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Scot Evans

@evanssd.bsky.social

Associate Prof, University of Miami, bass player, techno-pessimist, enemy within. Resist. Born at 317.73 ppm. All rantings my own.

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Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Higher ed today: where surveillance of students made possible by the LMS and data analytics plus an edtech CEO with an AI product to sell taking advantage of students’ vulnerability combine to undermine faculty and learning. ht: @cjdenial.bsky.social cc: @claire.northsky.social

Yvonne Seale@yvonneseale.bsky.social · 5d ago

Have faculty elsewhere had their admin introduce CircleIn (an AI "tutoring" app that is integrated into LMSs) & if so are your students receiving emails like this? Despite being told that we can opt our courses out of CI, we've reason to doubt that—plus this email directly undermines us as teachers.

Screenshot of an email reading Hey [student], Ever stared at an assignment and thought, "I have no idea where to start"? Or panicked before a test because you had a feeling of what grade you were going to get? I noticed that [other student] in your class invited you to join CircleIn, and as the CEO I wanted to personally reach out. We built CircleIn because college students have enough on their plates without having to figure everything out alone. Need help understanding a concept? Studying for a big exam? That's exactly what it's for. Here's my challenge: Give CircleIn 3 days. Use it for something you're already working on, then decide if it's worth keeping. And since SUNY Geneseo is covering the cost, it's completely free for you. I know AI is banned in some classes and a lot of students are worried about getting kicked out or failing a class using it anyway. Because your school purchased CircleIn for you and your classmates, you don’t have to carry all that anxiety. Try CircleIn Free I'm cheering you on!
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸@ethicsofai.bsky.social · 7d ago

The French took their history classes seriously 🙌 For the ones who are saying that violence isn't the answer, please tell that to the billionaires who are poisoning the air you breathe and the water you drink.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last wk.

Are we ever going to be able to get beyond this caricature of what postmodernism was? Postmodernism did not claim that 'truth doesn't exist.' It argued instead that truth was contextually, socially, and historically produced in relation to power. It very much said "truth exists"!

Raoul Meyer@mistermeyer.bsky.social · last wk.

Sure, but 90s era French theory and post-modernism that were embraced so easily by Ivy-educated-GenX lefties (like me, and Obama’s cabinet) didn’t help. If one side in a war says that “truth exists,” and the other side says, “but what if it doesn’t?” I have a pretty good idea which side will win.

AAUP@aaup.org · last wk.

“Our biggest concerns are on how loose the language is on academic freedom. It opens the door to bad interpretations. SACSCOC also weakened their standard on shared governance. Genuine shared governance is substantially more than requiring ‘faculty input.’” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · last wk.

A Planned Intellectual Diversity Accreditation Standard Draws Opposition The @aaup.org president told the Commission on Colleges and Universities that institutions shouldn’t “be expected to prioritize intellectual pluralism on settled scholarly questions.” https://bit.ly/4jqqH0k

Faculty members and lawmakers stand outside the Capitol Building behind a podium that says Unions Defend Free Speech on Campus.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · last mo.

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · last mo.

Automated grading of student writing should have been a clear no-go from the beginning. I wrote this over three years ago and I can't believe how many faculty have allowed themselves to be seduced by this. Students rightly see this as betrayal. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Do not leave grading to the machines

Some lines we shouldn’t cross. This is one.

insidehighered.com

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last mo.

Spoke to a colleague yesterday, really smart, caring, attentive person. They didn’t know AI can be used to grade, another form of cheating. But students I’ve spoken to sure know, & believe a number of their profs are doing it. Some think, “If profs aren’t going to read my work, why shld I write it?”

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last mo.

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · last mo.

Private equity is looting our communities. It's everywhere—our healthcare, our food, our housing, and our businesses. It's unacceptable. We need to get private equity out of our lives now.