Marguerite Mayhall
@mkmayhall.bsky.social
Venezuelanist, art historian (PhD UT Austin), now studying the discourse on space & place, networks, bodies, & ‘the sacred.’ Esp interested in links betw prehistory, history, & consciousness. Pedagogue. Knitter, spinner.
I miss Caracas, though.
I miss Caracas, though.
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Marguerite Mayhall
@mkmayhall.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Calls for Submissions - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines - Philosophy Documentation Center
www.pdcnet.org
CFP - AI, Education, & Critical Thinking: Dispatches from the College Classroom www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/Ca...
The issue's theme is the impact of AI on the higher education classroom. See the CFP for more information.
The issue's theme is the impact of AI on the higher education classroom. See the CFP for more information.
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“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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The longer we delay, the worse the problems caused by climate chan become, exacerbating the other, supposedly more urgent issues.
“Look, we can’t fight climate change, we need to think about national security.“ But climate change is already fuelling conflict.
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“Look, we can’t fight climate change, we need to think about national security.“ But climate change is already fuelling conflict.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The longer we delay, the worse the problems caused by climate chan become, exacerbating the other, supposedly more urgent issues.
“Look, we can’t fight climate change, we need to think about national security.“ But climate change is already fuelling conflict.
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“Look, we can’t fight climate change, we need to think about national security.“ But climate change is already fuelling conflict.
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Similarly, the economic costs of climate change have risen, but the slower we are to act, the greater the risk of really major economic disruptions becomes, particularly through properties becoming impossible to insure or mortgage, or catastrophic losses in insurance markets.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Similarly, the economic costs of climate change have risen, but the slower we are to act, the greater the risk of really major economic disruptions becomes, particularly through properties becoming impossible to insure or mortgage, or catastrophic losses in insurance markets.
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If we ”can’t afford” to act now, how will we afford it amidst an economic crisis?
So far, global harvests have held up well, but we’re beginning to see impacts on certain crops and certain areas.
The more warming we allow, the greater the risk of key crops failing becomes. Rice in Vietnam?
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So far, global harvests have held up well, but we’re beginning to see impacts on certain crops and certain areas.
The more warming we allow, the greater the risk of key crops failing becomes. Rice in Vietnam?
9/
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If we ”can’t afford” to act now, how will we afford it amidst an economic crisis?
So far, global harvests have held up well, but we’re beginning to see impacts on certain crops and certain areas.
The more warming we allow, the greater the risk of key crops failing becomes. Rice in Vietnam?
9/
So far, global harvests have held up well, but we’re beginning to see impacts on certain crops and certain areas.
The more warming we allow, the greater the risk of key crops failing becomes. Rice in Vietnam?
9/
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Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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An important holiday update from Effin' Birds
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
An important holiday update from Effin' Birds
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Another day, another garbage site with extruded content (both video and text) that says I said something I didn't.
www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/ai-v...
www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/ai-v...
Augmented Intelligence: Navigating AI's Human Frontier
The prevailing narrative surrounding artificial intelligence often oscillates between utopian potential and dystopian fear, yet the reality, as
www.startuphub.ai
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Another day, another garbage site with extruded content (both video and text) that says I said something I didn't.
www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/ai-v...
www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/ai-v...
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(Lots of folks have written about the way in which bias is a discourse captured by corporations, one of my favorite entries is this n+1 piece by Laura Preston.)
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
(Lots of folks have written about the way in which bias is a discourse captured by corporations, one of my favorite entries is this n+1 piece by Laura Preston.)
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
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Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Surprisingly, this post got traction last night. So now I want to tell you about Clay Shaw, and Jim Garrison's horrific homophobic prosecution of him, a nightmare of Les Miserables-like proportions.
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
That Oliver Stone made a movie lionizing Jim Garrison's ludicrous prosecution of an innocent man (Clay Shaw) is one of the most egregious historical transmogrifications in cinema. Imagine in 20 yrs a Stephen Miller hagiography starring Chalamet, that's the artistic crime level we're talking.
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Surprisingly, this post got traction last night. So now I want to tell you about Clay Shaw, and Jim Garrison's horrific homophobic prosecution of him, a nightmare of Les Miserables-like proportions.
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
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A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
I like how he calls out the work of people like Audrey Watters and Corey Doctorow here. And reminds us that enshittification is a thing these companies do. Buyer beware, indeed.
The interview here is interesting. I'm saddened by some of what parents and teachers express in the intro as it echoes arguments of inevitability and pressure to be on "cutting edge."
Teachers and parents weigh benefits and risks of artificial intelligence in schools
Artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated into many facets of life, including in America’s classrooms. As more school districts integrate AI into learning, we hear from parents and teachers ...
www.pbs.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I like how he calls out the work of people like Audrey Watters and Corey Doctorow here. And reminds us that enshittification is a thing these companies do. Buyer beware, indeed.
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Of course we need more and better supporter teachers, but LLMs promise more teaching without paying teachers. (Ignoring the fact that we are collectively paying a massive price for LLMs)
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Of course we need more and better supporter teachers, but LLMs promise more teaching without paying teachers. (Ignoring the fact that we are collectively paying a massive price for LLMs)
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But especially here:
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
But especially here:
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I don't always agree with Reich, but I cheered here:
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I don't always agree with Reich, but I cheered here:
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A new paper argues that current generative AI tools offer little benefit for genuine learning unless students already have substantial prior knowledge. genAI gives probabilistic summaries, not the kind of support that builds expertise.
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A new paper argues that current generative AI tools offer little benefit for genuine learning unless students already have substantial prior knowledge. genAI gives probabilistic summaries, not the kind of support that builds expertise.
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And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
2024 Conference — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
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Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.
innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8
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By creating an "experiment" without the knowledge of the students, by setting a trap, you have designed your course not to affirm and encourage honesty and hard work (which the majority of the students affirm), but to model the very dishonesty you're supposedly fighting against. 5/8
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
By creating an "experiment" without the knowledge of the students, by setting a trap, you have designed your course not to affirm and encourage honesty and hard work (which the majority of the students affirm), but to model the very dishonesty you're supposedly fighting against. 5/8
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