heating things (or our perception of things) up. daviddark.substack.com/p/nobodys-an...

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Nobody's An Authority In Someone Else's Experience.

I have a number of people to thank for the above image.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Maybe editors shouldn’t publish them?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sure, two seconds of user research would have told you this was a stupid idea, but it was much more fun to do it the slow and expensive way that makes everyone hate you

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Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My linguist colleague just referred to pollen as “allergy squigglies” and I approve.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

That response is really interesting to me because by mindset I'm immune or even hostile to a productivity mindset, but I think so much of our culture treats productivity as a virtue in and of itself, so having the AI agent do it just feels good to them, so why stop?

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I like poop jokes, got any good ones?

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I can confirm that this collection is spectacular. Congrats to @emilyskaja.bsky.social.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Which pairs well with Ivor Richard’s claim that rhetoric is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What a wonderful book, and an even better observation by the student!

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm on a podcast! And @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social too! Come listen to us promote Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. We're a fucking delight, if I do say so myself.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

S i NG u Larity is not a real thing

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

He got my first ever vote for president. Sorry, Al..

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It really is silly. Also, AGI is not a thing and never will be outside what will always be for some a fetishized laziness toward history and having to learn it.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Excuse me while I ignore education hot takes from ivy league insiders.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

…in the sense that the latter use token to token links without an interpretant

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is not surprising at all if we start from the premise that, on the level of semiotics, human language is triadic, but computational language is dyadic.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This tells that story pretty clearly from the point of view of a higher Ed/industry insider at the time Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning share.google/Kn6duwUggCwg...

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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The one thing I’ll say that AI has done: made a lot of people demonstrate their definitions of learning, most of which are wrong or not backed up by empirical evidence.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

As promised earlier my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social on technofeudalism and how edtech has steadily been eroding our freedoms and capturing the value of our labor (and student work) for themselves. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

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The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom

It's more than AI. A Q&A with Matt Seybold.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Apropos of ~everything~, I highly recommend this edited volume: From a Whisper to a Movement” Like chapter 3: “Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing” sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...

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From a Whisper to a Movement

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Print copies of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, came in the mail today! Thanks to @upcolorado.bsky.social for publishing it!

Front Cover of the book Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski. Cover art by Nafís White. Piece is entitled Oculus (Black, Brown, Navy, Teal) and consists of braided hair woven into a pattern.

Back cover text: Barsczewski and Oleksiak collect chapters that tell stories, build theories, and make cases for what a healthy academic life looks like. Acknowledging that the academy will always take as much as you give, this collection gives readers material for imagining their own "adequacy" barometers. This is essential reading for graduate students and early career faculty as they seek to build sustainable careers.”
—Holly Hassel, Michigan Technological University

“These excellent contributions illuminate how, for so many of us, the dream of a dignified, well-remunerated academic position is just out of reach. Instead, our working lives are mostly shaped by austerity, contingency, overwork, and underpayment. Adequate dares to name these conditions, calling attention to the innumerable falsehoods and broken promises of the neoliberal university, and articulates a powerful new vision of academic labor.”
—James Rushing Daniel, Seton Hall University

Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection.

Adequate reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work. An invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in the rhetoric and composition field, this volume covers the realities of teaching rhetoric and composition in the modern college environment, as well as potential paths forward for educators in need of a better work-life balance.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Please report on whether it received a 👍. I would love my kids to discover SpongeBob.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

For example, I agree with your assessment about the affect of Ai text (stilted, overlong, etc) but you and I also bring an excess of stylistic knowledge and experience as readers to the table. Personally, I don’t *feel* any change before/after 2022 to how a text reads.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

…could be meaningful before the uptake of a reader.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

One thing I keep coming back to re: AI and genre, or mechanics, in this post, is that most of us are locked into a dyadic instead of triadic sense of meaning. This is the root of most of our confusion about ai-generated text, I think: that any text, let alone an ai-generated one 1/

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access! publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Screenshot with text of an abstract. "In a relatively short time, market and political forces have intensified the reach of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become, in a word, climatic—not only a discrete technological system but also a creeping assemblage of ideological, material, and political forces. This article tracks these forces by developing rhetorical climates of AI as a conceptual framework. In doing so, I aim to (1) link the harms of climate change with the rapid buildout of AI infrastructure and (2) shift the frame of the conversation by emphasizing the extractive, exploitative, enclosed, and knotted supremacist conditions that have been prerequisites for building AI systems at scale. While these pervading rhetorical climates may seem unchangeable, I track how microclimates of resistance have developed, in the past and in the present. In particular, I emphasize the importance of bodily intelligence in navigating asymmetrical conditions of power felt in the AI industry. The article concludes by discussing how rhetoric and writing studies can weather the unfolding rhetorical climates of AI by diagnosing conditions, seizing moments, and plotting futures to imagine a less extractive and less harmful world."

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

@paulscheer.com ‘s legs and my PhD diploma. To me this is like a background pic version of getting one of the hosts of Wait Wait to record a voicemail greeting. Also, no context makes this funnier.

Paul Scheer’s legs next to a coffee table with my diploma on it next to various computer parts

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