Lauren Woolsey
@cgsunit.bsky.social
Earthling, she/her, teacher of science, reader of books, player of board games, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts :) These days, I post a lot about how AI sucks, see zines and info at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
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Lauren Woolsey
@cgsunit.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
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Ch4 begins with discussion of digital servants. Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social) shared this 1957 advertisement here with commentary on cultural beliefs in "Race After Technology" (2019).
"Every site of automation is a site of labor devaluation, displacement, and exploitation." (Williams, p75)
"Every site of automation is a site of labor devaluation, displacement, and exploitation." (Williams, p75)
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ch4 begins with discussion of digital servants. Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social) shared this 1957 advertisement here with commentary on cultural beliefs in "Race After Technology" (2019).
"Every site of automation is a site of labor devaluation, displacement, and exploitation." (Williams, p75)
"Every site of automation is a site of labor devaluation, displacement, and exploitation." (Williams, p75)
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People are basically good, and if we as a society provided everyone with a baseline level of comfortable housing, good food, and good healthcare, without fear for the future, life would be chill
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
People are basically good, and if we as a society provided everyone with a baseline level of comfortable housing, good food, and good healthcare, without fear for the future, life would be chill
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It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
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It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
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I'm still not convinced that any these so-called benefits of using LLMs in teaching coding outweighs the terrible environmental costs among other costs/risks genAI has exacted. I think you can teach critical thinking in computer science without burning down the earth and killing depressed children
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I'm still not convinced that any these so-called benefits of using LLMs in teaching coding outweighs the terrible environmental costs among other costs/risks genAI has exacted. I think you can teach critical thinking in computer science without burning down the earth and killing depressed children
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A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
Y'all my notifications are a mess right now. Sorry if I miss legitimate replies! I've not had one of my book threads explode quite this much.
But also, I connected on Bluesky with a good friend from **middle school** because of this thread?! So that's fun :)
But also, I connected on Bluesky with a good friend from **middle school** because of this thread?! So that's fun :)
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Y'all my notifications are a mess right now. Sorry if I miss legitimate replies! I've not had one of my book threads explode quite this much.
But also, I connected on Bluesky with a good friend from **middle school** because of this thread?! So that's fun :)
But also, I connected on Bluesky with a good friend from **middle school** because of this thread?! So that's fun :)
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Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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This is all infuriating but we did still win all those elections, the *PEOPLE* are still furious and ready to act, and nothing the senate dems do can change that.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is all infuriating but we did still win all those elections, the *PEOPLE* are still furious and ready to act, and nothing the senate dems do can change that.
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You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
All 3 of these books arrived to me in the past 24 hours 😍📚🥰
1. Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social (via publisher)
2. Ancestors by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (via Cellar Bird Books)
3. Read This When Things Fall Apart by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (via Pilsen Community Books)
1. Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social (via publisher)
2. Ancestors by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (via Cellar Bird Books)
3. Read This When Things Fall Apart by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (via Pilsen Community Books)
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
All 3 of these books arrived to me in the past 24 hours 😍📚🥰
1. Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social (via publisher)
2. Ancestors by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (via Cellar Bird Books)
3. Read This When Things Fall Apart by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (via Pilsen Community Books)
1. Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social (via publisher)
2. Ancestors by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (via Cellar Bird Books)
3. Read This When Things Fall Apart by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (via Pilsen Community Books)
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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"hope over tyranny
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"hope over tyranny
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
"I never more fully comprehended than now the great struggle between the powers of greed on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of freedom. I can see the dawn of a better day of humanity. The people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own." (Debs)
Eugene V. Debs - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"I never more fully comprehended than now the great struggle between the powers of greed on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of freedom. I can see the dawn of a better day of humanity. The people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own." (Debs)
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They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.
I gave $100 to the GoFundMe this afternoon for the Teen Vogue staffers like Lex who were laid off suddenly this week because they've all been doing great work for a long time and didn't deserve that bullshit move.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I gave $100 to the GoFundMe this afternoon for the Teen Vogue staffers like Lex who were laid off suddenly this week because they've all been doing great work for a long time and didn't deserve that bullshit move.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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GUYS WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY 5 SUBS OVER OUR GOAL!!!! OH MY GOD!!!
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
GUYS WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY 5 SUBS OVER OUR GOAL!!!! OH MY GOD!!!
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
Learned about the Library of Babel group via @olivia.science and her highlighted quote from @melaniedusseau.bsky.social from the essay "A Psalm for the Analog" - definitely worth reading the whole thing, and this table of contents is so solid.
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Learned about the Library of Babel group via @olivia.science and her highlighted quote from @melaniedusseau.bsky.social from the essay "A Psalm for the Analog" - definitely worth reading the whole thing, and this table of contents is so solid.
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...