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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 11h

we really have to start getting specific in our discussions of ac freedom in the US because a lot of folks teach in, and most students learn in, classrooms in which they do not pick the curriculum, syllabus, assignments, rubrics, or grading system

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 11h

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 11h

tons of people are self publishing books, in all categories, using genAI now

they just want to be the ones to make money off of it

also this is a year old

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 18h

start of fall break grading queue: 98 [on canvas] & 10 [on paper]

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 1d

This is the “somebody somewhere can do something I guess” news cycle.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 1d

And what are we to do with this information

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 1d

don’t fear shortcuts in home cooking, the cottagecore fantasy that you shop at the farmers market and make everything from scratch will have you in the kitchen 24/7

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 2d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

A better measure, which separates out people who are seeking full-time employment and people surviving on poverty wages reveals that closer to a fifth of Americans are actually unemployed, not 5%.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

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.

futurism.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2d

It's a huge part of your total compensation. Just enormous.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

The reason people THINK employer coverage is significantly less expensive than ACA coverage is because around 75% of the premium cost is typically PAID BY THE EMPLOYER.

ACA tax credits effectively take the place of the employer's share of ESI premiums.

KFF.org: Avg. annual worker & employer premium contributions

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw the phrase,”people who identify as marginalized” and y’all I do not have patience for whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean today.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 2d

FYI, if you're in academia, this is why "keeping your calendar up to date" and other timekeeping measures from boards of governors and other appointed, political governing bodies should be refused outright

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 2d

I so appreciate @keeganlannon.bsky.social's reflections on assessment, including citing @rcmeg.bsky.social @nobugsnous.bsky.social & me on the complexities of calling grading 'alternative' at all. More discussions of doing things, please!

Keegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 2d

It’s up! @biblioracle.bsky.social asked me to contribute a guest column to Inside Higher Education on alternative grading and studying it’s efficacy.

How Will We Know Alternative Grading Reduces Harm?

A guest post from University of Illinois at Chicago lecturer Keegan Lannon on wrestling with alternative grading.

www.insidehighered.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26

Saying that chatgpt can be used as a disability aid for ADHD is pretty much saying you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and don't particularly give a shit whether people get harmed.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 3d

Buena Vista, VA

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

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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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 4d

Also — this is the fiftieth most important point here — who still has a pension. (I do, because I’m a state employee. But like — is this talking point from 1973??)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4d

"Reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct" and "we should tax women who refuse to breed" are not in fact mutually compatible statements.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4d

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 4d

ALMOST posted my family’s business on Facebook but instead I went to therapy.

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