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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14h

Me interacting with everybody wearing a flannel today now that Flannel Season has at long last arrived in Chicagoland.

a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the woods holding a camera .

Alt: A white man with shoulder-length hair and a beard stands in the woods and slowly nods.

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Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social · 15h

@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!

Events — Civics of Technology

Learn more, RSVP, or submit a proposal for the 1st annual virtual conference to take place from 11am-3pm EST on both August 4th and 5th, 2022.

www.civicsoftechnology.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15h

“I often feel like a killjoy. I feel obligated to inform students, colleagues, and friends that generative AI has a litany of harmful implications for bias, democracy, the environment, labor, and language.”

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 19h

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 21h

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23h

Hey educators, students, caregivers, and librarians:

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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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

New paper - "Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice" - led by @dimiktz.bsky.social w Martyn Pickersgill, Jess Pykett and me from our bio-edu-data-sci project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1080/0159...

Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice

Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuros...

doi.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d

"To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability and to demand that technology serve the many, not just the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency, and justice must come before speed, efficiency, and scale," writes Courtney C. Radsch.

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

www.brookings.edu

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 1d

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

AI has a lot of issues but a big one is the way it’s used to :

- demonize basic real emotional desires and needs
- the inability to just straight up and say

“ there is something maladaptive and ill intentioned about wanting to have a digital slave “

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Students who attend schools that use AI a lot were also more likely to report that they or a friend had used AI for mental health support, as a companion, as a way to escape reality and to have a romantic relationship.” 💀

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason for teachers to develop a Luddite praxis with our students:

"There is a genuine, Gen Z-driven Luddite renaissance building as some people reject the tech platforms that have clamored for our attention (and money) over the past two decades..."

As AI gets more life-like, a new Luddite movement is taking root | CNN Business

At my local coffee shop a couple of weeks ago, I overheard one 20-something woman say to another: Could I ask, what kind of phone do you have?

edition.cnn.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.”

Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology

Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras

www.wsj.com

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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ sign to support higher ed ✍️

Please raise your voice on behalf of higher ed in the US.

We need to stop the fascist “compact” by convincing college and university leadership not to fold.

Sign now and spread the word.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's because I'm a paid subscriber, so I have access to the entire post.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d

"Too many people are busily promoting a version of "‘AI’ literacy” that is simply training students how to use and consume 'AI' 'properly' – whatever that means – and refusing to admit that there may be no ethical usage of a fundamentally unethical, abusive technology," writes Audrey Watters.

Without Our Consent

When I wrote last week’s round-up of “AI”-related news, I didn’t include any of OpenAI’s product releases, mostly because it’s 2025 and I’m exhausted by this game that tech companies and tech journali...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Tech bros: Check out our cute new chatbot-integrated toy Surveilo that'll record every single interaction for us to monetize.

5 y.o.: Plays with his "broken-down train" all morning and leaves for preschool with instructions that I am not to touch the train because it is very valuable.

Two small cardboard boxes wrapped in masking tape.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

www.dair-institute.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3d

LOL

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6d

- Garbage
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Toad the Wet Sprocket

1990s Band or Offhand Comment from My Tween About My Outfit?

1. Pearl Jam1 2. Old Lady Curtains2 3. Blind Melon3 4. Alice in Chains4 5. Judge Judy in a Bathrobe5 6. Garbage6 7. Smashing Pumpkins7 8. Toad the ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10d

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

www.nybooks.com

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4d

Labubu dolls are now becoming A Thing with the local third graders - and I refuse to participate because we already have the OGs:

A screenshot of two monsters with large, yellow eyes; sharp teeth; and sharp claws. The monsters are from the book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.

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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 4d

Are family surveillance apps like Life360 or Find My Friends actually keeping you and your loved ones safe?
Our latest report reveals just how invasive these apps truly are. Read more about the dangers of family surveillance apps here:
www.stopspying.org/big-brother-...

Dark background with white text. Image is of a person in dark room holding phone with location tracking app.

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Today!

@charleswlogan.bsky.social shares his recent experiences on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! Read about it on our blog, and go check out the episode if you haven't already

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/learnin...

Learning and Laughter on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: The next Tech Talk will be held on October 7 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Register here or on our events page. Come join our community in an info...

www.civicsoftechnology.org

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