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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.

But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers' expense.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 15d

Four Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigated TikTok and found that the measures in place to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information for profiling and targeting purposes were inadequate.

Full report: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...

www.oipc.bc.ca

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 16d

a man is standing in front of a pile of leaves and says tradition !

Alt: The Fiddler on The Roof standing in front of a pile of leaves and sings tradition !

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 20d

"We think people are fallible, which they are. But it doesn't mean you throw away the people and then you put all of your faith in the system or in the machine."

Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 20d

Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcst with Dr. Jess Mitchell!
Get ready for some delicious mind delights as OCADu's Dr. Jess Mitchell joins the show to discuss her dissertation: A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘Missing Middle’ Toward Inclusion in Education.
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Dr. Jess Mitchell - Gettin' Air with Terry Greene

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 20d

Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcst with Dr. Jess Mitchell!
Get ready for some delicious mind delights as OCADu's Dr. Jess Mitchell joins the show to discuss her dissertation: A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘Missing Middle’ Toward Inclusion in Education.
www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-j...

Dr. Jess Mitchell - Gettin' Air with Terry Greene

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 25d

Google recently updated Chrome to detect when you are taking an LMS quiz and offer "Homework Help" in the address bar. Students are encouraged to upload screenshots of their quiz to Google Lens to get answers.

Panic is spreading. Increased surveillance is coming. We can stop it. Watch me. Join me.

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 23d

How many times out of 100 is the opposite of what they claim the actual truth? 100?

CNN @cnn.com · 23d

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23d

The primary use case is fraud.

Reuters @reuters.com · 23d

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 27d

The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...

The view of Community of Praxis in a podcatcher app. This has the stylized art of people talking with Cate Denial’s picture inset in a circle. Text reads:
Episode 1a: CoP Interview: A
Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate
Denial

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 28d

I wonder if there are any very recent examples of this happening

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a man with a mustache says " touche " in white letters

Alt: a man with a mustache says " touche " in white letters

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 28d

Learning with AI is like motorsports. You go so much faster, but the machine is what's making you go fast. Not you. NASCAR learning. What can you do when the machine isn't there?

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paul bond @phb256.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · Sep 4

holy crap I would pay so much to be in this course

Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · Sep 4

Damn it I thought this was about co-teaching a course with Al Yankovic.

the cover image of a book called Teaching with AI

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · Sep 4

yes he was, he was

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

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Reclaim Hosting @www.reclaimhosting.com · Sep 2

The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 15! THANK YOU to everyone who has already made a submission... and help us spread the word.

Reclaim Hosting @www.reclaimhosting.com · Aug 22

For #ReclaimOpen25, every proposal is also a blog post. We will publish all accepted submissions on the conference blog which will also be the conference schedule. Submissions are now open reclaimopen.com

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

Multicolored silhouettes of people facing each other with speech bubbles above their heads. The text reads New Podcast! Community of Praxis with Brenna Clarke Gray. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

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Jason Lamb @jasonlamb.org · Aug 21

The AI bubble is bursting? An MIT study says 95% of generative AI implementations in enterprise provide no real value?

You could have avoided this disaster if you had read my new book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6H5LDB

Amazon listing for "AI: Should You Integrate This Technology Into Your ______? (Should you? No. Book 6)" by Jason Lamb.

Book description: "Artificial Intelligence (AI). Should you integrate this technology into your...startup? Your long-term business? Your product? Your educational offering?

In this long but succinct book, the author tackles a topic that has increasingly dominated the recent news cycle. Through the concise and exact use of language, this book will help guide you through whether to embrace and integrate this technology."

Book cover for:

"AI: Should You Integrate This Technology Into Your ______? (Should you? No. Book 6)" by Jason Lamb

Two pages of the interior of a book. Chapter one is shown. Both pages are taken up by the word "no" repeated endlessly.

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · Aug 26

Can humans suffer... any more of this bullshit?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

www.theguardian.com

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Concordia University Press @concordiapress.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out @nataliekt.bsky.social on @greeneterry.bsky.social's Gettin' Air podcast about open pedagogy! Together, they discuss Reading the Room as a resource for educators:

Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · Aug 22

It is time to get some air with Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe, Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University! We chat about the new book: Reading the Room - Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom
www.spreaker.com/episode/nata...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 24

A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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