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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

"we are now seeing the emergence of the single platform solution, notably from big tech companies like Microsoft, with apps to cover all aspects of school life—from precise monitoring of student learning through to expense management and human resources" - great paper by @lucipangrazio.bsky.social

Luci Pangrazio @lucipangrazio.bsky.social · Sep 11

New paper alert! In this article I look at the rise of the 'single platform solution' in schools driven by big tech. Very difficult to keep corporate logics at bay!
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<em>British Journal of Educational Technology</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines recent trends in the data infrastructures of Australian schools. Data interoperability has become integral to school operations as it enables data to flow between the array of .....

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“There are about a dozen companies that specialize in school surveillance…That monitoring reaches into students’ lives beyond school hours, with all but two of those companies monitoring students around the clock.”

What Do We Know About the Edtech Services That Watch Students? - EdSurge News

After talking with teens lobbying against the dark sides of AI, EdSurge asks: “What’s known about the companies that schools use to monitor students?” ...

www.edsurge.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms

This article examines the rise of platform bureaucratization in highly digitalized classrooms. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a Swedish lower secondary school, we examine how teachers and stud...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11d

There is a whole micro-industry in edtech market valuation that aims to support investors to price their investments - and humongous figures like the $8t conjured up by big financial orgs surely help prop up edtech markets even when markets look bad www.holoniq.com/notes/edtech...

EdTech funding drops again in early 2025. Fewer deals, but bigger bets

$410M in Global EdTech VC funding with fewer deals, larger checks, and new regional momentum hint at where investment is heading next.

www.holoniq.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12d

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 13d

My entire verbal relationship with my spouse is shot through with Simpsons’ quotes. It is a rare day that one doesn’t come out of one of our mouths, even though we stopped watching it actively 15 years ago.

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 13d

The fact that I looked at that headline and thought “oh, that’s the guy who charts his nighttime boners and compares them to his teenage son and also once shot his face full of someone else’s fat” suggests I’ve spent more time than any of us deserves to reading anything at all about him

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 13d

Note: he is a professor at the Wharton School of Business. Most of his early 2023 gushing work on “creativity” and generative AI was focused on ad campaigns.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17d

“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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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18d

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 18d

Ruha Benjamin, online Tuesday Sept 30 at 7 Central! Click to register. If you're in Lawrence, it's at Liberty Hall, free and open to the public (no tickets required). (Bonus: Conversation 10 - 11 am Oct 1 at the Hall Center)
calendar.ku.edu/event/ruha-b...

Ruha Benjamin: Humanities of the Future?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d

Don’t forget that they needed new guidelines because they were caught with “guidelines” that allowed for their chatbot to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."

Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts

A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 19d

"AI use has doubled at work since 2023 from 21% to 40%, per Gallup, yet 95% of organizations don’t see a measurable return on their investment in the tech, according to a recent MIT Media Lab report." #TLsky

www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/a...

AI-generated 'workslop' is here. It's killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say

Some 40% of people say they've received workslop in the last month.

www.cnbc.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 21d

my faith in humanity is renewed

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d

“(…) what gets repeatedly ignored is this fundamental paradox: GenAI’s architecture absolutely depends on consciously taken actions that would stand in violation of any of our institutions’ academic-integrity policies.” @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 21d

i don't even know what to say anymore about these kinds of stories. what more does it take for AI enthusiasts to finally wince?

404 Media @404media.co · 21d

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot

YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.

www.404media.co

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 13

Right?!?

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 13

To be fair, the prickly pear brain on the right looks riper so I’d probably eat that one

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 11

I did try it! I don't remember what I used (thread, maybe? yarn next to a gap? too long ago) And of course it's hard to get the guts to slam a door when you know it's gonna hurt, but spoiler: it hurts when you don't slam it hard enough, either. More, even. 😬 THAT I remember!

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 11

I remember doing this at least once as a kid. I can still conjure up the feeling of the string yanking and the door bouncing back. Thankfully I did not get it in the face.

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 9

Underrated post

Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Keeping our learning environment free of AI use is a principled response to the techno-bro-driven future forcing its way through our classroom doors.”

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · Sep 9

New today in The Important Work: high school teacher Clayton Kistner draws inspiration from @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine and argues that in the classroom, there is no middle ground when it comes to AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

I am a proud Luddite in the classroom

There is no middle ground

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