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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 11h

I’m old enough to remember when they said this about MOOCs and then it turns out without a teacher and classmates to talk to, hardly anyone finishes their MOOC classes. Bc learning is social.

We should absolutely kill the lecture and test model in most cases though. Small, active classes forever!

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 22h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know how to make it matter but I want to pay a lot more attention to the people who refuse along the way than the little fascists destroying everything. The student editors, this fired director. People who rise to the ethical challenges before them, for no glory.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11h

Indiana University Media School Dean David Tolchinsky terminated Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush on Tuesday afternoon after he refused to censor the Indiana Daily Student.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

ICYMI: I wrote for @theverge.com about how we preserve reliable resources on trans health in an era filled with transphobia and AI slop.

Doing it for themselves

How do resources on transitioning survive the era of surveillance and AI slop?

www.theverge.com

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 1d

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

bit.ly/TJA_visible

How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

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Claire Jackson @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social · 1d

why are you doxxing me

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · 2d

Aldus Manutius' introduction of the semicolon was the condition of possibility of transsexuality

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 2d

Been waiting for this to come out, super super excited for this piece

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 2d

uncomfortable seeing pro-AI people developing persecution complexes; the entire material economy and tech sector is lined up to benefit you at the exclusion of people who feel moral qualms about these things, and you want, what, everyone to just bow at your feet?

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4d

This is another form of censorship and book banning to my mind: you force an ersatz simplification on young readers while making the original harder & harder to obtain, then tell them the ersatz is better than the real thing (bc it is programmed propaganda pablum).

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest problem with the not judging people by the standards of today is that all of the people committing crimes against humanity have almost always had contemporaries telling them this was wrong

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 3d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4d

These tools are particularly toxic given recent findings that suggest use of AI technologies in school undermines students’ feelings of connection to their teachers - and garbage like Graded Pro probably won’t help improve those feelings.

More at @cdt.org’s report:

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jam @socialistboat.dad · Oct 26

When he's not in character Conner O'Malley looks like a divorced Middlebury literature professor from 1987. Just like a guy with a midcentury modern house and two hunting dogs who's spent sixteen years poring over Milton or w/e

Actor/comedian Conner O'Malley, a late thirties white guy with wavy brown hair and round glasses, wears a black t-shirt and blue jeans in a TV appearance on Seth Meyers' show

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 6d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 5d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 6d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 7d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

"Killjoy energy is so stark in the GenAI context because the marketing surrounding GenAI is so optimistic, so cheery."

This is so valuable as a frame and I love Sara Ahmed's work. Thank you @nobugsnous.bsky.social for connecting this to critical perspectives on AI.

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

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