In case folks - patients or medical professionals - might find it useful, here's an edited version of a letter I sent to my own physician(s) about the reasons I refuse the use of ambient scribes.

We hauled collage supplies in our luggage & worked with inspired educators for a little over an hour, & this zine is the result! Thanks to all the ILTA workshop participants & to Miriam for putting this together and hosting it! miriamreynoldson.com/2026/06/24/j...

Ok this for real tho. “I didn’t use it to write, just to get some ideas” BRO THAT MIGHT BE WORSE

We hauled collage supplies in our luggage & worked with inspired educators for a little over an hour, & this zine is the result! Thanks to all the ILTA workshop participants & to Miriam for putting this together and hosting it! miriamreynoldson.com/2026/06/24/j...

Thanks to @eam0.bsky.social & the @iltasky.bsky.social crew for a fantastic ILTA conference in Dublin last week! to all of the zine workshop participants! ❤️ & to the fab critical tech keynote speakers @abeba.blacksky.app @discoursology.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

“Expressions of Democracy in Gall Ink” at Lawrence Public Library on Sunday: got to learn about galls that form the ink, play with ink and quills, & leave behind something that expresses what we value about US democracy. Yes, it’s aspirational at this point.

I don’t think any of the concerns about LLMs or DMs rely on use / uselessness. The question is about the affordances they set up, the patterns they normalize; and what gets displaced or relocated — and for whom.

Yeah, I really really need people to understand this part: Literally every output from a large language model based chatbot is a "hallucination"— is bullshit. That basic response that looks right but is factually wrong? Bullshit. That response that looks right and… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

this is a good diagram

Very excited to see this launch! The Library of Babel Group is proud to be on this list, a collaborative venture with Karen Hao, We and AI, DAIR, and Refugee Law Lab. airesistlist.org

“Expressions of Democracy in Gall Ink” at Lawrence Public Library on Sunday: got to learn about galls that form the ink, play with ink and quills, & leave behind something that expresses what we value about US democracy. Yes, it’s aspirational at this point.

In case anyone wants a little bit of a sense of the networks of influence feeding the Belfast pogroms

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.

Some of my letterpress offprints remixed in a critical tech zine collage 😍

Thanks to @eam0.bsky.social & the @iltasky.bsky.social crew for a fantastic ILTA conference in Dublin last week! to all of the zine workshop participants! ❤️ & to the fab critical tech keynote speakers @abeba.blacksky.app @discoursology.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

I made this years ago, seems evergreen!

Heading to ILTA with my fellow Library of Babel Group mods and my daughter! Can't wait to hear @abeba.blacksky.app and Ben Williamson and Felicitas Macgilchrist ilta.ie

Very excited to see this launch! The Library of Babel Group is proud to be on this list, a collaborative venture with Karen Hao, We and AI, DAIR, and Refugee Law Lab. airesistlist.org

Oh fuck the hallucinated @karaswisher.bsky.social quote is just a bullshit smoothie made from my book

My students discussed this aspect of academic research this semester

For perverts who also want to help Meta accumulate training data for bombing people.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

The DOJ is considering settling Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which could send about $10 billion in taxpayer dollars directly into the President’s pockets.

Ah, you don’t say.

Just published 'The trauma of AI Humanizers' "Suggesting that I use AI to write is telling me to hide myself from view. From existence. You are saying I never mattered. That the experiences I had were not worthy of shaping who I am. That being me was a mistake. A computer can be me. A better me."

The failure to ground the inquiry in human capacities also results in what I see as a problem in the discussion of ethics, framing it entirely around questions of "academic integrity." The integration of AI use into student writing goes far beyond mere citation practices. It's all much deeper stuff.

Literaly erasing people’s own voices, and making them believe one is more “human” by being artificial deeply troubling …

Für die @woz.ch darf ich ab heute alle zwei Wochen über #Slopaganda schreiben. Los geht‘s heute mit den Basics: Was ist eigentlich Slopaganda? www.woz.ch/kolumnen/202...

If you were putting together a set of critical learning management system (LMS) studies readings, what’d you include?

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Haotian AI’s realtime deepfakes can be particularly impressive, able to handle adjustments in lighting and objects appearing in front of the subject’s face. One demo video shows an Asian woman magically transforming into actor Gal Gadot. www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

oh no, it accidentally looks kinda like a klan-themed dog

New deadline! Please consider submitting. Submission deadline: 31st July 2026 First review deadline: 15th September 2026 Author revision deadline: 15th October 2026

The child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”

nice

After intense lobbying, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. AI firms are also pumping huge sums into our elections. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/number-go-up/

Join us! (There is a discounted hotel room block associated with the conference - make plans by 4/30 for access to that!)

Honored to be among a stellar group of speakers. Join us this July! omella.com/7quqf

"fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, & interactive design of llms means that a deep understanding of processes of human interaction & sense-making will be a foundational resource for the growing arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy." @dingemansemark.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1945...

Read this thread plz

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

Feel like this deserves to be in the timeline again

“Starting April 6, 2026, The American Prospect is removing all programmatic advertising from our website. We think you and your personal data deserve more respect than we were providing. We think it will provide you with a healthier and more beneficial experience.”

Relevant bsky.app/profile/oliv...

I agree with this

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

Honored to be among a stellar group of speakers. Join us this July! omella.com/7quqf

I can’t be on here for April Fools Day. Either I’m going to read about something awful & just assume it’s true, or read something hopeful & have the rug pulled out from under me. My tender heart is already too bruised for pranks. I can barely handle the whimsy of a booger-flavored jellybean

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....