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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent. Years ago at @mhs1791.bsky.social we got some mail from Google Ads addressed to Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798). Amused me greatly.

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 21h

Folks I've heard from say all's ok

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 4d

And Lewis Carroll!

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 5d

Seems back now - for a bit it was every page I tried ...

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 5d

@librarything.com @librarythingtim.bsky.social All ok over there? Site just seems to say "HERE" now ...

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 5d

“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake

BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k

www.mfa.org

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

They steal our data. Their whole thing is consume all the data and spit it back mosaic plagiarism stylie while pretending it's "generated" something "new"

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 6d

Adobe, canva, zoom… all these products are expensive per month.

So why is gen ai mostly free? Added to your work or education software as a nice little bonus?

Because we are developing the product for them, creating resources and process flows they will then sell to bosses to replace/pay us less

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12d

The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it

Ariel view of the demolition, with east wing circled in white.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 12d

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12d

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15d

From something I’ve been working with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues regarding the threat posed by agentic AI and outsourced proprietary ed tech:

“If we do not act, we risk a fully automated loop in which assignments are Al-generated with the support of a learning
management system, Al-generated content is submitted by an agentic Al on behalf of the student, and Al-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16d

"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

www.project-syndicate.org

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 17d

A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.

A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.

You are not using AI; AI is using you.

Stop it.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 17d

Hey mainstream political media! When a tyrant causes parts of the government he doesn't like to stop functioning, while amping up the parts he likes, it is not a "shutdown." It is something else.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 17d

The executive committee of the University Faculty Senate for the SUNY system issued a strong statement this week urging university leaders to reject the Trump compact. It's worth a read.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · May 31

"We owe allegiance to no crown," John Woodside, c. 1814

npg.si.edu/exhibit/1812...

Image of the painting, we owe no allegiance to no crown, by John Woodside, c. 1814.

In the foreground, an American sailor holds the US flag. Lady Liberty hovers over him holding a laurel wreath in one hand, and a hole with a liberty cap in the other. In the background is a sailing ship.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 17d

"In America the Law is King." It's only Common Sense.

Excerpt from Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · Sep 27

"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

AI is dehumanizing

I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter.

In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · 26d

JOHN ADAMS WITH A CAPYBARA

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · Oct 1

If you haven't, give a listen to her wonderful interview with @ttbook.bsky.social www.ttbook.org/people/jane-...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Oct 1

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Sep 28

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · Sep 21

Name of the day, Truth-Shall-Prevail Starr (sibling of Comfort, Constant, Suretrust, Moregift, and Jephosephat) - some of these and their parents came to New England in the 1630s

Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social · Sep 20

This has also been happening to me lately (3:30-4ish most days, I've been getting so much done!)

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