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Jason Archer
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Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication
Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An
Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL
https://jasonearcher.com/
Wandering/Wondering
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thetnholler.bsky.social
A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
The comments to this article are also interesting
country. But I felt a dread I struggled to express until a colleague articulated the problem in stark terms: “Our students are about to turn subcognitive,” she said. That was it. At stake are not just specialized academic skills or refined habits of mind, but also the most basic form of cognitive fluency. To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought. This
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ajbauer.bsky.social
Or pre-order my book: www.amazon.com/Making-Liber...
Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press
Amazon.com: Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press: 9780231218368: Bauer, A. J.: Books
www.amazon.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.
October 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
This is an important video to watch, to understand the problems with "just arrest ICE".

My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
thetriibe.com The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Oct 8
NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.

TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.

youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...
Can local police arrest ICE?
YouTube video by The TRiiBE
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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vortexegg.com
I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
Where previously the university administrator required academics to translate complex ideas into manageable metrics and reports, the LLM mediates this relationship differently (Burrows 2012). It generates the discourse of scholarship without the labour of thinking, creating what I call zombie knowledge through textual performances that simulate intellectual work whilst remaining empty of the judgement, interpretation, and critique that characterise real scholarship. This scholarslop seems to me to be a more serious threat to university scholarship and the internal coherence of the university, not to mention disciplinary boundaries, than historical attempts to impose managerial controls, such as through public management techniques.
October 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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daveparisi.bsky.social
Short interview with haptics inventor Bob Stone, gives a sober & pessimistic assessment of the tech's future:
“Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.”
www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
From NASA to the Metaverse – and Why Professor Bob Stone Still Isn’t Impressed - XR Today
XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
www.xrtoday.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.

Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
September 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
There’s a prominent biz prof — mentioned here! — at my former uni who’s been a long-time GenAI evangelist, sharing pedagogical applications, and 🎉 their 🤯success, via his Substack for yrs . Now all incoming students get executive ChatGPT licenses; he’s got a big new AI lab + degree programs… 🤔
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 26
First, OpenAI got keen, hand-picked educators on board with advance models to hype up its pedagogic possibilities. This was step one in educator habituation - revealing exemplar prompts and techniques for other educators to emulate and experiment with
openai.com/index/teachi...
Teaching with AI
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
openai.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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atrupar.com
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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www.theatlantic.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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blairteacher.bsky.social
This looks amazing
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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timkrief.com
Had to repost 😅 #noai
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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isaacbutler.bsky.social
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Protesters fill the streets against ICE in Chicago
9/6/25
September 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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freedcproject.bsky.social
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
These are desperate attempts to embed AI technologies into schools and recruit lifetime users and I urge my fellow educators to see these attempts as such and refuse to be bought by Big Tech and this fascist government.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 4
“The business commitments include things like cash prizes for students and teachers who use AI in educational ways, and cheap or free access to the companies' AI tools, trainings and certifications.”
Big tech signs on to White House plan for AI education in US schools
The White House hosted several tech and AI leaders at an event today centered on teaching artificial intelligence in US schools.
www.engadget.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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robinjames.bsky.social
If you teach media, comm, and/or journalism, this short book will be great for your students - full of practical, evidence-based advice for navigating the hidden curriculum from college, to internships, to your first job

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Thriving as a Communication or PR Major
This book takes a storytelling approach to help prepare readers for a successful college career in the media industries.
link.springer.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM