John Moravec
@moravec.us
Education futurist, technologist, author, and knowmad. Author of "Build a Positive Rebellion." Editor-in-chief, Learning Futures and Emerging Technologies. Working on innovations for global community.
I am happy to share we are soft launching KnowMapped today to make knowledge mapping a bit smarter and more beautiful. Here's our announcement. educationfutures.com/post/introdu... (Friends can message me to get a free upgrade to Professional access by the end of this month.)
Introducing KnowMapped: A platform for mapping knowledge
KnowMapped began as an internal tool at Education Futures. We built it because we kept working with ideas that…
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An ICE guard admitted to assaulting 9 women. He’s no outlier: there are 2,300+ abuse reports in detention. Yet the DOJ argued federal safety laws don’t apply to immigration jails. You pay for these jails. The DOJ is complicit in every abuse case. Where is the oversight?
This morning, Human Rights Watch released its 180-page report on the federal government’s terror campaign against Minnesota. It is as comprehensive a record as I have seen about what happened, and is still happening, here. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
“A Manufactured Crisis”
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My new conceptual paper on "AI, coloniality, and the pursuit of educational sovereignty" is now available on earlycite! www.emerald.com/lfet/article...
The crisis facing education is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination ... a/k/a the "the beautiful, blue glow of bullshit." educationfutures.com/post/the-cri...
The crisis is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination
The cover of a recent international report on artificial intelligence in education captures the crux of the problem schools…
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My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
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Absolutely crazy: Researchers wanted to put cameras on teachers to observe the behaviors of preschool students and use the footage to train AI www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
“With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the ...
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My new book "Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures" is now available! You can download it here: lnkd.in/gDxM6J6k Or get the print edition: lnkd.in/gNtQSbxG More info: educationfutures.com/rebellion/
If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great
dame@dame.is · 5mo agothere are no great consumer AI products… that’s why consumer AI assistant apps like Gemini, ChatGPT, & Claude have become the fastest growing products in the entirety of human history w/ millions of 5 star reviews and have stayed on the app store’s most downloaded apps list for multiple years now
Robert De Niro: All over the country in cities and towns and factories and on farms north, south, east, west, millions of us are coming together to declare No Kings. It is indeed a beautiful hopeful day in the United States of America, and you, Minnesota, are at the epicenter.
ICE Comes To Shakopee. This is what happens when governmental terror comes to Everytown, USA. For @rollingstone.com archive.is/BBvVQ
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Apple seriously enshittified Keynote. Which open source options should I use to replace it? It would need to handle vector graphics and my nitpicky design requirements...
"Trump’s new order, inaugurated with his assault on USAID, is now corroding America’s influence and standing and leaving global leaders with little choice but to treat the United States as an erratic adversary rather than a stable ally." (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Opinion | What We Lost When We Lost U.S.A.I.D.
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Donald MacKenzie on visions of infinite scaling in tech: "AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve too." (NB Mackenzie seems to have taken the hint from Shapin and is now writing essays for LRB, hurrah!) #sts #envhums #envsoc
Very Terry 🔥@bookseditorial.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Data is not growing, because we have but one internet ... data is the fossil fuel of AI. It was like created somehow, and now we use it, and we’ve achieved peak data, and there’ll be no more." share.google/4EkXwYfGYz6r...
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
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We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
Yes, please. And TAKE MY MONEY!
Jack of Trades@realjackoftrades.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have seen the #rebel #starwars #symbols and thought I wanted a #Startrek version #TOS #tng #DS9 #voyager #enterprise #snw #discovery #lowerdecks #llap #starfleetacademy @robmccallum.bsky.social #commissionsopen #rebellionbeginswiththenorthstar
The beauty of this is that Guttenfelder is covering these men the way they have always wanted: dripping in tacticool gear, in action, looking down their sites at an enemy which surrounds them. In doing so, he reveals who they are. They imagine themselves heroes; he shows they are villains.
Nathan@never-say-die.bsky.social · 7mo agoDave Guttenfelder is an amazing photojournalist who‘s most recently primarily focused on conflict photojournalism in Syria and Ukraine. Hes recently turned his talents to Minneapolis.
@kenmartin.bsky.social this is how Democrats lose credibility. I thought you would know better and would have been on top of this a long time ago.
Nate Pentz@natepentz.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is fucking gross
Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
