Steven Kapica
@sskapica.bsky.social
Neurodivergent rhetorician. Driven by distraction and dirty words. The circle must be broken.
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.
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?
Have another piece, co-authored with Lauren Hess, on Maron, affect, and sobriety forthcoming in a collection 👇🏻
![Title: Disarming the Darkness: The Sobering Affect of Marc Maron’s Comedy
Abstract: Marc Maron spent more than a decade performing on the fringes of the alt comedy scene before achieving unlikely success with pioneering podcast, WTF with Marc Maron. While his early comedy was fueled by self-loathing and substance abuse, Maron’s move to podcasting and long-form interviews afforded him the time and space to sharpen his discernment of personal and social boundaries, and thereby advanced his comedy’s affect. By constructing stand-up routines from his personal foibles and working through his podcast guests’ lives and traumas, Maron deftly explores the means by which comedic performance can be both broadly therapeutic and collectively progressive. This chapter explores the intersection of comedic performance and affect to better understand what it means for audiences to experience and identify with comedians who, in Maron’s words, perform “on the front lines of [their] sanity.” By focusing on Maron’s sobriety and his navigation of rhetorical and performative spaces, this chapter highlights that his comedic command of the public forum of stand-up reaffirms his commitment to sobriety and promulgates a cathartic WTF ethos.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f5t6ce6x4fvuvaxwvssildrr/bafkreic6ogjnnzrtvwnhfxfrikwnrqewunpijul6f4bu7m4oisxbdflnuy@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Have another piece, co-authored with Lauren Hess, on Maron, affect, and sobriety forthcoming in a collection 👇🏻
This is PRIME,
GRADE A,
WILDLY DANGEROUS,
STATISTICAL
BULLSHIT.
To off-handedly quip “not all instructional staff have faculty designation” is to write off THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of instructional wage earners who are NO WHERE NEAR that big ass number the article calls “average.”
GRADE A,
WILDLY DANGEROUS,
STATISTICAL
BULLSHIT.
To off-handedly quip “not all instructional staff have faculty designation” is to write off THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of instructional wage earners who are NO WHERE NEAR that big ass number the article calls “average.”
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is PRIME,
GRADE A,
WILDLY DANGEROUS,
STATISTICAL
BULLSHIT.
To off-handedly quip “not all instructional staff have faculty designation” is to write off THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of instructional wage earners who are NO WHERE NEAR that big ass number the article calls “average.”
GRADE A,
WILDLY DANGEROUS,
STATISTICAL
BULLSHIT.
To off-handedly quip “not all instructional staff have faculty designation” is to write off THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of instructional wage earners who are NO WHERE NEAR that big ass number the article calls “average.”
I’m teaching an upper-level digital rhetoric and social change course and I made my students all pamphlet-like books in which I’m requiring they copy out quotes from readings and write discussion questions in. We’re talking about the digital but charting it materially.
September 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m teaching an upper-level digital rhetoric and social change course and I made my students all pamphlet-like books in which I’m requiring they copy out quotes from readings and write discussion questions in. We’re talking about the digital but charting it materially.
Um, that’s not how “ideology” works, my guy.
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Um, that’s not how “ideology” works, my guy.
July 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Not a shocking revelation, but perennially annoying one: The Chronicle of Higher Education is the NYT of higher ed. This is not praise. 🙄
July 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not a shocking revelation, but perennially annoying one: The Chronicle of Higher Education is the NYT of higher ed. This is not praise. 🙄
TFW this drops and you’re both embroiled in the implications of AI on/with higher education (my job) and deep into reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
July 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
TFW this drops and you’re both embroiled in the implications of AI on/with higher education (my job) and deep into reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of preference.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Stephen Jay Gould
May 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of preference.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Stephen Jay Gould
Reminds me of the weird daddy issues that bubble up in the 2009 Ray Kurzweil documentary Transcendent Man…
April 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reminds me of the weird daddy issues that bubble up in the 2009 Ray Kurzweil documentary Transcendent Man…
“Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement,” Gerard Hauser.
April 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement,” Gerard Hauser.
I’m sure @mattseybold.bsky.social takes no pleasure in being right about Ponzi austerity in higher education…
March 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’m sure @mattseybold.bsky.social takes no pleasure in being right about Ponzi austerity in higher education…
New sticker about to drop. #AIResistance
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New sticker about to drop. #AIResistance
This is why AI is king, poetry is dead, and the world won’t end in fire or ice, nor with a whimper or a bang, but with a like and a repost…
January 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is why AI is king, poetry is dead, and the world won’t end in fire or ice, nor with a whimper or a bang, but with a like and a repost…
So yeah. Fuck this empty rhetoric—and fuck the OP and the reposter.
Instead of DOING ABLEISM with “kindness in your heart,” maybe ACT with kindness (or rage?) to RIGHT the circumstances that have led MOST of us to the brink of falling apart—or over the fucking cliff…
/fin
Instead of DOING ABLEISM with “kindness in your heart,” maybe ACT with kindness (or rage?) to RIGHT the circumstances that have led MOST of us to the brink of falling apart—or over the fucking cliff…
/fin
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
So yeah. Fuck this empty rhetoric—and fuck the OP and the reposter.
Instead of DOING ABLEISM with “kindness in your heart,” maybe ACT with kindness (or rage?) to RIGHT the circumstances that have led MOST of us to the brink of falling apart—or over the fucking cliff…
/fin
Instead of DOING ABLEISM with “kindness in your heart,” maybe ACT with kindness (or rage?) to RIGHT the circumstances that have led MOST of us to the brink of falling apart—or over the fucking cliff…
/fin
The message directs us to MAINTAIN a self-oriented, noncommittal (SUPERIOR) mindset, and gives an OPTION to exercise kindness.
