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Megan McIntyre

@rcmeg.bsky.social

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Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas English prof Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy Loves dogs Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric (views only ever mine, obv) she/her

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · Jul 12

I'm genuinely begging folks to read both @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Torres' "TESCREAL Bundle" and @adambecker.bsky.social's _More Everything Forever_ and connect these billionaires' eugenicist dreams to the GenAI products they're pushing onto every educational institution, K-college.

nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · Jul 12

New from me. Hope you’ll give it a read www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

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The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11h

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 12h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 1d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d

“I often feel like a killjoy. I feel obligated to inform students, colleagues, and friends that generative AI has a litany of harmful implications for bias, democracy, the environment, labor, and language.”

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 2d

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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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2d

Recently I was clearly someone’s killjoy, and the emotional force of the attack/defense (whichever it is) was so intense, I felt as if hit by a truck. All because I said if X violates laws, then better avoid X in research.

Seems common sense 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Anyhoo, welcome to today's Dave Deep Thoughts, BlueSky post edition. Heh.

PS; generative AI is *not* a disability tool and it's garbage. Don't bother trying to say it is. I'm not buying and won't ever.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

At the same time I know there's some folks that see my creativity and ways to be creative as some sort of proof I'm "not really that disabled". They seem to expect me to just sit and be miserable. That utilizing technology for my creativity isn't the same as, say, using a wheelchair.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

This all got me thinking about how the intersection of disability and creativity is fucking wierd and frustrating at times. My need to create finds a way, thanks in part to technology, but mostly because of stubbornness. I *have* to create. It's just a part of my I can't prevent even if I tried.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 2d

"To speak truthfully about the harms GenAI causes is to be a killjoy...We must be willing to ask: whose happiness matters? Whose unhappiness is required for the future?"

Go read this fantastic piece from @nobugsnous.bsky.social.

Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 2d

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…

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 2d

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…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 3d

This will ruin countless lives and the only correction will be a statement advising against using the COPILOT() function in a list of use cases that incrementally grows to include everything that people use spreadsheets for, one disaster at a time.

Tweet by Zack Korman @ZackKorman: "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen."

followed by a screenshot of Microsoft Excel with the numbers 1, 2, and 3, followed by a cell where the expression '=COPILOT("sum the numbers above")' has been evaluated as 15.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 3d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 3d

““There are no experts in labour and employment issues (which are top of mind for many Canadians these days), nor is there representation from those with expertise in the environmental issues we already know are raised by AI innovation,” she wrote.“

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Experts say Ottawa’s new AI task force is skewed towards industry

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has given its new AI "task force" until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan

www.thestar.com

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 3d

A classic example of what @anna-orridge.bsky.social refers to as a “lolsob” moment.

“A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year…many of the students had done nothing wrong”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“Students who attend schools that use AI a lot were also more likely to report that they or a friend had used AI for mental health support, as a companion, as a way to escape reality and to have a romantic relationship.” 💀

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

FYI: Rev. Black (in the clip above) is one of several clergy who told me they've been shot with pepper balls by agents at that ICE facility, among other things.

Rev. Black now part of a lawsuit over it. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 4d

More great work from @gelliottmorris.com and the @verasight.bsky.social team on synthetic samples. The area where it is probably most enthusiastically embraced is market research ... turns out it doesn't work well for simulating consumer behavior either www.verasight.io/reports/coff...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Techni-Calli @illleavenow.bsky.social · 4d

Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

Perplexity

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