No coincidence that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education signed the Trump Administration's "Pledge to America’s Youth: Investing in AI Education".

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing. ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social: "EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."

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For me this is The Chair Company

read this! a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...

Is a billionaire cop your friend? Is the guy who steals everybody's work & calls it their own your friend? Is the bullshit artist who tells you not to bother learning anything your friend? …Actually y'know what, I'm starting to realize something about these people's "friends" (jk i already knew it)

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

don't love subsidizing the racist AI slop industry tbh

Chicagoans chanting, "no ICE! No ICE!"

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A Baltimore County school's AI called the cops on a Black teenager after mistaking his bag of Doritos for a handgun. This isn't a glitch. It's Big Tech's profit-driven experimentation on Black children's lives. Racism remixed for the digital age.

"The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia offers an early glimpse of what could be a sleeper issue in the 2026 midterm elections: the politics of AI infrastructure."

I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.

Always listen to @hypervisible.blacksky.app if you get the chance. What a great conversation. Politechs Episode 4 - Surveillance share.google/k86nRt48iJTp...

Teaching about AI? Here's a new zine from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance "meant to help readers move from thinking about AI as a purely digital, cloud-based technology to understanding it as something rooted in physical elements."

New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Celebrating Mamdani’s victory with an early morning drive to Skokie with the kids and the very best bagels around from New York Bagel and Bialy.

Join us next week! Register at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

academic review system doing great thanks generative AI

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Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...

One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people Interact with art made by real artists

Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.

hey does anyone have a letter or email or wording that you’ve used with publishers around banning AI use for a publication that you’re willing to share? I’ve been tasked with coming up with a draft of some wording and could use some help with that.

At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us! Please share and help spread the word through your networks! #NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15 ➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Having this conversation with my extended family 👇🏻

Trying a new approach this year

We meet again, old friend

the high school is also on soft lockdown, what a day

ICE is in the area - I can hear the helicopters - and now the superintendent of our K-8 district just emailed to say all schools will have indoor recess today as a precautionary measure. Such cruel, craven men terrorizing Chicagoland and elsewhere.

"The AI Con reminds us that the fight over AI is not only about technology. It’s also about language, labor, and the stories we choose to tell about the future, which we can humanize rather than surrender to the myriad ways mass automation dehumanizes." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

This is what it can look like when research is rooted in lived experience. A key piece of context on this report is that DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams is a former Amazon delivery driver and organizer herself, and the report builds on many in-depth interviews. ⬇️

@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Oh hey the Chicago Bulls are now 4-0. Better watch out, @dankrutka.bsky.social 🐂 🏀🐂🏀

Alpha School will crash & burn (is already?) but Price & her partners will launch another pseudo-science ‘puter school with loads of venture money, because the goal is not to produce a functional educational enterprise, but to extract resources from & erode trust in not-for-profit schools.

📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

Doing some upcoming talks on GenAI and its impacts on schools and families and getting a lot of use out of this image from Bart Fish at Better Images of AI: betterimagesofai.org/images

A glaring reminder that literacy, as Brian Street argued, is an ideological construct inseparable from power and specific worldviews and epistemologies.

Got on the subject of the Great Chicago Fire tonight. Kids wanted to know more, so I searched for a video in DuckDuckGo browser. Was served AI slop before selecting a video from WTTW, our PBS station. Really illustrates the enshittification of the internet and the need to fund public broadcasting.

Yesterday I met with a grad student researching how AI can assist workforce development and the student was surprised I emphasized how AI is a political technology that serves power. And, well, here's another example of why it's important to teach AI as anti-worker alongside its political economy.

“He refers to AI tutors as a tool that teachers can use, such as smart boards or calculators, rather than a replacement altogether.” Ah yes, like the wildly successful smart board!

Alpha School students can soon expect to be watching educational Zingrolls before checking in with their First Voyage pet on how to best prepare for blasting their résumé to Jooba to land that coveted summer internship at Moona Health.

They keep saying "AI" will reduce workload and make my life easier.... and yet...