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James Allen @tljamesa.com · Oct 11

New post that tries to capture just a bit of my thinking on generative artificial intelligence at the moment. Thank you to all the folks I mention. You've helped a ton! #aieducation #noai #schoollibrary #tlchat www.tljamesa.com/index.php/20...

ai Thinking - TLJamesA

Explore one educator's evolving perspective on generative AI in education, including concerns about copyright, fair use, industry demands, and the rush to adopt new technology. Features a curated list...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13h

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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KY Association of School Librarians @kasl.us · 13h

Very cool piece from @watsonedtech.bsky.social Edtech Elixirs on one of our own school library leaders, Laura Mann! watsonedtech.blogspot.com/2025/10/kyed... #KyLChat #SchoolLibraries @kyedrpg.bsky.social #KentuckyLibraries

KyEdRPG Spotlight: Librarian Laura Mann and TTRPGs for Literacy

Librarians -- and the library -- are often the heartbeat and hub of a school. Since extracurricular game clubs are frequently held in suc...

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 13h

Future James is the best! I rely on him regularly 😅

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 13h

Nope, that is for future James to worry about

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 14h

Looking so forward to next week! I'm ready for #AASL25 to give me a boost, some new ideas, some school library inspiration.

Collaborative Notes Doc ☑️
KY Contact List ☑️
Sessions.... almost ☑️
Volunteering ☑️

See you all soon! #tlsky #schoollibraries

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 16h

That box breathing stuff is legit 😅

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 16h

You can do it!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18h

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 1d

Seriously, I'd love some BlueSky mental health experts to share their thoughts on this. I want to hear all the perspectives. #mentalhealth

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 1d

Important work #tlsky #libraries #schoollibrary #schoollibraries #tlchat

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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James Allen @tljamesa.com · 1d

Can an AI chatbot help struggling students? Why Bullitt County Public Schools is trying it www.courier-journal.com/story/news/e... I have real concerns. Why are they doing this?! #aieducation #tlsky ai cannot replace a human. Let’s not normalize this behavior with our students.

Can an AI chatbot help struggling students? Why Bullitt County Public Schools is trying it

While some are sounding the alarm about the harms AI chatbots can cause, Bullitt County Public Schools is turning to the tech to help students.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2d

This is what's so remarkable (for me, infuriating) about boosting AI usage in schools. We are *already* seeing modern society straining under the corrosive effects of social media -- now we want to push related technology down into our schools? A long-term recipe for disaster.

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2d

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d

A key question for the AI industry will be whether energy consumers see data centres as just infrastructure for their digital lives or an unnecessary indulgence for new AI

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Tom Bober @captainlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Getting ready for my talk with @librarianjones.com next Wednesday at her St. Louis event with Left Bank Books. Want to hear us chat it up? Learn more (and register) here: www.left-bank.com/event/amanda...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 4d

The "AI" research community:

1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 4d

Each new school year brings a fresh wave of attempts to censor school libraries, often built on misleading claims. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom investigates a site spreading disinformation. Read: https://www.oif.ala.org/take-back-the-right-to-read/
#BannedBooksWeek

Take Back the Right to Read

By Eric Stroshane and Sarah Lamdan As each new school year begins, so too does a new wave of efforts to censor school library books. This year, the effo

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 4d

Last week I was scheduled to give a presentation on grassroots activism at a university conference on censorship. That conference was censored to the point of being cancelled. So in honor of banned books week, here is some of the info I would have shared on fighting book bans at a local level:

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

And this judgment's been appealed.

That doesn't mean your First Amendment Rights are any safer or less damaged by this ruling, but it does mean the plaintiffs are going to keep fighting for this book–and for your right to read, period.

www.clickorlando.com/news/2025/10...

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Ryan Egesdahl @deriamis.net · 5d

It took me an embarrassingly large number of years to get what privilege is.

I genuinely believe that a lot (but definitely not all) of the opposition to social justice is due to poor terminology. Every time I explain privilege this way, the person I’m talking to gets it.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5d

these are questions hard for me to empathize with, as someone without the privilege of being able to go even a day without worrying about how racism impacts me or my friends. privilege is not visible gift, it's an invisible lack of a curse. Invisible to you, but unavoidable to us.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 5d

I love this drawing of my book cover on the dry erase board at the New Orleans Public Library.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“It’s your ai girlfriend, but not in the weird kind of way.”

They are all out of ideas.

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Rachel Lemansky @lemanskyrachel.bsky.social · 5d

There are so many tech leaders who may have experience with DIGITAL literacy but not MEDIA literacy!
AI LITERACY requires BOTH.
I would love to see more librarians helping lead AI framework crafting & adoptions. They have so much to offer & are so important to the conversation.
#EduSky #TLSky

Katie @katiejmcnamara.bsky.social · 6d

If one is speaking on Gen AI.... one should really have an understanding of media literacy...

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Katie @katiejmcnamara.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to share ideas on various slivers of a school librarian #AASL25 #TLSky
#Books #InfoLit 🎧📚

Embrace the power of audiobooks
Navigating the teen reading universe
Game of quotes
Ai in education: the ethics and implications no one is talking about
Amplify your impact: collaboration hacks

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