Matt Crosslin
@grandeped.bsky.social
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Matt Crosslin
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· Nov 9
BTW - my screen name is currently “Rage Against the AI Cyberocracy” over on Xitter for those trying to figure out who this rando named Matt is that followed you here.
Texas being Texas. Yes, this is a violation of student privacy laws, but since when does ICE care about following laws? cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Police are tapping school cameras to help ICE carry out immigration raids: report
Texas school districts have allowed law enforcement to access their cameras amid Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown
www.independent.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Texas being Texas. Yes, this is a violation of student privacy laws, but since when does ICE care about following laws? cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Reposted by Matt Crosslin
If you hated that Ring ad, have I got a book for you.
February 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM
If you hated that Ring ad, have I got a book for you.
But I’m guessing we are going to be digging up layer upon layer of awesome deeper meaning from that Bad Bunny half time show for a long time.
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
But I’m guessing we are going to be digging up layer upon layer of awesome deeper meaning from that Bad Bunny half time show for a long time.
That MAHA commercial was layer upon layer of garbage.
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
That MAHA commercial was layer upon layer of garbage.
As frustrated as I am with Ed Tech companies for pushing bad research out there, the critics do the same things. You compared classes with technology to those without? So what? What was lesson design? It is pretty rare that you can use the same design for both tech and non-tech classes.
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
economist.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
As frustrated as I am with Ed Tech companies for pushing bad research out there, the critics do the same things. You compared classes with technology to those without? So what? What was lesson design? It is pretty rare that you can use the same design for both tech and non-tech classes.
You know what to do. Vote no on Ai in schools.
I'm arguing for all the reasons I think AI should not be embraced in K-12 schooling here (if you agree, plz vote no here):
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
You know what to do. Vote no on Ai in schools.
Reposted by Matt Crosslin
I'm arguing for all the reasons I think AI should not be embraced in K-12 schooling here (if you agree, plz vote no here):
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I'm arguing for all the reasons I think AI should not be embraced in K-12 schooling here (if you agree, plz vote no here):
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Is it Just Red? Human Creativity Versus Ai “Creativity” www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/27/i...
Is it Just Red? Human Creativity Versus Ai “Creativity” – EduGeek Journal
www.edugeekjournal.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Is it Just Red? Human Creativity Versus Ai “Creativity” www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/27/i...
Ai-powered battleships? Just what we need: hallucination-fueled Terminator ships prowling the seas thinking they are god.
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Ai-powered battleships? Just what we need: hallucination-fueled Terminator ships prowling the seas thinking they are god.
I noticed that the Matter and Space (Ai company claiming to revolutionize education) website just forwards to SNHU website now. I went looking for what happened.
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education – EduGeek Journal
www.edugeekjournal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I noticed that the Matter and Space (Ai company claiming to revolutionize education) website just forwards to SNHU website now. I went looking for what happened.
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
While I know there are good people working to create ways to improve critical thinking in media, there have always been concerns that this is not enough. This tread looks into why it is not enough to just improve how we evaluate information.
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
While I know there are good people working to create ways to improve critical thinking in media, there have always been concerns that this is not enough. This tread looks into why it is not enough to just improve how we evaluate information.
Story on the news last night about how North Texas lakes are full, but the water table is “mysteriously”dropping over the last year. Which is when the first Ai data centers went online. Gee… I wonder where all the water is going…
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Story on the news last night about how North Texas lakes are full, but the water table is “mysteriously”dropping over the last year. Which is when the first Ai data centers went online. Gee… I wonder where all the water is going…
A friend of mine that passed away several years ago was in a few underground club bands in LA in the 80s. He passed away while writing lyrics for his next album. Someone took those lyrics and used Ai to create the lost album. Don’t do this BS to the deceased. It is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A friend of mine that passed away several years ago was in a few underground club bands in LA in the 80s. He passed away while writing lyrics for his next album. Someone took those lyrics and used Ai to create the lost album. Don’t do this BS to the deceased. It is evil.
