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“The State is the name by which we call the great human conspiracy against hunger and cold, against loneliness and ignorance; [it is the] warden of the arts, of love, of comradeship, of all that redeems from despair that strange adventure which we call human life.” - Tom Kettle (1910)

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

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Not that they were great before, but... www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

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Not the world's most significant problem but my Kindle app congratulating me on reading is a little nugget of patronising nonsense every day. This is of course what I get for using Kindle, but I swear they were less floridly evil when they trapped me in this ecosystem in the early 2000s.

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Happy Leonard Peltier Emancipation Day to all who have been waiting to celebrate. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

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With alt text

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When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” please remember who the Nazi’s targeted first. They wanted to make Germany healthy and “pure” The Aktion T4 program mass murdered people with disabilities. They tested the gas chambers on us. Please do not obey in advance. Speak out. Save lives.

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BREAKING: @lawyerscomm.bsky.social and partners have sued Meta for racially discriminatory advertising practices and for algorithmically sorting for-profit college ads to Black users disproportionately act.lawyerscommittee.org/ercvsmeta/

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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

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New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

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Writing a literature review is thinking. It is reading, choosing, summarizing, cross pollinating ideas and building the foundations for your own research. Every part of that process is necessary to do on your own--offloading any of that onto LLMs is a sign of a crappy academic.

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This.

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“efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption.”

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This is my personal version of hell. Just so dystopian I can barely process it.

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No! AI does not “want” to promote freedom. It does not want anything at all. And the companies that make and distribute AI? They don’t want freedom either. They want to monetize you & your info, even if that means destroying your privacy, and wreck both the environment and information ecosphere.

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

This is still the greatest email ever.

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Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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I fucking hate TERFs and they aren't welcome in my spaces. Repost if you also hate TERFs.

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AI is disturbing the push to electrify vehicles, heating and other sectors running on fossil fuels.

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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If AI is so good, why do they keep making it mandatory? YouTube now has auto summaries of videos - so the robot can laugh at the jokes for me????

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Three months without using R and you would think I'd never heard of a computer.

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as I keep pointing out, Harlan Ellison literally grabbed Connie Willis's breast on stage, during the 2009 Hugos presentation, out of nowhere and without consent, and you can see the footage on YouTube, and he kept denying it and faced absolutely no meaningful consequences

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Academy schools are no better at raising attainment than the schools they replaced.

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T'was the night ere semester And all through the campus An ominous feeling Crept in like the Krampus The academics waited emails with dread As nightmares of grading replayed in their head Their teaching was ready (or sort of, or not) With hope students wouldn't ignore what they taught 😬 #AcademicSky

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Who remembers AltSchool? What a great cautionary tale of edtech and data-driven schooling exuberance for our current AI moment. Funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Zuckerberg and Founders fund, it was a Silicon Valley experimental lab school for the kind of AI schooling hyped everywhere today ... 1/5

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Reading today and excited to meet the idea of 'masculine capital' which Pearson (2023) suggests can sometimes compensate for lack of social or cultural capital. This is exciting as in my PhD research the boys were the widening participation students who didn't get hassle for their accents. Hmm.

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Universities too. 📢🚨

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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Still one of my favorite new year's greetings. #WernerHerzog

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We should absolutely try to make lessons interesting and varied, and engage students. Several issues with 'fun' though: 1. The goal of school is learning, not entertainment 2. Aiming for fun is a losing game for education. School and teachers are never going to be able to 'outfun' TikTok or gaming

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Dreamed last night that I was lecturing on fantasy and education. Kept going to the wrong building, then found the right one and had no PPT. Then (still in dream) started planning the lecture. Am still on holiday!!!

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I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."

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A: Hi it’s been ages since I’ve seen you. How’s your work going? B: Oh, I have such doubts about it. A: Well, we all do! B: About MY work? Conversation I heard between two lecturers when I was a student.

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Someone seems keen to delete Wikipedia's article on Appin, the cyber mercenary firm we wrote about last year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n

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“hole in the ozone layer” levels of erasure. my mom was a project manager who busted her ass for years to make sure IBM was ready for Y2K and completely succeeded, only for it to get turned into a late night joke. funny how the stories of mass collective action to avoid disaster rarely get told

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