Ryan Beaty, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication (UT-Knoxville) | Religious, Nonprofit, and Member Organizations | Social Entrepreneurialism

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

Returning to this platform *tentatively* with the goal of making this an account that focuses on my areas of research. If you are interested in organizational communication, particularly within churches and other nonprofits, this may be the place for you.

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

@AmericanAir Yes, AA 736. I just DM’d you

[Dralone&_DR145 @draloneboy]

MAJOR BREAKING: Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names.

“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors.”

The government stalled.

Now the victims are doing it themselves.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Houston now has 18 no-hitters, including PS

That’s the most no-hitters thrown by any club since the Astros’ first season in 1962

The next most by any club in that span is 13, by the Dodgers

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

@rationalyankee Derek Jeter was the face of the 1996-2000 Yankees. He sat in that clubhouse every night, watching teammates shoot up steroids, won 4 championships off the back of it and said nothing. For years. He still has said nothing.

See how your logic works?

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This Bo Jackson hose piece at Yankee Stadium will always be unreal 🔥

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

the only big leaguer to hit over .390 during any span of 162 road games in over 90 years

[Apollo Dez @ApolloDez1]

It’s May 6th.

Current IL

Hunter Brown
Carlos Correa
Jeremy Pena
Josh Hader
Cristian Javier
Tatsuya Imai
Ronel Blanco
Jake Meyers
Yainer Diaz
Nate Pearson
Taylor Trammell
Joey Loperfido
Hayden Wesneski
Brandon Walter

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

Live everyday like it’s pretzel day.

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

Religious studies be like🤣

[Weijia Jiang @weijia]

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Nolan Ryan - Astrodome

[Keeks 🦋 @DietCoke_Esq]

It was actually Vrabel’s interpreter that cheated

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

@ThatAstrosGirl 🔥🔥🔥

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

Today I was privileged to participate in classroom observations for two colleagues. I am amazed at how far classroom instruction has changed since I was an undergrad. Technological advances are profoundly obvious, but pedagogical growth is very evident.

[Ryan Beaty, Ph.D. @ryanbeaty]

Congratulations to @UTKnoxville for being ranked among the world's best universities by Time Magazine!

#33 among American Public Universities

#64 among All American Universities

#157 among Worldwide Universities

It's great to be a Tennessee Volunteer!

https://t.co/7IQ9WqzNEB

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Requiring people to pay $165 for a passport in order to vote sounds a lot like a poll tax that was eliminated by the 24th Amendment in 1964.