A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Invited talk by Zeynep @zey.bsky.social Tufekci at @neuripsconf.bsky.social was really very good! Title: Are We Having the Wrong Nightmares About AI? Spoiler: yep! 😉 Very thoughtful! Thanks!🙏

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

New publication alert! Thanks to Media, Inequality & Change Center at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Is Another AI Possible? Platforms, Political Economies, and Alternatives Click here to access and download the report: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Agentic AI: the next generation NSA-PRISM system is in progress. Here is how it will work.

@anismedia.bsky.social: apps, digital platforms, and operations systems are inherently geopolitical artifacts emerging at a new frontier for inter-regional power conflicts among BRICS+ countries #udc2025

@anismedia.bsky.social: trade and geopolitics can't be divorced from the app banning conversation. What actors ultimately benefit from prolonging the conflict and high tech warfare in the short and long term? Turns to Benjamin Bratton's The Stack: On Software of Sovereignty and focuses #udc2025

Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press: www.techpolicy.press/decolonizing...

New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does your work involve #PublicMedia in any way? Only 24 hours left to submit your abstract at the Singapore IAMCR 2025 Conference. iamcr.org/singapore202...

The AI arms race is getting ironic—OpenAI is mad that someone else might have done to them what they did to the internet. Data ethics only matter when it’s your data? www.404media.co/openai-furio...

"It’s not clear how DeepSeek obtained its Nvidia H800s, but it would have been legal for the company to buy them in late 2022 or 2023. Now, however, such purchases would not be." Do China’s A.I. Advances Mean U.S. Technology Controls Have Failed? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

“OpenAI stole from the whole internet to make itself richer, DeepSeek stole from them and give it back to the masses for free I think there is a certain british folktale about this…”

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.