I adore this thread!

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Big Tech is offering you a Faustian bargain. It promises to remove all the friction from life, to keep you from having to think or study, and the result is your brain will become pudding, you’ll become incapable of creativity or communication. They want to make you a non-person.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Very grateful for this clear and forceful takedown of chatbots/LLMs in education. The whole thread, a response to @rweingarten.bsky.social, is important to read.

How do you justify helping give these morally and ethically repugnant billionaires access to teachers and children via their tech, which is based on theft and notorious for both incorrectness, disinformation, and racist/bigoted propaganda?

Furthermore, the companies you've partnered with, including OpenAI, are run by Trump supporting billionaires. You're giving them access to children's minds via this technology. These billionaires have the power to use "A.i." to push right wing and even Nazi propaganda, as we've seen with Musk.

The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

I moved from teaching to tech jobs and back again and I will never not be angry about how fast the entire edtech boom, from mooc to apps and apple/google educator badges, to iPad schools etc.. all of it was ushered in. None of it with ethics, governance or safety ever done correctly

Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.

December 21 is the winter solstice, which means that in the Northern Hemisphere: - The path of the Sun is farthest south in the sky - The Sun travels the shortest path, giving the day the least daylight and the longest night - Things can only get lighter from here

I’ve really been enjoying Pluribus. For one thing, the realism! Carol is a writer, but once there’s the slightest excuse to not work, we never ever see her write.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours, now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

I will never forgive the tech bros for ruining cute animal videos.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Pleased to be the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Teacher Just Organized Enough to Get Through Another Week Award Trust me, I deserve it 🏆

Important thread about tech fatigue and teaching

….and now that friend is TIME person of the year

Not hyperbole: using generative AI -- and encouraging students to use it -- supports MAGA and authoritarianism.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

I get so furious when people who could easily write something dumb and quick clearly use Chat GPT to toss it off. They’re just branding their foreheads with the word LAZY.

Really?! More evidence that ChatGPT breaks your brain and aids in the destruction of community.

“I don’t treat fat people any differently” (Photos by the inimitable Haley Morris Cafiero: www.haleymorriscafiero.com)

Friendly reminder as we approach "final grading" season: grades are a fabricated assessment metric that never accurately reflect students' skill or progress, and only reproduce in students the god-awful idea that they should "game" the system and not actually learn. TY for coming to my Ted Talk.

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.

That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism. Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism. Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.

Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.

+ From that day forward, I’ve shifted my winter activities to be truly inclusive of all students. The student was in my class again his senior year. At the end of our last class together, he gave me a big hug and said, “Thank you for listening to me.”

@carolinecarlson.bsky.social shines a light on 10 great children’s books you might have missed in 2025.

Alternatively: you can teach your kid the work of looking something up and vetting sources INSTEAD of wasting the time and energy of first creating a suggestion of an answer and then doing the research to fact-check that fabrication.

Nothing like discovering your blog from 2013. I was so witty! So verbose! Who cared?

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

I've been treating ChatGPT like intravenous drugs—not even once—and it hasn't steered me wrong yet.

::climbs on soap box, takes deep breath:: So, Dubya's No Child Left Behind, in addition to being responsible for the end of Reading Rainbow, pushed classroom teachers to teach to standardized testing to the detriment of teaching comprehensive writing and reading ...

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

A fantastic piece that gets into the details of what a great Humanities classroom looks like. I love the focus on what to do versus what not to do—and why. 🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.

It definitely feels like the "AI conversation" is about to become the "AI mandate" before we really even began the conversation, huh?

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.