“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.

Citing DEI concerns, the Trump administration has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...

Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

this is terrifying

"We can't have Palestinians On Here because some of them are scammers"

is the same as

"We can't give money to homeless people because they might spend it on drugs and some want to be homeless"

is the same as

"We can't have universal healthcare because some people will abuse it."

Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.