Todd Battistelli
@fromtherostra.com
How do our disagreements go? #rhetoric, #writing, and #education.
Viewpoints that I express are my own and do not represent the views of organizations with which I'm affiliated. Reposts are not endorsements.
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Todd Battistelli
@fromtherostra.com
· Nov 13
Hello!
My main interests are writing and learning, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement in rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.
More here: fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/w...
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My main interests are writing and learning, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement in rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.
More here: fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/w...
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if I am elected president I will enforce a mandatory executive austerity program and full independent audit before a company can cut more than 50 jobs in a quarter.
Verizon is preparing to eliminate as many as 20,000 jobs and convert about 180 to 200 stores into franchises, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in its history, according to sources.
Verizon to cut up to 20,000 jobs in one of the largest tech layoffs ever
Verizon is preparing to eliminate as many as 20,000 jobs and convert about 180 to 200 stores into franchises, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in its history, according to sources.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
if I am elected president I will enforce a mandatory executive austerity program and full independent audit before a company can cut more than 50 jobs in a quarter.
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Jeff Bezos has four kids none of which you've ever heard about and only one of which can you find mentioned by name.
how...is that that the rich can extend themselves a level of privacy that nobody else has, often because their companies have stripped it from us?
how...is that that the rich can extend themselves a level of privacy that nobody else has, often because their companies have stripped it from us?
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Jeff Bezos has four kids none of which you've ever heard about and only one of which can you find mentioned by name.
how...is that that the rich can extend themselves a level of privacy that nobody else has, often because their companies have stripped it from us?
how...is that that the rich can extend themselves a level of privacy that nobody else has, often because their companies have stripped it from us?
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Given the vigor with which newspaper owners and editors are pursuing a 21st century yellow journalism to prop up the rulers of our age, perhaps they’d like to read this play about a king in yellow.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Given the vigor with which newspaper owners and editors are pursuing a 21st century yellow journalism to prop up the rulers of our age, perhaps they’d like to read this play about a king in yellow.
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I say it nearly everyday about the rapid expansion of AI data centers and the immense extraction that is happening in the name of a failing business model but I'll say it again: REAL SICK STUFF.
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I say it nearly everyday about the rapid expansion of AI data centers and the immense extraction that is happening in the name of a failing business model but I'll say it again: REAL SICK STUFF.
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
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I fear that as management turns increasingly to AI to write their emails and their reports, work that can be done poorly in automation, they will think all work can be treated this way, and they will lose whatever critical capacities they once possessed when they had to draft their own emails
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I fear that as management turns increasingly to AI to write their emails and their reports, work that can be done poorly in automation, they will think all work can be treated this way, and they will lose whatever critical capacities they once possessed when they had to draft their own emails
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
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I stared at this headline too long and now my brain won’t go
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I stared at this headline too long and now my brain won’t go
Having learned of Stephen Weldon’s book at a recent webinar co-hosted by @nonreligioncf.bsky.social and @ishash.bsky.social, I’ve started reading The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Having learned of Stephen Weldon’s book at a recent webinar co-hosted by @nonreligioncf.bsky.social and @ishash.bsky.social, I’ve started reading The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism.
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We're excited to announce the publication of Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (co-edited by Lori Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy), the first in our open-access book series with De Gruyter.
Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We're excited to announce the publication of Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (co-edited by Lori Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy), the first in our open-access book series with De Gruyter.
Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
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One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them.
#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion
#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion
“You are this. You are that.”
No. We are people trying to work in coalition, each with the agency to describe their own identities and the forbearance to respect differences among them.
No. We are people trying to work in coalition, each with the agency to describe their own identities and the forbearance to respect differences among them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them.
#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion
#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion
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the students who work in my writing center all hate AI so fucking much and it's so encouraging
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the students who work in my writing center all hate AI so fucking much and it's so encouraging
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Hey all, I’m on a bit of a hiatus from cleaning data at academicabuse.com.
The stories come so fast, it’s admittedly hard to keep up!
The stories come so fast, it’s admittedly hard to keep up!
Academic Abuse | Understanding & Combating Academic Misconduct
Your hub for understanding, exposing, and addressing academic abuse. Access data dashboards, read survivor stories, and join the fight for change in higher education.
academicabuse.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Hey all, I’m on a bit of a hiatus from cleaning data at academicabuse.com.
The stories come so fast, it’s admittedly hard to keep up!
The stories come so fast, it’s admittedly hard to keep up!
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Talk of an economy dominated by AI output is making it hard for Gen Z to plan for the future, even if they put the technology at the center of their work. One laid-off employee who built AI agents compares it to “feeding myself into the AI meat grinder.” nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Talk of an economy dominated by AI output is making it hard for Gen Z to plan for the future, even if they put the technology at the center of their work. One laid-off employee who built AI agents compares it to “feeding myself into the AI meat grinder.” nymag.com/intelligence...
Is there a collective noun for a group of abominations?
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Is there a collective noun for a group of abominations?
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Another point: I cannot say 100% certain but the quality of video changed drastically the day Sora was released. The videos look like they're Sora videos, and they follow Sora tropes (Walmart, McDonald's). The biggest, most "valuable" companies on Earth are enabling and pushing this shit on people
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Another point: I cannot say 100% certain but the quality of video changed drastically the day Sora was released. The videos look like they're Sora videos, and they follow Sora tropes (Walmart, McDonald's). The biggest, most "valuable" companies on Earth are enabling and pushing this shit on people
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It’s called an Em dash bc it was invented by Emily Dickinson
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s called an Em dash bc it was invented by Emily Dickinson
I didn't get any photos of the pink glow of the aurora last night, but I did manage to capture the brown haze settling over Denver's skyline this morning.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I didn't get any photos of the pink glow of the aurora last night, but I did manage to capture the brown haze settling over Denver's skyline this morning.
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TIL the postwar Frankfurt School, in the personage of Friedrich Pollock, produced a book-length analysis of the automation question as it appeared in the mid-1950s. Thanks @cominsitu.bsky.social
cominsitu.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
TIL the postwar Frankfurt School, in the personage of Friedrich Pollock, produced a book-length analysis of the automation question as it appeared in the mid-1950s. Thanks @cominsitu.bsky.social