Laurie Cubbison
@lbcubbison.bsky.social
Professor of English, SWVA; rhetoric/composition, fan studies,disability studies (30+ years of chronic pain); digital rhetoric, knitting; probably autistic so exploring that (she/her)
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Having a disability or chronic pain is not only about limitations when you can't do something. It's also about the price you are paying for doing something.
February 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Having a disability or chronic pain is not only about limitations when you can't do something. It's also about the price you are paying for doing something.
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?” “Nonsense. Yo...
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February 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 1
"I have to believe that once the storm settles, there will be rebuilding of some sort. Whether it's private money that's already out there, or incredibly pissed off new money, or things will be restored, or what, I don't know…”
"I have to believe that once the storm settles, there will be rebuilding of some sort. Whether it's private money that's already out there, or incredibly pissed off new money, or things will be restored, or what, I don't know…”
February 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 1
"I have to believe that once the storm settles, there will be rebuilding of some sort. Whether it's private money that's already out there, or incredibly pissed off new money, or things will be restored, or what, I don't know…”
"I have to believe that once the storm settles, there will be rebuilding of some sort. Whether it's private money that's already out there, or incredibly pissed off new money, or things will be restored, or what, I don't know…”
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Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 2
"…but there's a lot of talent and conviction and organizational chops hitting the streets in the next few days, weeks, months. Something will coalesce…that's what people do. They regroup because they can't help themselves."
"…but there's a lot of talent and conviction and organizational chops hitting the streets in the next few days, weeks, months. Something will coalesce…that's what people do. They regroup because they can't help themselves."
February 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 2
"…but there's a lot of talent and conviction and organizational chops hitting the streets in the next few days, weeks, months. Something will coalesce…that's what people do. They regroup because they can't help themselves."
"…but there's a lot of talent and conviction and organizational chops hitting the streets in the next few days, weeks, months. Something will coalesce…that's what people do. They regroup because they can't help themselves."
What would you say is the genre difference between writing on Bluesky and Threads?
January 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
What would you say is the genre difference between writing on Bluesky and Threads?
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This is a must-read: @marthawells.com on AI and slavery.
For all the new people, here’s the text of my speech at the Jack Williamson lectureship about how we think about ai and other stuff:
marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html
marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html
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January 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is a must-read: @marthawells.com on AI and slavery.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/a...
Again saving for my next time teaching AI in film and literature
Again saving for my next time teaching AI in film and literature
Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot
Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:01 AM
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/a...
Again saving for my next time teaching AI in film and literature
Again saving for my next time teaching AI in film and literature
Saving for the next time I teach AI in film and literature
Another new piece now available by me: The Problem of the Sexy Cyborg.
This piece looks at how cyborgs are depicted in media and how that depiction is both informed by and reinforces tropes about disability. #PhilTech #STS #MediaSky #DisabilityStudies
jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...
This piece looks at how cyborgs are depicted in media and how that depiction is both informed by and reinforces tropes about disability. #PhilTech #STS #MediaSky #DisabilityStudies
jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...
The Problem of the Sexy Cyborg: The Ethics of Cyborg Imagery
| Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies
jeet.ieet.org
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Saving for the next time I teach AI in film and literature