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ericdet.bsky.social
Writing and rhetoric teacher, food cooker, dog haver. Wrote a book called Responsible Pedagogy: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09343-7.html Got a website too: http://rheteric.org/
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submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Loving the posts and likes on this article! I think people would get even more out of reading it. This is no basic explainer on Gamergate. I go deep into the psychology, tactics, and limits of troll tantrums as fascist movements. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

submitted 18 hours ago • 83 comments

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

NEW EPISODE we take a look at the history of the formation of 4chan and how chronic posting can cause brutality desensitization

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I am schrodinger's public college humanities professor: irrelevant and rapidly shrinking, yet also so powerful and commanding they must destroy the university to be rid of me

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for “Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project” as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I’ve seen a lot of ppl around higher ed differentiating AI hype from the MOOC hype of the 2010s—saying AI isn’t just MOOCs redux in terms of its long-term viability. But I do think this tweet reveals a big overlap: an appeal to what Tressie McMillan Cottom’s called the roaming autodidact.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Noel quickly identified that one of the factory’s biggest expenditures was keeping all the exits unlocked during work hours." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Aftermath: Come for the great games writing, stay for the timely tofu scramble recipes.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

lol Mark Cuban out here propagandizing what people claimed about learning to program 15 to 20 years ago-- the end result of which is literally a guy named Big blBalls rifling through your IRS records and dismantling databases because it was written in a computer languages he's never heard of

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

“At Fort Campbell Schools, …teachers had to remove all bulletin boards that reference Black History Month and Black leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, according to a source speaking to Clarksville Now on condition of anonymity.” clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 8 days ago • 230 comments

silicon valley is going to destroy america

submitted 8 days ago • 629 comments

The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

submitted 8 days ago • 222 comments

FYI the most terrifying words in the English language have been updated to “I’m from Tesla and I’m here to help.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The lawmaker who reintroduced the anti-DEI bill in KY yesterday said it was built upon U of Kentucky and NKU's preemptive closure of DEI offices last year. Complying in advance only leads to more suppression. kentuckylantern.com/2025/02/12/r...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans 2002: “We need evidence-based education policy” Republicans 2025: “Pls destroy any evidence that could inform education policy”

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

If you're in #Nashville, come join me and @theresakereakes.bsky.social as we talk all things Cale and Paris 1919 next Wednesday, Feb 19, at 4pm at Grimey's. www.grimeys.com/preorders/ma...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Banning "confirmation bias" really gives up the game.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate that he just distilled all conspiracies into one single sentiment

submitted 14 days ago • 104 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 15 days ago • 145 comments

this stuff makes perfect sense when you understand that these people have a slaveholder’s ideology and believe that liberty means the freedom to dominate others

submitted 16 days ago • 373 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 16 days ago • 271 comments

it’s giving “nazi removal of so-called degenerate art”

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

A payday loan place in our neighborhood closed down a few weeks back and the building is about to reopen as a vape shop. Seemingly one of the only positive developments happening in the old US of A.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

I’m a measly English prof at a regional uni, yet when I helped develop our classroom AI policy, I had the foresight to go, “Hey, we should clarify that personally identifiable information shouldn’t be fed into chatbots and LLMs.” Absolute chud behavior here. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

TODAY IN NASHVILLE— anti-Trump rally at the Capitol, with “Elon wasn’t on the Ballot” signs in the crowd. Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/19xC...

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

My John Cale book comes out tomorrow so apologies if I'm annoying about it for the next day or two. Trying to get rich.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Crowdsourcing: do any tech comm or professional writing colleagues have a basic intro to UX principles powerpoint that they would be willing to share? I'm introducing some best practices tomorrow to scaffold a recipe design assignment and I would like to what I might be missing. #TeamRhetoric

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments