Benjamin Ludwig
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| NH K-8 School Librarian | Reviewer for School Library Journal | #YA Novelist @HarperCollins.bsky.social | Info at benjaminludwig.com | Choosing books is how we choose and build our culture. |
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Um, hell yes!
A company wants to sell you their output, but doesn't want to be responsible for that output? We'd laugh out loud if it was a physical product. So why should we accept it for a digital product?
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
A company wants to sell you their output, but doesn't want to be responsible for that output? We'd laugh out loud if it was a physical product. So why should we accept it for a digital product?
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Um, hell yes!
A company wants to sell you their output, but doesn't want to be responsible for that output? We'd laugh out loud if it was a physical product. So why should we accept it for a digital product?
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
A company wants to sell you their output, but doesn't want to be responsible for that output? We'd laugh out loud if it was a physical product. So why should we accept it for a digital product?
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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Ryan Thames has issued a formal apology to me. This was never about $—it was about integrity. I’m grateful that the false statements have been publicly corrected and that the truth is now clear. I hope this outcome serves as a reminder that words carry weight and accountability matters. @la-cac.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ryan Thames has issued a formal apology to me. This was never about $—it was about integrity. I’m grateful that the false statements have been publicly corrected and that the truth is now clear. I hope this outcome serves as a reminder that words carry weight and accountability matters. @la-cac.org
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AI looks at what already exists and outputs the average of that.
Using AI is promoting mediocrity over creativity. Using AI is actively devaluing the humans whose skills you are deciding to not use.
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
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Using AI is promoting mediocrity over creativity. Using AI is actively devaluing the humans whose skills you are deciding to not use.
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
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a poster of a woman with the words i have witnessed nothing but profound mediocrity on it
Alt: a poster of a woman with the words i have witnessed nothing but profound mediocrity on it
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October 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
AI looks at what already exists and outputs the average of that.
Using AI is promoting mediocrity over creativity. Using AI is actively devaluing the humans whose skills you are deciding to not use.
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
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Using AI is promoting mediocrity over creativity. Using AI is actively devaluing the humans whose skills you are deciding to not use.
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
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I’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: Jason Reynolds is a genius of our time. Hearing him speak feels like what it must have been like to listen to Mozart in person or watch Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. #AASL25
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: Jason Reynolds is a genius of our time. Hearing him speak feels like what it must have been like to listen to Mozart in person or watch Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. #AASL25
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One of our most iconic librarians is reviving a children’s lit classic.
Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.
After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near…
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October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of our most iconic librarians is reviving a children’s lit classic.
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LAST CHANCE! Today is the final day to register for the 2025 NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference, happening on October 10 in Weare! neanh.org/professional...
2025 NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference | NEA-NH
The 2025 NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference will take place on Friday, October 10 in Weare. Registration is open now - don't delay!
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September 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LAST CHANCE! Today is the final day to register for the 2025 NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference, happening on October 10 in Weare! neanh.org/professional...
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in
The movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found.
www.politico.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
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Violence is at the heart of MAGA to a degree the average person cannot possibly comprehend.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Violence is at the heart of MAGA to a degree the average person cannot possibly comprehend.
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While we now see summer grapes in the stores, workers are also in the vineyards getting the winter grapevines ready so we will have grapes in November and December. "Martin" is deleafing the grapevines in Tulare County to get the vines ready for the winter harvest. #WeFeedYou
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
While we now see summer grapes in the stores, workers are also in the vineyards getting the winter grapevines ready so we will have grapes in November and December. "Martin" is deleafing the grapevines in Tulare County to get the vines ready for the winter harvest. #WeFeedYou
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Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls...
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
August 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls...
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
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Book bans don’t always look like bans. Sometimes, they look like budget threats, canceled events, or silenced teachers. Our latest piece exposes how funding leverage creates a chilling effect, pressuring schools and libraries to preemptively censor.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org/how_funding_...
