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....

The mantra that AI is "just maths" not only ignores the materiality (humans have to mine rare earth minerals) but also the political & human harms like fascism and indentured labour. The idea that AI is detached ideas — and not stolen data & labour that runs on colonial lines — is harmful itself.

tl;dr I think @kevinbaker.bsky.social effectively highlights how this attack was driven by existing patterns of bureaucratic violence, but I think it would have been stronger if it framed Claude's role as accountability sink as a continuation of those patterns, rather than a distraction from them

Hey, y'all! This is my photo, so let me provide context to this awesome piece: it's a reprinting of the Oberlin letter in a mag called The Luddite Dispatch, a publication of The Luddite Club in Brooklyn. www.theludditeclub.org

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

“‘Americans do not consent to biometric data collection simply by walking down a public street, entering a café, or standing in a crowd,’ the senators told Zuckerberg. Yet, the deployment of this technology would appear to do exactly that…”

THIS THIS THIS EXACTLY THIS

All these suggestions to use AI are just the university admitting how little these things are actually valued by the institution. Award nomination, course materials, etc are all just wasted time in the eyes of administrators who now finally have a technology that can eliminate the drudgery of caring

Karen Hao didn't title her book "Empire of AI" just because. ...more evidence of how AI is a settler colonial project:

I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

you ever sometimes think about how Frankenstein was a cautionary tale about instrumentalizing life by boiling it down to only its parts, and withholding love and the ability to learn in a safe environment, ultimately undermining personhood? I think about that sometimes.

Not to let the AI companies off the hook for anything (I’ve written before about how bad their strategies are for resisting companionship). Just to point out that context sensitivity is non-existent and putting AI into everything is the asbestos of our current mediated psychological world

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

They have $600 MILLION to pay for a 16-person AI firm that automates production while artists and filmworkers starve, do I have that right? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Valuing human responses to a form of human communicative expression AND supporting human labor? What kind of kooky talk is this?

Also should go without saying but: there are a lot of amazing editors and teachers out there who give actual expert feedback on writing, and that is how they make their living. So if one is seeking expert feedback, one could also hire one of them/take their classes.

Reposting for no particular reason, except that I want to carve it into this century’s forehead

It’s incredibly dystopian how pretty much every consumer tech company is going all in on the idea that we all should wear a body cam stuffed with a chatbot.