orithyia blue
@miasshaw.bsky.social
2023 NYU provost postdoc • 2022 Ford dissertation fellow • PhD @PennGSE • storyteller using art, tech, and design • she/her • www.miasshaw.com
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So important that European educator unions are getting together to agree ways forward on AI in both schools and HE - and especially that they are *not* partnering with big AI firms as the US teachers' union has done.
We're doing a European wide study on the state of play, policies, union responses and we're working on exchanging and building best practices and capacity. We'll publish more soon.
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ETUCE Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Education trade unions shaping the future of our education systems
Copenhagen, 7–8 October 2025 – The ETUCE European Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education brought together over 70 education unionists, researchers, and experts from across Europe. Organis...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
So important that European educator unions are getting together to agree ways forward on AI in both schools and HE - and especially that they are *not* partnering with big AI firms as the US teachers' union has done.
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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
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
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.
thebarbedwire.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...
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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...
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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...
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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
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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“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
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“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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Pray for your teacher friends. The load is heavy right now. Teaching in this political climate is a LOT.
September 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Pray for your teacher friends. The load is heavy right now. Teaching in this political climate is a LOT.
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 […]
September 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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 […]
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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
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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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/
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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/
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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:
Read Watters' keynote at:
August 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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:
Read Watters' keynote at:
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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
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
Leaders in antisocial technology since 2003.
Meta forges ahead with facial recognition for its AI glasses
Are big tech companies embracing surveillance over privacy?
mashable.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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
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
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#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/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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."
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
The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.
grist.org/energy/a-coa...
#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.
grist.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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."
Goodness how am I already overwhelmed this semester and I’ve been saying no to opportunities. The fire hose isn’t on full blast but it’s definitely building
elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw
Alt: elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw letting out a big sigh. Above are the words “[Long exasperated sigh]”
media.tenor.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Goodness how am I already overwhelmed this semester and I’ve been saying no to opportunities. The fire hose isn’t on full blast but it’s definitely building
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"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes. That’s enough water to supply 4.6 million homes."
AI could deplete drinking water sources around Illinois, Midwest
Large data centers working on artificial intelligence that need water for cooling could drain area water supplies, a Great Lakes advocacy group warns.
chicago.suntimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes. That’s enough water to supply 4.6 million homes."
I feel like after I reactivated FB, I’ve been getting so many friend requests from people I don’t know 😳😵💫
August 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I feel like after I reactivated FB, I’ve been getting so many friend requests from people I don’t know 😳😵💫
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exactly, like what actual good is Facebook? a sort of internet white pages that easily could be run as a nonprofit or coop without obliterating journalism or touching off genocides
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
exactly, like what actual good is Facebook? a sort of internet white pages that easily could be run as a nonprofit or coop without obliterating journalism or touching off genocides
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Whatever list I am on that has me getting these random journal article review requests - I wish I could get off of it!
August 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Whatever list I am on that has me getting these random journal article review requests - I wish I could get off of it!
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Ironically, I literally wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation about exactly how bullshit and eugenicist the notion of "intelligence" is, both in general, and in specific relation to the prospect of creating "AI."
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Intelligence is such a bullshit concept, anyway. "PhD-level intelligence" is meaningless.
A PhD is gained through completing a rigorous program of education, not getting some sort of score on a test of cognitive functions that is called an "intelligence quotient" for eugenicist reasons.
A PhD is gained through completing a rigorous program of education, not getting some sort of score on a test of cognitive functions that is called an "intelligence quotient" for eugenicist reasons.
If you think everyone claiming their PhD is only claiming something about their intelligence rather than, say, celebrating hard accomplishments & staking out expertise in a world that likes to tell people specifically like them they can't be experts, in ways large & small? Then you missed some shit.
June 22, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Ironically, I literally wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation about exactly how bullshit and eugenicist the notion of "intelligence" is, both in general, and in specific relation to the prospect of creating "AI."
bsky.app/profile/ebth...
bsky.app/profile/ebth...
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Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors?
Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."
Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."
And the following language: "Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action."
July 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors?
Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."
Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."
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For all of you under the heat dome, which is most of the US, important safety information about heat tolerance and medications.
Why certain medications can increase your risk in the heat
Some medicines affect your ability to sweat, stay hydrated, or even to notice if you're overheating. Doctors say keep taking them, but make sure to keep yourself cool.
www.npr.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For all of you under the heat dome, which is most of the US, important safety information about heat tolerance and medications.
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I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.
July 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.