I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

“today’s Internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses, which are hostile to human flourishing”

Lest I be hand-waved away for “emotional responses” to AI I feel pretty okay saying that now is not the moment to be wrapping up data collection and storage in the USA (including potentially sensitive health information) in some pretty culturally deaf marketing and calling it the future.

it’s definitely dystopian. that Lakota video also strikes me as serious epistemological Pretendianism.

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Non-US educators need to be not just thinking about but planning for data sovereignty for ourselves and our learners, too.

Taxes are good, actually. Big fan. Pay them in several countries. Get services in return, including healthcare! All round awesome-sauce.

I blogged a thing: ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

I am have some big epistemological questions about the book I have just started reading. It opened with positive emotions towards Motley Crue and has now described 80s hair metal as “hard rock”.

It’s flag day here, which normally isn’t something anyone celebrates, but this year is a bit different for some reason! Anyways here are a few rejected Canadian flags from the Great Flag Debate in the 1960s in order of how much I love them. 🧵

Spending a little more time every day trying to make or write or listen or all of these at once. ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

This made a casual doom scroll worth the effort.

Writing with @brennacgray.bsky.social and being part of the bigger #HE4Good cohort was an amazing experience. Thanks to @czernie.bsky.social and @catherinecronin.bsky.social for all you do.

Honoured to be at the 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress here in Dubai and to learn from all here. Looking forward to our panel session exploring the open policy landscape and introducing the recent @opensource.bsky.social work on defining Open Source AI. #OSS #OER #opensourceAI #openeducation

Am I wrong to hope that this might mean a little more collaboration, jointly taught programming, student mobility? Probably not as it would mean overhauling funding.but I can dream of a return to public education as a societal good and away from market logics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

here’s my latest bit of fiction - I asked an LLM trained on my work to predict the next ten years of art (it’s not really written by an AI, I am not a scab) www.noemamag.com/not-my-problem

And here’s my new piece for Noema magazine: www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

Two of my online essays came out today, on the same day as I got my first physical copy of The AI Mirror. Lots to celebrate! Here’s one piece I wrote for the How The Light Gets In Festival, in advance of my Monday solo talk and panel iai.tv/articles/the...

AI tutorbots are simplified, synthetic models of the very complex, situated work of pedagogy. We shouldn’t expect too much from these "oblong teachers". New post on "oblongification of education" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/o...

June 5th: WHERE ARE AI’S PUBLICS? What role should the public have in shaping Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Should the public have a voice in how AI is being developed and used, and how it’s governed and regulated? efi.ed.ac.uk/event/where-...

New blog post: "Welcome to the Kingdom of Fife" Many thanks to the DLINQ team at Middlebury for their excellent annual detox series. ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

Hi, Bluesky! You won't know this, but every year at Thompson Rivers University the Learning Technology team hosts a Digital Detox. This year's theme is the 10 Most Toxic Tools in Educational Technology. Curious? Come along to learn more, read a preview, and register: digitaldetox.trubox.ca

Please join me and @eddiged.bsky.social for an online talk on 15 November, 2:30UK time. Immersive media for reinterpreting heritage, from artist and educator Agnes Michalczyk, who explores the urban space and narratives of Cairo. www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/immers...

Hot off the presses 📖📚 Very excited to have a copy of @zararah.bsky.social’s new book! www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...

It's only digital transformation if it comes from the UCD region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling Finance and HR system replacement.

So @ammienoot.bsky.social and I have been musing about procurement all over Al Gore's internet, but today we have a forreals book chapter out (in an excellent collection, very worth your time, called Higher Education for Good).

My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social

The recordings from #ALTC23 are up including my “5 things you need to know before you buy edtech” talk. Could have been titled “Things about edtech that keep me up at night” https://youtu.be/rqvBb6yqW20?feature=shared

My keynote from this year's Digital Pedagogies Institute is now available online. It's about artificial intelligence and care and how to make better choices with our technologies. Machinations: AI, Ethics of Care, and the Future(s) of EdTech: play.library.utoronto.ca/watch/c77ec5...

I'm blissed out from getting to be an educational technologist today! Today I led a session with BCcampus about building learning communities using Mattermost - an open source team chat tool I piloted at UBC. My slides are openly licensed CC-BY NC... and NO AI! 🙂 drive.google.com/file/d/1QySy...

You've probably never seen an image of Earth like this one. It is centered on the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which gives us a taste of just how enormous it is.

Read more about the valuable community leadership work that the Open Source Initiative is doing to develop a definition of open source AI. The webinar series especially looks excellent. Please share widely. blog.opensource.org/open-source-...

Another wonderful episode of @techwontsave.us ! I was particularly struck by how much Weizenbaum's work presages the issues we are confronting today and the part towards the end about how judgment requires values which require lived experience.

Pleased to share what I worked on for a lot of the summer: our Generative AI in Education website for the TRU community (and beyond). I hope educators will find it to be a useful, balanced, unhyped and unpanicked resource. aieducation.trubox.ca

10 minute GenAI chats are back! @ammienoot.bsky.social talks about the need for decision-making frameworks for determining - whether we "should" use tools like ChatGPT that include environmental impact and a recognition of GenAI as political. www.monash.edu/learning-tea...

First excerpt from my new book: “If inequality can be captured in statistics, insecurity requires talking about feelings: It is, to borrow a phrase from feminism, personal as well as political.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequality-insecurity-economic-wealth.html?smid=tw-share

“I think these tools should be banned and students shouldn’t be put in a position of having to do this type of stuff. The responsibility lies with the schools and governments.” - Timnit Gebru Paywall-free link: https://wapo.st/3DV45Pw

“Starting”? How about that… Reminds me of how my former boss openly makes fun of me and others for questioning the hype all along…. https://futurism.com/ai-dot-com-bubble