Steven Kapica
@sskapica.bsky.social
Neurodivergent rhetorician. Driven by distraction and dirty words. The circle must be broken.
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Steven Kapica
@sskapica.bsky.social
· Nov 20
‘The circle must be broken’ | 13 | Imagining legal monsterhood through
Built on legal agency conceived from an anthropocentric framework and funnelled through egocentric individuality, current renderings of legal personhood are
www.taylorfrancis.com
Let me tell you about this really cool thing I published recently…
‘The circle must be broken’:
Imagining legal monsterhood through Doctor Who
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
‘The circle must be broken’:
Imagining legal monsterhood through Doctor Who
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Cut / copy / paste & moving to the cloud 🧵(part two)
My first official part-time teaching gig was at a rural community college in NC. My department chair was an eccentric old hippy—great teacher, loved to talk shop.
He told he’d hired someone to type up the final draft of his dissertation.
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My first official part-time teaching gig was at a rural community college in NC. My department chair was an eccentric old hippy—great teacher, loved to talk shop.
He told he’d hired someone to type up the final draft of his dissertation.
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I’ve been wrestling with this A LOT lately because I have a very long, personal history with word processing, especially Microsoft Word.
The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
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The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
🧵
1/
Enclosures of historical documents are erasures of historical documents.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Cut / copy / paste & moving to the cloud 🧵(part two)
My first official part-time teaching gig was at a rural community college in NC. My department chair was an eccentric old hippy—great teacher, loved to talk shop.
He told he’d hired someone to type up the final draft of his dissertation.
1/
My first official part-time teaching gig was at a rural community college in NC. My department chair was an eccentric old hippy—great teacher, loved to talk shop.
He told he’d hired someone to type up the final draft of his dissertation.
1/
Last spring, I had students read a selection of dense text. We worked on it for a couple of class periods, pulled quotes, discussed terms and concepts. Close reading stuff.
Afterwards, they read a ChatGPT summary of the selection and we talked about what the GPT missed—which was everything.
Afterwards, they read a ChatGPT summary of the selection and we talked about what the GPT missed—which was everything.
even when AI is surveying reputable sources, we shouldn't forget that summarizing and synthesizing are interpretive activities that involve selecting what is most significant or salient to ongoing discussions. even if AI were unbiased, this is creative work that we should be doing.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Last spring, I had students read a selection of dense text. We worked on it for a couple of class periods, pulled quotes, discussed terms and concepts. Close reading stuff.
Afterwards, they read a ChatGPT summary of the selection and we talked about what the GPT missed—which was everything.
Afterwards, they read a ChatGPT summary of the selection and we talked about what the GPT missed—which was everything.
This all day 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
even when AI is surveying reputable sources, we shouldn't forget that summarizing and synthesizing are interpretive activities that involve selecting what is most significant or salient to ongoing discussions. even if AI were unbiased, this is creative work that we should be doing.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This all day 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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…The fact that, as we tracked last season, AI EdTech is being rolled out most aggressively at HBCUs & other PoC-serving institutions just makes its intent, as a new iteration of Jim Crow, more bald-faced.
Gonna go download Tanksley whole research archive now.
Thanks, @ruha9.bsky.social
Gonna go download Tanksley whole research archive now.
Thanks, @ruha9.bsky.social
HBCUs & The Philanthrocapitalist Swindle
A practical landing page for teachers, students, and scholars.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
…The fact that, as we tracked last season, AI EdTech is being rolled out most aggressively at HBCUs & other PoC-serving institutions just makes its intent, as a new iteration of Jim Crow, more bald-faced.
Gonna go download Tanksley whole research archive now.
Thanks, @ruha9.bsky.social
Gonna go download Tanksley whole research archive now.
Thanks, @ruha9.bsky.social
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The most important question re AI “art” and “poetry”: WHY?
The rhetoric and shilling—“It can do this!”; “Even experts can’t tell the difference!”—doesn’t answer the question.
Why would anyone WANT AI to make art INSTEAD OF ARTISTS?
A: Separate market value from use value by means of production.
The rhetoric and shilling—“It can do this!”; “Even experts can’t tell the difference!”—doesn’t answer the question.
Why would anyone WANT AI to make art INSTEAD OF ARTISTS?
A: Separate market value from use value by means of production.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The most important question re AI “art” and “poetry”: WHY?
The rhetoric and shilling—“It can do this!”; “Even experts can’t tell the difference!”—doesn’t answer the question.
Why would anyone WANT AI to make art INSTEAD OF ARTISTS?
A: Separate market value from use value by means of production.
The rhetoric and shilling—“It can do this!”; “Even experts can’t tell the difference!”—doesn’t answer the question.
Why would anyone WANT AI to make art INSTEAD OF ARTISTS?
