Jennifer Sano-Franchini
@jsanofranchini.bsky.social
assoc prof | cultural & digital rhet // asian am rhet // UX // beneficiary of affirmative action // refusing genAI @ http://refusal.blog 👹
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Excited to share that we'll be hosting a Virtual Open House for folks interested in the MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at the University of Arkansas.
When: Wednesday, December 3rd, 4:30-5:30 pm CST
Where: On Zoom
RSVP: bit.ly/UArkRCLRSVP
When: Wednesday, December 3rd, 4:30-5:30 pm CST
Where: On Zoom
RSVP: bit.ly/UArkRCLRSVP
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Excited to share that we'll be hosting a Virtual Open House for folks interested in the MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at the University of Arkansas.
When: Wednesday, December 3rd, 4:30-5:30 pm CST
Where: On Zoom
RSVP: bit.ly/UArkRCLRSVP
When: Wednesday, December 3rd, 4:30-5:30 pm CST
Where: On Zoom
RSVP: bit.ly/UArkRCLRSVP
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www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
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Seriously considering applying for our Design Justice Program! It pays SIGDOC members to work with nonprofits on communication design projects. You'll also have the opportunity to present that work at next year's conference.
The 2025-2026 SIGDOC Design Justice Program applications are due in two weeks, on December 1.
Please view the attached photo for more details, and visit sigdoc.acm.org/awards for information about previous Design Justice awardees.
Please view the attached photo for more details, and visit sigdoc.acm.org/awards for information about previous Design Justice awardees.
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Seriously considering applying for our Design Justice Program! It pays SIGDOC members to work with nonprofits on communication design projects. You'll also have the opportunity to present that work at next year's conference.
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Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass
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Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
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Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
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I say it nearly everyday about the rapid expansion of AI data centers and the immense extraction that is happening in the name of a failing business model but I'll say it again: REAL SICK STUFF.
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I say it nearly everyday about the rapid expansion of AI data centers and the immense extraction that is happening in the name of a failing business model but I'll say it again: REAL SICK STUFF.
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A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
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Allowing for the refusal of AI in our educational institutions is simply the right thing to do. If we can's support those freedoms, what are we doing? Congratulations on a year of vital work.
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Allowing for the refusal of AI in our educational institutions is simply the right thing to do. If we can's support those freedoms, what are we doing? Congratulations on a year of vital work.
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Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
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Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S.
AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.
AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have seen double digit increases in the cost of residential electricity over the last year.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S.
AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.
AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.
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It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson FINALLY swore in Rep. Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who promises to be the 218th vote needed to release the Epstein files.
Mike Johnson Will Finally Swear In His Worst Nightmare
Adelita Grijalva will be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson FINALLY swore in Rep. Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who promises to be the 218th vote needed to release the Epstein files.
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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...
A Year of Refusal refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
@nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social and I wrote a lil anniversary post as it's been *a year* (in more ways than one!) since we first posted the Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies Quickstart Guide
@nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social and I wrote a lil anniversary post as it's been *a year* (in more ways than one!) since we first posted the Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies Quickstart Guide
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A Year of Refusal refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
@nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social and I wrote a lil anniversary post as it's been *a year* (in more ways than one!) since we first posted the Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies Quickstart Guide
@nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social and I wrote a lil anniversary post as it's been *a year* (in more ways than one!) since we first posted the Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies Quickstart Guide
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"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
And many are refusing!
And many are refusing!
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
And many are refusing!
And many are refusing!
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Such vital work. Nearly everyday a new data center proposal pops up across the US—using the same shady, secretive tactics & playbook of promises. We are at an urgent moment to build coalitions against the extractive fossil fuel surveillance factories being built in the name of economic development.
TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Such vital work. Nearly everyday a new data center proposal pops up across the US—using the same shady, secretive tactics & playbook of promises. We are at an urgent moment to build coalitions against the extractive fossil fuel surveillance factories being built in the name of economic development.
This. I also dont think it's an either/or; institutions & systems are made up of individuals who can & do effect systemic change. This critique at times comes across as an excuse for folks to do nothing but reinforce the status quo and suggests limited understanding of how rhetoric works.
We are certainly facing a lot of systemic problems which should not be individualized, but at the same time, I believe that academics hold a certain amount of power, and it is worth being thoughtful about how we use that power, including the framing of our work.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This. I also dont think it's an either/or; institutions & systems are made up of individuals who can & do effect systemic change. This critique at times comes across as an excuse for folks to do nothing but reinforce the status quo and suggests limited understanding of how rhetoric works.
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Just read a talk announcement about "AI" and K-12 education that looked like it maybe, maybe embedded a critical perspective but was still dressed up in the language of AI hype, presupposing both job market & education "reshaped by AI".
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November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just read a talk announcement about "AI" and K-12 education that looked like it maybe, maybe embedded a critical perspective but was still dressed up in the language of AI hype, presupposing both job market & education "reshaped by AI".
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We are certainly facing a lot of systemic problems which should not be individualized, but at the same time, I believe that academics hold a certain amount of power, and it is worth being thoughtful about how we use that power, including the framing of our work.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We are certainly facing a lot of systemic problems which should not be individualized, but at the same time, I believe that academics hold a certain amount of power, and it is worth being thoughtful about how we use that power, including the framing of our work.
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On earnings calls, Amazon & Microsoft said the real AI bottleneck isn't chip,
it's electricity.
Bloomberg writes about two Santa Clara data centers siting empty, facing a 1-3 year lead time for power. Some cases take up to 7.
It’s a bad time to have a government hostile to solar and wind energy.
it's electricity.
Bloomberg writes about two Santa Clara data centers siting empty, facing a 1-3 year lead time for power. Some cases take up to 7.
It’s a bad time to have a government hostile to solar and wind energy.
Data Centers in Nvidia’s Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power
The fate of two facilities in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
On earnings calls, Amazon & Microsoft said the real AI bottleneck isn't chip,
it's electricity.
Bloomberg writes about two Santa Clara data centers siting empty, facing a 1-3 year lead time for power. Some cases take up to 7.
It’s a bad time to have a government hostile to solar and wind energy.
it's electricity.
Bloomberg writes about two Santa Clara data centers siting empty, facing a 1-3 year lead time for power. Some cases take up to 7.
It’s a bad time to have a government hostile to solar and wind energy.