Nate A
@natkinson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Rhetoric
UC Berkeley
Political Theory, visual culture, and composition. What could possibly go wrong?
UC Berkeley
Political Theory, visual culture, and composition. What could possibly go wrong?
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Let students do real work that's related to your area of teaching. Don't set them up with gimmicks because genAI.
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ended up muting that chatGPT assignment thing. it's patronizing to students. why not talk to them like human beings? but also if you ask people an instruction to find mistakes, they can use that prompt to find them in any source. as a species, we're great at motivated reasoning. that is not the way.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Let students do real work that's related to your area of teaching. Don't set them up with gimmicks because genAI.
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"Instead of the Epstein files, the Dems should be pushing [other thing]!"
Look, if your enemy is shit scared of a single infantryman named Stinky Bob, you put Stinky Bob in the vanguard. Stack all your fancy cavalry and grenadiers you wanted to behind him, but lead with your most effective unit.
Look, if your enemy is shit scared of a single infantryman named Stinky Bob, you put Stinky Bob in the vanguard. Stack all your fancy cavalry and grenadiers you wanted to behind him, but lead with your most effective unit.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Instead of the Epstein files, the Dems should be pushing [other thing]!"
Look, if your enemy is shit scared of a single infantryman named Stinky Bob, you put Stinky Bob in the vanguard. Stack all your fancy cavalry and grenadiers you wanted to behind him, but lead with your most effective unit.
Look, if your enemy is shit scared of a single infantryman named Stinky Bob, you put Stinky Bob in the vanguard. Stack all your fancy cavalry and grenadiers you wanted to behind him, but lead with your most effective unit.
Cue the “listening to books is reading” discourse
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Cue the “listening to books is reading” discourse
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you guys would have been posting the michael jackson popcorn gif when hitler had ernst röhm killed
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
you guys would have been posting the michael jackson popcorn gif when hitler had ernst röhm killed
When you assume, you make an ass of yourself (or something like that)
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When you assume, you make an ass of yourself (or something like that)
It’s worse than this… he only likes Makers because he thinks the wax seal is “cool”
This is far and away my pettiest Tim Kaine gripe but the Senator’s advance staff always deliver a bottle of Maker’s Mark that is for him only to fundraising events so he doesn’t have to do toasts with the cheap beer and wine the hosts provide and that always really irked me
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s worse than this… he only likes Makers because he thinks the wax seal is “cool”
The press might want to consider that when a company says it’s firing people and moving to AI it might just be lying to goose a quarterly report and that it would’ve fired those people regardless
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The press might want to consider that when a company says it’s firing people and moving to AI it might just be lying to goose a quarterly report and that it would’ve fired those people regardless
If this is true for primaries then why hold primaries?
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If this is true for primaries then why hold primaries?
“Sure, he has the ideological consistency of a mass shooter but he looks like he can drive a stick”
You’d think people might’ve learned from the Fetterman debacle but…
You’d think people might’ve learned from the Fetterman debacle but…
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Sure, he has the ideological consistency of a mass shooter but he looks like he can drive a stick”
You’d think people might’ve learned from the Fetterman debacle but…
You’d think people might’ve learned from the Fetterman debacle but…
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I’ve heard multiple people, including journalists, say that AI skeptics just need to keep using the products until they develop an appreciation for them. They should ask chatgpt to explain sunk cost fallacy
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’ve heard multiple people, including journalists, say that AI skeptics just need to keep using the products until they develop an appreciation for them. They should ask chatgpt to explain sunk cost fallacy
It is, in fact, a reference to Dune. Specifically, the moment when the machines draw on the work of Althusser and Austin to posit a theory of gender that breaks from French feminism and revolutionizes the field of Rhetorical Studies in North America.
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It is, in fact, a reference to Dune. Specifically, the moment when the machines draw on the work of Althusser and Austin to posit a theory of gender that breaks from French feminism and revolutionizes the field of Rhetorical Studies in North America.
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“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
So they want me to pay so that I can watch? Like, is the view better from the app? Is there free popcorn?
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
So they want me to pay so that I can watch? Like, is the view better from the app? Is there free popcorn?
I see that RFK has been reading his Latour
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I see that RFK has been reading his Latour
Paso Robles
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Paso Robles
I suspect that Newsom is going to be the Democrats’ De Santis in that he’s profoundly unlikable and becomes more so with repeated exposure (albeit for different reasons)
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I suspect that Newsom is going to be the Democrats’ De Santis in that he’s profoundly unlikable and becomes more so with repeated exposure (albeit for different reasons)
Zero engagement with LOTR
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Zero engagement with LOTR
If noahopinion wanted to go on the Ezra Klein podcast he could’ve just called
October 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If noahopinion wanted to go on the Ezra Klein podcast he could’ve just called
If in aggregate under certain ideological presumptions technology is a leveler, maybe you have a hard question
But it’s far easier to answer if you ask who is most exposed to technology’s more oppressive applications and/or negative externalities
But it’s far easier to answer if you ask who is most exposed to technology’s more oppressive applications and/or negative externalities
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If in aggregate under certain ideological presumptions technology is a leveler, maybe you have a hard question
But it’s far easier to answer if you ask who is most exposed to technology’s more oppressive applications and/or negative externalities
But it’s far easier to answer if you ask who is most exposed to technology’s more oppressive applications and/or negative externalities
Shot and chaser in real time
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shot and chaser in real time
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
Nobody told me little bill pullman was in the marvel movie
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Nobody told me little bill pullman was in the marvel movie