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Thanks to @vbivar.bsky.social for curating this super helpful collection of accessible, short-form reading about some of the dangers and limitations of generative AI.
Okay. I've decided on four articles to ask students to read. These are mostly suggestions from @davidhiggins.bsky.social (thanks!). Also tagging @margotlyautey.bsky.social who wanted the list.

1. This is a shorter piece on the environmental costs of AI:
www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgp...
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today has been redeemed by discovering a new word for a long-familiar phenomenon: mondegreen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegr...
Mondegreen - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I have been admiring the refrain that echoes through Holly George-Warren's *A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton*: 'this was Alex's lowest moment in his career', 'this was my lowest point' etc. Encouraging that he had so many and still kept on keeping on.
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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“Starting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America’s protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling,” Trump said at a press conference
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
theonion.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Peter Thiel is darkest most evil billionaire of them all.
April 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?
April 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This seems like an apt song for thos week... youtube.com/watch?v=uivv...
He's Misstra Know-It-All
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Shameless cut and paste from @wifimarxist.bsky.social who know things about hashtags. Every published academic has been done: I support the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protest today and demand that Meta #DoTheWriteThing and compensate authors for the work they stole. #MakeItFair #MetaBookThieves
April 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Current retirement strategy involves Yeokens massively increasing in value over the next two decades.
April 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
theonion.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Disturbing representation of romance in @blackwells.bsky.social Newcastle today!
February 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"In passing a ravine – the Guide recommended strenuously a quickening of pace – as the stones fall with great rapidity & occasional damage – the advice is excellent – but like most good advice impracticable – " Byron, 19 Sept 1816
February 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover Of Gaza
theonion.com/trump-p...
February 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
theonion.com/report-...
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM