JD Vance’s Communion is a bog standard Politician’s Book, what you write before a presidential run. But that it’s written for a reader that doesn’t exist, about a country that doesn’t exist, by a man that doesn’t exist, and thus is alternately baffling & offensive. My review for @newrepublic.com:

A bit of lightness. The BannerDepot 2000 Poetry Maker is so fun. It's an archive of banner ads from the 1990s and early 2000s, and you can make poems from the ads. Amazing work by Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao. BannerDepot 2000: banner-depot-2000.net

Much as I love my employer, a flagship state institution and one of the best universities in the world, they lack the lean nimbleness to implement programs like this.

have you tried turning the spaceship off and on again?

Parents/caregivers of school-aged children - if you’ve been working to challenge ed-tech in your kids’ schooling, please consider taking this survey! The survey will be open until April 12!

Astronauts: just like us.

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

What a beautiful way for a community to physically instantiate a story about itself that will long serve as an inspirational reminder to future generations of “who we are.”

This is top notch

I love commas, so, much i, wish grammar were; real

are universities now just moltbook

This morning's reading, from the new PMLA in the post box. Useful for my next book chapter writing project...

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own." (Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

This is hilarious

If AlphaSchool sees this, they'll roll it out tomorrow for realz.

🙏🙏🙏

Dr. Krockpock and the PureGenius team are delighted to welcome @kcarithers.bsky.social to the board!

It's hard to do satire of a field that is continually self-satiring, but this is a valiant attempt: puregenius.education

Talk to the chatbot. Its incredible.

Erin is an extremely smart, weird, delightful human making smart, weird, funny things about our strange present. She‘s thought more about the highs, lows, and bottomless pits of ed tech than anyone. Give her a follow!

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

Will leave the last word for @charleswlogan.bsky.social

in which I return to Vegas for another AI conference; am led on a wild goose chase by the Mother of AI to find Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI; and invent a new liberatory verb tense to the great amazement of my technical colleagues. supercyberlicious.substack.com/p/alienated-...

We posted the recorded talks of presenters who agreed to recordings. They're available on our conference page!

big thanks to the @civicsoftech.bsky.social organizers for their conference check out the recorded talks for inspiration on facing our technological moment with bravery and grace maybe we don't all have to become food for the AI machines after all?!?! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

was delighted to join the @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference & talk about WHAT CHATGPT CANT SAY! posting the first bit of my talk here: LANGUAGE AS PLEASURE! let's not forget all the strange & magical powers of language that are sidelined by our machines! open.substack.com/pub/supercyb...

French post-structuralist feminists vs LLMs. Am I doing this right? Plus a Hélène Cixous desk reveal at the end! 🦄