“‘AI’ might not be good for xyz, but you can’t deny that it’s helpful for programming” -- sound familiar? On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be digging into that bullshit. Join us for the livestream: Monday, May 11, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

@alexhanna.bsky.social and I are so excited to announce that THE AI CON has been selected as Book in Common for 2026-27 at Cal State Chico! We're excited for thousands of folks to read and engage with our work. We'll be visiting campus on April 7, 2027 for a public event.

It’s not being treated as bigger news because it’s being framed as a vendor breach. The story is structural: 9,000 schools share a single point of failure they don’t control. Educational infrastructure has been quietly privatized, and the failure mode is now an active extortion crew.

currently includes Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and French, but I will keep adding as long as people keep emailing me and offering to translate. Hmu if you know klingon

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

I want to laugh hysterically, but I just know the pain my colleagues are in rn. We TOLD you admins tech wouldn’t save us. And now you want to shove AI down our throats? 🤡

Somehow we are to believe that “screens” are the issue with these products and not the constant intrusion of them into every aspect of our lives.

[email protected] and I are so excited to announce that THE AI CON has been selected as Book in Common for 2026-27 at Cal State Chico! We're excited for thousands of folks to read and engage with our work. We'll be visiting campus on April 7, 2027 for a public event.

@alexhanna.bsky.social and I are so excited to announce that THE AI CON has been selected as Book in Common for 2026-27 at Cal State Chico! We're excited for thousands of folks to read and engage with our work. We'll be visiting campus on April 7, 2027 for a public event.

Seattle friends! This event on May 17, with Shelley Fairweather-Vega at Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum should be really fun. Join us! www.folioseattle.org/event-detail...

Go home, LinkedIn. You're drunk.

We are THRILLED to announce DAIR x GHOST fundraiser: if you haven't seen the film - or if you have - May 10 - 13 pay what you can to rent GHOST IN THE MACHINE on Kinema, all proceeds go to the freshest research in the space! Register and rent: notaidoc.com/dairxghost

Babe wake up, new techno optimist manifesto just dropped

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

If this seems bad and you live in NYC -- my friends are doing something about it. Get on the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social organizing call *TONIGHT*

How. Many. Times. Will this be reinvented

TODAY! Tune into the Mystery AI Hype Theater live stream to hear @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social chat with @nathaliemarechal.net about Bernie's descent into doomerism... noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute

normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

I'm a little late to the dunk-on-Dawkins party (but hey, let's keep the celebration rolling!) but I finally read his essay (minus the chatbot outputs he included) and I'm curious how much exposure it took for him to cook his brain so thoroughly. >>

Today!

Wesleyan Tetris

Watch this short, powerful, very on-point speech. Literal shivers watching @mjcrockett.bsky.social make the most of their platform!

“… language models are modeling just the form. They are systems to mimic the way we use language, but that's not the same thing as meaning, and they don't have access to the meaning. We make sense of the output of them.” @emilymbender.bsky.social

I'm a little late to the dunk-on-Dawkins party (but hey, let's keep the celebration rolling!) but I finally read his essay (minus the chatbot outputs he included) and I'm curious how much exposure it took for him to cook his brain so thoroughly. >>

Join us tomorrow!

I'm also stuck by the fact that Dawkins doesn't realise his chatbot fantasies aren't the sort of thing he should write down and place on public display.

Can we please stop calling people being stalked “love interests.”

Powerful, honest and brave 🔥 Read this 🧵 and watch this video from IAS Member and friend @mjcrockett.bsky.social, who uses the occasion of her distinguished @nationalacademies.org award to challenge the uncritical automation of science and the erosion of federal funding for social science research

Please read Molly’s thread.

Great thread from an @nationalacademies.org award winner highlighting the current cowardice and capitulation of NAS, tech industry and the leaders of both to the demands of Trump that are destroying American science 🧪

Anyone else noticed that Bernie’s acting AI-pilled ? WTF ? @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social & I will get into it on MAITH3k on Monday 3 pm ET

Yes, all of this. We must not rush to replace human science with machine science. Just as calculators cannot replace human mathematics, we will always need human scientists in order to do good science.

Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end

At a time like this we need leaders with the courage to name what we all can see happening. The social sciences give us a language to bear witness and light with which to see more clearly. We will not be extinguished so easily. >>

More MAITH3k coming right up! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are delighted to be talking with @nathaliemarechal.net on our next live stream, in which we will witness with dismay Bernie's descent into doomerism. Monday, May 4, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

Watch this short, powerful, very on-point speech. Literal shivers watching @mjcrockett.bsky.social make the most of their platform!

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

I just watched the documentary Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social in Toronto and am feeling affirmed and despairing and also tentatively hopeful about the world. If you get the chance, make time to watch it!

This May Day, we unite, strike & win! This is the message that Jorge Coronado, Treasurer of Northwestern University AAUP & President of AAUP-AFT Local 6741, delivered on the picket line in solidarity with striking non-tenure-track faculty of Faculty Forward SEIU 73 at Loyola University Chicago.

But wait there's more! Fresh off our live show in Brooklyn, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be doing the next MAIHT3K livestream on Monday May 4. We will be witnessing with dismay Bernie's descent into x-risk-ism. Monday, May 4, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

We had SO MUCH FUN!! I'm curious to see what this will sound like as a pod ep.

Calling all NYC folks! Here is a great opportunity to see @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social -- Sat May 2 event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...

Look, before you mock people for having their database deleted in 9 seconds by Claude, you should know that deleting a database that thoroughly used to take up to 90 minutes.

Saw my friend @alexhanna.bsky.social (in sharpie drag because commit to every bit!) and her co-host Emily Bender (who was glorious) tape a Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 podcast. Main topic was www.vox.com/future-perfe.... (Second photo is 3/4 of a short dnd campaign I ran [alert: boyfriend on main])

We had SO MUCH FUN!! I'm curious to see what this will sound like as a pod ep.

had a lovely time tonight watching @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social do a live taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 but ALEX, WHAT WERE THE SINGLE DOLLARS FOR????

IT'S HAPPENING @emilymbender.bsky.social