James Allen
@tljamesa.com
School Libraries https://www.tljamesa.com/ #KyLChat #stressdoodle #KyGoPlay School Libraries, also School Libraries.
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James Allen
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· Oct 11
ai Thinking - TLJamesA
Explore one educator's evolving perspective on generative AI in education, including concerns about copyright, fair use, industry demands, and the rush to adopt new technology. Features a curated list...
www.tljamesa.com
New post that tries to capture just a bit of my thinking on generative artificial intelligence at the moment. Thank you to all the folks I mention. You've helped a ton! #aieducation #noai #schoollibrary #tlchat www.tljamesa.com/index.php/20...
Question: What is best (ease/affordable) place to get/make a custom domain, email address, and website? (For a regular person, not tech enthusiast) Thank you for your input!
a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice
ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Question: What is best (ease/affordable) place to get/make a custom domain, email address, and website? (For a regular person, not tech enthusiast) Thank you for your input!
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what stage of capitalism is this
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
what stage of capitalism is this
Important perspective here.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Important perspective here.
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Thank you! #KentuckyLibraries #KyLChat
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thank you! #KentuckyLibraries #KyLChat
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It has been pointed out to me that this means 2.5 billion-dollar AI music company Suno has spent less money on music than many individual music fans
Billboard got access to Suno’s investment pitch deck.
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It has been pointed out to me that this means 2.5 billion-dollar AI music company Suno has spent less money on music than many individual music fans
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The issues with AI and education are vast, and I appreciate that this story aims to engage with that complexity, but it misses the mark in so many ways by boiling it down to two competing ideas, 1) "AI is here to stay" and will transform the job market and 2) AI is bad for critical thinking. 1/8
Higher Education’s AI Problem : Up First from NPR
Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to figure out how to incorporate AI into the classroom. ChatGPT debuted almost exactly three years ago. And very quickly, students began to...
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The issues with AI and education are vast, and I appreciate that this story aims to engage with that complexity, but it misses the mark in so many ways by boiling it down to two competing ideas, 1) "AI is here to stay" and will transform the job market and 2) AI is bad for critical thinking. 1/8
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
You never know what will come out a broken crayon. #Uplift
More broken crayons, classroom activities, my broken crayon #KidLit picture book with Linda Sue Park: debbieohi.com/resources/re...
More broken crayons, classroom activities, my broken crayon #KidLit picture book with Linda Sue Park: debbieohi.com/resources/re...
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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“for the good of humanity” 🫠
these guys need to be shunned from society
these guys need to be shunned from society
“The Sam Altman-founded company behind the ‘Orb,’ a volleyball-sized metal sphere that scans irises to prove people's humanity, had a message for employees: work weekends and ignore anything outside your job — for the good of humanity.”
Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup told workers not to care about anything outside work
Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania said that "if you should care about something else, and if you want something else, you should just not be here."
www.businessinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“for the good of humanity” 🫠
these guys need to be shunned from society
these guys need to be shunned from society
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"New freedoms we can't even imagine today."
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
The first paragraph of OpenAI's new Teen AI Literacy Blueprint is *a lot* cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"New freedoms we can't even imagine today."
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Golden rule... not a bad rule. (adults need reminders too)
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Golden rule... not a bad rule. (adults need reminders too)
Excited for today! STLP Regionals (students across the state will present their school/community-centered technology projects today and get near-live feedback from educators across the state)
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Excited for today! STLP Regionals (students across the state will present their school/community-centered technology projects today and get near-live feedback from educators across the state)
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Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is hurting the environment
✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives
✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers
✅ A/I can give you psychosis
🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is hurting the environment
✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives
✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers
✅ A/I can give you psychosis
🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
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Future Ready Librarians 6th Annual App Smash webinar coming up on November 18, 2025 at 5:00pm EST.
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Future Ready Librarians 6th Annual App Smash webinar coming up on November 18, 2025 at 5:00pm EST.
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
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Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
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They're
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
They're
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
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Sad and alarming. Now for alternatives to “do evil” and use other platforms for “do no evil”
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sad and alarming. Now for alternatives to “do evil” and use other platforms for “do no evil”
I’m embarrassed there was a point where I desired to be a Google “innovator”
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
In case you need a reason not to be a Google-certified educator:
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m embarrassed there was a point where I desired to be a Google “innovator”
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Awesome shirt!
"The future is analog"
— Birchbark Books
I couldn't agree more! Thank you @addyvin.bsky.social for helping me get a hold of one of these tees from my favorite bookstore.
— Birchbark Books
I couldn't agree more! Thank you @addyvin.bsky.social for helping me get a hold of one of these tees from my favorite bookstore.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Awesome shirt!
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"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No"
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No
It's a real
gizmodo.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No"
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...