Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

Tech Talk today! At 12:00 PM ET Register here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The report is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations & private lawsuits against US colleges & universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Full Report here:

while i appreciate @404media.co explaining this, if you ever find yourself explaining to someone why smart glasses recording people is different from a smartphone, i think you have to consider that they're playing with you, and you're playing back in turn.

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Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain? www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/edtechs...

⭐️⭐️”The study of gender represents the kind of free inquiry that allows people to decide for themselves how to live, free of coercion or government control.” The authors of this article point to several recent examples of attacks on teaching about gender in Texas higher ed. ⬇️

"For the first time in a King biography, Coretta Scott King’s active partnership in the struggle is made clear. King of the North is a revelation." — Barbara Smith, co-founder, Combahee River Collective Join us for class later today. #FreedomSchool #TeachIn www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

"The impression that the internet is 'down' opens up moments for rhetorical action: to reconsider our dependency on platforms that require environmental injury, to create learning experiences beyond the centralization of our digital landscape," writes @trentwintermeier.bsky.social.

New episode of PCWB is live with Professor Safiya Noble, Ph.D. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEu...

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

Today, Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis share the story of translating their graphic novel Power On! They write about their process as well as the profound significance of this translation work. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-tra...

Turnitin was maybe the first edtech company to turn mistrust into a service for universities. Now Mistrust as as a Service is pretty much the USP of the big AI industry in education.

New K-5 curriculum on disinfo is now live online for free! To learn all the best tricks about how to use it, join us Oct 27, 10:00-11:30 ET. Spread the word to the K-5 librarians & teachers you know! Everybody welcome. See ALT text for more detail. To Register: tinyurl.com/MLWevent. 🍎 #SSChat 📚

This week you might see conspiracy theorists touting a new documentary that alleges a vast censorship regime is “deciding what Americans are allowed to see, say, and even think.” They may have paid their on camera experts. 👀 wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-grifte...

Seems like a good time to note that I'll be leading an online @civicsoftech.bsky.social book group for Neil Selwyn's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tuesday, November 11, at 7pm CT. Registration info at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

I wish I could properly convey how boring Portland is right now. Like, there’s nothing going on.

MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏

💔💔A powerful + heartbreaking summary of the attacks on student services, shared governance, teaching, learning + more from Prof. Lisa Moore who has taught @UTAustin more than three decades. It is not too late to reverse these changes and #SaveUT! www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Who was president in 2020? Senate Rs spent hours Wed insisting a Biden Censorship Regime was in power. It’s ridiculous on its face—but dangerous in its purpose. If you can convince people of that lie, you can justify what Trump is doing now. It’s “just payback”. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

“That was ... the point of the whole arrest – just to harass me + to send a message to other people around the state and especially faculty," Heyman said, "that we should not protest + we should not object to the abuse of our First Amendment rights by militarized troops on our college campuses."

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

“The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.”

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

You can sort of see the asymmetry in media today -- when the Republicans shut down the government Republican media springs into propaganda mode, when the Democrats do it supposedly left media debates whether its the right fight.

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines. Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Quiet part deafeningly loud right here. These are bribes, not settlements. You don’t have to keep paying for YouTube Premium. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Today for the CoT blog, Julie Smith shares a truly fascinating resource. Full of interviews and case studies that show how teachers are thinking about and wrestling with AI technologies in schools. Read the blog post to learn more! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/announc...

this exists it is called thinking

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“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

Out today: Students went on strike, and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper Corser, Manolev & Danby argue that ClassDojo is attempting to govern how teachers give uncontextualised feedback to students about their behaviour that becomes data points of managing discipline and control. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/d7k2racy

Speaking of @neilselwyn.bsky.social, check out today's blog post with Adriana Szili sharing "New resources for teachers and student teachers: AI Dilemmas": www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2dp8ng2... Materials include posters, handouts, & slides to help reflect on real-world dilemmas of AI in edu.

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

luddite pope

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below: openletter.earth/open-letter-... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

"[N]o matter what we will continue to fight for space for students to hone their skills — think, write, program, research — unimpeded and independently," write @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and @marentierra.bsky.social.

Thanks to the leadership of @alliethrall.bsky.social, we at Civics of Technology have developed resources for caregivers concerned about how technology mediates our children's experience at school: