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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

They're not dying. They were killed.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

If you use AI to assess student work and writing, quit your job and get out of education.

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been reading a lot of good discussion about the problems of using AI to grade student work, which has left me thinking again about how embedded these tools are becoming while many students are still learning little/nothing about them. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

At my high school no one is talking about AI

But everyone is using it

theimportantwork.substack.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 2d

These types of people always go after the most vulnerable students, the absolute smallest populations, whenever they want to cut anything across public institutions. It's systemically evil.

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 2d

The continued erasing of human expertise. Anyone can do anything if they refer to the computer experts. Just ask ChatGPT. They know best.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/t...

Your plumber has a new favorite tool: ChatGPT | CNN Business

The roughly 20 plumbers of Oak Creek Plumbing & Remodeling in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area don’t just bring toolkits with wrenches, pliers and Teflon tape to customers’ homes these days. They also br...

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 2d

If the compact comes to your university, it's perfectly fine to immediately so no. Like the same day. Don't mull over turning your university into a state sponsored propaganda machine. Seriously. WTF. The answer is an Immediate NO!!

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

They bought a voting system company that was falsely accused of rigging the election so they can rebrand the company and accuse, again, the voting system they bought of rigging elections after it won in court.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, wait for Northern Idaho to to find out about this.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

Who else rejected it?

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

But Joe Rogan literally just podcasted about how Republicans are bringing back free speech and finally everyone can just do comedy.

J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #AcademicSky

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

Lee Greenwood and his 5th wife who's like 30 years younger. I'm seeing a pattern here.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

These articles are part of the whole "let's do a fascism grift because it's so profitable" that Americans believes they can dip their toes in without going full Nazi.

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3d

The @nytimes.com out here shilling for the Trump takeover of higher ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

This is pure inspiration

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

This sounds like a podcast. The American government is now a podcast. "There are two studies out there, bro. They say it is highly likely, dudes."

Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 4d

Im sure it will be on every comedy show!

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

This is not sustainable. We're already being asked to do too much. We're unable to hire enough staff from budget cuts so everyone is doing 2 jobs & now universities are relentlessly pushing AI without any concern of the consequences to the learning community. It's breaking the soul of learning.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

Universities are going to destroy learning and critical thinking if they keep making deals with AI companies that put these tools in front of students who have nothing to lose. Faculty across the nation are now wasting hours trying to curb AI use that their university manufactures and promotes.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

It's wild that people bring down the hammer on plagiarism but have Zero to say about AI stealing everything without any consequences.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

A rip off degree is when the government forces everyone to go into debt for 30 years to get educated. Claiming any form of education is a rip off shifts the blame for joblessness and low wages onto students and colleges instead of the evisceration of federal funding for higher ed.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

America has been stealing labor forever. That's literally what it does. This country is rich because it steals land and labor. That's not new.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 6d

Just monitoring a fake crisis that will require federal troops with weapons. America is super fun.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 6d

Every single professional development session this term is about AI and it's so annoying. It's just a bunch of people overreacting to the implementation of AI and rushing to be on the front line even though all of this is so terrible for students and the environment.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 6d

The privatization of school loans has been absolutely devastating to student debt, keeping people chained to interest rates for decades. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 7d

The news will not cover ICE brutality.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 8d

It's not even recognizable from those good ole days.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 8d

I have concerns abt students going into classes that allow & promote AI use & then going into classes that do not. I'm not sure they will fully understand those mixed messages.