Molly Dunbar
@mollydunbar.bsky.social
demisexual ⟢ vcu25: polisci conc. civil rights ⟢ student of digital rhetoric ⟢ karma is a cat 🐈⬛
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Zohran at the White House today
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Zohran at the White House today
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This is a nuanced + generous conversation about "post-truth" rhetorics + rhetorics of post-truth via wider political contexts. A DREAM panel! This is the podcast version of our "afterwards" for the "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth" collection I'm co-editing w/Scott Sundvall + Ira Allen.
New ep of the Rhetoricity podcast! Super excited for this one: a roundtable on the “post-truth” world we are (or are we?) living in. Panelists include @jamesrball.com, @omediochieng.bsky.social, @rhetrickery.bsky.social, Barb Biesecker, & Robin Reames. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/rhetoric-bef... #NCA2025
Rhetoricity: Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth: Afterwords
This special episode of Rhetoricity features a roundtable that also serves as the "Afterwords" for a forthcoming collection entitled Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth. That collection is edited by...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is a nuanced + generous conversation about "post-truth" rhetorics + rhetorics of post-truth via wider political contexts. A DREAM panel! This is the podcast version of our "afterwards" for the "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth" collection I'm co-editing w/Scott Sundvall + Ira Allen.
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Meta has created a super PAC to fight against AI regulation.
Meta is pouring tens of millions into the American Technology Excellence Project—a super PAC built to block state-level AI regulations and boost tech-friendly candidates, Axios reports.
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Meta is pouring tens of millions into the American Technology Excellence Project—a super PAC built to block state-level AI regulations and boost tech-friendly candidates, Axios reports.
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Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation as state policies mount | TechCrunch
Meta is investing 'tens of millions' into a new pro-AI super PAC called the American Technology Excellence Project to fight state-level tech policy that would regulate AI.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Meta has created a super PAC to fight against AI regulation.
Meta is pouring tens of millions into the American Technology Excellence Project—a super PAC built to block state-level AI regulations and boost tech-friendly candidates, Axios reports.
techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/m...
Meta is pouring tens of millions into the American Technology Excellence Project—a super PAC built to block state-level AI regulations and boost tech-friendly candidates, Axios reports.
techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/m...
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"A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination” is out! @jonathanscarter.bsky.social + I synthesize “free speech” paradigms via Twitter/X’s moderation practices to demonstrate that X initiates adoxastic enshittification of free speech.
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Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric | A Peer Reviewed Journal of Current Event Analysis
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October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination” is out! @jonathanscarter.bsky.social + I synthesize “free speech” paradigms via Twitter/X’s moderation practices to demonstrate that X initiates adoxastic enshittification of free speech.
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#AcademicSky
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School Board seeks permission to hold standardized tests in languages other than English
School Board seeks permission to hold standardized tests in languages other than English | ARLnow.com
The Arlington School Board is once again seeking state authorization to administer standardized tests in languages other than English. The School Board's 2026 General Assembly legislative package, which...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
School Board seeks permission to hold standardized tests in languages other than English
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During my telephone town hall last night, a constituent asked if Members of Congress get paid during a shutdown.
I told her yes they do because of the 27th Amendment, but I will have mine withheld for the duration of a shutdown in solidarity with federal workers.
I told her yes they do because of the 27th Amendment, but I will have mine withheld for the duration of a shutdown in solidarity with federal workers.
September 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
During my telephone town hall last night, a constituent asked if Members of Congress get paid during a shutdown.
I told her yes they do because of the 27th Amendment, but I will have mine withheld for the duration of a shutdown in solidarity with federal workers.
I told her yes they do because of the 27th Amendment, but I will have mine withheld for the duration of a shutdown in solidarity with federal workers.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
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In late-stage platform capitalism, trolling has become the dominant cultural technique: politics, journalism, marketing, even art have, to some extent, turned into some form of trolling
August 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
In late-stage platform capitalism, trolling has become the dominant cultural technique: politics, journalism, marketing, even art have, to some extent, turned into some form of trolling
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Having a major existential crisis, really feel like a sole voice in the dark these days re genAI adoption. I do so much work to show how dreadful this stuff is but I feel like it does absolutely nothing and I just want to go hide under a rock for the next 5 years 😭
August 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Having a major existential crisis, really feel like a sole voice in the dark these days re genAI adoption. I do so much work to show how dreadful this stuff is but I feel like it does absolutely nothing and I just want to go hide under a rock for the next 5 years 😭
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What do you mean my book received a positive and robust review in the top rhetorical studies journal?! So honored and grateful.
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Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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August 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What do you mean my book received a positive and robust review in the top rhetorical studies journal?! So honored and grateful.
#TeamRhetoric
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Whenever wealthy people turn to a religion to justify their wealth, it always seems to boil down to eugenics. Weird.
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The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
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August 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Whenever wealthy people turn to a religion to justify their wealth, it always seems to boil down to eugenics. Weird.
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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
@apsva.us please don’t buy into this and continue to uphold the AI honor code for both students AND teachers
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
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July 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@apsva.us please don’t buy into this and continue to uphold the AI honor code for both students AND teachers
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8/20 at 8am EDT: "Repair and the 5Vs of Big Data."
I'm giving a virtual + interdisciplinary work-in-progress talk for the REPAIR project at University of Helsinki. Everyone is welcome! Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/j/6910408475...
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#TeamRhetoric #Repair #BigData
I'm giving a virtual + interdisciplinary work-in-progress talk for the REPAIR project at University of Helsinki. Everyone is welcome! Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/j/6910408475...
www.repair-research.fi/home-en
#TeamRhetoric #Repair #BigData
Home — Repair
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July 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
8/20 at 8am EDT: "Repair and the 5Vs of Big Data."
I'm giving a virtual + interdisciplinary work-in-progress talk for the REPAIR project at University of Helsinki. Everyone is welcome! Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/j/6910408475...
www.repair-research.fi/home-en
#TeamRhetoric #Repair #BigData
I'm giving a virtual + interdisciplinary work-in-progress talk for the REPAIR project at University of Helsinki. Everyone is welcome! Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/j/6910408475...
www.repair-research.fi/home-en
#TeamRhetoric #Repair #BigData
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I know everyone’s joking about this, but this is a real ad that I got on Instagram
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I know everyone’s joking about this, but this is a real ad that I got on Instagram
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STOP ASKING A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE WHAT DATE YOUR WALLPAPER WAS MANUFACTURED.
IT DOESN'T KNOW. IT'S A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT IS BURNING DOWN THE PLANET.
IT DOESN'T KNOW. IT'S A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT IS BURNING DOWN THE PLANET.
July 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
STOP ASKING A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE WHAT DATE YOUR WALLPAPER WAS MANUFACTURED.
IT DOESN'T KNOW. IT'S A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT IS BURNING DOWN THE PLANET.
IT DOESN'T KNOW. IT'S A LYING PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT IS BURNING DOWN THE PLANET.
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“Zionism, which is a colonial idea, will be well understood by the people of Britain.” – Theodore Hertzl, the founder of Zionism, to Lord Arthur Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration
July 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“Zionism, which is a colonial idea, will be well understood by the people of Britain.” – Theodore Hertzl, the founder of Zionism, to Lord Arthur Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration
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grok to be announced new CEO of X
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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July 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
grok to be announced new CEO of X
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A must-read: "Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
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Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
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July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A must-read: "Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
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This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
July 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.