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Open Biblio: If you write or podcast etc about data centers, feel free to add a citation/reference here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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No more students will be offered admission to grad school at Pitt due to the instability of our federal government.

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👀 Enduring Digital Damage Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival by Dustin Edwards www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

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Got to give a talk at my alma mater (which was super cool), but maybe my favorite part was the driver on the way to campus telling me “personally, I prefer A1 over AI.” And honestly, Mike is so real for that 🥩

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I keep telling teachers who think I’m too anti-AI that they have to start looking at it systemically. Maybe stuff like this will get them to wake up.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Thinking about calls for students to refine their prompt engineering skills because it's supposed to help secure The Jobs of the Future and wondering if instead we should be working with youth to analyze the political economy of AI, develop a Luddite praxis, and build coalitions to fight back.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I love how the library is blasting the university’s recent r1 status on the flat screens but it’s also raining here and there are multiple buckets collecting water from the leaks. No notes

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Among the things that I am hilariously bad at is advertising the things that I'm doing. To that end, if you want to hear me yell about AI's capture of accessibility and some WILD shit my university system is doing with AI, here's a link to register.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

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Dr. Dustin Edwards (Ph.D in Composition and Rhetoric ‘16) will be giving two talks on Feb. 17th & 18th in King 134. Feb 17, 10:05-11:25 - Digital Damage: Confronting the Layers of Harm from AI Feb 18th, 4:30-5:30pm - Dwelling with Digital Damage: Repair Beyond the Environmental Technofix

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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"If you want a labor force, a regulatory bureaucracy, or accountability to disappear, you simply say, 'AI can do it.' Then, the conversation shifts from explaining why these things should or should not go away to questions about how AI would work in their place." - @eryk.bsky.social

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Eugenics and The Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émil P Torres on second-wave eugenics and the TESCREAL bundle. youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw?...

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The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The last report for the state university system in Missouri showed $6.5 billion in economic impacts and 69,000 jobs. Trump and Musk are threatening that success. That is the message that needs to be shared in every state.

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Also worth noting the article mentions the payment to OpenAI only. No mention of the other “collaborators”

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CSU faculty were blindsided yesterday by the CSU's announcement of its giddy transformation into ChatGPT State University; glad to see our union @cfaunited.bsky.social speaking out today. The CSU needs to meet with us and not spend money on AI & then lay people off!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Again: the CSU's new partners, everyone!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The way I posted this the day before the CSU (my employer) rolled out their "AI-powered public university" partnership with OpenAI. I just —

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Exactly: austerity, austerity, austerity. The news out of the CSU system is a bleak reminder about the larger project of AI in education.

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The “killer app” is to forcefully embed these systems into education and government so that there become few ways to meaningfully reject them.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

This is grim.

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has anyone seen or been part of union efforts (university or otherwise) to craft AI provisions to contracts?

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The chancellor of the Cal State system just announced that it will become "the nation's first and largest AI-powered public university." The announcement celebrates "collaborations" with Adobe, Google, AWS, IBM, Instructure, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI. +

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

This! And if folks are interested in thinking about what GenAI refusal looks like given waves hand at everything surrounding us, we curated a set of resources you might find useful.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Everyday there’s some new report that AI is further consolidating wealth and control, procuring energy development and steering energy policy, and using non-transparent and non-consensual training data. And university admins are like “make sure your students are ethical users of AI” 🤠

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Lol it’s so jarring to go from LinkedIn where I see posts saying AI is our powerful, rich-making pedagogical God to Bluesky where I posts saying AI exists as a set of flimsy promises that further consolidates wealth, influence, and power by insisting on never ending growth

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I can only assume that Chuck Schumer is a satire bot at this point

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

one small, sincere thing I'd like to say about what's happening now is: every trans person who's paying attention is going to be deeply affected by the way we're being targeted. even if they're not showing it to you. be patient and kind with us.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

Hey, it’s me! A privilege to return to Miami (where I got my PhD) to speak with mentors, grad students, & the community that has given me so much.

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Just spoke to the California nurses union about AI and the Luddites. Lots of nurses ready to stand up and fight overbearing—and even dangerous—AI systems thrust on them by hospitals. You love to see it

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lol

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DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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The wrecking ball to academia + social services; the unconstitutional executive orders designed to result in a crony-filled Supreme Court nullifying the power of Congress; the rise of AI sold as an automating god to be operated by oligarchs. These things are not unrelated.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Does anyone have an example they can share of good leadership from their institutions with respect to the federal changes and their impact on higher education and science/research? Cuz I’m mostly hearing crickets.

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“It's inconceivable to me that we are keeping our most precious assets, our knowledge and our data, on Earth, where we're setting off bombs and burning things," said Christopher Stott, founder and CEO of Lonestar. "We need to put our assets in place off our planet, where we can keep it safe” 🫠🫠🫠

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Don’t love that the language of assessment and standards begins in … pre k

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