run don't walk to read Digital Theory Lab director @t-shoemaker.bsky.social s writing on the model/system distinction link.springer.com/article/10.1...

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Or the National Endowment for the Humanities for 1,000 years.

Can’t believe I got to join @whyy.org and @samleecole.bsky.social to discuss law and policy remedies for deepfakes and why the ultimate solution isn’t legal at all: whyy.org

Jason Isbell Explains How Music Is Like The News But For Sounds. Subscribe to The Onion at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ.

Really love this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reframe of all this AI job loss talk: If we are talking about how AI affects the labor market, we also have to talk about how AI is destroying the internet on both a cultural and practical level.

Check this out!

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity The future is panels everywhere"[email protected] Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

“The transactional nature of college where students experience a system of indefinite future reward has now failed multiple generations. Teaching Toward Slow Hope shows that there is a different path: one rooted in community, shared purpose, and mutual exchange. We’d be wise to heed this call.”

Trope 5: “People are using AI to do this, so AI must be good at the thing they are using it for.”

gee, i wonder why 76% of experts don’t buy into a scientifically bogus idea with nothing but multibillion dollar marketing hype powering it 5/

This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

“Hundreds of people from Santa Monica to Los Feliz are strapping cameras on their heads and hands as they do chores at home so bots can watch how they make coffee, scrub toilets, water plants and wash dishes.”

One $16k NEH grant at a research library can change the life of a scholar forever while adding to our shared knowledge of history and culture. These depositions will drive me mad

I know I sound like a geezer but folks, it's time to bring back analog on a significant scale. It is the only way we're going to get our lives back

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

"The technology that accelerates individual careers seems to be simultaneously narrowing what science collectively explores." Am doubtful that answer is more ££ for data collection for marginal, exploratory topics. Deeper think about incentives, investment in #socialinfrastructures for research!

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

oh cool we’re doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society

Today on @21st.show, the history of a comedy institution. The Onion has its roots in the Midwest. We talked with author (and original Onion staff member!) @clearwing3.bsky.social about how that's reflected in its stories, and what the role of satire is in the current news environment.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

Thank you so much for having me @21st.show ! Great questions, hilarious and on-point Onion headlines and audio clips, and fantastic comments from callers about why the Onion is so much more than just a source of laughs. @bencollins.bsky.social @theonion.com #theonion

Hi all, I will be on Illinois Public Radio today at 11am CT on "The 21st Show" talking about my history of America's Finest News Source, The Onion: Funny Because It's True. Listening and call-in info here! will.illinois.edu/21stshow

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”

As a parent I remember this VERY well. I went from school to school circa 2006 trying to find one that did NOT teach "keyboarding" to 1st graders. Or later, one that did NOT hand out iPads/laptops. Was basically impossible within conventional school system. W/a scholarship did Montessori instead

Who are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!

If you can't trust a citation, what can you trust? AI chatbots are inventing academic sources – and some scholars are citing them. My latest on "scholarly slop" for @theobserveruk.bsky.social w/ thanks to @benpatrickwill.bsky.social & everyone who spoke to me observer.co.uk/news/science...

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

It's all so clear

Teacheres, critical Gen AI folkes, plese share! New article publisshed todaye: "Talking to Students about Generative AI." "Whatever their capabilities, GenAI outputs cannot replace human voices or the critical thinking that writing enables and promotes..." compstudiesjournal.com/2026/03/09/t...

Whenever I hear "AI is going to take all jobs!" it just tells me that whoever is saying it doesn't actually know what most people do in their jobs

Is he/she playing "Beautiful Dreamer?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tru...

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

I tell every student to read their writing out loud. The brain processes it differently--if you have to form the words with your mouth, it's closer to reading it like someone other than yourself. It doesn't allow your brain to skip over mistakes/unclear parts with a subliminal "I know what I mean"

Very interesting to read these reflections on how US and Irish schools overlap and diverge when it comes to high school English!

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching. It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

move slow and repair things

As I like to say, "to what problem is ChatGPT the solution?"

This is the kind of critical AI literacy practice that I'd like to see make its way into schools. It's not about how to best use this or that product; it's about mapping systems of power.

Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20