Folks in British #naturewriting circles: some time ago there were skeets about who to read who wasn't Callum Robinson. I've just finished Ingrained (it was good enough, but), and I've been unable to find those old skeets. Anyone else got them? #booksky

Folks in British #naturewriting circles: some time ago there were skeets about who to read who wasn't Callum Robinson. I've just finished Ingrained (it was good enough, but), and I've been unable to find those old skeets. Anyone else got them? #booksky

I see @oxfordunipress.bsky.social are cancelling independent scholars and researchers. I couldn't have written #RecoveringDorothy without an individual subscription and this is going to make similar work impossible for me going forward, including contributions to scholarly editions. What BS.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Proposal: from here forward, anyone proposing to move, or move a business in protest of a future elxn result must put their assets in a trustee-controlled escrow account, or professional media will refuse to report the threat.

I read somewhere that it should actually be called Simulated Intelligence. It makes immediately clear what it actually is.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Hot take: If the project of "critical AI" means finding a way to purchase and work with the marginally least toxic LLM product, and making room for the slop machine on campus, it isn't genuinely "critical." What am I missing? Resistance is an option, no? #resistAI

Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵

I'm not used to thinking of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social as friends of the revolution or whatnot, but their statement against AI in higher education was a good start. My language is much more colourful, mind, but small steps! #resistAI #againstAI www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Anyway, my goal isn't inbox zero (which is for psychopaths). It's drafts folder zero (which, on the evidence, seems impossible in my current state and also the world's).

One of my favourite days of the semester: #shelfies day! I've got my first-year comp students wandering the university library on a scavenger hunt as I type, so here's a thread of thoughts 🧵 1/

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

theresakishkan.com/2025/11/03/p... Alt text: blue river, blue sky, green and brown hills.

"The risk to our country is not that Canadians will be too cautious in embracing AI, but that our government will act too rashly, tying our democracy, prosperity, security, sovereignty and collective well-being to a questionable product and its reckless promoters."

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Joel Blit should be ashamed of himself for writing this where people can see it: "the real question is not whether Canada can nurture a few AI champions, but whether farmers, teachers, small business owners, and entrepreneurs in every corner of the country can put AI to work for them" #resistAI

This is what I find with my students, too. 90% of them think that AI is net bad, and none argue with my intro lecture about the objective harms of AI. And yet we get emails in our inbox from the university twice a month promoting AI tools.

for what it's worth, don't consent to Canada's devolution into militarism and colonial violence against Indigenous people and the land - send a message NOW to tell Carney that the people refuse his destructive budget: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...

"if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying 'well, ACTUALLY' to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire" #resistAI #againstAI

I wonder how the employees of Overstory Media feel about having their tech bro founder call the company "a failure" in his little newsletter, while they continue to show up at work and try to bring in readers, workers and advertisers?

“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ubermensch. These fuckers. Not even subtle!

Come on Canadian Labour folks. We've got a battle to fight.

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Dodgers and Blue Jays currently mounting a guerrilla off-Broadway production of W.P. Kinsella's other baseball novel, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

A good short thread. #resistAI

I did this with Google Colaboratory, as well: hadn't heard of it, but if an app tries forcing me to accept it silently, I won't.

I hate it here* *everywhere that there's tech. (Actually it's a pretty good article, and the author seems a better person than the title implies.) lifehacker.com/tech/used-sm...

There is zero point negotiating with this. I support Canadian leaders putting their whole asses into fostering alternative international relationships that get us some distance from this man baby governing by tantrum. Ew.

First off, it's a province, not a state second, and most importantly, the *Ontario ad* didn't "roil" the trade relationship. Trump tore it up, like he did with literally every country on the planet. Wtf is this copy.

They are not "A.I technologies"...they are "A.I. products." Get it right, journalists.

Fantastic article in which actual experts on AI and higher education cut through the nonsense surrounding the infinite garbage engines and expose a system captured by the techbro sales pitch. "A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so."

Anyone know how to pronounce the last name of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social? It's new to me ("van Rooij"), and I'm hoping to say it out loud today in a meeting! #resistAI ("Van Roy" and "Van Roy-uh" seem like the main options, but also "Van Ruy-uh".)

In 2025 I've spoken about how AI firms have been exploiting historical artifacts & knowledge in ways that threaten the ongoing practice of history at Wesleyan, Tufts, CCNY, Middlebury, UMass, UToronto, Miami Uni: & what I've seen repeatedly is how students WANT US TO PROTECT them from this.

This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.

For your weekend reading pleasure, another insightful review of Rebecca Campbell's debut collection, THE OTHER SHORE. Thanks to Jan Priddy for walking into this deep dark forest. We are very glad she lived to tell the tale. www.calyxpress.org/r...

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Tomorrow, I'll have three minutes at a faculty discussion session to explain why I'm so committedly against AI. Should be fun.

Ban "A.i." from your life. It's deceiving you and making you more ignorant, all for the benefit of right wing billionaires.

Options for ordering my forthcoming book! thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...

Time for the fans of forest bathing to up their game?

Yes

Your morning reminder that you should keep AI the fuck away from everything you care about, partly because the largest versions are from some of the worst people in the world. #resistAI #againstAI #noAI theconversation.com/openai-slipp...

Just after 7 this morning, John was looking out the south window by our bed and I asked, What's the day like? Clear, I think, was what he replied, because I can see just the thinnest fingernail of a moon in the big trees. He went downstairs to make coffee and I looked for myself, just as the cat…