The only positive of seeing more Cybertrucks on the road recently is my children pointing and shouting, "Garbage car!" with each encounter.

The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Stand up. And say NO.

Seems like people now broadly understand that data centers use a ton of energy but pols are happy to trade that for "high tech jobs." But just bc it's big computer doesn't means it's big jobs! It's a big storage facility. The jobs are mostly in construction, with a tiny maintenance crew thereafter.

As a father of three young children, I felt heartened this morning reading @prisonculture.bsky.social's latest newsletter and learning about the Abolitionist Toyery, a project where "second-grade students envisioned, designed, and constructed an imagined abolitionist community."

Building data centers is a way to (territorially) rebuild/maintain empire, as fossil fuel gets (necessarily) replaced by solar energy — I can see no other reason to invest in AI infrastructure, as a technology it has no business model …beyond worldbuilding….

technologically advance a band. The Cure (15.6.1)

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.

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Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

I finished Karen Hao's "Empire of AI" today - 10/10 would recommend - and I appreciate the emphasis on an ecological approach to teaching about (and, I'd argue, against) AI, including the technology's political economy and the ideologies of Big Tech's leaders that shape the technologies.

"It is critical that we pay attention to fights like these and stand in solidarity with the Black, Brown and working-class communities being harmed by Big Tech and federal and state governments." Teachers, here's a chance for civic education & engaging youth in collective action for social change.

"When confronted about [its] inconsistent recommendations, the model denied providing contradictory guidance, a behavior that participants described as 'algorithmic gaslighting'" - interesting and worrying experiment on "red teaming" chatbots for children and schools

i strongly encourage parents not to post photos of your children on the internet

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

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Now *this* is how to do reporting on the latest for-profit edtech-AI snake oil outfit to promise hyperaccelerated learning through fully surveillant clasrooms and teacherless schooling all the way to big investor injections of capital and raids on families' incomes sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/a...

“We are on the brink of a massive social experiment, and we cannot put our youngest children at risk.” Hear, hear!

The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...

Now the english version! The report "AI and Climate Change: The Global South Facing the New Geopolitics of Innovation" is now available at the the Green Screen Coalition website. Thanks to @plataformacipo.bsky.social for the collaboration and Ariadne Network. greenscreen.network/en/blog/repo...

Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club! I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too. Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

Thinking about chatbot-integrated toys and recalling a line from a George Saunders story about the I CAN SPEAK!™, a mask you strap over a baby to translate their coos: "We at KidLuv really love what kids are, Mrs. Faniglia, which is why we want them to become something better as soon as possible!"

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New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic

New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club! I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too. Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small... semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

A parent at our kids' preschool asked if I knew of any studies about ClassDojo because it's used in her older kid's classroom and I said yes, yes I do, and then I emailed her all of @jamiemanolev.bsky.social and co-authors' excellent work analyzing the platform, including two open articles. First:

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Luddites unite! "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism." ⚒️🤖⚒️

"Corporate AI products are inflicting an assault on visual arts workers’ sense of identity and self-worth, as well as their material stability," writes @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Hard to read these heart-breaking accounts and conclude, yes, this is the tech educators and students can use "ethically".

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I'm going to start selling a Lil Luddite Hammer for children to use to smash the shit out of Grem and pals.

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore (thanks, Yeats) 2. Pie 3. Cold nights when stick your leg out from under the warm blanket and achieve The Perfect Sleep 4. Retelling the same stories with old friends 5. More pie

IMO, what caregivers can do is teach about and against AI technologies as part of a political education that situates the technologies in broader efforts to extract and exploit and deepen austerity - and then invite young people to imagine and participate in (re)humanizing sociotechnical systems.

We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc. Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io

I'm talking with a group of math educators this week about AI and equity, so I thought I'd share this history lesson that I learned from Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines: Bob Moses, who'd later found the Algebra Project, came to doubt whether teaching machines had a role in liberatory education.

IMO, what caregivers can do is teach about and against AI technologies as part of a political education that situates the technologies in broader efforts to extract and exploit and deepen austerity - and then invite young people to imagine and participate in (re)humanizing sociotechnical systems.

"The project Other Technological Worlds Are Possible seeks to highlight, through artistic narratives in comic form, the stories of worker collectives across Latin America that expand the meaning of technology while fighting for social justice." How else might comics be used to teach about tech? 🧵

Last year, I had the honor of collaborating with Josephine Pham on reimagining her co-authored piece on pedagogies of collective intersectional care with Kiese Vita and Tiffany M. Nyachae for the Mai Pedagogy Project, “A collaboration among scholars, educators, and artists [that] serves as an […]

Me releasing another job application into the void...

"[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.

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Tonight my family is honored to be dining with Jennifer. Jennifer is an acorn my children befriended at a park earlier today.