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That our university leaders do not feel deeply embarrassed by the way they are being so transparently manipulated by bad-faith actors demonstrates the extent to which they agree with the substance of these anti-intellectual right-wing critiques
This is an eminently sensible thread and should be read and taken to heart by anyone in a faculty supervisory/academic leadership role. This is, tragically, the new landscape, and just because you don't like it doesn't mean you can ignore it.
Departments, faculty: we have to get our heads out of the sand. We have to understand the political landscape and take concerns seriously. Our students and NTT colleagues need our help and support. Retreating to a silo is giving up just when active support is necessary. 10/end
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That our university leaders do not feel deeply embarrassed by the way they are being so transparently manipulated by bad-faith actors demonstrates the extent to which they agree with the substance of these anti-intellectual right-wing critiques
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There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Fuck Waymo—Long Live Kit Kat!
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.
bayareacurrent.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fuck Waymo—Long Live Kit Kat!
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
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I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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They lied as well as knew!
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. Documents reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the climate treaty process. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. Documents reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the climate treaty process. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
They lied as well as knew!
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. Documents reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the climate treaty process. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. Documents reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the climate treaty process. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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here is my favorite sign from today
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
here is my favorite sign from today
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
The New York Times
September 30, 2025
By Pam Belluck
🎁 includes a gift link
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/long...
#COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
The New York Times
September 30, 2025
By Pam Belluck
🎁 includes a gift link
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/long...
#COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
stillcoviding.ca
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
The New York Times
September 30, 2025
By Pam Belluck
🎁 includes a gift link
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/long...
#COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
The New York Times
September 30, 2025
By Pam Belluck
🎁 includes a gift link
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/long...
#COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
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i struggle to find any ethical justification for using AI-generated imagery in any circumstances, even if it’s for critique of AI or art projects supposed to make you question it
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i struggle to find any ethical justification for using AI-generated imagery in any circumstances, even if it’s for critique of AI or art projects supposed to make you question it
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AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding?
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding?
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...
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a useful counterweight to the criticism the left endlessly gets on here for "purity testing" from liberals (and sectarianism among fellow travelers). having standards, principles, and self-respect is Good Actually
abundance con. where you can hear radical pro-abundance moves like "we should deport more immigrants" and "what if we had more tariffs"
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a useful counterweight to the criticism the left endlessly gets on here for "purity testing" from liberals (and sectarianism among fellow travelers). having standards, principles, and self-respect is Good Actually
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jobs are either "Grant Writer ($32,165–$33,165)" or "Senior Vice President of Child Slaughter ($650,000–$750,000, 401k/medical/dental/vision/you can touch the art at museums)"
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
jobs are either "Grant Writer ($32,165–$33,165)" or "Senior Vice President of Child Slaughter ($650,000–$750,000, 401k/medical/dental/vision/you can touch the art at museums)"
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Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
September 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
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Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
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Make 👏 mass 👏 surveillance 👏 more 👏 equal
Is a more accurate authoritarian tool more ethical 🙄
Can fake faces make AI training more ethical?
Demographic bias gaps are closing in face recognition, but how training images are sourced is becoming the field’s biggest privacy fight.
www.sciencenews.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Make 👏 mass 👏 surveillance 👏 more 👏 equal
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
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Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”
Canada: "We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide"
OTTAWA – Two months after issuing one statement promising “concrete actions” if Israel did not stop intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza, Canada has joined with 24 other nations to issue a new ...
thebeaverton.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”
