The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...

“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.

Yes, literacy is important -- but literacy means more than "how to use X". It also includes understanding what X (here, LLMs) is and when NOT to use them. Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

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“AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.”

Greetings, consumer. Did you know that letting your child pretend can hurt their mental health? Imagining other lives can lead to discontent with their predetermined social status. Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.

Why must I suffer so much “journalism” that touts all the amazing possibilities of AI to replace our human interactions and pedagogy, immediately followed by the paragraph that says none of it works, so humans have to manually check all of this slop. This is exhausting.

The thing I always think about is how one of the first things you learn as a librarian is that the first question someone asks is inevitably the wrong question.

Lula going after US tech companies today sounds awesome, even calling out how the right uses free speech as a justification to target minorities. We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.

Fantastic article! A must read for librarians.

Echoes www.loc.gov/item/2021771...

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV. With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?

Students are right to be pissed if we outsource teaching to AI, and professors who do are fools for devaluing their own labor.

I had a really great experience with the open peer review process.

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

Super excited to share my work exhibiting a history of the book banners in Florida, today’s epicenter of censorship. With pictures!

Morning flight to #ACRL2025 was cancelled. Now I’m leaving so late that I can watch the livestream keynote from home before I head to the airport. See y’all tomorrow!

And if you don’t obey your digital overlord, the health insurance company that buys this data will use them to deny you health care.

counterpoint: human learning is relational, and teachers offer human connection in a way that AI never can

"Hmm… should I consult open resources like Wikipedia or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for this question?" "Nah, here's a string of words compiled by rolling virtual dice & checking probability tables a few thousand times. Way of the future!" Hype machines can do such incredible things.

No, Microsoft Outlook, I do not need you to check my tone.

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That thing in academic book acknowledgements where every single person is ritually thanked & named—except librarians, who are referred to mere via their institution, and primarily as vehicles for access. Networks are good! Treating librarians merely transitively, however… Folks can do better.

Record breaking snowfall in New Orleans.

Or we could just read Borges.

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It's called weeding