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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message. We only have 24 hours in a day.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will say, everyone I know in this space is wrestling with their AI position. Part of the problem is…well complicated. But boils down to, a lot of labor unions have become enmeshed in owners’ priorities because profit benefits dues paying members. AI is a bright line between workers and owners.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was struck by the extent to which this reviewer (and many other people, I'm afraid) have lost sight of the possibility of refusal. And so I want to reaffirm: There is no responsible use without the possibility of refusal. >>

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026

If you issue a public apology and offer pro bono IT services, you can not only get away with cybercrime but also monetize it through institutional lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/o...

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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When we tell students that we have to use generative AI because it’s inevitable, we spread antidemocratic misinformation, while also saying that the following are all inevitable too: surveillance, white supremacy, language homogenization, mass theft, environmental devastation, and and and…

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't forget, these folks knew well, well in advance of polluting their research journal platform with a perpetual pop-up AI summarizer that this would annoy their users. It's the year 2026 after all, it's not 2022 anymore.

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This but we aren't allowed lab length classes either: "Papers are the lab work of the humanities... the crucible for ideas invented, discarded, reanimated, rearranged & revised into sentences that reveal something to the writer that they didn’t know before." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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The Cures for AI Are Killing the Humanities (opinion)

The retreat from take-home essays jeopardizes the future of the humanities.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What's most upsetting me as a journal editor is that many papers we receive where AI use is disclosed for editing and language refinement actually appear to have been ruined rather than improved by AI. We get what seem like promising underpinning studies, but totally obscured by over-complex text.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Be sure to read this piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com by Jessica Grose. There's a straight line between what she's talking about here--college-as-trade-school-- and the options for how we deal with AI in the classroom. If everything is output and product, then the outsourcing of writing /1

Who knows how many kids we have already trapped in a cutthroat competition to get a small number of finance or tech jobs, when their brains might have been put to better use creating the next great piece of literature, designing a new kind of green building, or working in a lab that could lead to the next medical breakthrough? When we impugn the more esoteric ambitions of higher education, we lose the ability to dream big about what our young people can accomplish.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/08/2026

This shift to computerized state tests was made possible by schools' adoption of one-to-one devices. Which mostly happened with Covid. And yet, we rarely discuss the possibility that computerizing tests--without first teaching computing skills--might've contributed to subsequent test score declines.

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Cin (they/them) @skyalin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And yet, internet is still not classified as an essential service in Australia, so they can weasel out of actually providing it to people any time they want. Which is it, hmm?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'd be happy to give High-level Academic Advise on AI in research, but this call makes clear that genuine advice is not welcome. Yet, advice is much needed! Even EU president promotes hype & pseudoscientific claims. See e.g. open letter by experts last year www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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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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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.

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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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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But the loss of such a storied (and, yes, flawed) organization stings even harder for those of us who needed it for support as our local institutions become increasingly more perilous.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Possibly the best way to end the FAQ on your new AI search function.

A note from the new AI search (ughhhhh) FAQ at Merriam-Webster.com:

"The Usual Caveat
Like any chatbot, Merriam-Webster AI may sometimes make mistakes. Please verify all important information using Merrian-Webster.com."

Don't visit merrian-webster.com (with the n) unless you want your computer to become so infected with malware that the only recourse you have is to set it on fire in a containment unit.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hahahahaha I had 190 in FYW in Australia last semester (and I've had the title for an article about it for CCC for years but not the study design and now I'll never use it)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2026

legitimately this is a big reason it’s important to have diverse product teams! people with different experiences have different perspectives on how something can be misused and will bring up problems that you might have missed even with a good faith attempt at thinking them through

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2026

one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

There’s decades of scholarship on this! Please read some before coming into my mentions with bullshit.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

Muting: people are weird in the replies. It’s not conjecture when I say they know this. Meta’s own researchers warned them about amplifying hate content, damaging girls’ body image…and a bunch of other stuff. To pretend they are ignorant of the negative affordances is to let them off the hook.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If @ncte.org will do this to their composition wing, they'll do it to anyone. Flee this organization. It's rotten.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Statement from the CFSHRC's Executive Board #SaveCCCC 💔

The Executive Board of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition has been watching the social media posts regarding NCTE’s intention to dissolve the Conference on College Composition and Communication into their College Section. We too have found this news incredibly disheartening. We urge NCTE to take the time to hear from Cs leadership and our larger scholarly community before they make any decisions regarding the future of Cs.

