I'm workshopping a joke: Darializa winning NY 13 proves for a CUNY GC doc student it might be easier to unseat an incumbent congressman than to... get a tenure track job

What we are seeing is the systematic removal of any stories written by Black people about Black people under the guise of “age appropriateness.” But this is not about protecting the children. This is about protecting white supremacy. apple.news/AIR6QM3g4RKS...

Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law — Guardian US

With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves

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...and an article I wrote in 2021! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Hoping this story catches fire and leads to change!

“Los Programadores Debieron Pensarse Como Dos Veces”: Exploring the Intersections of Language, Power, and Technology with Bi/Multilingual Students | ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Critical computing approaches to K-12 computer science education aim to promote justice in computing and the wider world. Despite being intertwined with inequitable power dynamics in computing, issues...

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Nick Covington@covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NBC catching up to student focus groups we ran two years ago...

How do we help K12 students push back on the idea that 'tech is inevitable'? I'm excited to share this new article "A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education", recently published in ACM InRoads, that speaks to this question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education | ACM Inroads

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we (@saraevogel.bsky.social, @sciedhenry.bsky.social, Chris Procter + I) offer a raciolinguistic analysis and a deep dive into the "science" behind Amira, the "literacy tutor" mentioned in this article, in the Intro of our edited volume, out this October (!!) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Learning Machines, Humans Learning

Digital tools for communication and participation proliferate in contemporary learning environments. This volume explores the politics, models, and ideologies of language and learning embedded in thes...

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New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3mo ago

As New York City public schools lean on AI apps to teach students reading and math, a growing cohort of parents views AI use in the classroom as parasitic — siphoning their children’s intellectual curiosity, capacity for boredom, and data in order to make money.

Obama recently urged Democrats to “talk like normal people” instead of sounding like they’re in a “college seminar.” I explore the language ideologies that undergird his advice and how they align with the rightwing assault on higher education. educationallinguist.substack.com/p/obama-norm...

Obama, “Normal People,” and the Politics of Academic Language

In a recent interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama argued that Democrats need to do a better job “talking like normal people talk” instead of sounding like they...

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I want to talk briefly about the implications of using AI in creative work. First of all, we agree so-called "AI" is ruining our society and planet. BUT (yikes right?), AI is also transforming our cognitive relationship to the things we use it for. 1/12

The authors’ conclusions are bunk from the jump because they assume that parameters laid out by Chomsky are valid indicators that show humans uniquely use language. Chomsky fundamentally discounted the actual humanity of language, making Chomskyan tests of humanness a joke.

WIRED@wired.com · 8mo ago

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...

What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics

WIRED@wired.com · 8mo ago

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...

On behalf of our @cuny.edu community, I extend heartfelt congratulations to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on a remarkable and history-making victory. Your inspiring leadership marks a new chapter for our city.

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles

“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

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Morning! We're going to skip the last Poets.org selection because, as @heymrsbond.com rightly pointed out to me and @thevogelman.bsky.social, "Nikki Giovanni has to appear in a month where we talk about poetry." So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly: "Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

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“And ultimately, what I fear,” Mamdani said, “is that if this is what Donald Trump and his administration feel comfortable about saying about the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, imagine what they feel comfortable saying and doing about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · last yr.

Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani Via NOTUS.org buff.ly/W3KTFly

WATCH: Brad Lander responds to Mayor Eric Adam's statement on his arrest by ICE agents.

“I’ve been thinking why the Maker movement lost its momentum. Maybe it’s because we rushed to make it without taking the time to understand. Real learning —the kind that sticks —takes time. Time is in short supply in most schools, squeezed out by pacing guides, test prep, and competing priorities”

Origami: The Case for Slower, Smarter STEAM Education

Why I’m rethinking 3D printing, Lego, and what ‘making’ should really mean in STEAM education.

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A tourist was trying to follow directions provided by ChatGPT to get from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I told her to throw them in the garbage... I have no idea where she would have wound up....

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

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the lie of an objective, neutral summary runs parallel to the lie of the objective, neutral reporter

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

Summary itself when taken to its most effective form is not a line of best fit pulled from a corpus, it is itself imbued with the argumentative perspective of the writer. These tools are anti-perspective machines that leave no space for the student to develop their own intervention.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

David Malakoff@davidmalakoff.bsky.social · last yr.

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

Katie's right, but I want to nuance the issue. Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · last yr.

I SAY THIS EVERY DAY: THERE IS AN ILLITERACY PROBLEM THAT IS ONLY GETTING WORSE. death to chatgpt for exacerbating the issue.

Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.

My Brain Finally Broke

Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

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Yesterday, I joined my brilliant colleagues at #AERA2025 for a panel, "AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation." An audience member asked for more concrete ways to resist the imposition of AI on teachers/students - ahem, Trump's EO on AI - and I wanted to expand on my answer. 🧵

Today is the day that funding expires for ERIC with no renewal at all. After that, there will be no new updates to the indexing of the database. This is bad for all of Education research #EduSky #AERA2025 hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs. "We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...

Whoever pulled the trigger on the decision around Amber WHCD knew to do it on a damn Saturday morning fully knowing we tape on Friday nights and wouldn't be able to talk about this week. New @HignfyUS up now on @StreamOnMax w/ Guest Sam Seder & Sam Jay.

Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."

"The trump Administration is stoking anti-semitism in the name of combating anti-semitism, and we must not comply...we won't be your scapegoats" - Rachel Paradis, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social www.facebook.com/reel/4511839...

16K views · 51 reactions | “Not this time.” Listen to Rachel Paradis, Columbia University nursing student and longtime JFREJ member, talk about the Trump administration’s effort to scapegoat Jews in t...

“Not this time.” Listen to Rachel Paradis, Columbia University nursing student and longtime JFREJ member, talk about the Trump administration’s effort to scapegoat Jews in their authoritarian &...

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