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NPR @npr.org · 9d

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

Students, listen up! NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2025

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11d

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Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Chart showing that AI-generated work causes people to think less of each other’s creativity, capability, reliability, trustworthiness, and intelligence

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Ötzi (=>÷) @abhoth.bsky.social · 12d

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Yes folks, we're going to fry the planet for A.I. slop.

#aislop

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13d

This is a really important read about how the current capitalist formations are shaping what books are available to readers and which writers get a chance to publish a book: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

#BookSky

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Forbes @forbes.com · 14d

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 14d

Launch day for this project I provided some assistance for with National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials and Instruction. ncademi.org/quality-indi...

Quality Indicators for Systems Change – National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 15d

Yes. If it were just about getting fired, it might not be so bad ...

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 15d

I actually don't believe that all books and reading materials are appropriate for all kids at all times in all circumstances. It is good to be thoughtful. Yet, censorship is when the powerful decide appropriateness for the less powerful at all times in all circumstances. No challenges/exceptions.

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 15d

If you censor all the books, the only texts that can be taught are the ones from centralized sources.

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 15d

I am teaching teachers at the BA, MA, and PhD levels this semester. The thing all the groups have in common is that they are not sure what they are supposed to be doing. And that is not a slam to them. They are scared that if they do teaching, there will be a raft of consequences. Not just firing.

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sundene 🇳🇴 📎 @sundene.bsky.social · 15d

And they want teachers and students to use this?

Hell, no.
Via morningbrew.com

An article about how using AI in the workplace is causing “workslop “.

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Donna Alvermann @donnaalvermann.bsky.social · 16d

This volume is scheduled for release in early November. Pre-order and save!

www.routledge.com/Theories-Mod...

Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy

This eighth edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy, a foundational text in literacy research, is updated to represent a new era in contemporary and critical scholarship. With a revise...

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Professional Development in Education @pdiejournal.bsky.social · 17d

In the Vol 51(5) Editorial, Marcel van der Klink states - "While I do not underestimate the potential of GenAI, it is essential to acknowledge the nuance and complexity of its short-term impact on education." Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3KbCosd

Stay informed about GenAI before it informs you

Published in Professional Development in Education (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2025)

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 17d

Community Advancing K-12 online/hybrid education. youtu.be/TNXPwmIpFmI

Digital Learningpalooza 2025: DLAC - The Community Advancing Digital Learning Research Agenda

YouTube video by Michael K Barbour

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Gunnar Bergfalke @gbergfalke.bsky.social · 18d

"An exploration of the ingenious mechanical linkages designed during the Industrial Revolution to solve one of engineering's greatest challenges: creating perfect straight-line motion from pure rotation."
youtu.be/h-Q9ydIR1Ec?...

The Strange Problem of Straight-Line Motion

YouTube video by New Mind

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18d

“Complaints that once might have taken 15 minutes to review and respond to can now take three to four hours of staff time, not counting the lawyers’ time…”

Did This Parent Hire a Lawyer? Schools Face a New Challenge With AI

Complaints written with AI can have a very legalistic tone, costing schools extra staff time and money to respond.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 18d

The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains - AI & SOCIETY

The rising demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling the growth of extractive supply chains to build and power the infrastructures this technology demands. However, there is ambigu...

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18d

Your kids are probably spending *way* more time with chatbots than you realize, and you probably won't like what they're hearing, warns @lisamjarvis.bsky.social

Gift link:

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Chatbots Are Hurting Our Kids. Here’s What We Can Do.

While many of us were still worrying about Snapchat and screen time, teens had already expanded their digital repertoire.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19d

As these things pop up everywhere, drain natural resources, and ruin the communities that are situated near them, it's only a matter of time before people start blowing up data centers.

Not-so-magic machines: The real cost of artificial intelligence, and why Ohio is the planned site of more data centers

Data centers, the lifeblood of artificial intelligence, have huge energy and water demands. As industry grows, Ohio might be prime real estate.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 22d

Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL

Column | Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.

Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 25d

Rereading Jane Eyre for class (and it as good as I remember) but it is making me feel old that I remember Rochester as being positively ancient and he apparently "might be thirty-five."

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.

Why parents need to talk to their teens about AI — and how to start the conversation

Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 28

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · Aug 26

the problem with my last job being "microfiche scanner" is that linkedin has no idea what the fuck that means

it keeps suggesting jobs in grocery stores

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Aug 22

LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why is Colorado, led by Democratic Governor Jared Polis shielding Palantir and AI companies from lawsuits in a special session? (after they failed in D.C.)

Big Tech Immunity? What could go wrong?

www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · Aug 21

summer reading part III-- went to Stemberger (1982) for an example and realized that there's a nice discussion of how we sometimes misclassify other people's variations as 'errors'. also this phrase: "just beyond the bounds of the grammatical"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Syntactic errors in speech - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Speech errors can be used to examine the nature of syntactic processing in speech production. Using such evidence, Fay (1980a, 1980b) maintains that deep structure and transformations are psychologica...

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 21

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

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