Look, I am about as anti-Ai as anyone. If every Ai system got deleted and every Ai company shutdown, I would not shed one tear. I used to research LLMs in education and learning analytics pre-ChatGPT explosion. I decided it was all bad long before most even knew there was an anti-Ai stance…
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Look, I am about as anti-Ai as anyone. If every Ai system got deleted and every Ai company shutdown, I would not shed one tear. I used to research LLMs in education and learning analytics pre-ChatGPT explosion. I decided it was all bad long before most even knew there was an anti-Ai stance…
Saw a bumper sticker that says “I’m not smart enough to be a socialist.” While I get the intent of the joke there, technically it sounds more like they are saying only ignorant people are against socialism.
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Saw a bumper sticker that says “I’m not smart enough to be a socialist.” While I get the intent of the joke there, technically it sounds more like they are saying only ignorant people are against socialism.
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
I guess it should be an honor to be on this list, even though they totally get Luddites, GPTs, machine learning, and blockchain wrong. None of these are designed as “assistive” technologies, and none of them give anyone a “voice.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I guess it should be an honor to be on this list, even though they totally get Luddites, GPTs, machine learning, and blockchain wrong. None of these are designed as “assistive” technologies, and none of them give anyone a “voice.”
The marching band kids are rocking out to Creed’s “Higher” as an oldie, so excuse me while I am over here dying of old age.
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The marching band kids are rocking out to Creed’s “Higher” as an oldie, so excuse me while I am over here dying of old age.
Just coming back to this - why do Ai Cheerleaders resort to this response when people bring up how real life data centers are currently consuming water and raising electric bills? What does this matter if the people building the data centers keep building them?
Also, only frontier infrastructure type models require that much resources. We're at the point where a GOOD home system can run GPT-4 quality models locally and that will keep improving.
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just coming back to this - why do Ai Cheerleaders resort to this response when people bring up how real life data centers are currently consuming water and raising electric bills? What does this matter if the people building the data centers keep building them?
So many things coming from this admin have strong “my girlfriend goes to another school, but she’s totally real” vibe to it.
They're gonna perp walk a 120-year-old Italian woman who had dinner with Antonio Gramsci
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So many things coming from this admin have strong “my girlfriend goes to another school, but she’s totally real” vibe to it.
Anthology (Blackboard) filed for bankruptcy? Guess going all-in on Ai won’t save companies…
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Anthology (Blackboard) filed for bankruptcy? Guess going all-in on Ai won’t save companies…
Sure, Trump is setting troops from one state against another state, but self-described “freethinking centrists” are convinced they have discovered that the real instigators of civil war are random people like my friend John in North Carolina saying “we should do something about this.”
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sure, Trump is setting troops from one state against another state, but self-described “freethinking centrists” are convinced they have discovered that the real instigators of civil war are random people like my friend John in North Carolina saying “we should do something about this.”
I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel in a while. He is going hard after Trump and the FCC tonight. Not really a monologue as much a rally cry.
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel in a while. He is going hard after Trump and the FCC tonight. Not really a monologue as much a rally cry.
I’m going to laugh if Jimmy Kimmel gets on the air tomorrow, makes fun of how MAGA misunderstood him, and then just quits on air.
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’m going to laugh if Jimmy Kimmel gets on the air tomorrow, makes fun of how MAGA misunderstood him, and then just quits on air.
Looks like the Matter and Space website has been updated to remove all the problematic videos. I had forgotten that this project was originally launched as a way to convince people that micro-credentials were taking off: guild.com/compass/behi...
Behind the boom in micro-credentials | Guild
Behind the boom in micro-credentials | Guild
guild.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Looks like the Matter and Space website has been updated to remove all the problematic videos. I had forgotten that this project was originally launched as a way to convince people that micro-credentials were taking off: guild.com/compass/behi...
Knowing the context of a quote more often makes it worse than better… just FYI.
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Knowing the context of a quote more often makes it worse than better… just FYI.