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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d

Aaaaarrrggh

Reuters headline reads,
“Two federal judges say use of Al led to errors in US court rulings
By Sara Merken
October 23, 2025 1:29 PM PDT • Updated October 23, 2025.”

A pop-up reads: “Get the key points from this story with Reuters Al”

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 8d

To use it like this is to teach children that a statistical composite is better than their own imagination.

It is morally wrong on that basis alone, before you even get to all the harm required to produce it

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · 21d

This is exactly the snark I needed after seeing an AI-powered plagiarism machine integrated into FSU Libraries main search tool.

hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 21d

Survey finds 47% of college students are using methamphetamine during finals week.
Edtech companies immediately demand that libraries purchase "safer" concentrated caffeine pills to distribute and hold seminars on "responsible stimulant use"

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Sep 25

Low salaries and burnout leads to teacher shortage. Obviously the solution is to spend more on edtech with questionable outcomes and not to improve teacher pay and working conditions.

Jefferson Parish will use virtual teachers for some honors math and English classes

Hundreds of Jefferson Parish students will be taught honors math and English by virtual teachers this school year.

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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Sep 19

The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...

How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

"The best way to honor Charlie’s memory," California Governor Gavin Newsom said, "is to continue his work." And so we've seen in the last week: the targeted harassment of those who've spoken out about...

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Sep 19

“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.

National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · Sep 18

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes, literacy is important -- but literacy means more than "how to use X". It also includes understanding what X (here, LLMs) is and when NOT to use them.

Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Sep 5

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 29

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed.

"Deeply saddened"

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

WSJ: An OpenAI spokeswoman said the company has reached out to the Greenwich Police Department. “We are deeply saddened by this tragic event,” the spokeswoman said. “Our hearts go out to the family.”

NYT: Ms. Raine started reading the conversations, too. She had a different reaction: “ChatGPT killed my son.”

In an emailed statement, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, wrote: “We are deeply saddened by Mr. Raine’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family. ChatGPT includes safeguards such as directing people to crisis help lines and referring them to real-world resources. While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade.”

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · Aug 28

for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!!

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The Rise of Celebrity Authorship | Columbia University Press

Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, ... | CUP

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Aug 27

“AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.”

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · Aug 26

Greetings, consumer. Did you know that letting your child pretend can hurt their mental health? Imagining other lives can lead to discontent with their predetermined social status.

Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 21

“Children, especially in early developmental stages, are acutely sensitive to tone, timing, and emotional mirroring. A child playing with an AI toy will believe they’re being understood, when in fact, the system is only predicting plausible next words.”

Could an AI Barbie Take the Place of Real Friends?

Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why must I suffer so much “journalism” that touts all the amazing possibilities of AI to replace our human interactions and pedagogy, immediately followed by the paragraph that says none of it works, so humans have to manually check all of this slop. This is exhausting.

Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software

New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.

www.chronicle.com

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · Jul 19

The thing I always think about is how one of the first things you learn as a librarian is that the first question someone asks is inevitably the wrong question.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 18

PhD in Prompt Engineering

First Squawk: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently told CNBC that if he were a student today, the top skill he'd develop is Al literacy-specifically, mastering how to ask the right questions and craft effective prompts to get the most out of generative tools like ChatGPT, Gemini Pro, and Grok
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18

Lula going after US tech companies today sounds awesome, even calling out how the right uses free speech as a justification to target minorities.

We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.

Falsetes de Malafaia @knotsinhishair.bsky.social · Jul 17

hey, Paris, have you seen Lula's speech today? Thought it could be of interest.

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Jul 17

Fantastic article! A must read for librarians.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · Jul 16

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer

"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congrats!

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Jun 28

Echoes
www.loc.gov/item/2021771...

Caution!! Colored people of Boston, one & all, you are hereby respectfully cautioned and advised, to avoid conversing with the watchmen and police officers of Boston, for since the recent order of the mayor & aldermen, they are empowered to act as kidnappers and slave catchers ... Keep a sharp look out for kidnappers, and have top eye open. April 24, 1851.:

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · May 30

And there’s a song! youtu.be/jNz_xl86Jlc

Jimmy C. Newman - "Lâche pas la patate" (avec paroles)

YouTube video by LeQuebecDautrefois

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · May 15

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.

With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?

Will Pope Leo XIV be an ally against AI?

The Catholic Church has a striking clear-eyed critique of artificial intelligence

www.disconnect.blog

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · May 14

Students are right to be pissed if we outsource teaching to AI, and professors who do are fools for devaluing their own labor.

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

www.nytimes.com

Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Apr 10

I had a really great experience with the open peer review process.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Our next open submission window will be August 2025.

Please see our submission pages for guidance. The sub-pages provide information about our publication process and our style guide.

Submission Guidelines – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Apr 9

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

www.theguardian.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 9

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

diagram of a nineteenth century slave ship with humans packed in to achieve maximum economic efficiency

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Adam Beauchamp @delayedcajun.bsky.social · Apr 2

Super excited to share my work exhibiting a history of the book banners in Florida, today’s epicenter of censorship. With pictures!

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 New from @delayedcajun.bsky.social!
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/rethink...

Rethinking Banned Books Exhibits in the Library – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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