Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

the way life should be

Seems bad. futurism.com/future-socie...

I wish my cat understood that I don't want to go to work either and following me around screaming while I get ready really doesn't help

Our listener, Markus, lost a friend tragically a month or so ago, and when he went to search info about her online, he found a bunch of AI generated, deeply edited incorrect info about her. Looking into these took us places. Please listen.

Yes, the Strait of Hormuz is now tolled and that's bad. Also there's an entire school of little girls that will never grow up and an entire country of people who are traumatized for the rest of their lives because they thought they were going to die, and that's way, WAY worse.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

So happy to share that my new book, "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" is ready for preorder!!! As we see an increase in the use of AI in every sector, from warfare to software programming, this book aims to explain why and how the Cloud matters above all.

if only someone could have warned us of exactly this

this is not surprising to me and the question is will this accumulating body of evidence change anything futurism.com/artificial-i...

New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons? ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️

we're all super used to looking past the occasional oopsie-woopsie-might-have-unalived-a-few-users-doodle scandal from our ultimately well-meaning tech overlords, but it really does hit different when it's from the product they all insist is the future and force upon us at every opportunity

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

Also need a group of these kids to yell at every college president who announces an initiative to help students navigate the landscape of AI

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.” “Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

MacKenzie Scott just gave an HBCU that was teetering on the edge of survival $42 million. In 2020, she gave them $15 million.

Microsoft can proclaim that Copilot is merely for entertainment purposes bc while GenAI has provided the most popular use cases for individuals, the real bet is in non-generative AI. This is all that stuff that fits in the boxes of civic infrastructure & military use: surveillance, prediction etc.

Demystifying AI: The urgency of a critical stance on the use of AI systems in education Dagmar H & @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social > The education field has [embraced AI for the] (undocumented) potential to reduce teacher workload, address inequalities, and enhance learning doi.org/10.1007/s111...

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

Your daily reminder that a Walmart exec and the average college administrator have the exact same opinion of unions

i am hearing that congress has 2 weeks to impeach this man before he starts up with the war crimes threats again. that’s such a useful timeline.

"dems dont do anything" thats not true. they fully backed a genocide and had college students arrested for opposing it

I want diplomats recalled from the US. I want renegotiations about US bases in Europe. I want an official boycott of the World Cup by all participating nations. I want new articles of impeachment filed every single day. Play time is over. Act like adults or make way for those who do.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

been wondering why i cant get any writing done all day and its taken me literally until now to realize "oh the potential death of millions might be slightly weighing on my mind"

Trump is the American Dream. He is America's Id. The sooner people grapple with the implications, the better.

these are heartbreaking stories. even more heartbreaking is that these folks believe they are doing good by making AI better, and accept precarity and hardship as inevitable, parroting lies about historical patterns of technological change. we have been trained to think so little of ourselves :(

of uttmost importance in life is best friends

Yeah this is literally the purpose of these products. I don't mean this in a "kids these days" kind of way. EdTech companies, and the feckless education bosses who team up with them, want education to be a credential-generating machine in which learners act like customers and teachers act like cops

NEW: Iran-linked hackers are attacking US critical infrastructure around the country, according to a warning from federal agencies and confirmation from the company whose component is being exploited. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

> Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over ‌the environmental impact of their projects.

Another really smart blog post by @nobugsnous.bsky.social that explains why abstinence-only sex ed is a shit metaphor for understanding generative AI refusal.

AT LEAST LOOK LIKE YOU’RE TRYING

I know this is an unpopular take on here, but the self-righteous narrative liberal Americans have about how their half of the country is good and the other half of the country is evil allows them to keep lying to themselves about the ways in which all Americans are American and benefit from empire.

What the last few years of watching some scholars and professors defend GAI universalization in academia has taught me is that way too many of us actually don’t like to do the work. ‘It finds sources for you’ ‘it writes for you’ ‘it comes up with teaching plans’. Sir, I actually like doing all this

I could appreciate this kind of humility if it didn't feel like a blatant attempt to avoid legal liability.

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

As a union leader what you should be doing is defending your teachers’ labor from the obvious attempts to encroach and automate. GAI in education is (among other things) a labor issue (even if it has limited use cases) This is the union failing to do its job.

i would simply advocate for the sacking of our parasitic admin class for resources instead of actively scabbing for AI

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