Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

Sitting with the news cycle (again and again), reminded of McKittrick pointing to Wynter’s ideas about how “we become psychically attached to, and invest in, this already-normally-always system of knowledge that cannot comprehend black humanity.”

Full speed ahead into fall with 40-50° F lows. So, I had to get a pic *before* the frost gets here.

“For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change. So, Silicon Valley’s best storytellers no longer want our capitulation to their technology’s inevitability. They want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress.”

Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

nytimes.com

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Revisiting Elliot Mishler’s work for a deep dive study, starting with his dissertation.

One of the clearest signs of how the tide is turning against Flock and foisting ai on children in schools is how many “the case for…” essays are popping up in legacy media.

It is really this easy. Take any *cognitive capacity* X. For instance, X = reasoning, learning, communicating, summarizing, reading, writing, etc. If any one asks: Can an LLM do X? You can answer: “No, LLMs cannot do X, because X is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none” LLMs are decoys.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I will be using this template a lot: "LLMs cannot do X because that is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none.” Used it here too: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

First week of teaching Patient-Provider Interaction is done ✅. (A great set up for data sessions, too.) #EMCA

Enjoyed this collaboration, and I got to feature an excerpt that also appears in my and @francescaorfw.bsky.social new book on Race Talk! www.peterlang.com/document/131... #racetalk #lsi #institutions

Peter Lang Verlag - Race Talk in Institutional Settings

Language and social interaction scholars have increasingly explored the consequentiality of language use for the production and reproduction of race, ...

peterlang.com

SQIP@qualpsy.bsky.social · 4w ago

"A Discursive Psychological Approach to Moral Dilemmas in Discrimination and Racism in Everyday Life" by Jessica Robles, @natshri.bsky.social, & Cristian Tileagă - A DP approach to morality "is uniquely situated to reveal insights into the nature of defeasible racism" psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

All you have to do is find things that cue up the bigotry you want to promote, and make them salient - preferably, while avoiding the same for context that would complicate your intended narrative (in a distracted, low-participation political culture, the last bit comes practically for free). 8/

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

“This is regulation exercised through discretion rather than administrative procedures that allow for public notice, comment, and judicial review.”

Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is an important article. It is about Trump industrial policy beyond AI as well.

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

nature.com

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The thing is yes, paper maps, but also: You naturally learned how to get around more than people do now. I knew my way around my early neighborhoods where I drove a lot better than I have in the ones where I had GPS all the time.

Hi all, @ethicsofai.bsky.social @dim-ah.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social @octopusfiles.bsky.social @josemariacasas.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social hope you are well ✨ New CAIL paper you may find of interest, too 😊 cc @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @joostvossers.bsky.social

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Finally received a hard copy of our new book, Race Talk in Institutional Settings: A Language and Social Interaction Perspective. ✨ @natshri.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who supported and poured into us along the way. Link: www.peterlang.com/document/131... #LSI #RaceTalk #EMCA

Peter Lang Verlag - Race Talk in Institutional Settings

Language and social interaction scholars have increasingly explored the consequentiality of language use for the production and reproduction of race, ...

peterlang.com

Having kids in grad school comes with more costs for women than men. "Citation scores for women who started to have children before the age of 30 were 14% lower than comparable men and 21% less than women who waited until their late 30s to start having children." www.science.org/content/arti...

Having a child during grad school is especially hard on women

New study highlights the need for more institutional support for parents

science.org

My trip to Radboud University this week overlaps with ICCA, so I’ll miss the conference (again). But I’ll be there in spirit with my co-author, @natshri.bsky.social 💬.

Finally recovered from ICA Cape Town! Hosted an awesome pre-conference on discourses of racial inequality and presented my and @francescaorfw.bsky.social book about what @ica-lsi.bsky.social can bring to studies of race and communication! A link to the book!: www.peterlang.com/document/131...

Random but the great migration was a refugee crisis. They were refugees fleeing a collapsed war-torn country (the Confederacy) to seek asylum elsewhere.

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery

Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...

jovanevery.co.uk

Savoring this from Toni Morrison. “We really have to learn to love thinking again. Not fretting, not worrying, but thinking. Life really is thrilling. But many people are unaccustomed to enjoying the problematics of life…you can use your mind to learn, to change things and to think things through.”

Wrapping up a wonderful visit to Loughborough University for the “Constructing Vulnerability” symposium yesterday and the “Entextualization” workshop today. Always grateful to share new work and ideas on Race Talk (📕 loading) @natshri.bsky.social. And I’m leaving with new curiosities ✨. #EMCA

I was so working class and Black and nontraditional that I felt remarkably blessed to write and read for a living. More than once a fancier academic sneered at me about it, like my gratitude was the mark of the beast lol

Leaving soon for a summer research fellowship in England (my first time there!). I’m looking forward to exploring and writing/thinking. But I’m most excited about getting caught up on my reading list. First up: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry.

anti-Blackness structures social life so deeply even movements that claim to fight oppression often reproduce anti-Black assumptions without realizing it.

Here’s something I will say about books, social media, and media more broadly: People are more interested in Black anger and pain than they are in Black joy People love engaging with me when I’m angry and sad and are far less engaged when I am happy and finding joy in something