Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Wow 😳👏

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d ago

Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary’

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

Generative AI Is Not Our Peer

Automation can make many good things possible, but let’s not pretend it’s something it isn’t.

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This is a great read and everything chimes with the current situation in UK Higher Education institutions

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very proud of my Middlebury students articulating these values so clearly: www.middleburycampus.com/article/2026...

AI should not have a place in the liberal arts - The Middlebury Campus

Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI, has become interwoven into the fabrics of our society, embedding itself into everyday life. Although AI has become fairly customary over the p...

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This is really cool. Proud to be the former advisor and colleague of @alexhanna.bsky.social who is one of the leads on this. A searchable website of protest events data compiled about campus protests. Congratulations to the whole team!!

The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute@dairinstitute.bsky.social · 7d ago

We can build technology that helps our liberatory movements learn from the past, in order to build a better future. Our newest project is an archive of higher-ed campus protests, designed to support campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. campus-protest.org

WRITING IS THINKING. If you offload it to a machine, you think less.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.

I also think that a lot of the most important parts of writing happen at the revision stage. That’s where you figure out the distances between what you thought you were saying, what you actually said, and what you should be saying. And that’s an active thinking process. GenAI can’t do it for you.

I feel seen

> There was no outbreak of oligarch support when Timnit Gebru […] was fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to take down a research paper she had co-authored. […] Her findings were buttressed by another researcher, Abeba Birhane, who co-authored a paper called “On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps”

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

The importance of being scared – Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska on fairy tales and the necessity of fear www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/22/w...

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotiona…

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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · 3w ago

At the @aial.ie, we collectively reflected and deliberated on the merits of the use of generative AI in research. Our collective statement and Lab Policy can be read here: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... zenodo.org/records/2322...

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

> Why should I use this technology? Does this tech­nology help me solve a real problem in my work? Are there external factors (e.g., financial incentives) pressuring me to use this technology?

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social post, David Stroupe, Niral Shah, and Aman Yadav reflect on our recent co-authored article and the problem of "A critical optimist position [that's] clear-eyed about the harm technology can cause while maintaining the belief that technology can improve education."

“Students want to be involved in climate action, in environmental literacy, in green careers…They’re often doing the work already but don’t have the recognition. They didn’t see a sort of pathway to continue that work and embark on that as a potential career.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’

A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service – and is spreading to other states

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"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 4w ago

I really enjoyed recording this one, having met Maggie and Shahir at a workshop in August about teaching critical thinking in STEM in the current environment. www.rustbeltscience.com/episodes/pis...

Banned Books Week 2026 - Unite Against Book Bans uniteagainstbookbans.org/banned-books...

Banned Books Week 2026 - Unite Against Book Bans

October 4 – October 10 is Banned Books Week 2026! Banned Books Week 2026 is an opportunity to inform communities about this escalation in censorship while also highlighting the importance of the right...

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POSTERS: Have you considered NOT using AI? zenodo.org/records/1711... Thanks, @olivia.science 🫶 olivia.science/ai/#activism

This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.

Just because you/I don't understand AI doesn't mean that no one does. So many people buy into this 'poorly understood' line that lets commercially-motivated tech companies off the hook for harms & near-catastrophes. Kudos to @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for this.

Tamara Kneese@tamigraph.bsky.social · 4w ago

Once again it’s @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social bringing AI panic back down to earth. For the love of god people please listen to them

There's a real and important dividing line between people who want to write, and people who want to be A Writer. AI is a gift from heaven for the latter, letting them skip the part where they have to think thoughts and write sentences and go (they hope) directly to the book tour.

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4w ago

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is such an important point: > AI boomers vs. doomers: A false dichotomy It's exhausting within academia too with people who claim that the technology has good purposes we're ignoring, when everybody sensible knows so-called desirable properties are a function of the labour and days theft.

Nathalie Maréchal, PhD@nathaliemarechal.net · last mo.

May I interest you in an explainer written just for this circumstance? www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

“The goal was to destabilize U.S. educational infrastructure and carve out a large space for reactionary indoctrination within it.” When you don’t have a teacher—a thinking person—in a classroom, endless ideological reproduction is easier.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 4w ago

“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

How do we design online courses using biomimicry? I explore this topic and share an example of using a tree as my muse and branching as personalized learning medium.com/@heatherlesl...

Designing with Biomimicry: Branching as Personalized Learning

Designing with Biomimicry: Branching as Personalized Learning The seasons wheel is now spinning into autumn where trees and plants slow their growth, the sun sinks lower into the sky, the air begins …

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These are the same weirdos who are trying to take over the process of regulating AI and setting US tech policy. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-...

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Happy Autumn Equinox 🍂🍁✨ I’ve been doing some research on regenerative schools and programs and thought I would share some examples that stood out to me, and that I have personally had the opportunity to collaborate on. medium.com/@heatherlesl...

Regenerative Education Schools and Programs

I have been researching regenerative schools and programs, that is, schools and programs designed using regenerative principles, immersive…

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Join @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and me for a free webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education on October 13, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register now! olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...