While we await official statements and clarity from leadership of both NCTE and Cs, we wanted to express our appreciation for the immense impact Cs has had on the formation, growth, and sustainability of our field for over three quarters of a century.

During this painful time, we see the deep care we have for our work and the endless generosity of time, talent, and expertise that so many in our community have donated to Cs and to us all over the years. We deeply appreciate the executive board and Cs leadership for their work during this difficult time. Any organization is made up of people, and we will persist and thrive.
It is our hope that the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition can be a place to gather, process, and support our colleagues.

In solidarity,
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Cristy Beemer, President
Rebecca Richards, Immediate Past President
Jess Enoch, Former President
Jen Almjeld, Vice President
Risa Applegarth, Secretary
David Gold, Treasurer
Kate Pantelides, Member-at-Large
Leslie Beegle, Graduate Student Representative

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 24/07/2026

This 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.

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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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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

At a time when the instruction and scholarship of writing has never been more urgent or in the news.

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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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CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We’ll post any news about what this means for our caucus or other 4C activities once we have any news. 😞

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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thank you to the leaders of @rhetsoc.bsky.social for their Letter of Solidarity with the members of CCCC. Read it here: mailchi.mp/rhetoricsoci...

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A Letter of Solidarity from the RSA Executive Board

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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here it is, folks. @ncte.org Executive Committee votes to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC," i.e., to shitcan the Cs. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...

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NCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive Committee

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Officially sent my letter to NCTE re #CCCC. Other Cs publishers/exhibitors: there's still time to send a similar note if you haven't already! @wwnorton.com @upittpress.bsky.social @broadviewpress.bsky.social @cupress.bsky.social @parlorpress.bsky.social

Dear NCTE Executive Committee,

I was alarmed to hear that NCTE is considering dissolving CCCC, a vital organization that has addressed the specific needs of writing studies scholars for over seven decades. Disbanding Cs would undo years of hard work building up this robust network of researchers, teachers, students, and publishers. I sincerely hope that you will vote against this decision.

I write in my capacity as a NCTE member and publisher for whom Cs is my major annual conference. My press (Utah State University Press) exhibits every year. I do the bulk of my commissioning—meeting with researchers to discuss new ideas for books—in person at Cs. Acquisitions editors often like to joke that we do more acquisitions work at a single conference than we do the rest of the year combined, but there is some truth to that. For acquisitions editors, scholarly society conferences are absolutely integral to connecting with new audiences and authors. Conferences provide a space for scholars to try out new ideas and approaches with their peers, which editors then explore as potential book projects. Losing this centralized space where publishers and writing studies scholars meet to brainstorm future books will have consequences for the research output of the field (which, we know, also affects scholars’ academic job security).

For many Cs attendees, the yearly exhibit hall is also the place they discover newly published titles. This benefits both publishers, who want to see their books have an impact, and authors, who have all the titles they should be aware of at their fingertips. The exhibit hall at Cs is always a vibrant exchange of ideas, as scholars and students discover exciting new writing and are (often) inspired to write books themselves. It’s a place to pick up a copy of your mentor’s book, flip through a CCCC award-winning title, or explore interesting research that may be tangential to your field of study, but spark new ideas. As university library monograph bu…

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The value of writing, justice-oriented scholarship, and pedagogy is already under attack. Dissolving CCCC only further delegitimizes the field during a time when students’ communication skills are at risk (mentioning that what we teach transfers over into work done across courses/careers)

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What time is this NCTE meeting tomorrow, do we know?

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CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Below is the initial public statement on NCTE’s intention to dismantle our organization written by the CCCC EC, which includes one rep each from the “cultural identity caucuses,” including ours. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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