Rather than charge the audience to enact CHARITY (through HUMILITY and EMPATHY), the message REINFORCES STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY and forwards its superiority mindset.
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Rather than charge the audience to enact CHARITY (through HUMILITY and EMPATHY), the message REINFORCES STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY and forwards its superiority mindset.
16/
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
The message directs us to MAINTAIN a self-oriented, noncommittal (SUPERIOR) mindset, and gives an OPTION to exercise kindness.
Rather than charge the audience to enact CHARITY (through HUMILITY and EMPATHY), the message REINFORCES STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY and forwards its superiority mindset.
16/
Rather than charge the audience to enact CHARITY (through HUMILITY and EMPATHY), the message REINFORCES STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY and forwards its superiority mindset.
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6. Audience analysis.
The MESSAGE is ABLEIST, “WELLNESS” BULLSHIT.
The most obvious clue is the OP’s choice of perspective: you. “You” acts as a direct address. While the tone of the meme isn’t accusatory, it does SITUATE the audience—and thereby bake into its message ABLEIST ASSUMPTIONS.
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The MESSAGE is ABLEIST, “WELLNESS” BULLSHIT.
The most obvious clue is the OP’s choice of perspective: you. “You” acts as a direct address. While the tone of the meme isn’t accusatory, it does SITUATE the audience—and thereby bake into its message ABLEIST ASSUMPTIONS.
13/
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
6. Audience analysis.
The MESSAGE is ABLEIST, “WELLNESS” BULLSHIT.
The most obvious clue is the OP’s choice of perspective: you. “You” acts as a direct address. While the tone of the meme isn’t accusatory, it does SITUATE the audience—and thereby bake into its message ABLEIST ASSUMPTIONS.
13/
The MESSAGE is ABLEIST, “WELLNESS” BULLSHIT.
The most obvious clue is the OP’s choice of perspective: you. “You” acts as a direct address. While the tone of the meme isn’t accusatory, it does SITUATE the audience—and thereby bake into its message ABLEIST ASSUMPTIONS.
13/
Signaling agreement with the sentiment by reposting it with a one line comment and emoji (“PSA for the weekend 🥰”) DO NOT amount to SIGNIFICANT style choices commensurate to the sentiment presented in the meme—are NOT demonstrable signs of “kindness in your heart.”
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December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Signaling agreement with the sentiment by reposting it with a one line comment and emoji (“PSA for the weekend 🥰”) DO NOT amount to SIGNIFICANT style choices commensurate to the sentiment presented in the meme—are NOT demonstrable signs of “kindness in your heart.”
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OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANCE ALERT!! 🧵
Disclosure: I hate this kind of twee shit that’s rampant on FB, especially during the holidays—and not just because I’m a grumpy old fuck.
It’s lame, generic, sentimental POSTURING from GROWN ASS adults who should know better.
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Disclosure: I hate this kind of twee shit that’s rampant on FB, especially during the holidays—and not just because I’m a grumpy old fuck.
It’s lame, generic, sentimental POSTURING from GROWN ASS adults who should know better.
1/
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANCE ALERT!! 🧵
Disclosure: I hate this kind of twee shit that’s rampant on FB, especially during the holidays—and not just because I’m a grumpy old fuck.
It’s lame, generic, sentimental POSTURING from GROWN ASS adults who should know better.
1/
Disclosure: I hate this kind of twee shit that’s rampant on FB, especially during the holidays—and not just because I’m a grumpy old fuck.
It’s lame, generic, sentimental POSTURING from GROWN ASS adults who should know better.
1/
Round #2 of my ACUE grumbling and two gripes to pursue… 🧵
1. The classroom is not a factory and “productivity” is not the aim of education. PROGRESS is.
At first, “establishing a productive learning environment” seems like a harmless no-brainer. Of course the environment should be productive!
1/
1. The classroom is not a factory and “productivity” is not the aim of education. PROGRESS is.
At first, “establishing a productive learning environment” seems like a harmless no-brainer. Of course the environment should be productive!
1/
December 6, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Round #2 of my ACUE grumbling and two gripes to pursue… 🧵
1. The classroom is not a factory and “productivity” is not the aim of education. PROGRESS is.
At first, “establishing a productive learning environment” seems like a harmless no-brainer. Of course the environment should be productive!
1/
1. The classroom is not a factory and “productivity” is not the aim of education. PROGRESS is.
At first, “establishing a productive learning environment” seems like a harmless no-brainer. Of course the environment should be productive!
1/
I read through this “Effective Practices Framework” and have two thoughts (well, more than two, but for rhetorical purposes…):
1. Repetitive.
2. No shit.
Let’s look at the first category. Bullets 1 and 3 are essentially the same thing, no? If a course has “learner-centered outcomes,” then…
2/
1. Repetitive.
2. No shit.
Let’s look at the first category. Bullets 1 and 3 are essentially the same thing, no? If a course has “learner-centered outcomes,” then…
2/
December 1, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I read through this “Effective Practices Framework” and have two thoughts (well, more than two, but for rhetorical purposes…):
1. Repetitive.
2. No shit.
Let’s look at the first category. Bullets 1 and 3 are essentially the same thing, no? If a course has “learner-centered outcomes,” then…
2/
1. Repetitive.
2. No shit.
Let’s look at the first category. Bullets 1 and 3 are essentially the same thing, no? If a course has “learner-centered outcomes,” then…
2/