”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”

Expecting everyone to agree with you and seeing that as a good thing Is bad for curiosity. It’s bad for creativity It’s bad consent Because you can’t negotiate , build and problem solve if you’re brought up thinking that we can’t hold multiple ideas at once

The lesson from the "Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt AI Video" reveal is twofold, old, and evergreen: 1) Slow Down and 2) always start from the ground position that any claims made by an "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is them lying to you to hype their product.

New guest blog up on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies this morning from the brilliant @claire.northsky.social: "Eloquentia Perfecta as Antidote to AI: A Lenten Reflection" refusal.blog/2026/02/23/e...

“Every few years, the tech industry introduces a new kind of product, then prods schools to teach millions of students how to use it.“ And we fall for it every time. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

The politics of AI are anti-human. This comparison is disgusting.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Altman says, essentially: you think AI is a waste of energy? No - *humans* are waste of energy. That kind of thinking leads to some dark places.

Every Claude Code and ChatGPT subscription has Anthropic or OpenAI spending anywhere from $5 to $13 to make $1 when it comes to these coding products. To not include this is journalistic malpractice and to act as if this will go away is too. Disgraceful. bsky.app/profile/edzi...

What’s most disturbing to me re @mayor.nyc.gov’s failure to uphold the .05% allocation for libraries is that these are THE socialist institution, islands designed to secure everyone’s equal & free access to knowledge, tech & space otherwise monetized. They should be a socialist’s top priority.

Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor

Once again, it feels so gauche to update a CV during these dark days

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

I need to stand near a cold, gray ocean soon. to replenish my HP

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

The gendered and racialised dynamics of people (of course it's mostly men) telling women like @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social in the last couple of days, that their work and efforts against AI are not radical enough or other cryptogyny (gendered theft) 1/n

I think a lot of this "the left doesn't get AI" or "you can't talk with the left about AI" originates with annoyance by libertarians and the right at people reminding them ethics and empathy should still matter in technology development and adoption, and it isn't just about "work flow efficiencies"

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

we should think about school as though students’ real lives are actually happening right now

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions. So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?

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AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

We should absolutely be shaming ppl who use these glasses. Loudly. No such thing should exist, let alone be available to the public.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

We wrote an AI policy together for our center that is now on our FAQ page: www.geneseo.edu/writing-prog... I'm v proud of them

I think it’s time to acknowledge the real problem. We’re in a bitchassness epidemic.

Here's an example of the reaction I'm describing here, and I appreciate something this particular poster makes clear: They neither understand nor respect boundaries. There's no policing happening here, just my own decisions about who I will have a conversation with.

What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.

me in any conversation about anything lately:

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All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

I guess I really will mask forever, good grief, especially if people defend the use of this snitch tech.

This is the third time Ring has backed off of some Orwellian practice because of public outcry; in the two previous cases it went right back to the evil as soon as the uproar died down. There is no reason to suspect this will be any different.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

This is great. They should also be able to vote while in prison.

When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.

A lot of people who regurgitate "improvement" talking points to discredit any criticism of AI have little to no awareness of the trickery that occurs behind the scenes to provide this mirage. Not only for autonomous vehicles, but the army of human labour used to fine tune generative AI.

This is wonderful. Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work. But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing. Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.