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Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to your job. Your worth is not tied to your ability to produce for capitalism. You’re not lazy, less than or expendable just because you’re disabled. Everyone will end up disabled eventually. We all need compassion, care & support.

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Here's hoping THE AI CON will get enough traction to reach such people. More info here: thecon.ai w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Have you gotten a notice that your federal student loans are at risk of being garnished? Share it with us. We want to check it out — and help you.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

It’s only been one week and yet… 🤕

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In advance of World Press Freedom Day tomorrow, ELP and @fpcc.ca are excited to launch a new #journalism resource: “Say it With Respect: A Journalists’ Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages, Language Endangerment, and Language Revitalization" 🗞️ ⅙ #langsky 🐦🐦

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

For @jmhenner.bsky.social. We — @savithry.bsky.social and I — wrote “How to crip your sign language linguistic theory”. Open access. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Language rights continue to be an underappreciated component of worker rights. Workers should have the right to use their entire linguistic repertoires on the job.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Psychically brutal time for those of us who believe in embodied skill developed through practice, appropriate expertise for the task, and situated knowledge as the proper basis for running a society, a government, an organization, etc

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

All love for unions and for the fight that made them possible and keeps them going!

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As these dudes try to glorify factory work-May Day is a fight that we should be learning from. Here’s a quick reminder of the history of May Day and the fight for the 8 hour work day. Art by Ricardo Levins Morales. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/in...!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Admin and EdTech folks: Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history. It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Lemkin Institute raises red flag alert over RFK's autism registry: "What can be said with absolute certainty is that whenever a state creates a list of names of people considered to be somehow unfit, we are in the danger zone for a genocidal process." www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but LLMs do NOT learn language like infants do.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Another weekend, another multi day headache 🤕

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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

submitted 15 days ago • 2049 comments

ALSO, if you are getting pissy about "anti-AI" sentiment on Bluesky while technofascists are deploying LLMs to scrape data, fire thousands of people, decimate academia and science, and worse, while also promising governments that "AI will replace everyone" you might not be reading the room

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments

have had my heart broken by people and passions so bad and so many times they felt like i was crawling out of a car crash. still happening. still going. you can't flinch. no love is wasted.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Yesterday, I joined my brilliant colleagues at #AERA2025 for a panel, "AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation." An audience member asked for more concrete ways to resist the imposition of AI on teachers/students - ahem, Trump's EO on AI - and I wanted to expand on my answer. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Then why cut $370 million from the budget of the CSU, @governor.ca.gov ? The California State University system teaches one in 10 Californians, including a double-digit percentage of first-gen college students! Why won’t the 4th largest economy in the world support public education? #CSUCuts

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

These hotlines save lives. Many LGBTQ+ youth have no one else to speak to outside of these programs. Cutting them will cost lives, and is unimaginably cruel. They seem intent on erasing everyone who isn’t just like them. Fascism. Christian white supremacy. We’re there.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

There is no use of AI separated from this or any other nefarious use of AI. Not engaging with AI. Opting out. Rejecting the inevitability discourse. We all need to do all of this right now

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Wearing a mask to protect yourself and others is resistance.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Friends don’t let friends participate in AI “art” trends without giving them at least a little shit. If your friend had spinach in their teeth you’d tell them. This is the spinach-in-teeth of art. Also? AI art is BAD for the environment, in terms of energy use, water use, and other resources!!

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

submitted 30 days ago • 46 comments

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

My brain has been remembering random stuff from way back. Today it was a phrase from my elementary years: “multiplícate por cero” [‘multiply your yourself by zero’] I can envision many contexts in which I would want to use it 😂

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Burnout happens not because workers failed to practice enough self-care. Burnout happens because the working conditions that cause burnout were never addressed.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Given escalating attacks, many international students will not be traveling home this summer in the hopes of avoiding border violence, denial of re-entry & potential detention & deportation. One thing alums can do is start mutual aid funds to help them cover unexpected housing and living expenses.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 33 days ago • 380 comments

Me, on a panel last week for grad students: "Well I don't think my citizenship will save me from being kidnapped" Today:

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support. Show some love to the library worker in your life today! ala-apa.org/nlwd/ #NLWD25

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

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