Rafi Santo
empathetics.bsky.social
Rafi Santo
@empathetics.bsky.social
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First (beta) version of our AI Auditing for High School lessons: piloted in high school CS classrooms, with resources for more information. bit.ly/k12aiaudit-lessons #cseducation #aieducation
Created with amazing CS teachers, Yasmin Kafai, Danae Metaxa, Daniel Noh, Luis Morales-Navarros
Part 0: Introduction to the Algorithm Auditing Lessons
Introduction to Algorithm Auditing: Lessons for High School Computer Science (beta version) Creators (listed in alphabetical order) Helen Butapetch, Deborah Fields, Sheri Hanna, John Landa, Luis Mora...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Excited to share a new offering at #ISLS2026 (International Society of the Learning Sciences): Alt-Academia Career Workshop. If you're in the learning sciences and interested in careers outside the traditional tenure track, this workshop is for you!

Apps due 11/15: 2026.isls.org/alt-academia...
Alt-Academia Career Workshop : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026
The Alt-Academia Career Workshop is a new professional development workshop that will support participants to pursue new opportunities or deepen existing roles in the learning sciences outside of trad...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵
September 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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There are four main arguments for AI in education:

1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable

Is it true?

Nope.

Micro 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics" ... criticaledtech.com/2025/07/12/w...
We need to talk about AI in terms of values, not vibes
The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of thei…
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July 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google pledged a few years ago to cut their emissions. But, as this chart from @bloomberg.com shows, the heavy pivot to artificial intelligence is pushing their emissions higher instead 🧪
July 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Absolutely heartbreaking, and terrifying.

If I’m reading this right, the program I received my PhD in—Learning and Development Sciences—is set to be eliminated.

Along with literally hundreds (!) of others.

This is arson on the part of fascists, plain and simple.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.

The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
June 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software).

Worth the long read.
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What a mensch.

(But we already knew that)
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Tonight, I can’t help but think of how much joy, and hope, this victory would bring to Michael Brooks.
June 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Episode 200 of @haveyouheard.bsky.social is a gem. Come for @audreywatters.bsky.social, @biblioracle.bsky.social, and @benjaminjriley.bsky.social…stay for our producer Francisco Rafart, who makes a surprise guest appearance at the end.
#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype
Play #200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault

We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Given this was a full, good faith effort sunsetted bc it didn’t sufficiently reduce algorithmic bias, I wonder whether it should be considered a failure of responsible computing, or, a success? Not deploying systems that don’t alleviate harms as intended seems like “responsible computing” to me.
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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My local coffee shop is not playing around.
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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A reminder that submissions to this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social free, online conference are due on Saturday, June 14. This year's 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes are Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard . The theme is Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. Submit here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference
June 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...
June 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...
May 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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🧪 BOOM: The AAU, ACE, APLU, and 13 universities just filed suit today against NSF for slashing to 15% indirect rates.

Full compliant: www.aau.edu/sites/defaul...

Updates: www.aau.edu/resources-aa...

A similar group of plaintiffs won a *permanent* injunction against a similar change at NIH.
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Alt: Wwo little girls are dancing on a stage and one of them is telling the other to tell her.
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May 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨

There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track.

It feels like an onslaught. It *is* an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic.

So here's my recap of past 48 hours...
a man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
Alt: A man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
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May 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM