wendy norris
@wendynorris.bsky.social
Asst Prof | Ethical Data Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
New Gmail sig line
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
New Gmail sig line
Tired: GAAP
Wired: GAAIP
Wired: GAAIP
oh my god
"as a private company, it is under no obligation to release this information — but it’s not trivial. The lack of information has left several people we’ve spoken to on Wall Street a bit confused."
"as a private company, it is under no obligation to release this information — but it’s not trivial. The lack of information has left several people we’ve spoken to on Wall Street a bit confused."
Who is OpenAI’s auditor? on.ft.com/4pl31Kr
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tired: GAAP
Wired: GAAIP
Wired: GAAIP
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Powerful statement by MLA on the lack of transparency, control, educational value, and ability to opt-out of generative and agent AI integrations in browsers and learning management systems.
Another important argument for humans-in-the-drivers-seat (agency) not humans-in-the-loop (passivity).
Another important argument for humans-in-the-drivers-seat (agency) not humans-in-the-loop (passivity).
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Powerful statement by MLA on the lack of transparency, control, educational value, and ability to opt-out of generative and agent AI integrations in browsers and learning management systems.
Another important argument for humans-in-the-drivers-seat (agency) not humans-in-the-loop (passivity).
Another important argument for humans-in-the-drivers-seat (agency) not humans-in-the-loop (passivity).
Reposted by wendy norris
Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents
Modern Language Association
www.mla.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I am waking up this morning to multiple people telling me Google's Gemini is amazing at creative writing. It's not. In fact it's complete shit. Please join me for a short thread, will you?
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I am waking up this morning to multiple people telling me Google's Gemini is amazing at creative writing. It's not. In fact it's complete shit. Please join me for a short thread, will you?
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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if the AI 'bubble' pops today - ie major players see a major drop in share price - it won't make a jot of difference to the specific climate and environment impacts that are going on, or locked in for the next half-decade at least.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
if the AI 'bubble' pops today - ie major players see a major drop in share price - it won't make a jot of difference to the specific climate and environment impacts that are going on, or locked in for the next half-decade at least.
A contrarian take on a well-reported story:
• Don't blame students; this is on faculty
• Any shortcut (GenAI, CliffsNotes, etc.) disrupts learning & critical thinking
• GenAI is not the answer to outdated teaching
• Are we okay with our classrooms becoming part of a political surveillance state?
• Don't blame students; this is on faculty
• Any shortcut (GenAI, CliffsNotes, etc.) disrupts learning & critical thinking
• GenAI is not the answer to outdated teaching
• Are we okay with our classrooms becoming part of a political surveillance state?
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A contrarian take on a well-reported story:
• Don't blame students; this is on faculty
• Any shortcut (GenAI, CliffsNotes, etc.) disrupts learning & critical thinking
• GenAI is not the answer to outdated teaching
• Are we okay with our classrooms becoming part of a political surveillance state?
• Don't blame students; this is on faculty
• Any shortcut (GenAI, CliffsNotes, etc.) disrupts learning & critical thinking
• GenAI is not the answer to outdated teaching
• Are we okay with our classrooms becoming part of a political surveillance state?
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"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims.
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
![Data Center Watch has published a report claiming that $64 billion worth of American data center projects were ‘threatened’ because of grassroots opposition.
Data Center Watch picture
A map produced by Data Center Watch tracking opposition to data centers in America
– Data Center Watch
The organization is backed by 10a Labs, an intelligence company specializing in AI security. Led by Robert McKenzie, a former adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, it provides “intelligence collection, investigative research, and analysis for AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and US tech leaders.”
The report claimed that $18bn worth of projects were ‘blocked’ and a further $46bn more were ‘delayed’ in the two years prior to March 2025.
It primarily attributed this opposition to local concern, identifying several “common themes” of opposition, such as “higher utility bills, water consumption, noise, impact on property value, and green space preservation.”
However, the report’s claims should be read with close attention to its definitions. For instance, ‘blocked’ projects include cases where a “company submits a new proposal with similar characteristics in a different but nearby location after withdrawing a previous project.”
Two examples, which amount to $14.5bn out of the total $18bn, fit this criterion.
The first is attributable to Tract, a company specializing in ‘master-planned’ data center parks, which withdrew a $14bn, 1,000-acre project located in Maricopa County, Arizona, in May 2024. Tract then announced in August of the same year that they had acquired a land parcel - double the size of the original project - within the same county for a data center park.
Whether Tract had already intended to develop a second facility prior to the withdrawal of the first is unclear. Grant von Rooyen, Tract’s CEO, previously told DCD that the company “very rarely [goes] into a market with only one solution… [Tract] will ultimately have multiple s…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreihtwegmocoffjawkkb5v5gtnkxsca76piog2t6mexzippglpwjnza@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims.
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
Still on the hunt for reading recs!
ISO books, scholarly articles, and research papers on ethics/moral philosophy that can be applied to AI and machine learning.
Bonus points for works embedded in normative, applied or metaethic traditions to get me into the topic a little faster.
ISO books, scholarly articles, and research papers on ethics/moral philosophy that can be applied to AI and machine learning.
Bonus points for works embedded in normative, applied or metaethic traditions to get me into the topic a little faster.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Still on the hunt for reading recs!
ISO books, scholarly articles, and research papers on ethics/moral philosophy that can be applied to AI and machine learning.
Bonus points for works embedded in normative, applied or metaethic traditions to get me into the topic a little faster.
ISO books, scholarly articles, and research papers on ethics/moral philosophy that can be applied to AI and machine learning.
Bonus points for works embedded in normative, applied or metaethic traditions to get me into the topic a little faster.
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Experience this piece for yourselves. Separately from the writing, I want to highlight two ways the creators make their processes transparent, something far too rare in news stories.
1) Explanation of data analysis, including how they used AI for topic analysis and for image analysis.
1) Explanation of data analysis, including how they used AI for topic analysis and for image analysis.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Experience this piece for yourselves. Separately from the writing, I want to highlight two ways the creators make their processes transparent, something far too rare in news stories.
1) Explanation of data analysis, including how they used AI for topic analysis and for image analysis.
1) Explanation of data analysis, including how they used AI for topic analysis and for image analysis.
Today, I discovered a citation of my research that is not even in the same universe the authors' claim describes my work. I wholeheartedly endorse Shannon's thread of fire on the lazy asses using generative AI on their papers.
If I see you [redacted authors] around, I'm gonna kick your asses.
If I see you [redacted authors] around, I'm gonna kick your asses.
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Today, I discovered a citation of my research that is not even in the same universe the authors' claim describes my work. I wholeheartedly endorse Shannon's thread of fire on the lazy asses using generative AI on their papers.
If I see you [redacted authors] around, I'm gonna kick your asses.
If I see you [redacted authors] around, I'm gonna kick your asses.
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Moziila didn’t have the ressource to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full IA inside your browser.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Moziila didn’t have the ressource to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full IA inside your browser.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
As someone who melted a significant portion of my brain writing about sociotechnical representations of time and temporal sensemaking in my dissertation, this is amazing.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As someone who melted a significant portion of my brain writing about sociotechnical representations of time and temporal sensemaking in my dissertation, this is amazing.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
The headline is eye-catching like headlines usually are. Read this. The chatbot outputs to kids' questions and interactions is far, far worse than what the headline suggests.
Kind of wild that there are three children alive on this planet who have both a father AND a mother who have built homicidal chatbots that burn children alive named for a Heinlein novel concept neither of them 👀 understood the true meaning of
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The headline is eye-catching like headlines usually are. Read this. The chatbot outputs to kids' questions and interactions is far, far worse than what the headline suggests.