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How Funding Threats Create a Chilling Effect: Money Talks, And Too Often, It Keeps People from Talking
Funding threats create a chilling effect in schools and libraries, silencing educators, canceling programs, and narrowing curricula, censorship through financial coercion instead of open debate.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Book bans don’t always look like bans. Sometimes, they look like budget threats, canceled events, or silenced teachers. Our latest piece exposes how funding leverage creates a chilling effect, pressuring schools and libraries to preemptively censor.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org/how_funding_...
www.freedomtoreadproject.org/how_funding_...
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Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.
August 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.
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Three questions to guide #Edtech & #AI integration:
Is this relevant to my students’ learning goals, identities, or experiences?
What problem does this help to solve?
-for the learner, their community, or their field?
Who benefits from this use?
Keep asking these questions #TLSky #EduSky #EdChat
Is this relevant to my students’ learning goals, identities, or experiences?
What problem does this help to solve?
-for the learner, their community, or their field?
Who benefits from this use?
Keep asking these questions #TLSky #EduSky #EdChat
August 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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So many parents, librarians, authors, and publishers worked to make this happen. Thank you to all of you who refused to back down and who are fighting for intellectual freedom.
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
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“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
www.wuwf.org/florida-news...
August 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So many parents, librarians, authors, and publishers worked to make this happen. Thank you to all of you who refused to back down and who are fighting for intellectual freedom.
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
www.wuwf.org/florida-news...
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
www.wuwf.org/florida-news...
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If you do not see where this is headed by now, no one will ever be able to sway you until it is far far far too late
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you do not see where this is headed by now, no one will ever be able to sway you until it is far far far too late
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But here’s the truth:
📢 The Texas Legislature still has no quorum.
📢 The Democrats are still standing strong.
📢 And this tantrum proves the GOP can’t win unless they cheat.
They’re not trying to pass policy. They’re trying to force silence and punish dissent.
And Texas Democrats aren’t having it.
📢 The Texas Legislature still has no quorum.
📢 The Democrats are still standing strong.
📢 And this tantrum proves the GOP can’t win unless they cheat.
They’re not trying to pass policy. They’re trying to force silence and punish dissent.
And Texas Democrats aren’t having it.
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
But here’s the truth:
📢 The Texas Legislature still has no quorum.
📢 The Democrats are still standing strong.
📢 And this tantrum proves the GOP can’t win unless they cheat.
They’re not trying to pass policy. They’re trying to force silence and punish dissent.
And Texas Democrats aren’t having it.
📢 The Texas Legislature still has no quorum.
📢 The Democrats are still standing strong.
📢 And this tantrum proves the GOP can’t win unless they cheat.
They’re not trying to pass policy. They’re trying to force silence and punish dissent.
And Texas Democrats aren’t having it.
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Without the The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) I never would have seen Doctor Who when I did and would have lost out.
August 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Without the The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) I never would have seen Doctor Who when I did and would have lost out.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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“While New Hampshire’s inadequate and inequitable school funding system has exacerbated teacher shortages in property poor and lower-income communities, lowering the standards for who can teach is an inappropriate response,” said NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle. #NHPolitics #NH
House Bill 90, signed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte this month, allows K-12 schools to hire faculty from New Hampshire’s colleges and universities to teach up to 20 hours a week of classes. For public school advocates, the changes are concerning. From @ethandewitt.bsky.social #NHPolitics
Community colleges are hailing a part-time teacher law. Public school advocates are wary. • New Hampshire Bulletin
House Bill 90, signed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte this month, allows K-12 schools to hire faculty from New Hampshire’s colleges and universities to teach up to 20 hours a week of classes.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“While New Hampshire’s inadequate and inequitable school funding system has exacerbated teacher shortages in property poor and lower-income communities, lowering the standards for who can teach is an inappropriate response,” said NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle. #NHPolitics #NH
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My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI