Claire Jackson
@cisgenderstudies.bsky.social
assistant professor of writing studies / wpa & wcd
writing program administration | writing assessment | language & literacy ideologies | trans rhetorics
writing program administration | writing assessment | language & literacy ideologies | trans rhetorics
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This is the thing. You can't demand nuanced conversations without acknowledging clear power differential between sides. If one side has hundreds of billions of dollars, flattering media coverage, waves of lies, and Government Fascists behind it, is it really Bluesky Poster's job to Be Reasonable?
It's not the public's fault that marketing has shoved dozens of different technologies that have nothing to do with each other under the umbrella of "AI."
Blame that on the marketers and the techbro hype. They've poisoned the well and you can't explain to every single individual the differences.
Blame that on the marketers and the techbro hype. They've poisoned the well and you can't explain to every single individual the differences.
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is the thing. You can't demand nuanced conversations without acknowledging clear power differential between sides. If one side has hundreds of billions of dollars, flattering media coverage, waves of lies, and Government Fascists behind it, is it really Bluesky Poster's job to Be Reasonable?
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Ergo: humans, don’t adopt.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Ergo: humans, don’t adopt.
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This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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“‘AI’ is being used as a magic word that is code for less worker power, hoarding of more resources, and making an uninformed gamble on high energy demand computer chips magically saving us from climate change."
More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate
Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“‘AI’ is being used as a magic word that is code for less worker power, hoarding of more resources, and making an uninformed gamble on high energy demand computer chips magically saving us from climate change."
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Quantum mechanics unleashed the Trinity Test upon the American desert and the world. David Lynch's Trinity Test transmits that quantum state as the fabric of American cultural economy: I am dead yet I live. Timecodes Series Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 examines every minute of Lynch's masterpiece.
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Quantum mechanics unleashed the Trinity Test upon the American desert and the world. David Lynch's Trinity Test transmits that quantum state as the fabric of American cultural economy: I am dead yet I live. Timecodes Series Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 examines every minute of Lynch's masterpiece.
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I haven't been a classroom teacher since before LLMs, but even then, it was striking how much the system rewarded teachers and students for maintaining an adversarial relationship, and how it punished them for organizing together against their mutual enemies
I have to resist the tech determinist impulse to blame all of this on social media and LLMs, although that's incredibly tempting. The social contract around public education was already incredibly broken by the time the tech came around. >>
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I haven't been a classroom teacher since before LLMs, but even then, it was striking how much the system rewarded teachers and students for maintaining an adversarial relationship, and how it punished them for organizing together against their mutual enemies
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
what I would give to get roasted and toasted and then eat this
Ben & Jerry's Roasted & Toasted (2015-2016): This Wal-Mart exclusive consisted of *dark* chocolate ice cream loaded with fudge chunks, fudge-covered roasted almonds, and a toasted marshmallow swirl.
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
what I would give to get roasted and toasted and then eat this
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
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I beg you, do not start a research paper by making questionable assertions. Like: "Generative AI can be employed to write academic genres at a level similar to what humans write." Only if your baseline is that all academic writing produces non-representational strings of words can this be true.
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I beg you, do not start a research paper by making questionable assertions. Like: "Generative AI can be employed to write academic genres at a level similar to what humans write." Only if your baseline is that all academic writing produces non-representational strings of words can this be true.
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Yet another prime case of Potemkin AI. I hate seeing an “AI notetaker” in a zoom call recording everything. In some cases, these notetakers were literally just a guy writing everything down. We too often see vaporous hype leading to the credulous embrace of fraudulent systems.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yet another prime case of Potemkin AI. I hate seeing an “AI notetaker” in a zoom call recording everything. In some cases, these notetakers were literally just a guy writing everything down. We too often see vaporous hype leading to the credulous embrace of fraudulent systems.
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The end goal of advertising is to make it indistinguishable from one’s own wants and needs. That aim is finally going to be realized very soon.
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The end goal of advertising is to make it indistinguishable from one’s own wants and needs. That aim is finally going to be realized very soon.
needing to start from the beginning is a complete misunderstanding of how these genres work!!
My most oldhead opinion is that people today are too precious about starting shows/comics/whatever from the beginning or at designated jumping-on points instead just hopping in wherever and enjoying the ride and figuring it out for yourself.
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
needing to start from the beginning is a complete misunderstanding of how these genres work!!
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
most academics just need to hear they are mommy's special genius and that's why so many of them love the sycophancy machine
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
most academics just need to hear they are mommy's special genius and that's why so many of them love the sycophancy machine
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Colleges and universities are collaborating with the Trump regime to reverse social changes they feel were forced upon them. They are not being “forced.”
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Colleges and universities are collaborating with the Trump regime to reverse social changes they feel were forced upon them. They are not being “forced.”
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Lord I see what You’ve done for others
But if the court finds OpenAI knowingly trained on pirated books and deleted the evidence to to avoid scrutiny, that could mean actual consequences to the tune of billions of dollars.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lord I see what You’ve done for others
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joining the war on AI on the side of bong joon ho
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
joining the war on AI on the side of bong joon ho
I need these stats for higher ed
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I need these stats for higher ed
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Red teaming tech harms is a myth. Guardrails are a myth. Algorithmic audits are a myth. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is a myth. These ideas serve to honeypot regulators and civil society into thinking they can work with tech companies to make them safe on their own terms, but it doesn’t work.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Red teaming tech harms is a myth. Guardrails are a myth. Algorithmic audits are a myth. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is a myth. These ideas serve to honeypot regulators and civil society into thinking they can work with tech companies to make them safe on their own terms, but it doesn’t work.
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Don't worry, if you go to Northwestern, you can "choose to identify" as trans, you just can't live or use the bathroom there
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Don't worry, if you go to Northwestern, you can "choose to identify" as trans, you just can't live or use the bathroom there
I'm just never going to take it even remotely seriously again when an administrator tells me we don't have money for something. like you had tons of money to buy all our students subscriptions to the app that lies to them, tells them to kill themselves, AND loses money. be fucking for real.
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm just never going to take it even remotely seriously again when an administrator tells me we don't have money for something. like you had tons of money to buy all our students subscriptions to the app that lies to them, tells them to kill themselves, AND loses money. be fucking for real.