Really appreciate this thoughtful post by @laurenpressley.bsky.social on what librarians are particularly ready to contribute to the conversations in higher ed about how to address AI. laurenpressley.com/library/2026...

I am the last thing from a Pollyanna, but I think it's fundamentally important to see things like this Einstein app that claims to automate (nearly all) schoolwork as an opportunity to reconceive our work around the experiences that are most meaningful. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

"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...

Client Challenge https://ift.tt/IsD2aQc How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science via Instapaper https://ift.tt/IsD2aQc via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/ZobI3uJ February 10, 2026 at 04:17PM

AI, slavery, surveillance, and capitalism https://ift.tt/eOELxBs AI, slavery, surveillance, and capitalism via Instapaper https://ift.tt/eOELxBs via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/ZobI3uJ February 10, 2026 at 12:46PM

Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control https://ift.tt/iFjfRwx Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control via Instapaper https://ift.tt/iFjfRwx via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/ZobI3uJ February 10, 2026 at 12:44PM

The Em Dash - 99% Invisible https://ift.tt/CpQEe5Y The Em Dash - 99% Invisible via Instapaper https://ift.tt/CpQEe5Y via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/o7OLukY February 07, 2026 at 08:32AM

Reality is losing the deepfake war | The Verge https://ift.tt/yck2xjL Reality is losing the deepfake war via Instapaper https://ift.tt/yck2xjL via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/o7OLukY February 07, 2026 at 08:32AM

Elevating voices: my keynote at UXLibs 10 — Ned Potter https://ift.tt/Y2cZes5 Elevating voices: my keynote at UXLibs 10 — Ned Potter via Instapaper https://ift.tt/Y2cZes5 via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/o7OLukY February 07, 2026 at 08:32AM

U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal https://ift.tt/pbuDmo3 U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal via Instapaper https://ift.tt/pbuDmo3 via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/o7OLukY February 07, 2026 at 08:32AM

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic | WIRED https://ift.tt/sTvXPh5 Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race via Instapaper https://ift.tt/sTvXPh5 via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/gywA537 February 05, 2026 at 06:07PM

Where Should Scholars Draw the Line on AI? https://ift.tt/PyJo9e6 Where Should Scholars Draw the Line on AI? via Instapaper https://ift.tt/PyJo9e6 via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/bUH2OBi February 03, 2026 at 05:32PM

The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life - The Atlantic https://ift.tt/vWrieb6 The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life via Instapaper https://ift.tt/vWrieb6 via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/bUH2OBi February 03, 2026 at 01:54PM

It's Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College https://ift.tt/aFPfV0Z It's Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College via Instapaper https://ift.tt/aFPfV0Z via Pinboard (stephenfrancoeur) https://ift.tt/rkFhOLj February 01, 2026 at 09:34AM

Slower than expected progress on my part to update my course on AI that I'll be teaching again this spring. www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...

Hundreds of PSC members marched down Fifth Avenue today alongside labor workers, community members, and elected officials to demand NO WARS! NO KINGS! NO ICE! ✊❤️‍🔥 We demand the US OUT of Latin America, and ICE OUT of our communities!

Don't forget too the role of FoxNews and other media platforms in all this.

I wrote a blog post about who I have been reading as I prepare to teach a course on AI again. www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...

Starting a series of posts on my blog about gearing up to teach a course again on AI. Here's the first one: www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

The raw dynamism just leaps out of that image

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Here's a large language model I can root for! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQn...

How too many react to the popular advent of text extruding tech in higher ed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcU...

Today in luxury surveillance.

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I wrote about the disappearance of Andry José Hernández Romero, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in more than four months. www.salon.com/2025/07/16/t...

Quote tweeting w alt text because we need to properly communicate emergency messages National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!

library.unc.edu/news/library... h/t @johnhubbard.bsky.social on Library Link of the Day

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Domestic terrorists…

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

What's the best evidence that free speech is dying in America? That a US Attorney could do this: archive.is/202504271714...

WeaveUX Vol 8, No 1 is now available! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/issu...

Gift link to the Atlantic article about gen AI producing a flattening of language. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Maybe they'll be to my audience a pleasant reassurance that the text was in fact composed by a human, not gen AI. (2/3)

An article about the way gen AI might lead to a flattening of our language made me think twice about my increasingly frequent typos I thoughtlessly insert into all manner of written communication. 1/3

Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE. But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

And it’s not the only journal getting this inquiry. Higher Ed, funding agencies, libraries, scholarly journals- even Wikipedia for heaven’s sake. Targeting the entire infrastructure of knowledge making and sharing.

This librarian who has published on digital reference services and also library history is calling bullshit on this invitation to contribute a paper to Cattle Practice.

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

"Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" -- some thoughts on the dangerous, anti-democratic politics of ed-tech 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-dangerou...

C'mon librarians! Please get past the naive excitement about all these gen AI services. The companies behind them are not our friends or allies. "AI Bots Are Destroying Open Access." go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b...