“How does it feel to belong to the last generation that uses the crying emoji when something is actually sad?” — my tween
Lila Byock
@lbyock.bsky.social
Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools. Join us at SchoolsBeyondScreens.com!
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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I’m surprised by the lack of reporting on the bizarre Montana Senate race, which features no fewer than three widely despised candidates, one of whom is refusing to bow out of the race despite pressure from her own party.
Twenty years ago, I used to teach Lolita to wide-eyed Iowa freshmen. Pretty sure if I tried that today, I’d be arrested.
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last wk.A college professors is fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story that causes "mild discomfort" for one student. Implication is that DeSantis government was involved in the firing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
I haven't stopped thinking about this @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social essay since I read it earlier this week. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
Anthropic is actively pushing their product on teachers. Imagine the legal implications if teachers are unwittingly exposing private student data to the open web without parental consent. Not great, Claude!
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
I earnestly believe this is a case for child protective services. These are not fit parents. The AI aspect is vile; but the systemized grooming of teenagers as profit machines is child abuse.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“Founders School in Manhattan promises to refund families its $150,000 annual tuition fee if their child has not made $1mn ‘in profit’ upon completion of the four-year high school course.”
Some people want to build a movement, others want to build a brand.
Just an extraordinary collection of sentences about Lindsey Graham from America's best newsletter-er, @rusty.todayintabs.com:
So honored to be representing Schools Beyond Screens at next month’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference. Please join us on August 6th!
Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4w agoThis year’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference schedule is now live! Join me and @alliethrall.bsky.social for a panel featuring @lbyock.bsky.social, @kellyclancy.bsky.social, and Chad Hamilton. We’ll reflect on their experiences as caregivers challenging ed-tech. See the full schedule at:
There’s an implicit contract between artists & audience that the artist will expend significantly more time & effort to create their art than the audience will expend to consume it. AI art flips that equation, which is part of why it feels inherently offensive.
Did you know that Frank Wills, the security guard who foiled the Watergate break in, played himself in All the President’s Men? thecinemaholic.com/how-did-wate...
How Did Watergate Security Guard Frank Wills Die?
Numerous films and TV shows have been made about the Watergate Scandal. What differentiates ‘Gaslit’ from the rest is that it focuses on individuals who history has forgotten despite the important rol...
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Missoula just killed a data center. Hometown pride. nbcmontana.com/news/local/c...
Construction of Bonner data center halted at mill location
The general manager of Bonner Mill Industrial Park says the data center will not be built at the Bonner Mill site because of his decision to remove his signatur
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YAAASSSSS SBS!!! Organizing works!
Lila Byock@lbyock.bsky.social · 2mo agoYesterday, thanks to the advocacy of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social, LAUSD became the largest district in the country to pass a comprehensive policy reducing Big Tech exploitation of our public schools. Next up: an AI moratorium 💪 www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Yesterday, thanks to the advocacy of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social, LAUSD became the largest district in the country to pass a comprehensive policy reducing Big Tech exploitation of our public schools. Next up: an AI moratorium 💪 www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Seems like Dune would support a moratorium. It’s the last week of school. Let’s get this done.
Earthling@ziyatong.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎯
All the hottest dads support an AI moratorium in LA schools ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Lila Byock@lbyock.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social demands an AI moratorium in LA's public schools, in solidarity with our New York allies @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social. Please sign and spread the word. tinyurl.com/NoAIinLAUSD
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
Today, @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social demands an AI moratorium in LA's public schools, in solidarity with our New York allies @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social. Please sign and spread the word. tinyurl.com/NoAIinLAUSD
We Demand an AI Moratorium in LAUSD Schools | Schools Beyond Screens
Four Norms makes collective action possible for parents — with the tools, language, and support to push back on tech's influence and rebuild what childhood should be.
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Walked into a shoe store and asked for laces. Clerk: “That’s kind of an old fashioned thing. Nobody sells shoelaces anymore.”
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“Chaotic” Middle School Assembly Underscores PPS’ AI Problem - Portland Mercury
On a Friday last month, some Portland middle schoolers went home from school with new Nike swag and tales of an unusually eventful assembly. The event, hosted at Beaumont Middle School on May 8, feat...
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Meaghan O’Connell@meaghano.bsky.social · 3mo agoWow really love to have my PPS 6th grader to come home excited that an AI company brought a DJ to his school and gave every kid free Nike backpacks and hats while they showed them their generative ai writing tool -- what in the actual fuck
A man on the street called after me: “You have the glow of a hero about you!” And this middle aged lady will not refuse a respectful and highly specific catcall.
The Pope said no AI in schools, so my kids are Catholic now.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo agoPope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
“Companies like Google view K–12 contracts as a means of grooming future customers. And… tech billionaires are spelling out radical plans to weaponize their phenomenal wealth... What better place to start than by tracking and shaping the cognitive habits of children?” jacobin.com/2026/05/educ...
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing mov...
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heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit