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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 1d

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…

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16h

Just like so many forms of mechanization the LMS was supposed to save us time. Instead, in a classic case of More Work for Mother, it made more and more miserable work for us instead.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot even begin to express the joy of not having a million levers to pull and bleeps and blips and bloops to push all the time. I got rid of Canvas and set myself free.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 21h

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 23h

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 1d

New post by @nobugsnous.bsky.social: On Being a GenAI Killjoy refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o... #RefusingGenAI

"We should always strive to be compassionate and understanding, but killjoy praxis compels us to ask: compassionate to whom?"

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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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 3d

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 3d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4d

influence economies and algorithmic entertainment markets are sociopathy machines.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4d

This is legit insane btw:

Roach man whose father died has zero self reflection or growth.

Says he will be happy to do it again because he has no actual skills and his audience fucking sucks

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 7d

Saudi Arabia’s strategy is working because of greed and cynicism, as evidenced by both the Riyadh Comedy Festival and the $55 billion sale of EA. @nathangrayson.bsky.social explains:

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know how university leaders expect to sustain their institutions *even as class-reproduction machines* if they sell out to a dictator and crush their own core workers. Like, you have to put oil in the engine. You have to put gasoline in the car.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8d

If you believe AI is necessary to spark a child’s imagination, I’m guessing you haven’t met many actual children

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

I spent part of my day editing a very basic spreadsheet with some demographic data. Fifty-seven percent accuracy would actually increase my workload. It’s harder to hunt, find, and edit data than it is to just…enter it.

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely been said before but if you’ve got an AI agent that is 57% accurate you have an AI agent that is 0% accurate

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 9d

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 9d

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

www.404media.co

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9d

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 9d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10d

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 11d

soft drinks are inevitable, if you don't drink sugar water you'll get left behind

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Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Our latest for Thank You for your Feedback Loop. A story and an idea. I'm hoping @fractalecho.bsky.social can better explain. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Screenshot of the Human Censored Design header with a blurb: The Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit popularized norms about disability inclusion that when teased out, become taboos. It doesn’t just sacrifice the one for the many. It also exploits misconceptions about representation in order to locate and select whichever one can be used to neutralize, undermine, bury, and censor the many. There are three primary methods embedded within Inclusive Design power grabs, and they often work together to achieve something more resembling Human Censored Design

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13d

"AI is going to replace actual teaching & instructors & solve the problem of unplugging 20-25% of the entire budget of every research university in America" is an incredible revealed preference. I mistakenly believed we were trying to educate students & conduct actual research. How naive of me.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jun 7

The fact that society does not seem to any longer value investing in education, at any level of it from K-Ph.D., does not mean that what makes for high quality teaching & learning has changed. It just means we're lazy & greedy, as a society, & don't want to invest in things or do hard work anymore.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14d

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14d

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

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Michael Black @mblack.us · 14d

I've seen some folks excited about using LLMs to generate NPC dialog in games. Sounds unfun even if its somehow realistic.

For me, part of the fun when I see people talking about fun moments in a game is trying to get there and see it myself. Won't be possible if NPCs are all slopping it up.