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Cara Marta Messina

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💖Assistant prof of English 💜fan studies & digital rhetoric 💙keeper of Team Rhetoric feed 💖Alliance for Refusing Generative AI Discord https://discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp 💜writing a book on fanfiction 💙”your silence will not protect you “

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · Nov 11

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26

People *without* executive dysfunction are finding that using chatgpt buries them under multitasking: they have to expend more effort and attention in more tasks to check that it hasn't outputted *absolute fucking nonsense*

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3d

ideally, the only places i want to be in AI are spaces for resistance, refusal and community organising

in reality, i find myself in spaces where AI governance, regulatory or institutional/scientific decisions are made where either i my input is paid lip service or entirely ignored

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 3d

the ick I get at Sam Altman describing Sora as fanfiction... copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

“We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of ‘interactive fan fiction’ and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify how their characters can be used (including not at all).

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10d

Some good news:

“In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment.”

www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 16d

Wow I can’t wait to play it 🥹🥹

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jun 15

Your daily opossum break:

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 16d

I also understand that it’s difficult to know what is and is not AI generated content, which makes these policies a bit more difficult to enforce. But having these policies at least deters the normalization of relying on genAI for our scholarship.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 16d

I wish more journals had stronger policies like this.

Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social · 16d

This is really starting to get out of hand.
A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.

A screenshot showing the last 9 editorial decisions; 8 were rejected for use of GenAI

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Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social · 16d

This is really starting to get out of hand.
A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 17d

For a moment, I thought I was being raptured. But I realized it was just gas.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 17d

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 18d

New special issue of Popular Communication

Queer Women's Fandom

#FanStudies

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

Popular Communication

Queer Women's Fandom. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Popular Communication

www.tandfonline.com

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Claire Jackson @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social · 29d

This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29d

“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…”

The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”

Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era

Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.

www.politico.eu

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 18d

I created a template academic job market folder for folks to use Feel free to share around!

bit.ly/AcademicJobF...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 18d

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

www.science.org

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 18d

Love this, thank you for your care and brilliance!

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 18d

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Refusing Plagiarism Detection and EdTech Surveillance

Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Photo by Kadri Võsumäe on Pexels.com It’s week 6 of the semester here, and we have reached the end of the first major project for most of our first-year writi…

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 18d

I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 18d

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Refusing Plagiarism Detection and EdTech Surveillance

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d

Trans rights are human rights.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24d

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 25d

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞

👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

THE CUT

They Want the Shooter to Be Trans
By Lex McMenamin, a writer and editor at Teen Vogue.

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 24d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 26d

Okay wait but what nasal spray

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 28d

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28d

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

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