“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

Ah, yes, Jesus, whose life was famously free of conflict with Earthly legal systems.

"Trans women have been abused by society and on an individual level" being a universal truth which leads to us having overly defensive reactions on occasions or a greater propensity to crash out is pretty much why unless you are an active danger I won't cut you off.

A student told me Thursday that another prof had told the class to post their work into an AI LLM, to be graded and commented on by the AI. The other students were all offended. Which is good. They should be offended.

the fucked up thing is that i believe with the force of 1000 suns that the right wing freaks in government will be defeated and sooner than any of us can think

ultimately the way this world treats trans women as utterly disposable even despite so often sounding the alarm early for abuse done, and people not listening or mocking it, is why my politics are so concerned with their wellbeing and political subjectivity

if we started saying that financial precarity was a gender affirming experience for trans people i bet we could fool the government into instituting UBI

I now realize I am another kirby of sociolinguistics in good company with @kirbyconrod.bsky.social Frame: POC have culturally and linguistically deficiencies. Negation: POC have rich cultural and linguistic practices. Kirby: Deficit perspectives reproduce longstanding colonial ideologies.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

I keep thinking about how important note taking has always been for my thinking & writing. I read & take notes--sometimes just jotting ideas down as I go, sometimes going through underlining & highlighting & typing up my notes. This is a very deliberate process. It takes time & that's the point!

24. Much of the best Star Trek is lowkey about autism, and partly for this reason I think Nathan Fielder should get to showrun one season of Star Trek, any series, no questions asked

The speed at which the administration has been able to convince people “gender ideology” is a normal and totally appropriate way to describe the idea that trans people deserve basic human rights is a sobering demonstration of how much they’ve managed to capture and reshape language. NYT this week.

imagine emailing a senior research fellow at the Moneybags Institute of Wealth Creation to let him know that there's $500 and a lunch catered by Sodexo waiting for him if he's willing to fly coach cross-country to give a talk

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

I think it's really cute that a government official thinks that any history is "settled" and "final" just by tweeting about it. Bless your heart.

Been reading what academics say about using genAI tools in their writing & teaching and when I get to the part where someone says they‘re actively “co-intelligent” with their chatbots I often think: “Yep, I knew, cuz this piece has too many words and there are entire sentences that say nothing.”

This is insane—a school is paying to put its students under AI surveillance, empowering a glitchy system to delete schoolwork, expose student journalists’ sources, and out queer students to their parents

This is one of the reasons why I never get attacked by the GC leadership. They don't want to remind people that an out trans dyke has been pretty visible in political and cultural life for the better part of 50 years and was never segregated or harassed.

Amazing piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social: "if we want to tell stories about the past that not only make historiographical contributions but also help people get healthcare [etc] we must start by ensuring that we are in community ourselves and are responsive to community pressures and needs".

the AI boosters all have a fundamentally asocial view of what teaching and learning is that is just baffling to me

Going back to 1979 to take this introductory course on the Frankfurt School & Critical Theory with philosopher Gillian Rose. "People think that value inheres in the product itself, & they do not understand that in fact it is the expression of specific social relations & activities between people."

Libra season always has me wanting to listen to Maggie Rogers' first album on repeat

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

Dunk And Donuts refusing to serve alcohol at its restaurants is a manifestation of the puritanical values that dominate the Atlantic northeast

You’re Catholic!!! This was very deliberately patterned after evangelical megachurch spectacles! Have some self-respect!

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

what if trans people were worth as much as a talk show host, collectively if not individually, as a treat

knowing they are capable of framing stories in this way makes it even more conspicuous when they dont cover anti-trans claims similarly

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

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...

okay cool kimmel got his show back can GFM get her DC comics run back now

It is normal to feel insane when the entire political and journalist class across the Anglophone world is getting horned up over the idea of segregating, criminalizing, and exterminating you and all of your friends.

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

a chilling warning to america from 2004 !

i actually love it when i lose my 500 rosaries. i am freed from the burden of devotion and can now roam pharloom with the serenity of the faithless

In the face of mounting threats of genocide against the trans community, how can trans people still find hope? In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) reminds us that despite the doom and fear spreading across social media, we will survive this genocide as we have survived them before.

One of my kids had a Writing Composition course where the professor required use of AI. Rather than do the AI assignments, she failed it and retook it with a real prof. Unsurprisingly, the AI prof also spent most classes showing Black Mirror episodes and didn't teach a single thing until midterm.

Speaking as a reproductive health reporter who covered these referenda endlessly and talked to MANY voters in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio: Abortion rights are MORE popular than Democrats. They MAKE Democrats popular. Why would Democrats run away from one of the few policies that works for them

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

OH i get it, liberals think trans rights are a question of freedom of expression and not one of bodily autonomy