gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini
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*whispers* "AI" products like Claude or ChatGPT are Silicon Valley's project to undermine democratic values and place themselves above accountability or oversight
This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
"In short, refusal-in-the-loop resists the language and logics of Big Tech as we consider what writing technologies we will use, when, and how we will use them."
New post! @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I have a short piece in Sweetland DRC's blog carnival 25, titled "Refusal-in-the-loop writing—or, what happened to the field that stood up to TurnItIn, Coruse Hero, Chegg, and paper mills?" Link below.
Diesel generators are omnipresent, but almost completely ignored in decarbonization discourse.
eg: Backup diesel is how most data centers today provide the "flexibility" climate advocates are calling for to protect grid decarbonization - making a supposed climate solution into a clean air disaster
Damn i love this song
Edtech investors are *spooked* by the current public backlash to tech and AI in education so much that they're writing multi-part blog posts desperately pushing back on the pushback www.reachcapital.com/resources/th...
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting.
That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety.
Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
An Update! refusal.blog/2026/05/26/j...
Maggie: Can I be crazy about the GAI stuff lol Jen: Of course Maggie: Do you remember 3 years ago when people were up in arms about CourseHero??? Jen: Yes Maggie: Partly bc of the AI-training…
We are excited to announce the Refusal Summer Reading Club, a chance for us to read together, get informed, process ideas, and connect!
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“Amodei argued that developing AI warfare could help avoid World War III and help defend Taiwan from invasion from China, so long as the technology wasn’t used without limits or in a way that undermined democratic values.”
New post! @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I have a short piece in Sweetland DRC's blog carnival 25, titled "Refusal-in-the-loop writing—or, what happened to the field that stood up to TurnItIn, Coruse Hero, Chegg, and paper mills?" Link below.
