Marguerite Mayhall
@mkmayhall.bsky.social
Venezuelanist, art historian (PhD UT Austin), now studying the discourse on space & place, networks, bodies, & ‘the sacred.’ Esp interested in links betw prehistory, history, & consciousness. Pedagogue. Knitter, spinner.
I miss Caracas, though.
I miss Caracas, though.
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Marguerite Mayhall
@mkmayhall.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Calls for Submissions - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines - Philosophy Documentation Center
www.pdcnet.org
CFP - AI, Education, & Critical Thinking: Dispatches from the College Classroom www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/Ca...
The issue's theme is the impact of AI on the higher education classroom. See the CFP for more information.
The issue's theme is the impact of AI on the higher education classroom. See the CFP for more information.
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And @katzish.bsky.social caught the chef's kiss at the end.
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
And @katzish.bsky.social caught the chef's kiss at the end.
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Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
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This is great.
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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December 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is great.
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Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
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I tell my students all the time, their major might (might!) lead to their first job but their gen ed is how they get to their second.
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I tell my students all the time, their major might (might!) lead to their first job but their gen ed is how they get to their second.
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Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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The same bit from the other end. My school made me take science classes, as part of being a well rounded student, and I loved it all so much I switched from pre-law to engineering. Very few 18 year olds know what they want, or understand the options. The "consumer" model is anti-person.
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The same bit from the other end. My school made me take science classes, as part of being a well rounded student, and I loved it all so much I switched from pre-law to engineering. Very few 18 year olds know what they want, or understand the options. The "consumer" model is anti-person.
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takes no responsibility for the cultivation of values (no room for dealing with a multi-dimensional, contradictory structure of desires in a way that we could call sublimation, or the good life in, say, a Sokratic way). Desires are measured, they are a question of consumption -
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
takes no responsibility for the cultivation of values (no room for dealing with a multi-dimensional, contradictory structure of desires in a way that we could call sublimation, or the good life in, say, a Sokratic way). Desires are measured, they are a question of consumption -
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There's a reason our junk food and our social media operate are the way they are. Markets are political decision making systems. They are not natural, they distribute not just profits, but also responsibilities, and they do so in quite asymmetric ways. The seller has no responsibility to
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's a reason our junk food and our social media operate are the way they are. Markets are political decision making systems. They are not natural, they distribute not just profits, but also responsibilities, and they do so in quite asymmetric ways. The seller has no responsibility to
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In asking us to be humble, this "theory of needs" tells us to elevate the power of capital. After all, markets also determine how much disposable income someone has, and since spending "measures" desire, the markets distribute "desire ceilings". A poor person just has
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In asking us to be humble, this "theory of needs" tells us to elevate the power of capital. After all, markets also determine how much disposable income someone has, and since spending "measures" desire, the markets distribute "desire ceilings". A poor person just has
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Economists and other apologists of capitalism have sold our institutions on a particular model of needs, wants, and desires: We cannot know them, except as measured by spending. Whatever people buy is what they want and need. It's an idea that cloaks itself in apparent humility: 🧵
The same bit from the other end. My school made me take science classes, as part of being a well rounded student, and I loved it all so much I switched from pre-law to engineering. Very few 18 year olds know what they want, or understand the options. The "consumer" model is anti-person.
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Economists and other apologists of capitalism have sold our institutions on a particular model of needs, wants, and desires: We cannot know them, except as measured by spending. Whatever people buy is what they want and need. It's an idea that cloaks itself in apparent humility: 🧵
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missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Imagine the possibilities. Such an opportunity for everyone from meddling foreign intelligence to your bog standard chaos agent, with zero friction.
missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Imagine the possibilities. Such an opportunity for everyone from meddling foreign intelligence to your bog standard chaos agent, with zero friction.
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What we call "digital literacy" or "digital hermeneutics", basically a reflection about our practices dealing with digital sources and the used and established environments of such activities, is simply not present when uploading our documents to Google (and others). We are losing the game this way.
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What we call "digital literacy" or "digital hermeneutics", basically a reflection about our practices dealing with digital sources and the used and established environments of such activities, is simply not present when uploading our documents to Google (and others). We are losing the game this way.
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I want to add to Daniel's excellent points here bc I've been arguing against these uses of "AI" by historians for years. What's important is this, as ever: the tech isn't the central issue; the surrounding political & economic project of its deployment is. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I want to add to Daniel's excellent points here bc I've been arguing against these uses of "AI" by historians for years. What's important is this, as ever: the tech isn't the central issue; the surrounding political & economic project of its deployment is. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
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Why on earth are we leaving all good criticism of privately owned data behind for this? Offering AI-fueled accesses to handwriting of the past is a data trap. We pay with the data we are providing, i.e. mostly archival documents, plus a few privately owned letters etc.
Also,
Also,
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Why on earth are we leaving all good criticism of privately owned data behind for this? Offering AI-fueled accesses to handwriting of the past is a data trap. We pay with the data we are providing, i.e. mostly archival documents, plus a few privately owned letters etc.
Also,
Also,
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Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:
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December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
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Yours truly and @meganpiont.bsky.social are quoted waxing poetic about zines, lol. What's new? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yours truly and @meganpiont.bsky.social are quoted waxing poetic about zines, lol. What's new? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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December 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..."
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
www.aaup.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..."
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
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at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it