You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Again, the financial incentives are all on the side of AI. Why would a profit-seeking AI corporation donate millions to a teachers' union? To convert teachers into AI adopters. There is no similar deep-pocket corporation giving money NOT to use AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Teaching high school history, there's enough fascism to address on the daily without having to fight the encroachment of technofascist "AI" into all corners of schools.

New data debunks the teacher shortage contrarians. I wrote about new data available on the exodus from K-12 classrooms, teachers like me who left and the professionals we left behind in jobs that have only become more challenging.

Yes, There is a Teacher Shortage

And it is affecting the quality of education American kids are getting

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

Read this article by the great John Warner, who articulates his disgust at Harvard's firing of the also-great Jane Rosenzweig, whose work at Harvard has been invaluable and whose public work on writing in the age of "AI" is precient and vital. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Harvard Administrators Don’t Care About Student Learning

I know, news flash, right?

insidehighered.com

OK so don't get me wrong-- I very much appreciate our national teachers union getting all members the meditation app Calm, for free --BUT --if your profession screams OMG THESE PEOPLE NEED AN ANTI-ANXIETY APP BECAUSE THEIR JOBS ARE BONKERS .. then the problem cannot just be solved by "breathing"

I have a student teacher this year for the first time in many years (I gave them up in favor of coaching new teachers, and this year I'm switching it up). Teachers, what do you wish your cooperating teacher did or didn't do in your placement?

Listen to your pal @gregpak.net. If you're in NYC, join this movement. If you're not (like me) let's get this going in our districts.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4d ago

Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

I want to propose a toast to Sergey Brin, who's unintentionally making the case for a billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

LET’S GOOOOO

Shannon Carey@scmaestra.bsky.social · 5d ago

Many of us in public K12 education are heading back into our buildings next week, and to you all: I wish you strength, stamina, and, of course, what I consider the wellspring of this work, joy. I cannot think of another time in my (long) career that our work has been more important. Let's go.

August 1st means Californians can officially use DROP to delete their data from Data Brokers! privacy.ca.gov

privacy.ca.gov

A website brought to you by the California Privacy Protection Agency.

privacy.ca.gov

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Many of us in public K12 education are heading back into our buildings next week, and to you all: I wish you strength, stamina, and, of course, what I consider the wellspring of this work, joy. I cannot think of another time in my (long) career that our work has been more important. Let's go.

No sci-fi Ive read in my life has prepared me for just how TEDIOUS it is to fight the robot invasion trying to steal our lives.

D A V I E M O O@daviemoo.bsky.social · 6d ago

NO, ADOBE, I DON'T NEED A FUCKING AI SUMMARY OF A CV. FUCK OFF. LITERALLY FUCK DIRECTLY OFF. I CANNOT KEEP SPENDING MY TIME DIP DODGING AROUND FORCED AI BOLLOCKS IN EVERY FUCKING APP I USE, EVERY DOCUMENT I READ, EVERY SITE I VISIT, EVERY APPLIANCE I TURN ON, FUCK OFF, FUCK OFF, FUUUUCKKK OFFFFFF

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

I don’t understand the argument that former presidents “deserve to relax.” The presidency isn’t a tough roofing gig; it is an immense privilege. If you spent years asking the people to believe you cared, your obligation to them survives your term.

By the way Mitch McConnell voted against paid leave many many times

this is EXTREMELY relevant for all “culture war” issues and i think about it constantly. just kirby the frame

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

We officially hit 700 artists on our petition to @nycmayor with the great Dave Eggers, who agreed to sign on in this handwritten letter. He wrote back to a NYC parent who wants to see a moratorium on AI in NYC schools. See the full list of signers and become artist 701!

Nutz. Director of the Writing Center Jane Rosenzweig is brilliant and cutting edge on AI and writing. Read the unique Substack she edits and writes, with contributors who are writing instructors at high school, college, and beyond. If she doesn't work at your university, try to poach her.

The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

theimportantwork.substack.com

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

Terrific answer from the great historian David Blight. Museums aren't there to inform us of all the old answers, but to inspire for us all the new questions.

Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.gov · last wk.

America’s history is complex, inspiring, painful, and unfinished. The Smithsonian exists to educate and preserve that history honestly, not to conform to any administration's preferred narrative.

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

this whole thread is excellent

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

Made a new zine for @handsoffnyc.bsky.social with brilliant artist @priyahuq.art! Hands Off Our Vote! Visit www.handsoffnyc.com/our-vote for the big plan!

At a meet-up with old friends and felt like I was losing my mind because of how people were talking about using AI for things that I know they are cognitively and creatively capable of doing. It felt like entering a world where smoking indoors was acceptable...but also am I a generational outlier??

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here's a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Meta is pure evil, in case this somehow hasn’t occurred to you yet

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

I lived many, many years in coastal cities without smelling wildfire smoke or existing under a hazy smoky sky from fires hundreds or thousands of miles away, but in the last 10 years it's a thing that happens regularly, and we're all just frogs in that murky, simmering water.

Mass firings, critical agencies gutted, exposed personal data, life-saving international aid cut. DOGE wasn’t efficient, it was reckless. Tell Members of Congress: Lead Investigations into Musk & DOGE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...