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Absolutely love when a new doctor throws shade at your established care team, proceeds to ignore your reported symptoms, and inserts their own biases into your chart. Oh and also completely lie about assessing a const system in a way that could fuck up future care, that's great
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Absolutely love when a new doctor throws shade at your established care team, proceeds to ignore your reported symptoms, and inserts their own biases into your chart. Oh and also completely lie about assessing a const system in a way that could fuck up future care, that's great
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Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.
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I suspect that a not insignificant amount of the outrage and horror at Kirk's death is that theres an entire class of people in America who are more or less safe and stable and used to being able to speak and act without fear of any consequences whatsoever because they've insulated themselves well.
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I suspect that a not insignificant amount of the outrage and horror at Kirk's death is that theres an entire class of people in America who are more or less safe and stable and used to being able to speak and act without fear of any consequences whatsoever because they've insulated themselves well.
In the middle of collecting evidence of social impact to prove myself for A Thing (The Thing, even) and hoping to address what some might call a gap in my record... so I was wondering if anyone out there has been influenced by (in any way)/has taught any of the following pieces:
May 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the middle of collecting evidence of social impact to prove myself for A Thing (The Thing, even) and hoping to address what some might call a gap in my record... so I was wondering if anyone out there has been influenced by (in any way)/has taught any of the following pieces:
Maybe awards were always popularity contests but its like the metric has explicitly shifted just now to reward campaign stamina & highlighted how much harder it'll be for junior/precarious/disabled/caregiving faculty to succeed over those w/ privilege (& a suggestion of cronyism)
May 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Maybe awards were always popularity contests but its like the metric has explicitly shifted just now to reward campaign stamina & highlighted how much harder it'll be for junior/precarious/disabled/caregiving faculty to succeed over those w/ privilege (& a suggestion of cronyism)
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Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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May 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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What with everything I missed that the new Peitho just dropped--got a piece in it from the WIP book, on culturally specific writing & archival preservation & (re)construction as Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled resilience in the face of genocide & erasure wac.colostate.edu/peitho/
Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric - The WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What with everything I missed that the new Peitho just dropped--got a piece in it from the WIP book, on culturally specific writing & archival preservation & (re)construction as Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled resilience in the face of genocide & erasure wac.colostate.edu/peitho/
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REMEMBER KIDS
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
REMEMBER KIDS
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
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NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... @chalkbeat.org
NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender
The city Education Department has not sent any systemwide communication to families or educators, and it hasn’t issued specific guidance for administrators about Trump’s executive order.
www.chalkbeat.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... @chalkbeat.org
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February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Black love
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Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
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Black existence
...month🖤
Black history
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Black love
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Black people
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AI is a technology of non consent and at this point decentralization is about unpaid extracted labor
February 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
AI is a technology of non consent and at this point decentralization is about unpaid extracted labor
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If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds
February 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds
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StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr
RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!
StopRFKjr.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
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Kairos is seeking submissions for our Disputatio section! The co-editors are particularly interested in submissions that offer provocations to and for the field, including but not limited to:
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kairos is seeking submissions for our Disputatio section! The co-editors are particularly interested in submissions that offer provocations to and for the field, including but not limited to:
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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, featuring exciting new webtexts, interviews, and reviews: kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
Issue 29.2 (Spring 2025) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.
kairos.technorhetoric.net
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, featuring exciting new webtexts, interviews, and reviews: kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
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This is insanity. If you're researching Tay Sachs Disease or Sickle Cell or hypertension understanding the makeup of your sample--age, gender, ethnicity--is central and necessary.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.
www.statnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is insanity. If you're researching Tay Sachs Disease or Sickle Cell or hypertension understanding the makeup of your sample--age, gender, ethnicity--is central and necessary.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
Brb screaming that I landed a parser game about chronic pain and intergenerational trauma and torture and gaming and writing and academic racism and ableism anywhere let alone in @kairosrtp.bsky.social
kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
Issue 29.2 (Spring 2025) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.
kairos.technorhetoric.net
January 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Brb screaming that I landed a parser game about chronic pain and intergenerational trauma and torture and gaming and writing and academic racism and ableism anywhere let alone in @kairosrtp.bsky.social
kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html
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Ableism is what transforms disabled lives into lesser or inferior lives.
December 27, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Ableism is what transforms disabled lives into lesser or inferior lives.
Aetna and Evicore just denied a shoulder MRI and explicitly told me to do six weeks of PT instead, when my therapist told me that without knowing the exact nature and location of the injury, we might fully tear my arm free
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Aetna and Evicore just denied a shoulder MRI and explicitly told me to do six weeks of PT instead, when my therapist told me that without knowing the exact nature and location of the injury, we might fully tear my arm free
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Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &
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December 17, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
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November 6, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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This isn’t even correct! The “human shields” bullshit (of which “Israel” is guilty many times over, on camera, and which is falsely thrown at Hamas) doesn’t make it legal to murder children! What the fuck!!
May 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This isn’t even correct! The “human shields” bullshit (of which “Israel” is guilty many times over, on camera, and which is falsely thrown at Hamas) doesn’t make it legal to murder children! What the fuck!!
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Amazing: the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour says if U of T wants to raze the encampment on Monday and “move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” A solidarity rally of unions will be held at the university’s deadline of 8am Monday.
ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...
ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...
May 26, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Amazing: the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour says if U of T wants to raze the encampment on Monday and “move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” A solidarity rally of unions will be held at the university’s deadline of 8am Monday.
ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...
ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...