Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

"When prompted in English, the ... responses emphasized an independent social orientation and an analytic cognitive style. When the ... questions were posed in Chinese, the ... responses emphasized an interdependent social orientation and a holistic cognitive style." mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

New policy brief: Educators should reassess the hidden impacts of ed tech ecosystems on teaching, learning, and student data. bit.ly/46C2JXT

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected. (Read more: The Verge)

“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us” zenodo.org/records/1706... 14/🧵

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I recognize that this is going to be an unpopular opinion for some, but IMO if you are submitting scholarship to journals and expecting your colleagues to (potentially) facilitate its publication via peer review, you have a responsibility to give back to that system by reviewing as well.

As co-editor of @writingassessment.bsky.social, can confirm this whole thread. Particularly the comments about how hard it is to find reviewers. We have one piece that we’ve sent to ~7-8 people and all of them have declined or straight ghosted us.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

It looks at people’s Rate My Professor. 💀

Hi. Hello. GRAMMARLY IS NOT A WRITING TOOL. IT IS SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND LINGUISTIC HOMOGENIZATION IN A TRENCHCOAT.

This is grim stuff. ChatGPT users are pissed off at OpenAI, and it's blatantly obvious they don't really know why and neither does OpenAI. ChatGPT is a dying MMORPG.

I genuinely think GPT-5 may bring down generative AI. It broke the illusion with normies who thought ChatGPT was a friend or confidant or "brain storm machine," and I believe its new architecture is doing the very opposite of making it cheaper or more efficient.

@caramartamessina.com, @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, & I were talking about this the other day. I think it demonstrates the tendency of some in our field to (consciously or not) view theory as a thought experiment or useful lens, rather than a real framework for action & change.

Once again, there is no ethical use for GenAI. It’s exploitation all the way down.

This! GenAI is a fundamentally unjust, cruel technology. Acknowledging this should be a very simple ask, and it should go without saying that acknowledgment isn't enough. What is the point in talking about the very real and serious harms of GenAI if we don't let this knowledge guide our choices?

This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, but… the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some “ethical uses” of GenAI really emphasizes the field’s shallow investment in anything like “justice” or “decolonization” or “abolition.”

I have a reseach account where I watch all the different subreddits where people talk about LLMs, and in particular the various parasocial relationships they form with LLMs, and there is absolutely a mass mental health issue brewing among LLM-users

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Another argument is that ChatGPT has been presented as a reliable (and superior) information source by its creators, the tech industry broadly, universities, professional associations, the news media, the legal profession, and the federal government. Given that credibility is constructed socially…

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.* Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Universities acquiescing to both the AI inevitability marketing & to the desire of industry to shift responsibility for job training to higher ed is a large part of why we’re here though. There’s no way “work-based learning” doesn’t turn into exploitation via unpaid internships & apprenticeships.

This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment. For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug. restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

While it is a complete misrepresentation of the GenAI refusal argument to say we think anyone who touches an LLM is a horrible person, asking your students or instructors to substantially engage with ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini is perpetuating fascism. This should not be a controversial statement.

It’s over

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Copilot is recommending conversion therapy, but sure we can mitigate the ethical concerns of GenAI by just learning to write good prompts, that makes sense

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

I cannot emphasize this enough.

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Oh look. "Last year, a clinical machine learning model used to diagnose women’s health conditions was shown to underdiagnose women and Black patients, because it was trained on skewed datasets dominated by white men. "

Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students. Oh. (This article is nominally not a press release?) www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

But literally everything I’ve been able to tell a student for 15 years is now just…gone. Gone. I had the same issue with a family friend reaching out about scholarships to help bridge her son’s financial aid gap. I had to explain that everything I knew about is mostly gone and/or frozen.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

I’m frustrated for many reasons at surface-skimming media history takes on AI like “people opposed the printing press too!” If media history is going to help us navigate the present, we have to reckon with something people often omit from those comparisons—the intersection of power & new media (1/4)

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

I worry that escalating war with Iran will be used to whip up more fear and hate for non-white immigrants, particularly those of Arab descent, and be used for unjust deportations.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

As a result of public pressure generated by AAUP members’ collective action, UNC Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted to tenure the 33 faculty members who had been left in limbo by an unprecedented large-scale delay. Today, AAUP President Todd Wolfson called for an explanation. ⬇️

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...