@OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
@dankrutka.bsky.social
non-machine ed prof | researches social studies, tech/media, & democracy | CivicsOfTechnology.org 🤖 | VisionsOfEd.com🎙| #ThunderUp | #BLM | he/him | posts don't represent my employer ᵐᴬᵏᵉ ᵍᴼᴼᵈ ᵀᴿᵒᵘᴮᴸᴱ
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
This was part of a project tracing the history of 'Luddism' as emblem people have organized around, differently in different times/places, to contest the idea of technological inevitability—and implications for edu post-GenAI.
(PDF here: tinyurl.com/4eedzmnv)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(PDF here: tinyurl.com/4eedzmnv)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism
This article examines the historical and contemporary mobilizations of ‘Luddism’ as a mode of resistance to technological inevitability, particularly in response to the integration of generative AI...
www.tandfonline.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This was part of a project tracing the history of 'Luddism' as emblem people have organized around, differently in different times/places, to contest the idea of technological inevitability—and implications for edu post-GenAI.
(PDF here: tinyurl.com/4eedzmnv)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(PDF here: tinyurl.com/4eedzmnv)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
This month's Tech Talk is on Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you there!
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CoT December Tech Talk. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CoT December Tech Talk. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
oklahoma.zoom.us
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This month's Tech Talk is on Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you there!
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
The White House launched a “media bias” “fact checking” site after more than three years of labeling efforts to understand and counter disinformation “censorship.”
It’s just another enemies list in disguise ⤵️
It’s just another enemies list in disguise ⤵️
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The White House launched a “media bias” “fact checking” site after more than three years of labeling efforts to understand and counter disinformation “censorship.”
It’s just another enemies list in disguise ⤵️
It’s just another enemies list in disguise ⤵️
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
I know everyone is dunking on the robot here but look at how much space is devoted to cars in this scenario. The sidewalk should be bigger and the road smaller.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I know everyone is dunking on the robot here but look at how much space is devoted to cars in this scenario. The sidewalk should be bigger and the road smaller.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
No major religion objects to vaccines.
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
State Court Rules School Vaccine Law Can’t Bar Religious Exemptions
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
No major religion objects to vaccines.
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
"I think [Brightwheel is] just instilling an illusion in me that it’s possible to control her—if I as her parent could only get the data inputs right."
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
Reflecting on Daycare (Ed)Tech and Being a New “Civics of Tech Parent” — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"I think [Brightwheel is] just instilling an illusion in me that it’s possible to control her—if I as her parent could only get the data inputs right."
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Grok summing it up lol
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Grok summing it up lol
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
EdTech is in our lives from the very beginning. Michelle Ciccone writes about becoming a Civics of Tech parent and bearing witness to tech mediation in the first year of life.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...
Reflecting on Daycare (Ed)Tech and Being a New “Civics of Tech Parent” — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
EdTech is in our lives from the very beginning. Michelle Ciccone writes about becoming a Civics of Tech parent and bearing witness to tech mediation in the first year of life.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
mikecaulfield.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
ABC News just committed real journalism during this Trump press conference, questioning him about his business dealings with Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince about the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump called CBS fake news. Bin Salam called murder “painful.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
ABC News just committed real journalism during this Trump press conference, questioning him about his business dealings with Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince about the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump called CBS fake news. Bin Salam called murder “painful.”
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.
Alex Jones on encountering actual gay frogs: “NOTHINGBURGER it’s a Nothingburger on Top of Bottom Nothingburger!”
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
![An ad for the Friend AI pendant that is, according to a post on Redditt, at the Fullerton CTA stop. The ad reads, "friend. [frend] noun. someone who listens, responds, and supports you." A person has written, "AI is not your friend" over the image of the pendant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uufz3dvrdnbm6ptii46y7j7u/bafkreidv2q5m54fchg5zocga7igukl6rlss4mdzxlkkcklw5wnrc7sccga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by @OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social
The report is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations & private lawsuits against US colleges & universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Full Report here:
Full Report here:
New Report: Civil Rights Law Weaponized to Chill Speech
A report published today is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
www.aaup.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The report is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations & private lawsuits against US colleges & universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Full Report here:
Full Report here: