Sharing this year’s CFP for AI in Technical Communication 2026: Designing Future-Proof Practices.

Proposals for papers or panels are due January 16th.

It’s free, open-access, and a great venue for research projects, case studies, or practitioner insights.

🔗 techneforge.com/ai-symposium...

My experience yesterday, at the #NoKings protest. Over 500 people participated in Lubbock, Texas.

The view from inside a frog costume is a little obstructed. But a collection of frogs together is called "an army."

COVID, flu, and pneumonia vaxxed. It went impressively smoothly.

We just enjoyed the 2025 Texas Tech English Scholarships and Awards ceremony, so I can now post the YouTube version of our awards video (after a month of work producing it in the Media Lab). We have some impressive people here!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoD...

Next Thursday, I'll be giving the keynote presentation "How Technical Communicators May Work within the ‘Fog’ of Emerging GenAI" at the 2025 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Teaching Technical Communication:

techwritingculture.de?p=17

I'm intrigued by today's Deepseek models, including Janus-Pro 7B (which uses amazing techniques for image comprehension, like the R1 model does for reasoning).

It's an exciting time for everyone who isn't already stuck in contracts with OpenAI.

huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...

Happy Thanksgiving from Lubbock!

www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

Worrying about Texan Rubik’s cobras, right now. #imnotavoidingyoureavoiding

Many of you know that I'm usually uncomfortable with most academic friends' blogs about GenAI.

But here's one article I can stand behind. It's the most correct critique of GenAI I've seen lately, and its 24 footnotes frequently made me laugh out loud:

www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...