From the first piece I published about generative AI (in the Boston Globe a couple of weeks before ChatGPT was released in 2022). Full text outside paywall here: writinghacks.substack.com/p/what-we-lo...
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Asst Prof of 17C lit in WA, translator, swimmer, parent of two small children and one ancient pug, here for the reading recs.
it's a friday afternoon in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send!
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Quicksand was supposed to catch you by surprise and make you scream for help. It was not meant to be entered like a goddamned swimming pool. People are giving up on being human. It’s too hard…
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last wk.New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
This is my favorite reference book of all time. I use it constantly and am so excited to learn there’s a new edition coming out.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins@kwazana.bsky.social · 2w agoKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies is starting the editorial process to go into second edition! Thanks to NYU Press for its support and the collective for their commitment. And to our contributors and the folks who show up to our talkbacks to tell us what is and is not working in the book.
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · 2w agoA lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
Reading these comments are worth your time. Upsetting to learn today that Harvard is dismantling its Writing Center and is laying off Jane Rosenzweig, its long-time director. Student voices here show what is lost in a move like this, and what an institution gains in a well led writing center.
Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.
I'm pretty sure that even more than Jesus hates genocide and white nationalism, he hates when people try to harness him to serve both. Goddammit. I mean that literally.
WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is NOT "private land," it's sovereign tribal land, she has no right to be there, no right to be doing any of this, and they need to boot this bitch permanently and ban her from tribal lands for life. www.newsweek.com/church-says-...
Re Erik Davis, Professor Mcalester College Buddhist Studies "The indictment....does allege...Davis helped facilitate an “emergency meeting” for residents interested in “resistance to ICE” that featured discussions of protest tactics" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
deskilling in professional school, you can ban it www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
At The University Of Chicago Law School, Socrates Is In, Laptops Are Out
As part of a new policy about AI in legal education, the U. of Chicago Law School will ban electronic devices like laptops and phones in its core first-year courses.
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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo agocognitive surrender, you can ban it www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
it boggles the mind! this show is brilliant in every way
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 4w agoThe sleeper HBO hit has yet to get the Emmys’ attention after four seasons.
This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others
Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy
Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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I wrote this a couple years ago about Caitlin Clark, whose fame had already become, to borrow a phrase, the modality in which class and race and gender get lived in the WNBA. defector.com/who-made-cai...
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w agoTrump’s GOP is trying to remake the wnba over into wwe’s image. Racist stereotypes, symbolic race wars, and everyday eugenics. it’s a sign of how popular the sport is and how captured everything is. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
“[Serrano] claims the university has shown little interest in dealing with his situation, and this also highlights the lack of systems many schools have for addressing mass cheating as opposed to looking at each individual case.”
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w agoHow AI is ruining education, in one handy chart aftermath.site/ai-education-i...
Statement from a Paralegal on the Prairieland Federal case ”Heartbroken doesn’t even begin to describe it, but this isn’t over either and I’m going to continue to fight this.” This is the first sentence Savanna Batten, one of the nine defendants who was convicted in the (1/3)
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
"This is a nightmare scenario, & the nightmare is here." A must read from @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @therealnews.com about the state of free speech & media in the United States, today. #freespeech #media @projectcensored.bsky.social therealnews.com/the-war-on-o...
The war on our sight
“It is not an accident that the richest, most powerful, and most sociopathic people in the world—from Trump to Musk to Bezos—are gobbling up and taking control of our media ecosystem while they're gob...
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I love the idea of a "Student Tech Bill of Rights, which includes the right to “read whole books,” to “regularly read and write on paper,” and to “a low-stimulation learning environment.”" www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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"aims to rejuvenate the study of literature in schools and universities by researching, facilitating, and championing creative-critical teaching practices. These include writing in style, recreative writing, writing-in-role, adaptation, and many others." #HigherEd www.nate.org.uk/2026/05/06/b...
Beyond the Essay: a major new AHRC-funded research project - NATE
NATE is delighted to support the launch of Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching, a major new international project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Over the next three yea...
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the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo agoExtremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Esto se acerca a la opinión que tengo en estos momentos sobre el tema. En obras.
Opinion | When Native history is treated as something “too negative” to present plainly, the nation’s self-image once again outranks Native survival. cal.news/4cg3VEm 📝 Kerry Malloy 📸 Brontë Wittpenn
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
i have to agree entirely with femi here: for me, *long-form* reading--not an essay i can crank through in 10-15 and go rush to poast about--but a book that forces me into the perspective of another for an extended period, forces me to see that thought developed, is an immensely valuable discipline
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo agobeing able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...
Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."
An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"
Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …
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