Todd Battistelli

Hello! My main interests are writing and learning, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement in rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation. More here: fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/w... 1/3

Getting back into it now... Next up, I am attending "No Blank Checks: How Much does a Z-Degree Cost to Develop?" from Chealsye Bowley, Colorado Dept of Higher Education #OpenEd26

Foggy morning at the train station #Northglenn #Colorado

They choose to buy elections but not pay us a living wage.

New OA publication! ✨ Digital Democracy from Below is a collection of 34 essays exploring where less obvious democratic levers are hiding in the digital age. We present democracy as a form of government, a way of living and a skill that can be collectively practiced. Here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thanks to Colorado's BallotTrax, I know that my ballot's been counted. ballottrax.coloradosos.gov/voter/

how long before canvas introduces a mechanism to quantify how long instructors take to grade a single essay, which mgmt will then use as a metric to allocate teaching and grading hours?

From @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @adambonica.bsky.social: "The Democratic Party is being devoured by an ecosystem of consultants. Mostly out of view of the party’s voters and activists, political consultants are paid to raise the money, place the ads, and set the strategy." trib.al/5hL0Lsd

Democrats are still stuck in "workforce readiness" and the transactional job training paradigm of the neoliberal university. The Republican Party, conversely, as it's moved toward fascism and authoritarianism, has rediscovered that the things we believe about our country and its people matter.

A peak into Ramaswamy's Philip José Farmer fanfic folder.

If you missed it, you can catch up on the most recent Freethought History Webinar, featuring @nathgalexander.bsky.social on atheism and vegetarianism in the 19th and 20th centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDz...

This piece by student journalist Naishu Vempali made me pump my fist in solidarity. I hope when I’m back teaching at UMass next year they take a class with me, where they can expect nothing but top quality human-grade feedback, interaction, and attention. dailycollegian.com/2026/10/chat...

Stuart Hall Digital: Mediations of the Stuart Hall Archive A huge amount of material from the Stuart Hall archives has been digitised. stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Check out this AI company CEO telling students to ignore what their professors tell them about AI use, and use it anyway.

At MIT, an alliance between property service workers and graduate students shows the power of wall-to-wall organizing for living wages and workers’ rights against a shared, well-resourced management. Read more: tinyurl.com/MITWorkersUn... @32bjseiu.bsky.social

Is that a lot?

It may not feel like autumn weather, but at least it looks like it. #Colorado

Omg this year's #Colorado #IVoted sticker is amazing #blucifer #denver

Great discourse on intellectual community this morning, and I just want to add that pushing course caps, teaching loads, and the institutional churn of structural precarity increasingly forces scholars into narrower, lonelier working conditions.

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

Changiz Mohiyeddini in the latest @aaup.org Academe: "Diversity describes who is present. It says nothing about what those present are permitted to do, to say, to challenge, or to become." www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Meet your candidates before you vote. 🗳️ Join our town hall and candidate forum with Cervantes HD 31, Jorgensen HD 33, Sullivan & Willford HD 34, community project updates, and a winter gear drive for Adams 12 Family Outreach. Sat 10/24, 9:30-11:30 AM Thornton Community Center thorntonforall.org

Colorado Ends Twelve-Step Mandate for Parolees, Opening Door to Secular Recovery Options atheists.org/news/state-p...

Just a reminder of how most board members, upper administrators, and state reps see faculty and staff.

That’s why we developed the Data Work Landscape, which maps the hidden supply chain powering AI. But to truly understand the impact of this layered system, we gathered stories from workers at these companies, like Junbee. techequity.us/2026/06/23/s...

This is today! I’m excited to talk about why inevitability discourse only serves wealth and power, big ethical questions about AI products themselves, and a framework for thinking through whether or not to use AI. Discursive strategies for refusal, too. You can sign up right until the session start!

New model for bailouts going forward: We throw the companies who are sinking the economy out of the boat.

Let’s learn from past crashes and be ready w bold transformative demands. No AI bail outs. No impunity.

"The loudest voices might not be the most correct, but simply the best funded or the best aligned with Big Tech imperatives."

RTD's new app while nice while it lasted, I guess. People are reporting not being able to log in, which I experienced yesterday. RTD's solution? Use the old app. Which requires calling customer service if you've already used up your allotted app/device changes. www.reddit.com/r/RTDDenver/...

New research shows that meeting tree canopy goals could prevent more than 67,000 premature deaths in the United States. biographic.com/trees-as-pub...

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

CAPU is seeking a $500,000 grant from the city to further commemorate that history and revitalize the alley from a loading zone back into the cultural hub it once embodied.

I feel like, since the pandemic started, we not only failed to structurally integrate the necessary infrastructures for hybrid events, but lost several mechanisms we USED to have. Where's the widespread hashtag use? Where's the conference accounts posting reminders? Maybe it's happenstance, i dunno

“A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her: A New Jersey lawsuit alleges a longtime remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that would photograph her every three minutes.” Corporate America — burn in hell with Maga and the Centrist Democrats.