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@jacobrichter

I teach writing in DC. Research on social media, multimodal composition, democracy, & digital rhetoric. Book reviews @ Composition Forum. Views are mine only.

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Gen X sure does love Box

19.11.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wait, what's wrong with Garamond?! Accessibility?!

04.11.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Composition Forum

New Composition Forum issue is out- check out some great book reviews! compositionforum.com

04.11.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Composition Forum

Composition Forum published Volume 56: compositionforum.com.

A lot of wonderful work! I hope you give it a read.

03.11.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweightβ€”it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweightβ€”it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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18.09.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 31215 πŸ” 8111 πŸ’¬ 852 πŸ“Œ 402

Boycotts work. We MUST show corporate America that there are consequences for folding to fascism. #teslatakedown stands shoulder to shoulder with #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC. Check out the linked doc below for actions YOU can take.

18.09.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

I did a campus invite there once but didn't get the job. They were delightful people and it was a BEAUTIFUL campus nestled right in the heart of the mountains

11.09.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some blue line trains are still going to Franconia Springfield though?

10.09.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

College football returning reminds me that one of my past students is a Dallas Cowboy!

31.08.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My meaningless opinion is that large conferences shouldn't generally have themes. The theme is the conference's name!

20.08.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stop saying you are "ethically using AI." That's not possible when Open AI and all other companies are eagerly spilling massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Just own up to doing something unethical because it's convenient! People do unethical but convenient things all the time!

25.06.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just kidding. I think that word was created in a lab to annoy me.

18.06.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How many times using "amongst" is too many in a single article? 3? 4?

18.06.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One underrated problem with AI's use in writing is that it conveys to the writer they don't need to read because the AI will supposedly summarize and incorporate insights from some nebulous process of "reading" into whatever it spits out. Reading is where the best thinking often happens!

06.06.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Image is a screenshot of the names/titles of five book reviews published in Composition Forum's recent issue.

Image is a screenshot of the names/titles of five book reviews published in Composition Forum's recent issue.

Y'all, Composition Forum has just published some seriously awesome book reviews that confront some of the most pressing issues within rhetoric and composition. They're all excellent and stand to benefit the field in many different ways: compositionforum.com

29.05.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Education Secretary saying universities need to align with the political priorities of an administration if they want to continue to conduct research is really just diving head first into the authoritarian playbook

29.05.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tesla's reputation is worse than United Health's lol

23.05.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think a lot about whether I'm actively doing enough to help my cat self-actualize

20.05.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When did we decide on the IA abbreviation for Iowa and is it too late to change it

16.05.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
This image is a screenshot of a PowerPoint slide that outlines my presentation title β€œtracing the content creators” along with some screenshots of Climate Defiance” social media posts

This image is a screenshot of a PowerPoint slide that outlines my presentation title β€œtracing the content creators” along with some screenshots of Climate Defiance” social media posts

#cwcon25 presentation went great! Talked about digital-material rhetorics, consequentially, climate activism, and social media. Fun panel about content creators and algorithms.

16.05.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Working in DC means experiencing 11AM coffeeshop Hinge dates where both people talk about losing their jobs with the federal government

07.05.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Lost Boatload of Money in Trump’s First 100 Days Here’s one thing to celebrate from Trump’s first 100 days in office.

It looks like Tesla Takedown protests/backlash to DOGE, alongside other factors, have cost Elon Musk about 25% of his total wealth, in case you were wondering whether people-led protests could still exert meaningful consequences in 2025: newrepublic.com/post/194568/...

05.05.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to get so much done today but got caught up reading about Basque origin theories again 😀

02.05.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I feel my university tries to sabotage teaching and learning by making us use Blackboard as some sort of joke or performance art

02.05.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are being governed by a collective fallacy about things that deluded folks perceive as happening but that never ever actually did happen

30.04.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's the most tired comment ever, but imagine if Biden or Harris was falsely maintaining something clearly photoshopped was real and refused to admit the mistake. The collective double standard/lack of any basic expectation of competence & honesty from Trump is one of his greatest strengths.

30.04.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Image reads "Using AI to learn to write is like using a forklift at the gym" with a cartoon image of a person using a forklift at the gym.

Image reads "Using AI to learn to write is like using a forklift at the gym" with a cartoon image of a person using a forklift at the gym.

29.04.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. 

Expository text:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. Expository text: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

28.04.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 31210 πŸ” 6302 πŸ’¬ 335 πŸ“Œ 251
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn β€œunprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the β€œessential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

22.04.2025 11:38 πŸ‘ 1214 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 66
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Mass. Sen. Warren, 175 Congressional Dems call on Trump not to shutter free tax-filing service The lawmakers asked the Treasury Department and the IRS to respond to their demands to preserve Direct-File by May 5.

I’m leading over 175 Members of Congress to fight for the government’s free, easy-to-use tax filing service.

Trump and Musk want to kill Direct File.

Instead of caving to the billionaire tax prep industry, how about standing up for working Americans?

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