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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17d

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

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The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think

Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 25d

Hmmm 👀 www.wired.com/story/these-...

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year.

www.wired.com

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 27d

Appreciate the share!

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 29d

And then there's this amazing academic article/short fiction/comics piece, "The The Internet Doesn’t Exist in the Sky: Literacy, AI, and the Digital Middle Passage" by @miasshaw.bsky.social, @srtoliver.bsky.social, and @drtanksley.bsky.social. Read the article: www.tieratanksley.com/_files/ugd/e...

A screenshot from the article "The The Internet Doesn’t Exist in the Sky: Literacy, AI, and the Digital Middle Passage" by Mia Shaw, S. R. Toliver, and Tiera Tanksley. The screenshot shows two side-by-side images. The image on the left pictures a figure standing on a stage speaking to people. The figure is saying, "On this day, we come together to dream of technology anew. On this day, we force the Symbiote corporate organism out of our lands, out of our bodies. On this day, we break the chains of algorithmic oppression. Together." The image on the right pictures a Black teenage girl with her arms crossed over a shirt that reads, "Oh my Lorde". A speech bubble above the girl reads, "An interesting speech, Id say." The girl says, "Yea."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27d

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29d

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

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Dr. Tracy @tracyrenee70.bsky.social · 29d

Pray for your teacher friends. The load is heavy right now. Teaching in this political climate is a LOT.

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 29d

and [5] “Featuring and amplifying scholar-educator-artivists of Color as public intellectuals”.

maipedagogyproject.com/our-projects...

Pedagogies of Care

Building Collective-Oriented Educational Spaces This comic showcases the power of developing caring educational spaces as a political, ethical, and relational practice. Suggested Citation:...

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 29d

[3] “Offering a pedagogical tool for educators interested in racially just practices in formal and informal educational spaces”; [4] “Expanding representations of research-based findings and counterstories (un)told”;

Pedagogies of Care

Building Collective-Oriented Educational Spaces This comic showcases the power of developing caring educational spaces as a political, ethical, and relational practice. Suggested Citation:...

maipedagogyproject.com

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 29d

“ [1] “Capturing more imaginative, unconventional, dynamic forms of knowledge within and beyond “traditional academic texts” [2] “Making scholarly research more widely available and accessible to broader audiences and learners”;

Pedagogies of Care

Building Collective-Oriented Educational Spaces This comic showcases the power of developing caring educational spaces as a political, ethical, and relational practice. Suggested Citation:...

maipedagogyproject.com

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 29d

“ experiential learning space of knowledge and practices for liberatory education. Through multimodality and the arts, Mai Pedagogy Project aspires to spark (k)new musings, theorizations, and implementation of justice-centered pedagogies for the purposes of: […]

Pedagogies of Care

Building Collective-Oriented Educational Spaces This comic showcases the power of developing caring educational spaces as a political, ethical, and relational practice. Suggested Citation:...

maipedagogyproject.com

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · 29d

Last year, I had the honor of collaborating with Josephine Pham on reimagining her co-authored piece on pedagogies of collective intersectional care with Kiese Vita and Tiffany M. Nyachae for the Mai Pedagogy Project, “A collaboration among scholars, educators, and artists [that] serves as an […]

Two photos stacked. Top photo is a burgundy background with three pages from the comic displayed and attached with tape. Bottom photo is a screenshot of the first page of comic, titled “Visualizing Pedagogies of Collective Intersectional Care - Based on the collective imagination of Josephine H. Pham, Kiese Vita, Tiffany M. Nyachae, & Mia Shaw. Illustrated by Mia Shaw”

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Sep 1

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. 🧵

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 30

I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/

Washington Post article: "For $65K a year, you can send your kid up an AI-driven private school. There are no teachers, and students study just two hours per day."

Ad for Elephant Learning, claiming kids can learn 1 year of math in 3 months

Ad for Miacademy Learning, promising "Learning at lightning speed."

Ad for Thinkster Learning, promising "confidence rebuilt in weeks" and "3X faster progress than old-school centers."

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Read this 🧵 and then read - and teach! - Audrey Watters' analysis of the ed-tech imaginary, which "includes the stories we invent to explain the necessity of technology, the promises of technology; the stories we use to describe how we got here and where we are headed."

Read Watters' keynote at:

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · Aug 28

So many people film service workers with these damn glasses already.

Imagine whatever creepy man comes into your customer service job not only films you but can identify your name now??? Serious safety issue for women and others

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 28

Leaders in antisocial technology since 2003.

Meta forges ahead with facial recognition for its AI glasses

Are big tech companies embracing surveillance over privacy?

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 28

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

I also owe you an email regarding Inroads, stay tuned lol

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks Charles!

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

I bet! You literally just birthed a dissertation baby without ample parental leave lol

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, "has said the U.S. 'has got to stop closing coal plants' to help boost electricity generation to meet demand that is escalating due to the growth of artificial intelligence."

Grist @grist.org · Aug 27

A coal-fired plant in #Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day.

The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.

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#Coal #Energy #Policy #Health

A coal-fired plant in Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day.

The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

(4) still needing to recover from the Philly to Lansing drive (which took 13.5 hours on account of my cat(s) having accidents en route). I know the first year is supposed to be hard and this is what I signed up for so just taking each day as it comes and having faith that all will reveal itself soon

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

(3) emotional whiplash because the field has been changing so much on top of the rise of authoritarianism and trying to figure out what issues are most pressing, and finally (3/n)

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

(2) this quiet pressure that I need to earn my place and have my research agenda for the next 5 years decided asap… (2/n)

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orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

The biggest differences I’m feeling between being an assistant professor and grad student/postdoc are (1) this fatigue and need to recollect myself after the trauma of a doc program and being on the job market that’s coupled with… (1/n)

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