A: Separate market value from use value by means of production.
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to be clear, i think it's great. if you avoid using AI-generated content in your videos (about prehistoric animals, etc), you should get to benefit from pointing that out. if every restaurant is serving food mixed with sawdust, but you're not, you're entitled to put up a sign that says "NO SAWDUST".
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
to be clear, i think it's great. if you avoid using AI-generated content in your videos (about prehistoric animals, etc), you should get to benefit from pointing that out. if every restaurant is serving food mixed with sawdust, but you're not, you're entitled to put up a sign that says "NO SAWDUST".
The worst part about this? They’re using US—OUR RESISTANCE, OUR PASSION—to sell US out.
Here’s something fun. Slipping through “fun” reels on Instagram. One pops up with what looks like a Snap vid of a professor berating students for using ChatGPT.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The worst part about this? They’re using US—OUR RESISTANCE, OUR PASSION—to sell US out.
And there’s more… Because I watched the first one, this one rolled in a few reels later. Student yelling at a professor that he’s a horrible teacher. Student says “I use this app and it’s teaching me more than you are!”
Another SHILL.
This time, it’s Mind Grasp.
Another SHILL.
This time, it’s Mind Grasp.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
And there’s more… Because I watched the first one, this one rolled in a few reels later. Student yelling at a professor that he’s a horrible teacher. Student says “I use this app and it’s teaching me more than you are!”
Another SHILL.
This time, it’s Mind Grasp.
Another SHILL.
This time, it’s Mind Grasp.
Here’s something fun. Slipping through “fun” reels on Instagram. One pops up with what looks like a Snap vid of a professor berating students for using ChatGPT.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Here’s something fun. Slipping through “fun” reels on Instagram. One pops up with what looks like a Snap vid of a professor berating students for using ChatGPT.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
EXCEPT the vid is a SHILL.
For Study Fetch, which is backed by… CollegeBoard.
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
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Authoritarianism is the bailout.
White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations
The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Authoritarianism is the bailout.
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I have a book chapter I wrote about this!!
More specifically, it's about how tools like web templates help conspiracists move away from traditional visual markers such as wild color templates and mismatched fonts.
Of course LLMs are making it worse.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
More specifically, it's about how tools like web templates help conspiracists move away from traditional visual markers such as wild color templates and mismatched fonts.
Of course LLMs are making it worse.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have a book chapter I wrote about this!!
More specifically, it's about how tools like web templates help conspiracists move away from traditional visual markers such as wild color templates and mismatched fonts.
Of course LLMs are making it worse.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
More specifically, it's about how tools like web templates help conspiracists move away from traditional visual markers such as wild color templates and mismatched fonts.
Of course LLMs are making it worse.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
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Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The monkeys may eventually write Hamlet, but they will break the network infrastructure & drown us in their word salad drafts before they do.
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The monkeys may eventually write Hamlet, but they will break the network infrastructure & drown us in their word salad drafts before they do.
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
My article is, of course, extremely speculative, but the very real implications are being played out in real time with the jurisprudence of AI…
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My article is, of course, extremely speculative, but the very real implications are being played out in real time with the jurisprudence of AI…
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#galacticjurisprudence
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I’ve been wrestling with this A LOT lately because I have a very long, personal history with word processing, especially Microsoft Word.
The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
🧵
1/
The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
🧵
1/
Enclosures of historical documents are erasures of historical documents.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I’ve been wrestling with this A LOT lately because I have a very long, personal history with word processing, especially Microsoft Word.
The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
🧵
1/
The affordances of Word are deeply embedded in my identities as writer, teacher of writing, and scholar of writing—
And rent threatens my living wage.
🧵
1/
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“Students should study the best that has been thought and said, engaging in the great conversation among the competing viewpoints that comprise our intellectual heritage, so that they freely make the best views their own.”
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
more people should know about this— www.heritage.org/phoenix-decl...
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Students should study the best that has been thought and said, engaging in the great conversation among the competing viewpoints that comprise our intellectual heritage, so that they freely make the best views their own.”
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
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This is a five alarm fire.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is a five alarm fire.
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As opposed to, say, the dozens of studies with frightening shit like: "after controlling for a large set of student, teacher & school characteristics, even small daily amounts (here, 30 min) of use of digital devices in these classrooms are negatively related to scores on reading comprehension test"
Scavenger Hunt. Find a peer-reviewed study not funded by an EdTech entrepreneur that convincingly correlates screens of any kind with positive student outcomes of any kind.
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As opposed to, say, the dozens of studies with frightening shit like: "after controlling for a large set of student, teacher & school characteristics, even small daily amounts (here, 30 min) of use of digital devices in these classrooms are negatively related to scores on reading comprehension test"