BREAKING: me, because of all the goddamn news. (I'm fine, but jeebus.)

All you need is the headline of this story: read it and explain how *anyone* involved in promoting so-called AI should be trusted. #resistAI #bcpoli

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Still out here reading books. Resist whatever needs to be resisted, friends, and there's SO MUCH of that. #booksky boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/torb...

Just your reminder that if you do not train an AI model, you just don't train an AI model, and if you do not feed a human, that's murder and you're evil.

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power." The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

I've said this before about other books, but seriously: drop everything and go read Aislinn Hunter's PEEPSHOW WITH VIEWS OF THE INTERIOR. You won't regret it! (Actually some will regret it, but the rest of you are in for such a treat.) #booksky boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/aisl...

A message from Trent Ernst, the only reporter who lives in Tumbler Ridge

A few years ago, my colleague @amandafollett.bsky.social wrote this portrait of Tumbler Ridge, a former coal mining town. thetyee.ca/News/2020/11...

Thousands in Tumbler Ridge will be feeling numb. My heart aches for them with the grief coming. I hope they can find strength from others for as long as they'll need it. - Tumbler Ridge from the hiking trail "The Bald Spot" - Tumbler Ridge City Hall - Sunrise over Hwy 29 leading to Tumbler Ridge

All of BC is wrapping the families of Tumbler Ridge with love. Supports are available: BC Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789 Kids Help Phone: Text “CONNECT” to 686868 Thank you to the emergency responders on the ground for the work they are doing.

I spent part of the weekend in my hometown. This was shot from the NW side of the South Thompson River on Secwépemc Territory. That's Little Shuswap Lake on the left and the Village of #ChaseBC to the right. Pretty ... but it should not look like this in the first week of February.

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Lovely piece in BC Review about Diana Hayes' new book of poetry HAWKING THE SURF: always worth my time to read Harold Rhenisch! #booksky #poem #surfing thebcreview.ca/2026/02/04/2...

I responded to this survey: it was AWFUL. The questions are listed in an appendix to the report, so look for yourself. #resistAI #noAI ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Watch those typos, @mashable.com. (Good story to cover, though!) #bowser #againstAI #resistAI mashable.com/article/mozi...

It's important to have good things to read, yes? Let me recommend NEVER SHOOT A STAMPEDE QUEEN, by @leirenyoung.bsky.social: it won the Leacock Award when it came out, and it holds up really, really well! #booksky #review boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/mark...

You guys, everybody has to drop what they're doing for 15 minutes a day and read the stories that make up THE OTHER SHORE, by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social. Irreplaceable. #booksky #review #fiction #SF boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/rebe...

It changes, but a regular contender for most challenging tiny element of parenting a book-happy adult with special needs is distinguishing between libraries, little libraries, bookstores, and second-hand bookstores. Don't even get me started on rewilded library books with the crossed-out barcodes.

The wifi wasn't working in my office for the start of office hours today, so in desperation I fired up my phone's hotspot and was horrified to realize that many years ago, I had named it "pretty fly for a wifi." What new, student-friendly name should I go with? #sendhelp #batsignal

It turns out that counterfeiting human thought may have some adverse consequences.

Informally, of course, there's already a citizen-driven global boycott of US goods

I got a lot to say about this study and no time to say it, but any time someone thinks using AI is helping students learn writing it is likely to be the opposite and rooted in a view of what learning writing is like that must be challenged and revised. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Do we need a whole new model for writing instruction? Or do we need to stop pretending that AI is a problem for individual professors to solve through responsible pedagogy and not a symptom of systemic issues in higher education that can only be addressed through collective action?

Are they stupid enough to think that everyone will leave the US and go back to Cuba, Venezuela, etc, just because the US decides to stomp bloodily around in their countries of origin? (Narrator: They were exactly that stupid.) www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Remember that oil and gas companies in Canada are heavily American, and American imperialism steals from the world in all kinds of ways. A random invasion of Venezuela is just a variant on how American oil companies in Canada make money here.

I don't comment often on American news, because there's too much and it's all the same, but just to make the point: fuck ALL those people involved. It's Trump, sure, but they're all criminal at this point. #venezuela #sovereignty #ruleoflaw www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

It is a heartening thing to see more academics dropping habits of being overcautious in their writing and instead speaking the truth clearly and forcefully. Stank as style

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

This seems reasonable to me. We tolerate typos introduced by human error, but it's easy to read your paper over and miss some typos. Not realizing your paper includes AI-generated artifacts like citing fake papers or LLM meta comments is a different level of negligence.

This skeet's woefully limited imagination is why I keep refusing LLM-type AI. Books are the site of self-interactivity, and the act of reading is inherently dialogic (more than that: I argue with myself AND the text). If they can't see that, it's not wonder they fall to the machine. #resistAI

Fascinating piece, that tries to reconsider the role of reading in an age of mechanical reproduction (so to speak) #resistAI #noAI

- - - Not sure I’ve seen a better framing of this problem - - -

THIS RIGHT HERE. #resistAI

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This is horrifying and I think AI shouldn't be anywhere near classrooms, but I do think conversations need to be had in academia about why students are being forced to read dense and inaccessible work they're clearly not incentivized to read, instead of training scholars to be more engaging writers

"Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth (Bender, Gebru et al., 2021; Bender and Koller, 2020)." Het pleit niet voor onze universiteiten dat zelfs zij de output van LLM's als ChatGPT niet zien voor wat het is: rommel.

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Not the only reason, but this is rocketing toward the top o' the charts. #resistAI

I do get nervous when I see this, on logging into Bsky, because I don't get noticed often (which is excellent!). Should've known it's just from being a good citizen about calling out "AI" misuse. #resistAI

(not) sorry to keep hammering the point, but this really is the thing: as AI-generated video becomes more sophisticated, it will only become harder for non-experts to tell what's real and what isn't based on incongruous details, but an old-fashioned "source??" will always give the sloppers away.

(I posted this earlier but it had some glitches on my website so am doing it again.) theresakishkan.com/2025/12/19/t...

A non-existent paper attributed to ‪Ben Williamson‬ has already been cited 42 times. It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it. @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.