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Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

probably my favorite prose about LLMs recently

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

submitted 47 days ago • 50 comments

Rage Against the Machine: You use the term “journey” to describe your training for a charity 5K, changes to your skincare routine, your evolving relationship with gluten, the fact that you occasionally take a yoga class, and your secretly failing marriage.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

This is a really beautiful piece from @mcsweeneys.net about the inherent value of neurodivergent people. RFK Jr. is dead wrong in the way he demeans and diminishes people with autism. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

submitted 52 days ago • 24 comments

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

submitted 74 days ago • 26 comments

Very thoughtful piece on Junot Diaz by @rafaelwalker.bsky.social .

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

big 10 people! whip your senates! alums! call your presidents, provosts, general counsels, and get in formation!

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

This is difference between talking about digital literacy over AI literacy.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Hooray! More like this please! Can there be an Ivy Leage defense compact, a state schools (in each state) defense compact, etc? Universities, take advantage of the existing ties, athletic leagues and library connections and local consortiums, and build your own coalition.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

"Hi, I’m out of the office. If you have anything urgent, please get in touch with the fact that there’s probably nobody better suited than me in our organization to handle that matter, and I’m taking a day off to think about love, survival, and time."

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

“We have more power now on our campuses than we’ve had in recent memory,” said Ian Gavigan, national director of Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU...“And we couldn’t actually be better positioned to fight back against the kind of authoritarian attacks that we’re seeing.”

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

"An ultraportable device this light does not come without sacrifices, and Mead has opted for the unusual choice of not including a keyboard. Instead, it's operated entirely by a stylus."

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The English Department at the U of Illinois (UIUC) is hiring a small number of lecturers — whose rights are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Deadline April 7! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Just saying that a handful of people could sit on the court, stop a few March Madness games, and demand the feds restore NIH and NSF funding. Nothing gets attention like disrupting sports entertainment.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms

submitted 103 days ago • 12 comments

Tow Center for Digital Journalism study found that "AI" chatbots provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, with Musk's Grok 3 responding to 94 percent of the queries incorrectly. "Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."

submitted 110 days ago • 24 comments

dispatch from my job "budgets are direct expressions of an institution’s values, so an unwillingness to meet cost, still astonishingly fucking low, is as good as declaring that working-class kids do not deserve an education of as high a caliber as that of their whiter and wealthier peers"

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Penn State's 7,600 faculty are forming a union with SEIU Local 668, according to a website that went live after the university announced it is looking to shutter some of its satellite campuses across the commonwealth. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

9 degrees, mighty colleagues, fighting for science and service! public research IS public health! uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org

submitted 130 days ago • 3 comments

www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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For those keeping score, so far this week Microsoft has found that regularly using generative AI reduces a person's critical thinking skills, and the BBC has found that AI news summaries contain "significant issues" 51% of the time. www.404media.co/microsoft-st... www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

submitted 138 days ago • 10 comments

Who are the remaining "good" institutions/platforms on the internet?

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

I am adding this AI statement to my syllabus. My philosophy is up with the joy of language, down with punitive threats. I hope this approach is inspiring for students.

submitted 158 days ago • 7 comments

Ready to say goodbye to Microsoft Office. What are folks favorite word processors? (extra credit for non-profit)

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

submitted 160 days ago • 53 comments

Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

submitted 172 days ago • 271 comments

Well it's the 3rd of January, and having posted the link to the LSE blog post, I have already had a Gen AI enthusiast dismiss the critique not on merit, but by framing us as "barriers to progress". Don't care - here it is again. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

submitted 177 days ago • 1 comment

Laura Heffernan & @rbuurma.bsky.social on HBCU teaching archive! Tressie M. Cottom on academic clickbait! @annakornbluh.bsky.social & @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social on pastness in classes! @ecourtem.bsky.social on apocalypticism! Jelani Favors & @samfr.bsky.social on student newspapers & more!!!

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

no-one has abused the term "democratize" like the AI industry

submitted 195 days ago • 2 comments