Dan Libertz
@dlib24.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of English & Assoc. Director of First-Year Writing @BaruchCollege, @CUNY | teaching, rhetoric, quant | wooder ice (lemon) | #firstgen | he/him
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With my collaborator Zachary Muhlbauer, our article on how public writers think about framing quantitative information has been published at Written Communication. Here is a free link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YRFI6... #teamrhetoric
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November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
With my collaborator Zachary Muhlbauer, our article on how public writers think about framing quantitative information has been published at Written Communication. Here is a free link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YRFI6... #teamrhetoric
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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i'm just walking around my house muttering "jesus nailed the miracle without venture capital" over and over
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
i'm just walking around my house muttering "jesus nailed the miracle without venture capital" over and over
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
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We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Wrath of God
Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Wrath of God
I’ve never seen anything like this press conference. Trump is smitten with Mamdani. Constant compliments, just totally charmed
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’ve never seen anything like this press conference. Trump is smitten with Mamdani. Constant compliments, just totally charmed
With my collaborator Zachary Muhlbauer, our article on how public writers think about framing quantitative information has been published at Written Communication. Here is a free link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YRFI6... #teamrhetoric
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November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
With my collaborator Zachary Muhlbauer, our article on how public writers think about framing quantitative information has been published at Written Communication. Here is a free link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YRFI6... #teamrhetoric
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This is going to be THE case study in how aligning a model to be too positive about a brand can backfire.
I say "THE" because I seriously doubt a brand this large will ever screw it up this bad again.
I say "THE" because I seriously doubt a brand this large will ever screw it up this bad again.
whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is going to be THE case study in how aligning a model to be too positive about a brand can backfire.
I say "THE" because I seriously doubt a brand this large will ever screw it up this bad again.
I say "THE" because I seriously doubt a brand this large will ever screw it up this bad again.
[Sam Altman voice] the AI teddy bear will meet the critical gap we have in sex education all over the world. It is kink shaming to not buy your kids the AI teddy bear and to not replace your kids’ health teachers with the AI teddy bear
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
[Sam Altman voice] the AI teddy bear will meet the critical gap we have in sex education all over the world. It is kink shaming to not buy your kids the AI teddy bear and to not replace your kids’ health teachers with the AI teddy bear
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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"I’m just driving as fast as possible because I don’t fully understand the purpose of life. I have, like, a general sense? I know we’re supposed to have money and live somewhere, and we need to eat food, but after that, I don’t really get the rest of it."
I Like to Almost Kill People by Driving Past Them at 125 mph in My Modified Honda Accord
Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve be...
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"I’m just driving as fast as possible because I don’t fully understand the purpose of life. I have, like, a general sense? I know we’re supposed to have money and live somewhere, and we need to eat food, but after that, I don’t really get the rest of it."
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lmao they demonized halford and ozzy and d&d. dee snider testified before congress!
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
lmao they demonized halford and ozzy and d&d. dee snider testified before congress!
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
This would be such an amazing, long-term beneficial thing: invest in in-house edtech production and eliminate much of or all licensing agreements with vampiric edtech companies
"[T]here is an immediate opportunity to reduce Ponzi austerity extraction by for-profit EdTech from New York City schools, and potentially to make a significant move towards socializing educational technology by providing platforms and models that can be exported and imitated anywhere."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This would be such an amazing, long-term beneficial thing: invest in in-house edtech production and eliminate much of or all licensing agreements with vampiric edtech companies
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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Meredith Johnson and I published a piece back in the spring about accessibility and pedagogy and table design that I'm off-the-charts proud of and I have no idea if anyone's read it 😩 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Meredith Johnson and I published a piece back in the spring about accessibility and pedagogy and table design that I'm off-the-charts proud of and I have no idea if anyone's read it 😩 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
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#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
It’s wild that so much of Dem politics must prioritize worrying about hurting the feelings of 80 year old men.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s wild that so much of Dem politics must prioritize worrying about hurting the feelings of 80 year old men.
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"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)."
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani
Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump
margaretsullivan.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)."
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
“Either omniscient robots deliver utopia or we eventually get [vague future payoffs from infrastructure investment]. Every AI investment is thus justified, every crazy promise is thus rendered credible, based on a vision of our glorious future. We’ve entered the realm of faith rather than reason.”
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
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Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
Serenity now, serenity now
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November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Either omniscient robots deliver utopia or we eventually get [vague future payoffs from infrastructure investment]. Every AI investment is thus justified, every crazy promise is thus rendered credible, based on a vision of our glorious future. We’ve entered the realm of faith rather than reason.”
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Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
Serenity now, serenity now
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...