I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.

Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu... TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7

Well good news is EOs (like this new state law AI moratorium EO) are relatively toothless and we can do things to thwart them, like push elected a to pass better laws that people actually want. 👇 It’s hard but can be done. @aaup.org ai cmte will be working on this. Join us if it make you mad too 💙

👀👀 DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools. The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”

This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...

Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.

"this is approximately 40% of the full-time faculty and a significant reduction of an already burnt-out staff. AAUP National describes this attack as the largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So proud to see my friend and colleague @katiejwells.bsky.social ‘s critical research on the front page of today’s NYTimes!!!! Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

👀 Education Department spokesperson confirmed Palantir is a subcontractor to update the foreign funding portal, to monitor potential foreign influence in American schools...in a time when Federal funding is being revoked and watchwords are in place...👇 fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...

Hard to list all the things that are wrong with this. But hey if you needed some more data to show that the police is primarily a tool of race and class intimidation, and "solving crime" is a very low ranked priority.. at least this provides that?

Can't believe there was a marketing department that thought any of these were selling points.

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience! Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI. December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom Link to register below👇

Infrastructure and user consent for AI are brittle, despite what tech boosters hype would like you to believe. We can force our schools to renegotiate bad tech contracts and demand they consult us, among many other things. “AI is over if we want it”!!

At the beginning of this semester, my higher ed institution formalized guidelines stating that students should not be using AI for their classwork at all. The training for staff and faculty to use AI has quietly dropped off the schedule, too. The pushback is working!

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

What a fun "Ghostwriters" issue of Limn released at time when we reflect on seasons' passing and other haunting concerns, featuring Tamara Kneese, Brooklyne Gipson + more. It was truly a pleasure to write this piece with Jeremy Butman on the epistemic function of giants. limn.press/article/ther...

In the media coverage of Amazon layoffs this week, how many of the headlines and press hits conveyed the point below?… or are most media outlets lazily providing a completely different message to the public? www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/b...

Thank you to the Daily Bruin for reporting on the latest of a string of big-ticket IT failures (article from May, but ever-relevant, esp in light of current efforts to centralize IT) dailybruin.com/2025/05/13/o...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From an Amazon Employees for Climate Justice statement: “They’re pushing this narrative that AI is transformative and that’s why they’re making these cuts. But leadership is spending 100 billion this year alone on the new data centers; they have to find that money elsewhere,” said one AWS engineer.

"Cooperatively run structures are a path forward when we're seeing systems collapse." Proud to be one of 6(+???) worker-led newsrooms in @tinynewscollective.bsky.social. Here's how to join us, feat. interviews with our co-founder @maddiepoore.bsky.social and @soleilho.com of @coyotemedia.org:

It's not going to be fun when the bubble pops (and it won't even make AI go away). Disaster capitalism will be ready. I think we need to figure out what it would mean for us to get ready in turn.

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

Together we can push back on big brother software & more! cucfa.org/2025/10/lett...

Great article—AI in higher ed is about the crisis of higher ed, long in the making. Cites the AAUP report on AI. we are seeing cracks in the inevitability framing of AI—the only way out of this is together!

Belgian AI scientists call on colleagues to keep AI out of the classroom. apache.be/2025/10/24/-...

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

Actual panopticon.

"unless you are building war tools for a US government program" *glares at the university of michigan's planned billion-dollar AI datacenter project in collaboration with los alamos national laboratories*

Next Weds 10/29 at 7 PM, we're having a party and panel at Busboys Takoma DC for @jacobsilverman.com's Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. All welcome! Because we're in DC, Corey Frayer, Sandeep Vaheesan, and I will join Jacob to talk DOGE, crypto, and the tech right.

brother it *is* the trap

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

On November 18, join organizers and experts for a cross-issue panel discussion exploring how workers and communities are pushing back: From Our Workplaces to Our Communities: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline Now! bit.ly/stopAIsurveillance

"chill is an especially harmful but efficient form of speech control, as the Administration well knows. Direct censorship is laborious, ad hoc, and happens only after the fact. Chill, by contrast, is a form of prior restraint administered by the speaker themselves out of fear"

📊 New in Big Data & Society! Lindsay Weinberg examines how Microsoft’s Power BI is reshaping Danish higher ed governance—turning students into data points, linking programs to job metrics, and pushing new forms of accountability. 🔗 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

i made this meme which is better than the article:

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

You all probably saw this already. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...