Martha Lincoln
@heavyredaction.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
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“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
As a Cal State faculty member, I urge the CSU administration to recognize our duty of care towards students in this matter. These tragic losses should mark the end of our university’s association with a flawed product.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As a Cal State faculty member, I urge the CSU administration to recognize our duty of care towards students in this matter. These tragic losses should mark the end of our university’s association with a flawed product.
Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
ChatGPT Edu is ChatGPT 4o—the same large language model named in the suits recently brought against OpenAI.
There is nothing to suggest that the “educational” version of the product will not have deleterious mental health impacts on our large and diverse student population.
There is nothing to suggest that the “educational” version of the product will not have deleterious mental health impacts on our large and diverse student population.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
ChatGPT Edu is ChatGPT 4o—the same large language model named in the suits recently brought against OpenAI.
There is nothing to suggest that the “educational” version of the product will not have deleterious mental health impacts on our large and diverse student population.
There is nothing to suggest that the “educational” version of the product will not have deleterious mental health impacts on our large and diverse student population.
In February, the CSU chancellor announced a new “AI-empowered university” initiative making Cal State the largest university to contract with OpenAI—spending $17M for system-wide of a product called “ChatGPT Edu.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
ChatGPT Poses Risk to Student Mental Health (Opinion)
Recent lawsuits suggest ChatGPT poses an unacceptable risk to our students’ mental health.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In February, the CSU chancellor announced a new “AI-empowered university” initiative making Cal State the largest university to contract with OpenAI—spending $17M for system-wide of a product called “ChatGPT Edu.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
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Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.
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Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
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Free shovel to dig your own grave.
OpenAI made a free version of ChatGPT for teachers
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure version of the AI assistant designed for school employees.
www.engadget.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Free shovel to dig your own grave.
Sharing this important question!
Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sharing this important question!
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New paper out today in AI & Society w/ Arsenii Alenichev and colleagues.
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New paper out today in AI & Society w/ Arsenii Alenichev and colleagues.
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
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It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
Same week that they put gold cursive on the side of the White House. Pure class war from this administration
This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Same week that they put gold cursive on the side of the White House. Pure class war from this administration
I hope Usha Vance has an incredible prenup
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I hope Usha Vance has an incredible prenup
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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
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Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights
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"Under the plan... the Recreation and Parks Department would pay the estimated $4.4 million cost to have the 710-ton sculpture disassembled and moved to off-site storage for up to three years, while the artwork’s permanent fate is determined."
$4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]
$4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]
Exclusive: New plan seeks to remove controversial fountain from S.F. Embarcadero Plaza within months
The Vaillancourt Fountain could disappear from Embarcadero Plaza within months — at least temporarily — under a plan by San Francisco parks officials revealed exclusively to the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Under the plan... the Recreation and Parks Department would pay the estimated $4.4 million cost to have the 710-ton sculpture disassembled and moved to off-site storage for up to three years, while the artwork’s permanent fate is determined."
$4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]
$4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]
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While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions from senators about her qualifications and views on vaccines. n.pr/4oPHYiZ
Casey Means' confirmation hearing for surgeon general postponed
While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions. But her hearing has been canceled because she is pregnant and has gone into labor.
n.pr
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions from senators about her qualifications and views on vaccines. n.pr/4oPHYiZ
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
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Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.
Spinning genocide: How is Israel using US PR firms to frame its Gaza war?
Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.
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"It took imagination to build Alligator Alcatraz in five days, and it took imagination to terrorize communities in the way that they are now being terrorized. It’s not about realism versus imagination. It’s about competing versions of an imagined future, an imagined present."
I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.
chicagoreader.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"It took imagination to build Alligator Alcatraz in five days, and it took imagination to terrorize communities in the way that they are now being terrorized. It’s not about realism versus imagination. It’s about competing versions of an imagined future, an imagined present."
This is a beautifully written piece whose formal elegance underscores the author’s thesis:
”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”
”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”
A.I. could deprive students of “indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought,” Anastasia Berg writes. “This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.”
Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
nyti.ms
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is a beautifully written piece whose formal elegance underscores the author’s thesis:
”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”
”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”