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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 2h

This is a fantastic, super accessible piece. Not only does it diagnose the extractive nature of most AI systems, but it also offers other (less extractive) visions for AI.

Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social · Aug 7

If you’re looking for a critical perspective on AI that’s accessible to students in a course on media, tech comm, or rhetoric and writing studies, consider this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Extractive Artificial Intelligence and Its Challenge to Technical Communication - Collin Bjork, 2025

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 9d

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Enduring Digital Damage

Networks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connec...

www.uapress.ua.edu

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 2d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Also, and this might be my ignorance, but aren’t many of the models connected with OpenAI and Meta and the like?

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about being vocally anti GenAI is people you know will start confessing their LLM use to you. Seeking what, I’m not sure? Weird stuff.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 5d

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to promote a book in ~these times~

a young boy is crying while holding a tong in his mouth .

Alt: a young boy is crying while holding a tong in his mouth .

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 5d

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Feel like I’m often saying/thinking Mél Hogan said that in 2015.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 24

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025

In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 7d

Ngl I feel justified in largely ignoring his earlier work. Something always felt… off.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 8d

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

www.noemamag.com

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, Casey! Beyond grateful for your help to bring it all to life.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 9d

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Enduring Digital Damage

Networks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connec...

www.uapress.ua.edu

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 18d

To have my book mentioned in the same breath as Karen Hao's magnificent Empire of AI is a career highlight. Thank you to Jennifer Sano-Franchini for organizing a CCCC Virtual Reading Circle on Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom.

Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 18d

Announcing a three-part CCCC Reading Circle Series:

Oct 16—Discussion of Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social!

Dec 10—Discussion of Enduring Digital Damage by
@dustinedwards.bsky.social!

Jan 12—Teaching Session on bringing these ideas to the writing classroom!

cccc.ncte.org/cccc/cccc-fa...

CCCC Fall 2025 AI Reading Circle - Conference on College Composition and Communication

Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom These events are free for CCCC members. Not yet a member? Join today! Join CCCC for a critical, nuanced, and though...

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 19d

New episode of Rhetoricity for the first time in a while. I talk with @kendalljoy.bsky.social about her timely and award-winning book Sensitive Rhetorics: Campus Activism and Academic Freedom! rhetoricity.libsyn.com/sensitivity-... #teamrhetoric

Rhetoricity: Sensitivity, Solidarity, and Higher Education: An Interview with Kendall Gerdes

This episode features an interview with . Dr. Gerdes is an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she also serves as president of the lo...

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 20d

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

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 20d

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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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 20d

This is funny (depressing) because half the shit on there is AI-generated these days. Snake, eat that tail.

Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com · 20d

LinkedIn has updated its TOS (they will use our proofiles to train LLMs) and I have deleted everything there except my account (in case somebody tries to impersonate me).

I'm tired on the contemporary Internet

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 23d

Building data centers is a way to (territorially) rebuild/maintain empire, as fossil fuel gets (necessarily) replaced by solar energy — I can see no other reason to invest in AI infrastructure, as a technology it has no business model …beyond worldbuilding….

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 23d

www.theverge.com/news/781052/...

Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data center

Brad Smith promises it won’t drain Lake Michigan dry.

www.theverge.com

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Caddie Alford (she/her) @caddiealford.bsky.social · 23d

Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization.

dhandlib.org/recommended-...

#TeamRhetoric
#Academicsky
#CriticalAI

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 25d

New blog post: Beyond “Two Sides” and the “Middle Ground” in GenAI Discourse: The Affordances and Limits of Linear Reasoning Models refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... #RefusingGenAI

Beyond “Two Sides” and the “Middle Ground” in GenAI Discourse: The Affordances and Limits of Linear Reasoning Models

Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Steve Johnson on Pexels.com Not long after my child started attending the childcare center near campus, another parent asked whether my sp…

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 25d

Feels like a good historical juncture for Bluesky to allow users to make their content “private.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25d

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 26d

I bring a certain [AI Hater] quality to the meeting.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · Sep 11

This whole thing is so infuriating. Here’s a link to donate and support Dr. McCoul gofund.me/ebe3b75ad

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