Sergio (Serg) Figueiredo
@supersergo.bsky.social
Professor of English and Interim Director of FYC at Kennesaw SU. Scholarly focus on rhetoric, technology, and culture. Translator of R. Töpffer’s writings. He/him. Reposts ≠ endorsements. 🇵🇹-🇺🇸
What if I don’t want people to know where I am? #privacyrights
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
What if I don’t want people to know where I am? #privacyrights
“adversarial poetry” sounds like a genre ripe for growth!
“Crucially, this ability to jailbreak with adversarial poems isn’t just a gap in one particular software’s armor. The researchers were able to replicate this across many AI models, suggesting “that the phenomenon is structural rather than provider-specific.”
Can “adversarial poetry” save us from AI?
Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large L…
lithub.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“adversarial poetry” sounds like a genre ripe for growth!
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The data breakdown.
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The data breakdown.
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I've heard this 1,000 times a day. I believed it until 2 weeks ago. Then I learned that the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Jobs Outlook report found that only 10% of job ads ask for AI skills. Tell your friends.
It’s because every single employer who hires interns/co-ops/new grads is demanding it, or at least saying loudly they are prioritizing AI readiness in such roles. That’s the signal they’re responding to.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've heard this 1,000 times a day. I believed it until 2 weeks ago. Then I learned that the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Jobs Outlook report found that only 10% of job ads ask for AI skills. Tell your friends.
If you take the longview, this initiative may be the start of a move to privatize social security and shut it down completely.
Along with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks, the massive budget bill passed by House Republicans contains a new program dubbed “Trump accounts” – government-funded investment accounts for every new American baby. buff.ly/bZutb1J
What experts think about the $1,000 'Trump accounts' for babies
The proposal has bipartisan backing and is generally supported by economists and other researchers, but experts say that there are ways it could be restructured that are more practical and would have…
buff.ly
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you take the longview, this initiative may be the start of a move to privatize social security and shut it down completely.
Shady af.
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Shady af.
I’ve always thought of “cahoots” as a fun word to say aloud.
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’ve always thought of “cahoots” as a fun word to say aloud.
Cool thread to read through. Learn new things if you can.
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Cool thread to read through. Learn new things if you can.
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“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.
www.npr.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I guess our personality type tests and evaluations are in for a revision.
"Otroverts" and why nonconformists often see what others can’t
In "The Gift of Not Belonging," Rami Kaminski explains why group consensus may hinder the original thinkers who advance society.
bigthink.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I guess our personality type tests and evaluations are in for a revision.
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🧒🧠 If humans learned language like AI, it would take 92,000 years. Luckily, new research from Caroline Rowland (@mpi-nl.bsky.social) shows children learn through touch, movement & play as well.
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Same.
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
June 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Same.
While teaching a maymester course on rhetoric and games, I discovered this game: neal.fun/absurd-troll....
And this game: playspent.org.
I may need to replace some assigned games after this semester. :)
And this game: playspent.org.
I may need to replace some assigned games after this semester. :)
Absurd Trolley Problems
Every problem is the trolley problem.
neal.fun
May 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
While teaching a maymester course on rhetoric and games, I discovered this game: neal.fun/absurd-troll....
And this game: playspent.org.
I may need to replace some assigned games after this semester. :)
And this game: playspent.org.
I may need to replace some assigned games after this semester. :)
Fuck the haters. Good luck to the new church leader making needed change in a corrupt institution.
May 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fuck the haters. Good luck to the new church leader making needed change in a corrupt institution.
Holla!
We see you Kennesaw State University Faculty Senate!
1st in the South to pass a resolution establishing a mutual defense compact w/ other institutions.
"Whereas, Faculty members must organize to effectively counter political attacks on higher education & defend #academicfreedom..."
#defendhighered
1st in the South to pass a resolution establishing a mutual defense compact w/ other institutions.
"Whereas, Faculty members must organize to effectively counter political attacks on higher education & defend #academicfreedom..."
#defendhighered
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Holla!
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Wow. Just presented on ARG AI at the refusing Generative AI roundtable at #4C25. A Saturday 11am time slot, one of the worst times. But fifty people showed up. Fifty! This just shows how many of us are craving refusal and resistance.
Come join the ARG AI Discord server! discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
Come join the ARG AI Discord server! discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
April 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wow. Just presented on ARG AI at the refusing Generative AI roundtable at #4C25. A Saturday 11am time slot, one of the worst times. But fifty people showed up. Fifty! This just shows how many of us are craving refusal and resistance.
Come join the ARG AI Discord server! discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
Come join the ARG AI Discord server! discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
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Here is a curated playlist from the Feminist Caucus workshop today. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/5xs...
April 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here is a curated playlist from the Feminist Caucus workshop today. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/5xs...
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I wrote this. People seem to be talking about it. I’m writing another about how game sequels ideologically talk to each other. 🤷♀️
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Manifest Destiny 2.0 - Nebraska Press
At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s Manifest Dest...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
March 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wrote this. People seem to be talking about it. I’m writing another about how game sequels ideologically talk to each other. 🤷♀️
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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“they know he’s lying… they’re thrilled with the idea he’s able to say whatever he wants…”
March 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“they know he’s lying… they’re thrilled with the idea he’s able to say whatever he wants…”
Look at GA having a spine: www.wabe.org/georgia-bill....
Georgia bill echoing Trump's DEI crackdown in schools fails to advance
Georgia Senate Republicans failed to advance a bill that mirrored the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and universities.
www.wabe.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Look at GA having a spine: www.wabe.org/georgia-bill....
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Looks like 80 minutes of spoken word immigrant torture porn and Reverse Hoosiers-like fables of trans kids dominating girls high school lacrosse is my limit. I need to start drinking with such regularity it becomes a problem for my friends and family.
March 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Looks like 80 minutes of spoken word immigrant torture porn and Reverse Hoosiers-like fables of trans kids dominating girls high school lacrosse is my limit. I need to start drinking with such regularity it becomes a problem for my friends and family.