It would be fantastic if governments could get serious about regulation and, importantly, enforcement. There are so many ways that tech could be better for all of us. The focus on bans is diverting attention from systemic, obviously more challenging, solutions that require political will + stamina

Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities. Reposts appreciated!

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

If your (Canadian) university is buying subscriptions to gen AI like Copilot etc, can you send me a link (or the email you’ve gotten) about this? Collecting for a reflection… Example: it.ucalgary.ca/it-security/...

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information." Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:

This reminds me of a provocation from @allartmarkets.bsky.social at a recent talk on aI: While we've all come to understand the narrative of inevitability, we must also explore the finance narratives. How do groups, money conspire to make all other narratives possible? Such a complex topic...

Most sources aren’t digitized. Sources that get digitized aren’t by that fact alone accessible or permanent. What is digitized is itself a deliberate sample not only of the archive as a whole but also of the digitized source. Understanding is a social process and takes shape over time and space.

This is right, firstly because it doesn’t just reproduce AI hype or AI critique (a dangerous binary-game to be party to) and secondly because it provides a viable, *livable* alternative. It produces a new narrative of what education still could be: a space to come together, to think together. 1/

Please be specific. What applications are you talking about?

NYC officials plan to reraise pride flag at Manhattan’s Stonewall monument after Trump administration removed it

1/ Refreshing perspective from @oii.ox.ac.uk scholars: "Meticulous citation is a marker of well-researched, serious scholarship." Dr. Roxana Radu and @rocher.lc outline the harms of citation by LLMs: the 'provenance' of generated texts cannot be determined or cited. #LLMs #epistemicjustice

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

‘About 80% of data-annotation and content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds. Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities and towns, where rents and labour costs are lower, and a growing pool of first-generation graduates are seeking jobs.’

Every time. It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines. futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Truly incredible. The magic of automation is that we forget, and fail to imagine, what other worlds are possible (and perhaps even existed): other worlds that centre justice and care, not greed and profit.

It’s so refreshing to see somebody like this as mayor of a city I used to live in. Such a far cry from business as usual. The fact that he’s advocating for home-based childcare providers is icing on the cake. It’s a powerful lever of social justice and employment.

"This is a glaring issue that will be faced by every hyperscale data centre coming through the planning system..." aprs.scot/press-releas...

parallel hot take: universities should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

I'm sorry. Is this happening in parallel to the conversations around banning social media for under 16s? What in the world are we thinking?

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

More than money, as a researcher of education and technology, I am much more concerned about the time and attention devoted to these products. What else could have happened in those moments of staff development? What visions of education have been occluded as classes struggle with logins + data?

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Universities 🤝 Copilot/Gemini/ChatGPT

How could this not be the inevitable conclusion? Of course companies are looking to make a future profit or build a user base.

We need to talk more about the problems we may be creating. (Not to mention whether this type of system actually does a good job with the conversation or what even constitutes good in this scenario)./7

This is inherently political. Smaller class sizes. Stop with the techno-solutionism. Make education more “personalized” with humans interacting with each other. More time for creative assessment. In-the-moment assessment. Maybe we should think about ratios classrooms similar to early childhood ed.

Preemptive slashing of DEI coupled with business agreements with big tech for GenAI. 🤔

I'm with @rokewood.bsky.social on this one: Where is the teaching university that stands up to take the moral position that, in fact, what ails education cannot be solved by technology, let alone Big Tech, whose ultimate motives ought to be repudiated as inimical to the very purposes of education?

Text request: looking for short poem about technology/AI thematically (at least tangentially) that I can use to open up a new unit focused on that topic. Any suggestions?

Exactly this. Blame schools. Blame families. Blame children themselves. But hold Big Tech accountable? And possibly make *needed* technological change happen much faster, and, as a result, make the Internet a safer place if Grok can't spew CSAM and content that disproportionately harms women?

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

this is horrific. 11,000 cancer patients.

On a Zoom call with a teacher moments ago, they share with me one of their students' mothers has been detained by ICE and is facing deportation in two days. The student walks in as we're talking, and hugs them, the sort of deep hug of someone in desperation for love, support. God what are we doing.

Starting in 10 mins ...

There's been a huge focus on how young men's voting preferences are changing, but much less (and as the piece points out - not surprisingly - given how women's preferences tend to get far less attention generally) on women's, even though they're changing more drastically. Really interesting piece -

Oh wow this is a new low, arguably more insidious and damaging to the integrity of human knowledge than creating fake sources (which at least can be exposed). Reading & judging the quality of the cited support for your claims is the difference between trustworthy research and cherry-picked bullshit

all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Beyond the focus on numbers and data, you could also argue it’s positive to get young people reading as many books as possible across a range of genres and styles—that this is a good use of time in school.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸 (sadly, without credit)

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

So honored that our article “Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization,” co-authored with @philnichols.bsky.social, @quirosjulian.bsky.social, and @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social received the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association! Check it out open access!

Privilege to be at @uofgeducation.bsky.social with @tedpal.bsky.social and @rokewood.bsky.social to give an overview of our @erpioe.bsky.social Teaching for Digital Citizenship research project. Data justice and the genealogy of citizenship as response to social crises.

In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice