Craig Garrett

@betatronic.bsky.social

D14 Families for Human Learning https://families4humanlearning.org/

Having recently attended a 4-hour "AI Essentials for Parents" session at AFT's National Academy for AI Instruction, I can confirm! It began with "how to make informed choices" and ended with a 1-hr tutorial for your child to use ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude as a "study buddy and thought partner". 🤨

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

"That's part of the system, these points of contestation where we routinely revisit human values and the collective enterprise of what we're doing here. And the more you offload that onto machines, the fewer opportunities you have to consistently recalibrate and retune and keep that expertise."

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For this week's Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey about their forthcoming law review paper, "How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions." They say the "affordances of AI systems extinguish" key features of democratic institutions.

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off

AI Killed My Job: Educators.

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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio

Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...

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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · last yr.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

The people stoking anti-immigrant hysteria aren't interested in adjusting immigration to an acceptable level, not even to zero, because hysteria is the point. "No matter what ever-escalating pledges, solutions or policies are offered, nothing will ever be enough." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vote Brexit, stop the boats – the goalposts on immigration keep moving, and those who oppose it will never be appeased | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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