I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses. You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

Four Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigated TikTok and found that the measures in place to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information for profiling and targeting purposes were inadequate. Full report: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"We think people are fallible, which they are. But it doesn't mean you throw away the people and then you put all of your faith in the system or in the machine."

Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcst with Dr. Jess Mitchell! Get ready for some delicious mind delights as OCADu's Dr. Jess Mitchell joins the show to discuss her dissertation: A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘Missing Middle’ Toward Inclusion in Education. www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-j...

Google recently updated Chrome to detect when you are taking an LMS quiz and offer "Homework Help" in the address bar. Students are encouraged to upload screenshots of their quiz to Google Lens to get answers. Panic is spreading. Increased surveillance is coming. We can stop it. Watch me. Join me.

How many times out of 100 is the opposite of what they claim the actual truth? 100?

The primary use case is fraud.

The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...

Learning with AI is like motorsports. You go so much faster, but the machine is what's making you go fast. Not you. NASCAR learning. What can you do when the machine isn't there?

Damn it I thought this was about co-teaching a course with Al Yankovic.

yes he was, he was

The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 15! THANK YOU to everyone who has already made a submission... and help us spread the word.

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

The AI bubble is bursting? An MIT study says 95% of generative AI implementations in enterprise provide no real value? You could have avoided this disaster if you had read my new book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6H5LDB

Can humans suffer... any more of this bullshit?

Check out @nataliekt.bsky.social on @greeneterry.bsky.social's Gettin' Air podcast about open pedagogy! Together, they discuss Reading the Room as a resource for educators:

A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Season 8 of Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcast is underway!

It is time to get some air with Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe, Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University! We chat about the new book: Reading the Room - Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom www.spreaker.com/episode/nata...

It's so great that we get to do everything with an overconfident dumb-ass know-it-all in the way all the time.

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

💯 Hip hop & rap were incredibly instructive to my early understanding of scholarly communication. Examples: mixtape/sites = preprint/servers beat packs = data sets unit calc. = alt/metrics Life of Pablo = record of versions sampling = citation (& fair use) © = © and so on.

also, in the spirit of not ceding our capacity to make meaning together...i'm doing this tomorrow! free, open, live at noon EDT - Belonging, blogging, & Bowie: Why the participatory matters. join us!! :)

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

Hey WaPo eat shit for printing this drek

next we will get an AI prompt generator so we don't need to even think about that part. You just grunt at it

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

"Instead of getting therapy, they get venture capital." Audrey Watters is the best as always

We are dismantling our shared future – quite explicitly – by embracing the ideology and practice of the tech industry, one that promises radically individualized optimization but that is predicated on prediction, prescription, and compliance. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/prescriptive...

The Beastie Men, Geto Men, Bestie Mob, Cypress Mountain, Slum Subdivision, Wu Tang Fellowship

Sick shit

In one lecture he delivered at Princeton, he called Ord and Bostrom the two most dangerous philosophers alive. And he is ABSOLUTELY right; also, the metaphor CHATGPT as a JPEG of the internet is the most illuminating thing that I read about it.

AI making our lives easier by... wedging extra steps into every task imaginable?

On another note, if you are a university employee I strongly recommend that you in no way link any of your university accounts to any of your past, present, or future personal accounts or devices. Especially this.

Jog-D.M.C.

Slightly diminish a band: A Tribe Called Task

some personal news! if you say “I used chatgpt for this” to me I will pull your nose out as far as I can and let it go *boyoyoyoyoing* back to your face

hey the main crime guy is right beside you start there

This one is for the teachers and professors artologica.etsy.com/listing/4350... 🎨

Just offering that up since everyone says I’m too glib about the whole thing. It’s mid. It’s also absolutely a man-made ecological monster that will probably successfully hollow out our institutional capacities in exchange for more emails (and admittedly some sped up gene research).

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

saying "AI" aloud sounds like the start of some sort of admission. So let's try it. Complete the sentence: "AI ________" For example: "AI ... want to get stupider so let's get AI to do this for me."

GenAI "cannot dissociate itself from the processes of extractivism, automation, essentialism, surveillance, and containment, which perpetuate historic structures of heteropatriarchal, colonial, racist, white supremacist, and capitalist oppression." - Jasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian in:

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.