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Flashing red indicator that “ai” as it is deployed by people in power is an ideological and political project aimed at entrenching systemic bias, algorithmic harms, and surveillance, while centralizing control and eliminating accountability.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Is anybody surprised by the examples that come up? Business schools? Adjuncts being asked to carry shocking teaching loads with little or no support? Online classes aimed at maximizing university revenue? It's an article about AI in the classroom, but points to a host of other pathologies.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The numbers don't lie indeed, unlike the justices themselves who just make up "facts" to suit their positions like they did in the football prayer case.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey bosses: If you train your employees incorrectly, that's not the fault of the employees.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Neoliberalism destroyed all institutional credibility.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

We imagine a future that prioritizes mental and psychological health, filled with community validation, and supported by technological interventions. Such a future isn’t only beneficial to content moderators, but everyone who uses social media platforms...

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While I am looking forward to seeing Murderbot on the screen given how much I sympathize with wanting to keep on a helmet and not deal with people, what I’m really looking forward to is Dr. Mensah and the Preservation team representing how better worlds are possible. #Murderbot

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Faculty: we do not find value in AI in teaching Admin: the faculty are the problem here

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It is very telling that the same people who insist Americans do not understand the word “oligarchy” think that the way to convince people that the economy is good when they think it’s bad is to wave charts of macroeconomic data at them.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Update on the DSR: The editor says this is a pirated/unapproved pub. Which is wild but not impossible. How did someone get the entire manuscript for an unpublished textbook AND get it posted on Walmart, Amazon, & Barnes & Noble w/ an updated publication date?! Then also print & ship it out?!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This works on several levels. For example, allies who—just as in the caption—are nowhere to be seen. #TheoryOfChange

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I’m tired of seeing takes claiming that educators who voice concerns about GenAI are burying our heads in the sand, or failing to adapt, or choosing to be misinformed about GenAI’s potential, or are ignorant of other technological shifts that have happened throughout history.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Terrible news, and I hope we can fight this. Chronicling America didn't have a ton of early American freethought periodicals, but what it did index, including the Blue-Grass Blade, was a boon to readers unable to travel or pay for access. #history #freethought #nonreligion #periodicals

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"Why not Zoidberg?" become a more compelling question with each passing day.

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How do you use social media to job search—do you find opportunities that way, or vet organizations? Have you run into scams, or ghost jobs? How do you know what viral job-search advice to take? I'm looking to chat with early-career workers for a Teen Vogue column: email in bio; Signal rstauff.20

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This essay contains thoughts that led to a chapter I wrote, “Educating for the End of a Necropolitical World" (link in essay). My question remains: does and can the work we do open up possibilities for living differently in the world? Or is it all more of the same? folukeafrica.com/law-necropol...

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Editors and Authenticity Readers have already seen our jobs reduced by over half due to AI. Pretty sure i lost repeat client bc i told them whoever did their DEV edit before I did my Research check- was clearly using AI

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Yet again a big "meta-analysis" of the effects of ChatGPT on "learning performance" - largely arguing there are big positive effects - is getting wildly and uncritically promoted by the usual big names and yet again it appears to be a review of seriously bad science...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“I asked ChatGPT-“ okay well I asked the big oak tree at the center of the woods and she said you’re a lazy dork

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

THINKING PINK! This Mother’s Day my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org paid for 8 stuffed suitcases of pajamas, slippers, sneakers, journals, underwear, and more for the new safehouse of formerly incarcerated women! The prisons leave you w/ nothing but the clothes on your back. Not on my watch!

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Every single statement like this should be read as: Gov't agency unable to provide effective services, tries to foist people off on a synthetic text extruding machine instead. Gov Newsom: This is NOT something to be proud of.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Thanks for asking Lynne. A group of us called on scientists & orgs like AAAS, AAS, and APS to start actively defending academic freedom, which could have included educating their constituencies & lawmakers about the risks associated with these attacks. As educators, the least we can do is educate. 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Increasingly convinced that generational discourse is an op 🌞

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It’s almost like Common Core was laying track to automate public education from the jump

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If class sizes were smaller, if teaching loads were lighter, if precarity weren’t a thing, then maybe instructor would have the capacity to address A.I. in humanities education. But that’s a lot of ifs.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

100%

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

fucking hell it's legitimately a miracle that i'm seeing people in my day-to-day office job life as enthusiastic about the potential of AI as they are when the entire field is championed by the people with the least amount of critical thinking skills in history

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction.

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“Eureka!” Archimedes shouts, tossing fighter jet after fighter jet into his bathtub.

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As someone who absolutely would have failed out of higher education if handwriting essays was required, I am begging professors to think about disability accommodation before going all in on combatting generative AI by requiring in-class essay writing by hand.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Thinking about AI (an abolitionist imagination)

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“Have you heard about the greedy business interests who tried to hack language and nearly destroy a civilization?” “Oh, you mean Embassytown?” “No.”

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

submitted 7 days ago • 232 comments

The people with money and power do not want education. They want compliance. And they get it by holding people head-down over a pit of precarity. Effective resistance, in part, means building a material and emotional solidarity that can tend to our needs while we build a better world.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

An effective institutional strategy to combat AI-based cheating (in a world where there was institutional will for such a thing) would require drastically shrinking class sizes, so teachers could get to know and work with each student individually.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The symbolism of the particular textbook here is just way too heavy-handed.

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"The things in civilization we most prize are not of ourselves. They exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

I want to give credit to Metz/Weise here for stating plainly that LLMs cannot decide that something is or isn't true or false. Stating the actual, real limitations of these models is necessary, and it's good to finally see this happening in the mainstream media without any throat clearing

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

seems useful to reiterate this regularly: what LLMs could theoretically be used for, what they theoretically can and cannot do is largely beside the point given what they are currently being used to do and the larger political economy in which they sit

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Want to know how it feels to be stripped of democratic rights, have your work conditions dictated top-down with the expectation that you emulate authoritarian practices, all while you resist? Ask a K-12 teacher. bit.ly/3T9xq0W #TeacherAppreciationWeek

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

i remain extraordinarily pissed off that the higher ed sector is capitulating to sam altman and his "never be vulnerable or take a personal risk again" machine : thinks about it a little more : yep, still mad!!

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applying for jobs again

submitted 9 days ago • 131 comments