About a year ago, I posted this image without comment. A member of the public complained to my then employer, the Cupertino Union School District, trying to get me fired. The CUSD HR department pressured me to take it down. Since I was a year before retirement, I did. Here it is again.

Technology panics are cyclical. This is from 10 years ago. 

“The goal of the experiment is to find out how well the recently upgraded version of ChatGPT Voice Mode can conduct extended, individualized oral defenses of student research papers.” —Peter Paccone ppaccone.medium.com/the-use-of-c...

The Use of ChatGPT Voice Mode to Determine Whether Students Actually Understand and “Own” the…

How the extraordinary advances in ChatGPT Voice Mode since July 2026 have made extended, individualized oral defenses of student work…

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If you’re celebrating Meta’s settlement of its lawsuit, you need to consider that all it did was purchase the authority to regulate itself. All of the structural changes in the world to mitigate its harm against minors will do nothing if their processes can be trivially sidestepped.

When Jerry Lewis died, I was struck by the near absence of anybody saying positive things about him. Apparently, he was just an awful person to those around him. That, instead of his legacy of comic genius, was what people talked about. This is a post about Dolly Parton.

Critical literacy is knowing that Doris Miller was a Black man and a hero of Pearl Harbor. Extra points for knowing that a Ford class aircraft carrier has been named after him and that the Trump administration is trying to name it after Trump instead.

That was quicker than I thought. I figured within a month. The first watermark removal tools have surfaced. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

When I wrote about Anthropic's watermarking announcement on Tuesday, I predicted removal tools within weeks. I was off, it only took 24h. On Tueday, Anthropic announced invisible watermarks in… ...

When I wrote about Anthropic's watermarking announcement on Tuesday, I predicted removal tools within weeks. I was off, it only took 24h. On Tueday, Anthropic announced invisible watermarks in Claud...

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It’s “homed” in, not “honed” in. share.google/x4SPfiSfvs2m...

The Grammarphobia Blog: Hone truths

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I said this seven years ago. It applies even more in a post-AI world. School should be about creating the people that we want to live beside. It should not be serving a primary purpose of creating corporate workers.

I said this seven years ago. It applies even more in a post-AI world. School should be about creating the people that we want to live beside. It should not be serving a primary purpose of creating corporate workers.

I’m looking at you, @Apple. This is just wrong. I consider it to be a severe invasion of my privacy. Devices should not send screenshot signals.

How to save newspapers, 2012. It still holds up. www.tumblr.com/markloundy/2...

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Defending the Indefensible · Advance Media's decision to reduce the print days and slash staffing for its Times-Picayune and other formerly daily papers has been criticized and, re…

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Surveillance monger Flock doesn't just mislead people when it's pushing communities to install its invasive cameras and software. In many cases, the ACLU explains, it lies through its corporate teeth even to city governments. www.aclu.org/news/pr... Tell your local government not to use Flock.

Flock Lied About its ALPR technology. What Else Has It Lied About?

ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations

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What the heck is up with US sports journalists using the word "nil," only in soccer? It is not used internationally and it is not a soccer term. It is wholly a Britishism. www.npr.org/2014/07/07/3...

Nil-ism In America: When You Stare At The Pitch, The Pitch Stares Back

Amid this year's World Cup, American sportscasters have been turning frequently to the term "nil" when talking about scores, using it instead of zero. Nil, though, is a British term — not a soccer ter...

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This is not a “hot take.” It’s a rather easily digestible 8,000+ words. If you see yourself as a part of a democratic society, they are words that you need to read. hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/post-agi-a...

Leon Furze on the AI cheating panic. "Conflating the oral School Assessed Coursework (SAC) Outcome in Unit 4 VCE English with “exams” and then posing AI as a threat is a rhetorical sleight of hand that does both the school and the students a disservice." #EduSky leonfurze.com/2026/06/15/e...

Exams Are Not the Answer: Part One

Coursework is not an exam, and AI is not an excuse for running all assessment under exam conditions. Part one of this two-parter explores how the media is getting in the way of productive conversation...

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My remarks to today's meeting of the California Department of Education AI Working Group. "...there is still an echoing emptiness of any consideration of AI-driven societal changes that will fundamentally affect the role of education in society." #EduSky www.linkedin.com/posts/marklo...

The California Department of Education AI Working group just held its monthly meeting. It discussed the results of a survey sent out to every Local Education Agency in the state. I was the sole… | Mar...

The California Department of Education AI Working group just held its monthly meeting. It discussed the results of a survey sent out to every Local Education Agency in the state. I was the sole public...

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"But there is an unspoken convenant between the reader and the author that the work, in the generally accepted meaning, belongs to the person behind the byline." Authorship and the AI Workflow When the human in the loop blurs into the machine markloundy.substack.com/p/authorship...

Authorship and the AI Workflow

When the human in the loop blurs into the machine

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"But there is an unspoken convenant between the reader and the author that the work, in the generally accepted meaning, belongs to the person behind the byline." Authorship and the AI Workflow When the human in the loop blurs into the machine markloundy.substack.com/p/authorship...

Authorship and the AI Workflow

When the human in the loop blurs into the machine

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My remarks to today's meeting of the California Department of Education AI Working Group. "...there is still an echoing emptiness of any consideration of AI-driven societal changes that will fundamentally affect the role of education in society." #EduSky www.linkedin.com/posts/marklo...

The California Department of Education AI Working group just held its monthly meeting. It discussed the results of a survey sent out to every Local Education Agency in the state. I was the sole… | Mar...

The California Department of Education AI Working group just held its monthly meeting. It discussed the results of a survey sent out to every Local Education Agency in the state. I was the sole public...

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From Chief Strategist at Google, Neil Hoyne: "Google and Google DeepMind just released their latest AI model that runs on your laptop. Not a data center. Not a subscription with a meter running in the background. Your machine, as in the one in front of you right now." blog.google/innovation-a...

Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.

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A piece I wrote for Dirck Halstead’s The Digital Journalist, back in 2009. #journalism digitaljournalist.org/issue0910/ci...

Huge, important beat that's been basically shuttered with all the cuts at the tabs =>

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

“But academic achievement gains were ‘consistently close to zero.’” #EduSky www.linkedin.com/posts/thejac...

The results are in from the largest study ever conducted on school cell phone bans. Researchers from Stanford University, Duke University, the University of Michigan, and the University of… | Jacob ...

The results are in from the largest study ever conducted on school cell phone bans. Researchers from Stanford University, Duke University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylva...

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“What determines outcomes is increasingly not how you prompt but whether you are inside the gating coalition, the higher rate-limit tier, the supported language, the approved jurisdiction; that requires a vocabulary for access, not usage.” —Carlo Iacono open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

The Day AI Stopped Being Software

Anthropic's Code w/ Claude didn't launch a new model. It quietly ended the era we have all been arguing about.

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“Self-governance was supposed to be a placeholder. The labs themselves described it as a placeholder. The placeholder is hardening.” —Carlo Iacono open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

OpenAI and Anthropic Have Already Admitted They Shouldn't Govern AI

The Admission Is Doing the Governing.

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Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm

And how I got permanently banned from X

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Hypothesis: The people using “(whatever) tax in the comments” are the same ones who would have been in the forefront of the “six-seven” users in middle school.

The latest faux “cool kids” SM useage: “(whatever) tax in comments.”

"If I follow your work and you are using generative AI non-transparently, your betrayal of me is in suspension, pending my discovery of it. Maybe I’ll never find out. But the disingenuousness remains. The qualities that I might admire in you, aren’t even yours." k5create.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-a...