Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

“When a leader has no substantive policies to heal a nation’s wounds, he opens new ones with the sword of state violence.”

I am starting to believe that the AI craze actually has, for once, created a genuinely useful way to test someone's intelligence: are they unquestionably on board with using corporate AI tools for everything, or are they going "whoa, hey, wait a second"?

How do you feel about AI? How *should* you feel? Don't ask a hallucinating chatbot; get your info from a living person who studies the ethics of AI, Dr. @abeba.bsky.social Birhane: www.alieward.com/ologies/arti...

Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.

Hey @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net break it all down (free): doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

Coming to a K-12 school near you.

“The way the exploit works is by hiding a 300-word malicious prompt in a document in white text and size-one font — something that's easily overlooked by a human, but not a chatbot like ChatGPT.”

Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

one thing I wish more people knew is that many offices have such poor air circulation that CO2 levels in meeting rooms can rapidly exceed 1000ppm, the point at which people start to get groggy and sleepy people are literally suffocating in offices every day & absolutely no one talks about it

I think some people in power in western govts & biz need to come to terms with the fact that all of the problems they promise AI/tech will solve are, in fact, symptoms of the failings of their own personal values as pushed out into economic and political spheres of activity. Repentance is hard.

Since today the NY Times is profiling Alpha School and "MacKenzie Price, a podcaster and influencer who co-founded Alpha" 🤮, I'm resharing @civicsoftech.bsky.social's resources on Audrey Watters' book Teaching Machines that I helped to write, including a reading guide and inquiry-based lesson plan.

If you're an educator in search of an antidote to AI hype and technosolutionism writ large, may I suggest @civicsoftech.bsky.social? Here's more about our community and our work. 🧵 #EduSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u... But partnering with OpenAI on the other hand…

There is no way to work safely, wisely, or ethically with these companies. They are some of the very architects of our current nightmare and future hellscape. You are lying to your membership, students, teachers, and community. Resign. Signed, an AFT member, organizer & elected officer.

“At present, the WhoFi system is a proof of concept requiring some incredibly advanced software to implement. But it’s very real, and the hardware used to develop it wasn’t anything special.”

Crucial read: eliminating tip taxes while requiring cross-platform reporting creates new vulnerabilities for the very workers it claims to help. Data flows from Venmo to IRS to ICE surveillance is disguised as worker protection. The often invisible power of platforms is profound and multiplicative.

wake up babe, a new modality of surveillance just dropped

something i think about a bit is the growing sense among young people that college isn't worth it. what would we say if a student said uni wasn't worth it if they were compelled to use chatbots? what would we say if a student said uni wasn't worth it if they were prohibited from using chatbots?

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

NYC announces partnership with the app formerly known as “Vigilante.”

Friends! Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)? I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability open.substack.com/pub/rcsc/p/c...

I need everyone in the airline industry to understand that these ghouls do not have enough airplane contracts to deport everyone they want to deport. NOW is the time for you and your union to tell your airline: If you contract with ICE, I will refuse to fly.

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on: openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

An “anti-government militia” is “targeting Oklahoma weather radars, days after a man vandalized News 9’s weather radar Meteorologists are trying to explain that weather radars do not control the weather

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Listening to the AI for Good conf. OpenAI Ed Tech lead, Kevin Mills justify, nay celebrate, the deconstruction of education and attempt at total market capture of a generation via "partnerships". Basically a big, fat ad at a UNESCO conference.

You are partnering with parasites whose unethical businesses seek to invalidate and replace the exercise of human thought and learning. Products like these will never "work for" educators. You're simply giving them good PR and setting up more profits for them on the back of work stolen from others.

On one side are con men, fabulists, fascists, investors, and cultists (or some combination of those descriptors), with no regard for the amount of destruction they create as long as they profit. This is why there are sides.

"The plaintiff, a Black man over age 40 who lives with anxiety and depression, applied to more than 100 jobs at companies using Workday’s AI hiring tools (i.e., personality and cognitive tests) — and was rejected every time. newenglandbizlawupdate.com/2025/07/08/w...

"lets China win #ai" is the new "works to burn down the world using fossil fuels" #giftarticle happy interdependence day #interdependenceday https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/03/trump-tax-bill-china-artificial-intelligence-energy/

The new budget law will be an absolute bonanza for state surveillance tech, AI grifters, and Silicon Valley giants that are increasingly comfortable abetting the authoritarian project to remake the US state. My latest:

In the latest from the @science.org podcast series of books on science and death, we hear about the fate of virtual you after physical death w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

*angry goose meme - "and how much are you making, John Fry?"

“Despite no evidence that such a thing has occurred in the history of the universe, Amodei goes to the black box myth as his explanation for why this thing, which hasn’t happened, happened”

Maybe the real Roko's Basilisk was the greed we genuflected to along the way.

This afternoon I was at a protest decrying the simple minds in DC. This evening I'm at The Mann for the Simple Minds concert. Alive and kicking indeed. Welcome to the revolution.

If you are arrested today protesting the Trump administration in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

A reminder on this Flag Day/No Kings Day. ChatGPT and other #genAI are the tools of oppression and extraction, not freedom. Using them enriches those with no regard for democracy. #nokings

Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Universal City Studios Productions and DreamWorks Animation, have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney. They have described it in the suit as a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.”

Final session of #NACE25 and I'm listening to a 45 minute infomercial for an #ai ed tech company. Bad enough, but multiple slides have Studio Ghibli style graphics.

“The unreliability of chatbots is adding to the already saturated disinformation landscape on social media now so typical of major breaking news events.”

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

The author has a different perspective than I do on the reams of data Amazon collects on Alexa users, but also of note is how paltry this will seem compared to the treasure trove of data collected by ai stuffed wearables companies are pushing—and not just on users but on everyone in range.

Haha 😂 Trump holds up images from a conflict in the Congo to justify importing white South Africans, claiming there’s “genocide.” Never mind that the photos aren’t even from South Africa and some of these migrants are openly posting antisemitic content online.