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

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

Launch day for this project I provided some assistance for with National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials and Instruction. ncademi.org/quality-indi...

And they want teachers and students to use this? Hell, no. Via morningbrew.com

This volume is scheduled for release in early November. Pre-order and save! www.routledge.com/Theories-Mod...

In the Vol 51(5) Editorial, Marcel van der Klink states - "While I do not underestimate the potential of GenAI, it is essential to acknowledge the nuance and complexity of its short-term impact on education." Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3KbCosd

The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Community Advancing K-12 online/hybrid education. youtu.be/TNXPwmIpFmI

"An exploration of the ingenious mechanical linkages designed during the Industrial Revolution to solve one of engineering's greatest challenges: creating perfect straight-line motion from pure rotation." youtu.be/h-Q9ydIR1Ec?...

“Complaints that once might have taken 15 minutes to review and respond to can now take three to four hours of staff time, not counting the lawyers’ time…”

Your kids are probably spending *way* more time with chatbots than you realize, and you probably won't like what they're hearing, warns @lisamjarvis.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

As these things pop up everywhere, drain natural resources, and ruin the communities that are situated near them, it's only a matter of time before people start blowing up data centers.

Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL

Rereading Jane Eyre for class (and it as good as I remember) but it is making me feel old that I remember Rochester as being positively ancient and he apparently "might be thirty-five."

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

the problem with my last job being "microfiche scanner" is that linkedin has no idea what the fuck that means it keeps suggesting jobs in grocery stores

LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)

Why is Colorado, led by Democratic Governor Jared Polis shielding Palantir and AI companies from lawsuits in a special session? (after they failed in D.C.) Big Tech Immunity? What could go wrong? www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...

summer reading part III-- went to Stemberger (1982) for an example and realized that there's a nice discussion of how we sometimes misclassify other people's variations as 'errors'. also this phrase: "just beyond the bounds of the grammatical" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

I think part of the lure of these chatbots is the illusion that there's an easily accessible answer to every question. I'm a busy man, just tell me what the best laundry detergent is, and also whether climate change is real

lmao, also lol

Who amongst us doesn’t keep copies of their doctoral thesis to give to visitors?

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

Yes. People are so generous about my English too when they learn I’m from New Mexico. Was at a conference *in the U.S.* once where they classified me as “international representation.”

If anybody in the learning sciences (or beyond) wants to write a paper for ICLS (International Conference of the Learning Sciences) about how Google and others invoke our field (or a version of it, anyway) to sell their products and what that means for learning scientists, HMU, because I'm curious.

Wow: tenure letter writers’ publication records (h-index) are better predictors of tenure decisions than candidates’ own publication record.

A good resource on alttext for accessible comics (for those who don’t know, I’ve been part of a project on making comics accessible the past 5 years, and my collaborator @emilybeitiks.bsky.social just shared w/me to add to our resource page) lastcallmedia.com/blog/accessi...

People all over TikTok and Instagram are using the word "clanker" as a catch-all for robots and AI. Here's a deep dive into the origins of the pejorative and an explanation of why it's spreading.

Earlier today I posted several snippets of Beowulf translations I have on my website. They're part of a Beowulf resource page I have, which you can find here: alliteration.net/historical-t... I'll post some of the links you can reach from this page in this thread. #Beowulf #epic #poem #translation

New Title II requirements for Accessibility of Digital Materials, coming to an institution near you! usdla.org/blog/accessi...

Air tags contain CR2032 lithium 3V coin batteries. The kind you're supposed to keep away from children. While these batteries don't explode often, they can, usually if battery is short-circuited, overheated, etc.. Seems like the shoes worn by kids running around could easily overheat...

www.cbsnews.com/news/license... Technology was improperly used by authorities, such as in Kansas, where law enforcement officers used license plate reader systems to stalk former partners in two separate incidents. There have also been instances of mistaken toll booth charges and armed detainment.

Probably staffed with former middle school teachers like me… we can read all kinds of writing.