Sarah E. Polo

oooo. Thank you for this!

Screenshot of program showing session on "Learning and Teaching Histories of Women's Rhetorical Education Through Experiental Learning." Scheduled for 11:00 AM in Room 19

If you're attending #4C26 and will be around on Saturday, come check out my session on "Learning and Teaching Histories of Women's Rhetorical Education through Experiental Learning"

Anis Bawarshi, this year's #4C26 exemplar award winner says that "If I am an exemplar, it is only because of my exemplars"

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:

My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

None of my to-do list items include scrolling the feed but I am nonetheless finding it difficult to ignore Events.

I had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious

National Parks Cancel Free Admission on MLK Day and Juneteenth President Trump's birthday was added as a free entrance day.

The park service removed the two official federal holidays that honor Black history from its 2026 list of free entrance days, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth—and added President Trump's birthday.

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.

#WritingStudies

Blue and yellow graphic with job posting announcement. Text on post reads: "Job opening. Assistant Professor of English (Writing). Full time, tenure track. Cottey College. Visit cottey.edu/employment"

Cottey College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English position to begin August 2026. drive.google.com/file/d/1x_5s... #Job #TeamRhetoric #RhetComp

The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/

www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Cottey College is seeking an adjunct faculty member to teach College Writing, a general education writing course, during the Spring 2026 semester. In-person courses preferred; hybrid or online considered. To view the full job ad, visit cottey.edu/employment/. #job #rhetcomp #teamrhetoric

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I have never read The Power Broker, and I know almost nothing about Robert Moses, but I am thoroughly enjoying listening through @99pi.org's series of breakdown episodes

Thinking of putting together a panel about parents in academia for next year's 4Cs in which each presenter just cries for 10-15 min. Plus a respondent cryer. #4C26

Thank you for coming!

I've actually been kind of shocked by the lack of consensus surrounding the ethics of generative ai among folks at #4C25...

Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Also, I appreciate hearing others refer to the text it generates as average. It averages the text it was trained on. Personally, I aim for better than average when I write. #4C25

Thank you for providing these links! Your posts really help me come back to things later! #4C25

She talks about the haptic habit--muscle memory becoming ambient rhetoric--of doomscrolling, as explored in this article: enculturation.net/sneaky_rheto...
(Sano-Franchini #4C25)

Catch me at session #I.29 at #4C25 talking about doing pre-tenure WPA work

Please, y'all, use your microphones. #4c25

Very much looking forward to #4C25! Between the pandemic and the birth of my second child, it'll be my first in-person Cs experience since 2019!

Just back from my first time at the First Year Experience conference. Returning to negative temps in MO after NOLA was a tough switch 🥶

Trying to divest from meta has really highlighted for me just how heavily Facebook is still used as a communication platform. Maybe particularly so in small/rural communities