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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 1d

Tech people really do not seems to get that creative people generally don’t want to take credit for stuff they didn’t do

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“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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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said on Monday.”

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI

Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

www.ft.com

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

weird -sounds familiar...
Paging the Education Accord

"a dozen bogus references and footnotes ... although officials insist the "substance" of the report remains intact."

www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/d...

Deloitte refunds Australian government over AI in report

: Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

www.theregister.com

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 4d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 8d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 8d

PSA: when critiquing a person’s ideological positions, just… don’t bring their physical appearance into it? Just… say nothing about how they look. It’s literally that easy.

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 10d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 10d

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring. The reliably good Bloomberg Green connects the dots between AI and the war on the poor www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 11d

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass:

all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff

stop burning stuff for heat

stop burning stuff for make car go

stop burning stuff for power

we have the tools

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11d

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Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Chart showing that AI-generated work causes people to think less of each other’s creativity, capability, reliability, trustworthiness, and intelligence

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13d

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 13d

Solidarity, Erin

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13d

Students may end up being the only real bulwark against what is happening.

But, I know that not all students have the same power — the same exit threat. Student resistance will fall along institutional lines of privilege. Could hasten the marketization of non-elite schools.

The elites win.

Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 13d

A student told me Thursday that another prof had told the class to post their work into an AI LLM, to be graded and commented on by the AI. The other students were all offended. Which is good. They should be offended.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 14d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 14d

I have a grad worker who's "Secretary of Grievances" for his union for the 1st time. He's learning fast.

Him: So wait, the university would rather pay a mediator than settle what's basically a clerical error?
Me: Yes.
Him: I'm starting to understand why you're angry all the time.

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Mark Nichols @justmarknichols.bsky.social · 14d

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social, you know what would be a great national-building project? POSTAL BANKING in all the small rural communities across this nation your corporate banking buddies have abandoned.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

Now do wage theft.

Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones

Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.

www.technologyreview.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17d

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

www.ft.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19d

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles:

1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,

2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,

3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.

Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three

Here's how to capitalize on them.

www.fastcompany.com

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19d

ICYMI, on Saturday the USDA cancelled its food security survey. I'm certain there are depths of stupidity left to plumb, but ignorance about hunger has yet to be proven a path to ending it.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 19d

Paging NL's Education Accord

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d

"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia. Notable among these choices is the relentless push to uncritically adopt AI technologies in education …”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d

"With the global rise of fascistic regimes and growing threats to academic freedom (ALLEA 2025; Brennan et al. 2025; KNAW 2021, 2025; @danmcquillan.bsky.social 2025), safeguarding the integrity of scientific knowledge is more important now than ever.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

zenodo.org

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

zenodo.org

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