Corey Harris
@coreyrharris.bsky.social
Dad, husband, professor. Humanity and Humanities.
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In 4profits, centralized course bureaucracy happened at national offices. The rest of higherEd envied that (and enrollment management ie sales). AI promises centralized control without the employees to manage it.
It will fail but not before trying to destroy the host system first.
It will fail but not before trying to destroy the host system first.
Even easier when you have a syllabus generator integrated into the LLM that you can pressure faculty to use.
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In 4profits, centralized course bureaucracy happened at national offices. The rest of higherEd envied that (and enrollment management ie sales). AI promises centralized control without the employees to manage it.
It will fail but not before trying to destroy the host system first.
It will fail but not before trying to destroy the host system first.
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How soon before they move Cardinal Dolan down to Mar-A-Lago? And give him a paid spot on Fox News. Anybody want to take bets?
December 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How soon before they move Cardinal Dolan down to Mar-A-Lago? And give him a paid spot on Fox News. Anybody want to take bets?
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As someone else said on here, if this technology was so great at creating things, its owners would sell us the great things it produces, rather than access to the tech itself.
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As someone else said on here, if this technology was so great at creating things, its owners would sell us the great things it produces, rather than access to the tech itself.
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It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.
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"My profession - that of university teacher - is in this way dangerous. If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our pupils are fit to become our critics and rivals. We should be delighted when it arrives." - C. S. Lewis
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"My profession - that of university teacher - is in this way dangerous. If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our pupils are fit to become our critics and rivals. We should be delighted when it arrives." - C. S. Lewis
I know this is true. I hate it.
one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life
September 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I know this is true. I hate it.
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George Carlin: "If you can't say 'fuck,' then you can't say 'fuck the government'"
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
George Carlin: "If you can't say 'fuck,' then you can't say 'fuck the government'"
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried
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Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.
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It is possible to condemn political violence without venerating objectively bad people who made America worse. Let's try for that.
September 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It is possible to condemn political violence without venerating objectively bad people who made America worse. Let's try for that.
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If you teach in Canvas, by default, your counterparties to this user agreement are not just Instructure, but OpenAi, it's lead VC funder, Dragoneer Investment, & KKR, one of the five biggest private equity firms in the world.
"Instructure does not claim ownership of Your Content.
However, you grant Instructure a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and...
However, you grant Instructure a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and...
Reading this as I consider 1) going off Canvas (owned by private equity firm KKR, partnered with OpenAI); and 2) going off screens this semester
August 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you teach in Canvas, by default, your counterparties to this user agreement are not just Instructure, but OpenAi, it's lead VC funder, Dragoneer Investment, & KKR, one of the five biggest private equity firms in the world.
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"Evangelicals do not value children as people. They see children as mission fields, as objects to convert rather than as people to be in relationship with. And in my mind, such thinking (and the theology underlying it) is antichrist."
Mr. Rogers and Child Liberation Theology
Child liberation theology is not about abstract ideas but rather the simple yet radical act of treating children humanly and justly—something Fred Rogers took seriously.
rlstollar.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Evangelicals do not value children as people. They see children as mission fields, as objects to convert rather than as people to be in relationship with. And in my mind, such thinking (and the theology underlying it) is antichrist."
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THIS. It has hurt STEM students on the job front as much as it’s hurt humanities enrollments. We claim to be helping these students w focused ‘job ready’ degrees. It’s a lie. It has always been a lie.
(Not all, of course, but overall siloing stem students away from books and humanities, and more than that, convincing them those things are beneath them/obsolete, has done them a disservice. There just isn't really a way to learn critical thinking skills without, apart from lived experience.)
August 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
THIS. It has hurt STEM students on the job front as much as it’s hurt humanities enrollments. We claim to be helping these students w focused ‘job ready’ degrees. It’s a lie. It has always been a lie.
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I am reading a lot about Ed tech and AI this month, to get caught up.
And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.
And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am reading a lot about Ed tech and AI this month, to get caught up.
And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.
And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.
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Academics seeing today’s date
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Academics seeing today’s date
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The AI hype epistemology of science is some sort of bizarre neomystical textualism except you don’t get to the secrets by traditions of hermeneutical practice but by statistical modelling. It is truly an Age of Enstupidment
No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.
I just now realized that some guys think that fancy predictive text can make new scientific discoveries but that doesn’t even make sense.
July 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The AI hype epistemology of science is some sort of bizarre neomystical textualism except you don’t get to the secrets by traditions of hermeneutical practice but by statistical modelling. It is truly an Age of Enstupidment
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I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
June 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
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The. Classes. Are. Popular.
I didn’t teach intersectionality because it was my gig. I taught it because those classes had waitlists and overenrollments.
You do not ever ever trade your base for status. Especially not in the middle of an authoritarian crime spree.
I didn’t teach intersectionality because it was my gig. I taught it because those classes had waitlists and overenrollments.
You do not ever ever trade your base for status. Especially not in the middle of an authoritarian crime spree.
Academia is a conservative, hierarchical institution & many folks are invested in these hierarchies. These are the same folks who think interdisciplinary fields like gender & ethnic studies lack rigor & pedagogical training is unnecessary.Yet, students are hungry for tools to analyze how power works
You trade your one base — the only power anyone really has — for a ticket to the cool heterodox study hall. And you want me to believe your discipline is blinded by its focus on social problems?? The part that said hey look at how power works?!
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The. Classes. Are. Popular.
I didn’t teach intersectionality because it was my gig. I taught it because those classes had waitlists and overenrollments.
You do not ever ever trade your base for status. Especially not in the middle of an authoritarian crime spree.
I didn’t teach intersectionality because it was my gig. I taught it because those classes had waitlists and overenrollments.
You do not ever ever trade your base for status. Especially not in the middle of an authoritarian crime spree.
Education is a form of care.
Care is a problem for neoliberalism because it's essential for human and economic survival, but it can't be easily automated or outsourced. Which means care has little or no profit potential. And will become even less profitable as automation and outsourcing reduce production costs in other sectors.
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Education is a form of care.
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Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.
Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.