Greg Palermo
@palermog.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Prof, Emory University Writing Program & Affiliated Faculty, Data Science (fka QTM). Citation, data, & disciplinary rhetoric. Co-editor, JITP Reviews. 📷🎾☕️🎹. Opinions mine. he/they
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Greg Palermo
@palermog.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi blue sky! I teach courses that involve writing with/about quantitative data, focus on the rhetorics of source use and citation analytics across disciplines, and foster critically-generous research methodologies. I co-edit the Reviews section of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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This is what LLMs reduce academics to: rehashing basic research skills even in the final year students. It's honestly heartbreaking. It's not just random Bsky people, we see it at work all the time.
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS [Ama-
zon Web Services] error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s
help.
After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t
hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.
Namanyay Goel (2025, n.p.)
To show how serious the situation has become, one need only think about our last round of mark-
ing essays by AI undergraduate students. What jumps out of the page, for us, is something that con-
tradicts the rhetoric our colleagues promote, namely, it is evident that students need moreessay work
assigned to them, not less (Kosmyna et al. 2025). Almost every essay was poor on some dimension
that does not befit students in their final years of undergraduate study: the writing is often super-
ficial, the language does not reflect students’ stage and knowledge, citations are frequently misused,
and (most shockingly because it is so easy), the reference style is not applied correctly. This means that
the constellation of skills required to write a good academic essay has not been nurtured enough or
has atrophied. What this means is also that regardless of factual LLM use by the students, their ability
to write essays is on the floor, and not, as many seem to claim, at ceiling where one cannot differentiate
a good essay from a plagiarised or otherwise dishonest attempt of an essay. Importantly, the training
of writing skills should be done in the context of critical reckoning with the norms and pressures sur-
rounding the work expected of students (i.e. high study load, so-called student excellence, financial
pressure to graduate, etc.).
In this context, it is also important to be wary of arguments that wrongly position LLMs as, mak-
ing education more democratic, accessible, and equitable by removing language barriers, removing
unequal access to mentorship, and increase diversity, equity and inclusion in…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie6lfs3vpc2khuwi4svntmokuyboprhexi6tnkk2jarmpbez6agn4@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is what LLMs reduce academics to: rehashing basic research skills even in the final year students. It's honestly heartbreaking. It's not just random Bsky people, we see it at work all the time.
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Also, to plagiarize something is to choose to copy it verbatim and uncredited instead of putting it in your own words.
LLMs generate from statistical models. They have no choice but to put things "in their own words". Their output is highly recombinant. I can't call it plagiarism.
LLMs generate from statistical models. They have no choice but to put things "in their own words". Their output is highly recombinant. I can't call it plagiarism.
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Cavers. Turncoats. Chickenshits. Fuckers.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Cavers. Turncoats. Chickenshits. Fuckers.
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This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Some Dems fuming about this deal.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Some Dems fuming about this deal.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
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How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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This isn’t very hard, folks.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This isn’t very hard, folks.
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
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her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY
September 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY
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It never works. Ever..
I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down.
Never placate the bully.
Never placate the bully.
September 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It never works. Ever..
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Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.
Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
September 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.
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The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
September 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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u know who are skeptics
scientists are skeptics
being anti-science is not being a skeptic
scientists are skeptics
being anti-science is not being a skeptic
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
u know who are skeptics
scientists are skeptics
being anti-science is not being a skeptic
scientists are skeptics
being anti-science is not being a skeptic
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"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
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Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist.
The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.
The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist.
The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.
The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.
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This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
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The primary use case is fraud.
We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The primary use case is fraud.