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Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d
I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6h
Upon this we can agree
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6h
My only solace is 1) Consuming the brewers’ offspring can by can and bottle by bottle; and 2) Begrudgingly rooting for the Mariners because as a child of the 90s I was Ken Griffey Jr fan
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6h
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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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 10h
Out of the goodness of their hearts, big tech makes "offerings" to education. Free gifts, infused with religious language. What could go wrong?

Marte Henningsen investigates

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/take-me...
Take me to Church: Big Tech Advertising their Gift to Education — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk (NOTE THE NEW TIME): We will now be alternating our meeting time for our Tech Talks so that we can connect with different people in our community. ...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10h
The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵
The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold 2015•
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23h
"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."
A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23h
a boy holding a baseball bat with the words " you 'll be sorry " behind him
Alt: A boy in a striped t-shirt and a backwards hat is holding a baseball bat and saying, "You'll be sorry." The image is from the film "The Sandlot".
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d
We have known that data and "AI" systems in education are prone to various biases for years so it is just inexcusable it's being ignored again now, especially by the teacher unions. A quick thread🧵
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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 1d
Right now, almost none. Most tools enter classrooms with zero independent bias audits.

Schools rely on vendor assurances and pilot anecdotes instead of accountability.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d
More where that came from or something! 🐻 > 🍺 + 🔱
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d
LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d
"The [Mariners] franchise has finished with a losing record in 30 of 49 seasons, as of 2024. The Mariners are the only active MLB franchise never to have appeared in the World Series, holding the sport's longest active World Series appearance drought." - Wikipedia
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d
I'm mentoring a student at my undergrad alma mater and when I went to update my profile in the institution's new platform, I discovered two reasons to feel less than awesome about higher ed right now: 1) directions to frame my experience as my "personal brand"; and 2) an invitation to use AI :(
A screenshot of a suggestion to "Add a short line about your career aspirations or experiences. Think 'personal brand'." A screenshot of a pop-up within the platform's messenging tool. The pop-up reads, "Exciting news! We've added AI to craft some of your inbox templates to help you further your conversation. Just remember to add your personal details and tone for that personal touch."
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d
a mother bear and her baby bear are walking in the grass .
Alt: A bear cub stands on his hind legs and motions with one paw to towards the viewer.
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d
"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year."
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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d
I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d
I just got off a call with a group of young people who were seeking some guidance for a project they have launched in their community. Folks, I can tell you that we are blessed in this generation. They are smart and importantly so damn compassionate. ALSO, they know more than we did at their age.
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Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 2d
Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d
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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d
Me interacting with everybody wearing a flannel today now that Flannel Season has at long last arrived in Chicagoland.
a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the woods holding a camera .
Alt: A white man with shoulder-length hair and a beard stands in the woods and slowly nods.
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Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social · 2d
@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!
Events — Civics of Technology
Learn more, RSVP, or submit a proposal for the 1st annual virtual conference to take place from 11am-3pm EST on both August 4th and 5th, 2022.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3d
“I often feel like a killjoy. I feel obligated to inform students, colleagues, and friends that generative AI has a litany of harmful implications for bias, democracy, the environment, labor, and language.”
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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 3d
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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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d
This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."
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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 3d
Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3d
Hey educators, students, caregivers, and librarians:
Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d
New paper - "Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice" - led by @dimiktz.bsky.social w Martyn Pickersgill, Jess Pykett and me from our bio-edu-data-sci project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1080/0159...
Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice
Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuros...
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