You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...

Was just offered an admin job that basically would mean giving up on teaching or curriculum design, I think. Oh, and I'm supposed to sign the contract in one hour and start tomorrow morning. This is fine, I'm fine. #teaching #EduSky

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me

I love that my institution will support the claims of students that I told them the final paper (broken into components we spent weeks on, and the importance of turning in even if incomplete was discussed in every class and every GClassroom post for the last three weeks) was optional. #teaching

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Trying to find grace for students demanding I grade an entire term’s worth of work submitted this week, after the most miserable teaching quarter of my life and saying an abrupt good-bye to one of the two cats I’ve had for sixteen years on Monday. It’s hard.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

I spoke with @blockclubchi.bsky.social about Alpha School opening in Chicago and why Alpha School's approach to education is anti-student, anti-teacher, and anti-democratic.

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

Props to Nilay for doing this work. Also posting this again, because Grammarly & so many companies & LLM-pilled techies built whole business models around ignoring consent & stealing shit & I don't like it. Grammarly stopped Expert Review but the gross mindsets remain www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

People are characterizing this as a situation in which Wachspress describes the inappropriate relationship as beginning after Daniel Biss was no longer her teacher. No. That's not what she's describing.

Won't be voting today, since I already turned in my mail-in ballot last week. But remember to hit the polls if you're an in-person type, Illinois.

How a Philadelphia high school is fighting AI slop and internet lies: www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

AI is fundamentally a labor issue - and if after reading these testimonials from educators that @bcmerchant.bsky.social has collected you're not convinced it's time for a Luddite praxis in K-12 and higher education, then shit, I'm not sure what else to tell you.

Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +

The left is winning the AI debate. Really outstanding piece by Brian Merchant. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...

I hear we’re bashing Luddites again so: they were not against “progress”, they were against DANGEROUS “progress” that had almost zero guardrails or oversight at the cost of human lives. Now wait, I have heard that somewhere before…let me think about it…

I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠

When I pointed out a student's essay was clearly a ChatGPT hallucination (the text was about mountain climbing, not drug use; it makes sense in context), he decided the best strategy was to tell me he asked his sister to do the assignment because he was too busy, so academic honesty is going great.

Pro-tip: it's not actually "at the instructor's discretion" if you, my boss, ask me, if I would allow a student who simply decided he didn't need to turn in his final project last quarter to accept it and regrade him now, two months later in front of said student. #teaching

People talk about mental health like it’s a bad week or a rough patch. For some of us it’s a background hum that never fully switches off. A constant static in the skull. You learn to function with it the way people learn to sleep near a motorway, you adapt, but it’s never silent. 1/2

Childhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

for, um, almost no reason at all, here is Margaret Talbot's 2018 article on how we got the myth of whiteness in classical statuary, with references to @sarahebond.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

Calliope reminds you to stay hydrated in spite of the Everything of it all #catsofbluesky

It feels petty to complain with all of the (waves hands helplessly at the world) but tfw when they cancel one of your sections ast minute and instead give you a first-year writing course with 50 students on the first day roster because, well, some of them will probably drop it, right? #teaching

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Red Scarf project scarves to be mailed on my way to work tomorrow, hopefully just in time #crochet #crochetsky

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

Hitting the point in the term where I fear I've been sweet, understanding Miss Nelson for too long and need to bring some Viola Swamp energy to drag us all to the finish line. (iykyk)

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

Posting my month of creepy #crochet! Pattern credits in the alt text

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children's book. I wrote about it. blog.oup.com/2025/10/turn...

They were human props in fascist propaganda. The state of Illinois should play no role in these theatrics, and we certainly shouldn't prosecute protesters who did nothing wrong. Let ICE spin its own BS cover story. We don't have to lend them IL courts for that.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The Block Club Chicago newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago. If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website: blockclubchi.co/3IIYou4

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.