Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart.bsky.social
online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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Have you seen this? I like how it’s presented and really is interesting.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Have you seen this? I like how it’s presented and really is interesting.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
just in case anybody thought the 'AI everywhere' campaign was anything but a flagrant consolidation of power
(also literally unconstitutional)
(also literally unconstitutional)
An executive order to ban state AI laws would put the future of the technology in the hands of a few power players
A White House Power Grab on AI Would Be a Huge Mistake
The Senate’s overwhelming rejection in July of a plan to ban states from passing regulations on artificial intelligence — the vote was 99-1 — is now set to be brazenly ignored. The White House is pushing for the measure to be revived and added to the National Defense Authorization Act. If that fails, and it’s a longshot, the president stands ready to sign an executive order essentially forcing it through anyway.
bloom.bg
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
just in case anybody thought the 'AI everywhere' campaign was anything but a flagrant consolidation of power
(also literally unconstitutional)
(also literally unconstitutional)
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Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are.
It does the same for everyone that excused them.
It does the same for everyone that excused them.
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are.
It does the same for everyone that excused them.
It does the same for everyone that excused them.
"It’s clear that schools have become a battleground for AI companies who desperately want to get their product ingrained into as many institutions as possible...they are rich sources of unique data that can be used to train models...& many of them have massive budgets & rarely ditch a service"
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
Soon we can have chatbots grade the work of chatbots.
gizmodo.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"It’s clear that schools have become a battleground for AI companies who desperately want to get their product ingrained into as many institutions as possible...they are rich sources of unique data that can be used to train models...& many of them have massive budgets & rarely ditch a service"
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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“Hype is seldom based on concrete promises,” explains Stewart. “It is, by design, a speculation boom: it generates a narrative of innovation and future value, but it is driven by logics of business and media, not education or the public good. Hype’s purpose is to generate investment.”
my campus news put out a piece on the 'AI hype awareness' work i've been doing lately, from a higher ed perspective.
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
What goes up must come down: Education prof explores the AI hype cycle
www.uwindsor.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“Hype is seldom based on concrete promises,” explains Stewart. “It is, by design, a speculation boom: it generates a narrative of innovation and future value, but it is driven by logics of business and media, not education or the public good. Hype’s purpose is to generate investment.”
falalalala
ahahahaaaaaagh!
ahahahaaaaaagh!
“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
falalalala
ahahahaaaaaagh!
ahahahaaaaaagh!
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The common good is a set of shared commitments.
To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth.
We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.
To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth.
We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The common good is a set of shared commitments.
To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth.
We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.
To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth.
We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
my campus news put out a piece on the 'AI hype awareness' work i've been doing lately, from a higher ed perspective.
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
What goes up must come down: Education prof explores the AI hype cycle
www.uwindsor.ca
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
my campus news put out a piece on the 'AI hype awareness' work i've been doing lately, from a higher ed perspective.
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future.
www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...
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Rededicating this poem in honor of the veterans of the Cloudflare outage
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all who wander are lost.
Server refused the connection:
Port 22 no route to host.
Not all who wander are lost.
Server refused the connection:
Port 22 no route to host.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Rededicating this poem in honor of the veterans of the Cloudflare outage
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
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Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685
arxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685
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Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
okay i feel attacked
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
okay i feel attacked
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online: it’s bad for us
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
online: it’s bad for us
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"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them."
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
Briefing: Grokipedia applies a right-wing filter to Wikipedia
Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool
indicator.media
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them."
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
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I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.
you either need universal basic income for humans or you must limit the use of Gen AI in such a way that humans aren’t radically impoverished as a result.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
This seems more like an argument for universal basic income than for limiting technology. (I think both are probably futile in the current political environment, but I’d prefer the latter.)
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.
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If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent.
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
donate.wikimedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent.
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
And the _real_ catalyst was that then-11-year-old Karenna Gore had played Purple Rain at a party her parents Al & Tipper Gore were hosting. Members of congress and their spouses had been invited, and Darling Nikki came on, scandalizing all these nice white folks who’d never heard of sex. Drama!
Here are the songs that helped make it happen #TheFilthyFifteen
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
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"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies.""
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News
A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nud...
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies.""
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...