Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

ChatGPT is "a clear-cut moral abomination and a logical culmination of modern surveillance capitalism. It is the direct result of tech companies producing products that seek to extract attention and value from vulnerable users, and then harming them grievously." Educators, we must refuse OpenAI.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Kylene's writing has had such an important impact on my teaching.

Didn't think I could love libraries more but then I read this. 🥰

People are often surprised that I would dog ear, or break the spine, or weed a collection. Books are objects. Their ideas are what's important.

I just started it today. Definitely not my usual genre but it's very readable!

1000%

I hate how I feel less anxious when I make a to-do list and then complete it. 🤣🤣

"For this week's London Question, we've spoken to the women who enjoy the Hampstead Ladies' Pond about how they feel regarding self-ID and trans inclusion". None of them give a fuck. www.instagram.com/p/DJb3XFFpBK...

a lot of the talk about AI in the humanities seems to leave out the notion of pleasure in having ideas which is a real shame

Literally just said to a colleague last week that I get through about half what they do. My classroom is not a widget factory. The assembly line allowed us to make more widgets, not send everyone home early. Efficiency is not the goal in an English classroom!

Even though I’m well aware of the policies he’s been proposing for a while now, I'm still kind of shocked at just how openly dystopian Poilievre is willing to sound when talking about his 'tough on crime' proposals in this debate.

I've started reading Vanity Fair. It's going to really throw off my reading stats. Can I count it as 4 books??

As Pacific Palisades is burning in California, let’s not forget that a significant number of those wildland firefighters are incarcerated. This fire reminds me a bit of the Jesusita Fire in 2009, a wildfire that I fought while I was in prison.

Is Moose Knuckles 2: Knuckles Deep available on CBC Gem? #Goldenglobes

Tonight's game summary.

So many people who call themselves “tough” are just numbed out, lacking social awareness, and able to dissociate at an expert level. You’re not tough. Your connection to humanity in yourself and others is hanging by a frayed thread. That’s actually extremely fragile.

Brought my husband to Nosferatu and his takeaway was seeing the aftermath of your wife banging a corpse may be a deal breaker marriage-wise. He wasn't a fan. 😬🤣

Made my copy of the 2025 reading log. bookriot.com/introducing-...

I want to forward this to every district decision maker.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but when people say that AI is their "thought partner" I wonder how to have a thought partner that cannot think (or feel, or communicate with intention). What appears to be thought is an illusion that only achieves meaning through the human interpreting it.

In today’s adventures in AI and teaching, I found myself BAFFLED by a student’s bibliography because all of the links in the bibliography went to the articles they referenced in their paper and were real articles, but the citations were completely made up I was confused till I got ChatGPT out

I grew up without a computer in my home until probably grade 10. No internet until end of high school. So...am I just old now? I didn't reject those other technologies. This feels different. Existentially terrifying different.

Teaching NBE courses has been such an opportunity for learning, professional and personal growth but by far the best thing has been reading Katherena Vermette's works. She's on my "buy everything she publishes sight unseen" list. real ones is a beautiful, heartbreaking book. Cannot recommend enough.

Or you can order something for yourself, give it to your husband to wrap, be perimenopausal so your memory is crap, and be genuinely thrilled by it on Christmas morning! I choose #happiness.

100% this. Hate abortion? Support sex ed and contraception. Hate open drug use on the streets? Support rehab program beds.

Same energy as "kids use AI anyway, might as well integrate it in to your program!".

Pssssst… It’s possible to be trauma-responsive AND still have high expectations for behaviour and academics in schools. Thank you for coming to my #EdTalk. #EduSky

I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic". Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.

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#5, for more productive and positive work, i've been doing this series of "living found #poems" called the "state natural area poems" since the pandemic started, out at the most protected areas in #wisconsin; lastest installment: jacobriyeff.com/2024/11/17/s...

Optimist: The cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: The cup is 1/2 empty HS English teacher: The cup represents the unrealized potential our protagonist struggles to fulfill. Also, I have leftover rainbow cups from today's GSA meeting, if anyone wants to grab one.

I really appreciate the work people are doing in articulating the many reasons AI should not be something we embrace in our classrooms. It's helpful to have cogent arguments ready. #AIResistance

Not my 13 year old sharing her Christmas wishlist in a slide deck. 🤣🤣

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

Recommended, this newly published nuanced and thoughtful statement on AI and “refusal” in writing instruction: refusinggenai.wordpress.com

Looking forward to presenting PD tomorrow on oral communication as the foundation for learning. Always fun to present with @mrshackett305.bsky.social and Tara Armstrong. Giving our #rftloi2025 deck a run through!

I guess we're all here now?