This is a critical story, thanks Guardian. However, the shocker is 11 major outlets ONLY did an average of 85 climate articles each, most were buried in the Climate section. This is an existential threat. All 11 need 5 stories a day in the top news section. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this! there is room between approval and policing!

A few friendly reminders about autism: - Autism is not inherently a bad thing. - Autism is not a death sentence. - Autism is not a pejorative term. - Autism is not a moral failing. - Autism is not something to shame or ridicule. - Autism is not something to hide. - Autism is not a crime.

Trust me, I feel this. Deeply. I don’t promise to have it figured out. But I am blocking two hours a day for what I call “this shit here”: the headlines from the majors, the 9 or so newsletters in areas I follow, a scroll through my subscribed content in Gmail, & then I clock back out.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

"It is critical that we pay attention to fights like these and stand in solidarity with the Black, Brown and working-class communities being harmed by Big Tech and federal and state governments." Teachers, here's a chance for civic education & engaging youth in collective action for social change.

Get a DVD player!!! Turn to physical media!!!!

Some folks seem to think it is possible to have a pact with the devil and use it to teach about ethical AI.

I gotta say — platform minimalism rules lol

This is another time to recognize how the digital rights framing harms our understanding of technology and ability to hold companies accountable. Its playbook was developed when they were the Davids; now they’re Goliaths, but the approach has barely changed. disconnect.blog/social-media...

I’m with Paris on this one. I’d include Google Classroom in the ban though. Get the tech out of classrooms all together.

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody) and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍

You're invited to sign this open letter

Now the english version! The report "AI and Climate Change: The Global South Facing the New Geopolitics of Innovation" is now available at the the Green Screen Coalition website. Thanks to @plataformacipo.bsky.social for the collaboration and Ariadne Network. greenscreen.network/en/blog/repo...

This is chilling.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Great read.

on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.

I’m just happy if my students email me back. I have yet to read anything by critics of this kind (is making things up about us criticism?) who have also been in a classroom in the last ten years. A hypothetical university made of straw that they set ablaze repeatedly lives in their minds.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

This whole thing is so infuriating. Here’s a link to donate and support Dr. McCoul gofund.me/ebe3b75ad

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

Is Palantir a queer ally? Is this AI agent my friend???

Rather than tenure, I'd prefer a strong union that includes my non-tenure track colleagues. I think we'd have more power and better protection.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Happy birthday Ruby Bridges, who is only 71 years young. White ppl: “You’re still mad about what your ancestors went through?” Black ppl: “Ancestors?”

better things are possible!!!!

Add this to the list of reasons why I’m not teaching with GenAI refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/w...

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors. Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

“In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023.”

LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts. The Same Processes. The Same Ones. "Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it: "Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

LLMs are not like students because they are not people. They cannot be “socialized.” And the fact that three of these people are affiliated with OpenAI gives me even more pause about this.

guys the point is to get people to stop using harmful AI shit by telling them how harmful it is not help them use it better

Precinct-level election data is a foundation for Voting Rights Act lawsuits. And yet it is remarkably hard to obtain.

They’re trying to retrofit AI with the same gender panic that has worked so well for them in demonizing trans people. They’re also trying to link it to humanities and gender studies boogeyman. I don’t engage it seriously at all. Only mock it, if anything.

Absolutely perfect that it comes from the sexually degenerate techbro world.

I just wanted y’all to know that “abstinence-only AI” is an agitprop term. That’s all.

It is wildly disrespectful and sexist to colleagues to liken the decision to discourage LLM use to abstinence education. It diminishes the harms caused by abstinence-only sex ed while also conveniently ignoring the wealth of scholarship about LLM harms.

I'm an educator, not a job trainer.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.” “And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”

thank god RFK discovered the cause of autism. now we can make sure there are even more autistic kids :)