A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

deskilling in professional school, you can ban it www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

I’m not surprised. I often have trouble reading AI generated text. It’s like it’s too smooth, too slippery. My eyes glide over it and my brain doesn’t register anything. I have to work harder to really read it.

"Maybe the first thing we need to recognize is that trust has to run both ways. I can’t spend the year asking students to prove that they’re still in their work while assuming they’ll trust that I’m still in mine." This entire piece 🎯 substack.com/home/post/p-...

@rcmeg.bsky.social and I wrote about process tracking as a flawed response to LLMs btw! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good clear post from @pkrugman.bsky.social about why people hate AI---and why this is not just the usual popular resistance to new technology. People hate the message, they hate the means, and they hate the messengers. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-e...

Despite what the DOE tells you, the kids do not want AI.

My greatest fantasy is that this whole AI industry implodes and then people lose access and they have to figure out how to write and think again. Then who will be left behind muahahahaha

Yes: "Our first principle should be to work on making student learning visible to students themselves," writes @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is something we need to be talking about more in this moment when it's so easy for students to simulate learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

“Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey, I got a new starter pack for ya! Big Nope to "A.i.," Data Centers, & Big Tech A work in progress chock full of people & groups providing info about and organizing against the pernicious effects of "A.i." and its pushers. go.bsky.app/3w9a45V

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

This is great and also if you are a faculty member, just touch base with your Accessibility Centre and ask if you can have access to the recommended screen reader on your campus and TEST YOUR COURSE MATERIALS. It is always eye-opening and it will make you better able to help students who need it.

Check this out from the wonderful @aelang.bsky.social

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

In fact, the speaker admitted to "working very closely with Claude", to the point where he's currently "writing" a book entirely written by AI. People in the amphitheater gasped. The speaker - a scholar from France - then shared that his "experiment" has led him to feel useless as an intellectual.

Why would students want to attend a university that has sold out to the AI industry?

As always, read John on all things writing but especially in this moment as "writing" is particularly fragile in our classrooms and schools: biblioracle.substack.com/p/feedback-h...

"AI literacy on its own, even when it fully informs users of the harms, will probably not protect students any better than Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) did." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

This analysis from @bcmerchant.bsky.social on "Anthropic’s Mythos stunt” and "Its sheer cynicism, rank opportunism, and, yes, its ultimate effectiveness” is the kind of critical AI literacy that I’d like to see taught in schools.

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942, on her 13th birthday, she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

This was a fun conversation with La Fronde @lafronde.bsky.social about AI as normal technology in journalism, plus AI benchmarks and layoffs. la-fronde.com/p/ai-ethicis...

And this is one I'm very proud of: it's a resource to help both students and teachers find the vocabulary for opting out of genAI tools. It offers tips for both teachers and learners and an overview of why people might want to say no to an AI-based assignment. works.hcommons.org/records/f34f...

This is a mini slide-deck explaining where bias comes from in genAI tools. It's intended for use by faculty either as a mini-lesson on its own or to integrate into your assessment prep, to help learners understand the limitations of AI from the perspective of bias. works.hcommons.org/records/0h0z...

"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.

Prof. Lina-Maria Murillo: “In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I’ve been a member of this department since last year…I’m just one faculty member among hundreds across the country who are facing elimination of their programs.” 😡

I just finished a book called The Art of Regenerative Educatorship. It’s open-access. I wrote about what spoke to me and how it might be useful to others medium.com/@heatherlesl...

Oh: the Times paid attention to the CSU... just to examine our Chancellor's spending $17m to make us an "AI-powered university." The reporting shows some faculty are embracing it like Kool-Aid drunkards, but big ups to Jeremy Murray of CSUSB History✊ #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Anthony is the master of AI metaphors. This one takes the cake. Or perhaps, the brush.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Anthropic cofounder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AI

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As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

What an excellent infographic... #AI isaiprofitable.com?trk=feed_mai...

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Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

As @biblioracle.bsky.social notes, those of us who are in the classroom don't need research to tell us this because we see it all the time. Figuring things out, making connections, that is the interesting part of writing and why it's worth doing. But helpful to have data to expand the conversation.

I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

Erin Brockovich has been fighting evil corporations that pollute the environment for so long that there was a Hollywood movie about her starring Julia Roberts back in 2000. It's a bad sign for the AI industry that she is now on the anti-data center bandwagon.

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

If you want to read the whole thing, you can do so here. If you'd like to use it for your class, feel free but please let me know so I know people find it useful!

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Last week, IT employees at the University of California system across the state formed the largest tech worker union in the United States. This is how they now plan to confront tech industry layoffs, rein in AI, and push for tech for the common good:

Spotted in San Diego. “WE THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT THIS AI IS MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL”