Asking Gemini to lie to you, I mean summarize for you, doesn’t count as doing the reading

I live for that. I live for the incredibly diverse spectrum of people in my life with centuries of combined experience who argue and riff off and care for each other. genAI is just a house of mirrors, sound and fury signifying nothing. I find that repellent.

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social.

They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools

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My student introduced me to some new vocabulary today:

AI is a marketing term. What is being sold? GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT!

Chefs kiss

Oh hellz no this is offensive

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

I’m partway through chapter two and have already had several OOOOhhhhhhhh… riiiight kind of connect the dots moments.

I have to believe that the slightly larger portion of us do not regard our humanity as a meatsuit seperatimg us from pure productivity. But it’s hard sometimes.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

I got nothing.

the way of the future | patreon.com/lubchansky

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

“to think for themselves, to listen to one another without the cacophony of other (disembodied and non-human) voices in the room, to make mistakes, and to change their minds as they engage with thinkers of the past, with us, and with their fellow students in good faith, face-to-face”

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what I’m talking about! Our institutions should be doing the work for us and not leaving us to jury rig together the collapsing infrastructure around us. More of this. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

I have been dying on this hill for a while now, please join me, the grass is green. But the number of students who LIT UP in yesterday’s first classes when I announced that our class would be an “AI-free zone” gives me hope.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3w ago

And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5

The voices of people—especially Black women—in marginalized communities are often systematically erased by white men. Attention-seeking AI guru Connor Leahy is now outlining an intellectual history of SV that is virtually identical to the one outlined by me and Gebru. 1/3

I think it must have been this one unless they also released a cd of The King & Eye. But I couldn’t play it because I didn’t own a CD player for several more years.

The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 3w ago

44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?

LowerEd won by eating HigherEd.

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

TFW you use the private chat during a dept meeting to convince a colleague to last-min order @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI for a course instead of whatever the previous plan was…

An excellent explainer — and therefore an excellent last-minute addition to my fall syllabus!

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.

Seems like all the news is bad, but remember there are millions of people organizing for A Good News Day, often of which will be ignored unless you're connected to them. In the meantime, enjoy this UNEDITED PELICAN SESSION!!! 🪶

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

I think what’s going on with Ai is antithetical to education, and anti-life. We need to make different choices…

RIP John Crowley, who has loomed large in my reading habits for decades. Little, Big is among my most-read novels, and many of his lesser-known works, such as The Four Freedoms, have likewise stalked my imaginings in all the best of ways.

On professors retiring early because of AI. This is the thing: we are going to need a new approach and a lot of good people are trying to figure it out but the headwinds are strong. I think it can be done, but we need to start by talking about writing courses. /1 www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

Excellent framing. The big tech capture of educators who somehow believe their responsibility to students means ‘teaching’ AI use should have trouble sustaining that take in the face of increasingly skeptical students. Love to see it.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last mo.

This is the good stuff right here. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...