In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Water is a human right yet communities are being asked to conserve while data centers expand without limits. The system is broken.

What are the implications of “going online” for a snow day or a too hot for school day in August to gulp energy resources when some crazy weather happens because of environmental degradation caused by energy consumption?

It’s not *just* copilot’s existence. You are paying more to help recover money they lost on it.

A plurality of Americans say AI should be restricted by the government

"A Context investigation has found that renewable energy infrastructure in Mexico is not growing anywhere near fast enough to meet the rising demands of AI, forcing companies in Querétaro state, epicentre of the boom, to rely on fossil fuels.”

States must be able to regulate AI data centers. Put this on your radar & show up to city council meetings. In Chandler AZ, residents stopped a Sinema‑backed project. In Tucson AZ, community pressure forced major changes to all future NDAs that try to hide details & pushed Amazon out. We have power

Scientists are exploring how quantum entanglement could connect drones in disaster relief without traditional networks. Using entangled qubits to share info may improve communication where signals fail — a leap for coordinated response tech. #Quantum #QuantumComputing #technology #Science

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

With AI systems deployed at schools misidentifying a bag of Doritos and a clarinet for weapons in recent months, I'm resharing my library Against School Surveillance Technologies in case anybody is looking for news stories, peer-reviewed articles, reports, and other media to teach.

Amazon “has persuaded cities and school districts to abandon competitive bidding and surrender to its dynamic, algorithm-driven pricing…This opaque system subjects buyers to erratic price swings and allows Amazon to covertly inflate prices and overcharge schools and cities.”

It’s just like we didn’t learn anything from the social media monster that we allowed silicone valley to unleash on our children.

For the love of English, wouldn’t it be amazing if Caleb Williams had at least one literature teacher as a parent? And isn’t he a man with a literary name for our time? openlibrary.org/books/OL7058...

Study finds girls 3x more likely to solve math problems w/ a standard algorithm; boys more likely to never use an algorithm. Girls' compliance & teacher-pleasing tendencies may result in using algorithms more than boys, who are more socialized to be risk-takers. theconversation.com/girls-and-bo...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

“This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education.” Somehow missed this @mcsweeneys.net gem from September. ht: @brianrbowen.bsky.social

Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages | The Verge share.google/tFiz2i2UJeJ7...

If there is no way to say “no” it is not a consent situation. There is no agency.

This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

The actual capacities matter less than management’s perception or hope that your job can be done artificially.

EXPLOSIVE: The late President George H.W. Bush told a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrophysicist Eric Davis claimed Bush confirmed details of contact between the military and an alien creature.

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom www.stlpr.org/government-p...

The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

Here is the video presentation I made for the University Council of Educational Administrators about "Going Virtual" for Snow Days. youtu.be/j2RY0iOCEls

Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job." nymag.com/intelligence...

He may not have realized that Mary Shelley was saying modern Prometheus’ were selfish greedy emotionally vacuous unhinged unethical grave robbing misanthropic nihilists. With god complexes.

I have done academic job interviews in a hotel room with panels of folks while sitting near a bed. In 2017.

Ground Water Contamination of Pueblo Water by a lab facility. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

If children read books they might have thoughts…

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.

A BILLION CHILDREN have died past 75 years. Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years. Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years. Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.

“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Scarlet Letter was not written for children at all, but I support the idea being advanced here.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS

Having built a system that is destructive of the environment that surrounds and sustains us, we are now proposing to change … the environment! Driving us towards this technological fix is the damage inflicted by existing technology. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yes. This is my experience.

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.propublica.org/article/trum... Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Yes folks, we're going to fry the planet for A.I. slop. #aislop

🤷🏽‍♀️ Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

This is a really important read about how the current capitalist formations are shaping what books are available to readers and which writers get a chance to publish a book: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... #BookSky