If you're afraid, it's better to journal or to talk to a friend than to post online.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

When I-35 first sliced through Austin, Texas, homes and businesses in the path of construction were forced to relocate. No archive was kept of the lives that the highway upended. As TxDOT now moves to expand the interstate, photographer Liz Moskowitz records the stories of people being displaced.

Starbucks strike begins TOMORROW—don’t cross the picket line!

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

Final two hours: please share 🙏🏾 In the vision of hope—that together, we can transform people’s ability to survive—is also an ongoing duty, one we must cling to as world powers seek to erode our will. Help six families with food, shelter, emergency healthcare: 322/1000

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

This is an organization trusted by someone I trust who's providing on-the-ground aid to people in Negril and Kingston, two cities people will likely be sheltering in as they flee the direct path

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Every year, my OES chapter provides college scholarships for Detroit high school students. If you’re so inclined, please support our DoubleGood fundraiser. Thank you! popup.doublegood.com/s/l7t9x6o8

All politics is local. Election Day is in a couple weeks. That new official might be the difference between ICE coming to your community and terrorizing you and your neighbors

Remember our Dirt in a Cog zine gives you handy dandy ways to incorporate pushing back on alt right authoritarianism into your everyday life. Check it out on our website below. invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...

Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫 www.thenation.com/article/envi...

If you gotta tell the lie machine not to lie, maybe there are more fundamental issues

Shares please. You have been an incredible light to young dad H and his toddlers—keeping them housed for almost a year has saved them from deadly cold, exposure, shrapnel. For kids, this isn’t trivial. Sit with that impact and keep it going. They still need that support. 18 hours left. 23/640

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

Second and final deadline ISLS2026 extension announcement!! ISLS2026 submissions (all ICLS & CSCL formats) now due October 20, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE, in recognition of ongoing academic and personal challenges. See call for proposals for each format at 2026.isls.org

3 HOURS LEFT, please share! 💛 for my birthday, I’ve given us a modest task: help high school kids take their exams this week—yes, in Gaza, yes, in the north. They’re still studying amongst bombing & invasion. Help Spark Space’s youth volunteers bring these students electricity: 824/1000

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

🚨 Please share - two young women and their families need to evacuate from under fire - 8 hours left 🚨 Mai’s and Ghadeer’s families are relying on us. They are blessedly alive and this is their ask of us. So it’s our duty. 4767/5000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

We are hiring for two tenure line positions at @penngse.bsky.social The first is an open rank position in preK-12 educational leadership: apply.interfolio.com/173436 The second is an open rank position in counseling & human development: apply.interfolio.com/173459 Please spread the word!

Students are STILL studying in Gaza! Here’s how to help them! Over a hundred kids are taking their secondary exams for the first time in two years, and the Spark volunteers are helping with shelter & electricity—WE help with the cost. 36 hours left—0/500 chuffed.org/project/spar...

MATCHING £400! Today, we highlight Nya’s family of eight, most of them children suffering from malnutrition. They lost their home and remain in the north, moving from one place to another. They need a tent. Give / find her link here. 476/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...

As we try to figure out how to respond to AI in education, we shouldn’t romanticize the pre-AI age. For example, some are calling for a return to “blue books” which I am remember cramming for and then completely forgetting about within the course of a week. Is this really want we want to return to?

You're going to tell me the same technology that cannot even identify Black folks as human is going to be able to do my hair?

If anyone in your life is looking for an educational resource to better understand Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I have archived ~700 articles – written largely by Palestinians – under #Palestine in the last three months. The feed is updated every day. 1/2 🧵

DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 4 On Thursday, DFMI participants logged and introduced energy through cyanotyping. Check out what @martheawebber.bsky.social, @mez-rperez.bsky.social, and Jered Mabaquiao are working on!

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s xAI facility is polluting South Memphis, we’re taking action. Get the latest: www.selc.org/news/resista...

Trump is starting the dehumanization process to get the military ready to fire on US citizens on US soil. To get the military to that point, they must see fellow Americans as enemies and less than human. These are the seeds of mass atrocities.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 All that bending and twisting he did to bow down, and they ain’t hire him. I’m cackling!

This is such a beautifully generative question. I hope folks are asking themselves this too. And if they don’t know where to start, look at folks already doing the work. It’s happening.

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

The relentless pursuit of AI by the elites has nothing to do with efficiency or progress, and everything to do with the control of information and the manufacturing of consent. This is an existential threat to humanity.

complaining about my day means I’m in a decent mood. if I say some shit like “just practicing gratitude today” I’m probably at rock bottom and contemplating illegal activity

saying "well my heart's in the right place" if there's too long of a silence after something I said in a group setting

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...