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Jim Kosmicki
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English instructor at Central Community College in Nebraska
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sesmith.lol
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scarleteen.com Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 1d
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November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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arvinski.bsky.social
The myopic, self-serving tech bro agenda of forcefeeding AI into the public psyche at any & all costs is a simple calculation since the money flows directly into their pockets. For people who appreciate the hazards, it feels more like The State mandating alcoholism, chain-smoking and processed food.
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
This is consistent with what I see from my students
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
Good for the MLA
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10d
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Screenshots of the following text: Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025. Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy. Screenshots of the following text: The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally 1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
  2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own. If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
When I give my students the choice the majority will choose to not use AI - and as the semester goes on, fewer choose to
sycoraxpine.bsky.social Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 12d
This is definitely the sense I am getting from my students. There’s a craving for analog experiences, for presence, for humanity, for a recognition that they have unique value to our future that is irreplaceable by automation. There’s a hunger for time off-screen and uninterrupted by tech.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13d
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
Every AI using student in a nutshell
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15d
"All those barely literate rubes using ChatGPT are merely being played like a fiddle by the corporations, and producing worthless slop. Only I, with my towering intellect, have figured out how to make it generate greatness." —every GenAI-using asshole out there
When Using AI, Users Fall for the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Reverse - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals that when interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone—regardless of skill level—overestimates their performance.
neurosciencenews.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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ricdesi.dpad.fm
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
They never get it
plaguepoems.bsky.social Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 17d
My coworker
(the one who is committed
to not getting sick this fall)
is still committed
to discovering my secret,
and today while we talked
she looked back and forth
from my air filter
to my masked face
before asking
what vitamins I regularly take.
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
But yeah, let's sell it to students as a research tool
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
So damn true
dsquareddigest.bsky.social Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24d
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
I just lectured on where to do college level research - now I have to incorporate this too?
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
Good Lord
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
Very useful
October 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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miriamposner.com
If you feel like it, will you show me how you annotate texts you read for research? I thought our first-year undergrads might be interested to see the variety.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Loyalty programs have really become backdoor laboratories for pricing…There's a lot more happening in the background that is targeting and squeezing each consumer's willingness to pay.”
Column | The hidden way using a rewards card can cost you more
Companies use rewards programs to build profiles of you and figure out exactly how much you’re willing to pay. Two former FTC officials say it’s a trap.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
jkosmicki.bsky.social
I need to show this to our A & P instructors
clairezagorski.bsky.social Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Oct 11
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues. An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”. An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg. An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“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
October 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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jedbrown.org
I expect this will be used to "fix" citation issues in LLM slop. The (epistemically fraudulent) citations will be real now, and even if they don't say what's being claimed, it'll often be enough for plausible deniability. This is obviously a win for misinformation.

More sketchy tech from Grammarly:
August 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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biblioracle.bsky.social
Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rjwatt42.bsky.social
This gives me much hope for the future of Psychology.
Over my career, I've seen many tech fads come and go (or often not go), each displacing the basic effort of theoretical clarity by something that works off laziness.
Here, the latest fad is being shown for what it is very early in its lifetime.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 4
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 18
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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azteclady.bsky.social
Divorces, custody battles. (thread 👇🏽)

Also, feeling weird about publishing this myself ten days ago:
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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olivia.science
Also I noticed the point about not assigning essays, please keep doing it bsky.app/profile/oliv...
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom.

(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

9/n
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM