"I do not 'believe in' liberal education. I know it’s real [&] I have seen it happen. I don’t have to believe in something that exists. Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that."

Juan Carlos I se pinta víctima incomprendida y Faber radiografía la genealogía borbónica de impunidad, nostalgia franquista y cero autocrítica. No es mala suerte: es un rey que confunde su caída con la de la democracia ✍🏼 @sebasfaber.bsky.social

I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.

We wrote a thing about the chasm between the promises of technology and its so often dreadful real effects. Check it out 👇

Best title ever.

Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

The ebook version of Why We Fear AI is currently on sale for just $5 directly at the publisher! @commonnotions.bsky.social

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

Probably the most consequential piece I wrote this year was “Anatomy of an AI Coup” as part of my fellowship with @techpolicypress.bsky.social this year: www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

Open to your ideas all year round: www.heliotropejournal.net

Words matter. Language matters. Languages matter. @spencerhazel.bsky.social on how universities cut their language degrees, AND stress the importance of language, AND use language poorly and offensively in communicating their decisions ("marketing-infused slop"). #AcademicSky #Universities

@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker! In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation. #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review 👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance” 📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026 📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026 Please share widely! ❓Reach out if you have any questions!

This book is so good and important. Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥 @anniemcc.bsky.social

Añoranza de los tiempos en que se podían escribir ensayos académicos con esta libertad.

Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging. newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...

"Modernism can best be understood as a cultural field of force triangulated by three coordinates: formalized academicism in the arts; technologies of telephone, radio, automobile, aircraft; and the imaginative proximity of social revolution." Perry Anderson (modernism debates contra blackfriday)

Escuchando esto:

Solidaridad con las compañeras y compañeros de las universidades públicas de Madrid. www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-ma...

En este libro precioso Margit demuestra la ubicuidad de la lectura en voz alta en el Siglo de Oro. Si a un especialista le cuesta Calderón mientras que un trabajador analfabeto del XVII no perdía comba en un corral ruidoso es porque la literatura en voz alta había socializado determinadas destrezas

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Lo que dice Francisco Rodríguez Marín sobre la "relajación de las costumbres" en la sociedad sevillana del s. XVI me ha hecho pensar en los mensajes de Epstein.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.

Cornell College, which was down the road from where I grew up, is now axing much of the "liberal arts" from its so-called "liberal arts college." Languages offer lifelong benefits and teach us humility, how to grapple with difference, and the structures of culture and thought. Shameful!!

“As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent.” Sheon Han experiments with whether an AI-powered “accent training” app can help him sound “less Korean” — and what that might mean. www.wired.com/story/ai-ame...

I could not agree more!

Where what we all feel and know is put into numbers.

Nice write up here!

What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

El lunes 24 @mark-bray.bsky.social inaugura junto a Ramón del Castillo y Vicente Ordóñez el ciclo sobre viejos y nuevos fascismos de La pecera y el taller de estudios culturales de la UNED. Ojo, por cuestiones de espacio la sesión será en el @ateneomaliciosa.net

Por el momento a IA ha generado despidos masivos, que los buscadores funcionen infinitamente peor, spam más o menos elaborado, una estética para el fascismo, una idea de lo que es la animación y la creatividad en general completamente rota... Y ahora cómo premio una burbuja financiera descomunal.

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

"For educators, the call is clear. Generative AI can take on rote and transactional tasks while excelling at error correction, adapting input and vocabulary support. That frees classroom time for multiparty, culturally rich and nuanced conversation." 💯

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

I missed this amazing presentation of the manosphere at the end of October, but wow this is really worth your time: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Haiku fortuito nº 397 Lo de respeto a la naturaleza por sus cojones

"Alarmas emilianenses: El debate sobre la glotopolítica antipanhispanista" glotopolitica.com/2025/11/15/a...

Escuchando esto:

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Rich men's power equals freedom from the formalities of grammar and punctuation.

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

🔔new paper alert🔔 I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Joining the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s conference today on “Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI” - really excited to talk about a new line of research and to learn from colleagues who grapple with #AI and #power in language education #appliedlinguistics