Longue Carabine
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OK, so... I'm an expert on tech policy (it's my job) and one of the areas that I work on is AI and education. Since I don't work for any of the companies in this deal, I can tell you what I think.
It's very, very bad. A 🧵
It's very, very bad. A 🧵
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
The only training teachers need on AI is how to organise a Butlerian Jihad.
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I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!
July 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!
gEneRaTiVe Ai iS wHeN LiNe gO up!
…According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: When AI generates $100 billion in profits. This arbitrary profit-based benchmark for AGI perfectly captures the definitional chaos plaguing the AI industry.”
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
gEneRaTiVe Ai iS wHeN LiNe gO up!
The only training teachers need on AI is how to organise a Butlerian Jihad.
OK, so... I'm an expert on tech policy (it's my job) and one of the areas that I work on is AI and education. Since I don't work for any of the companies in this deal, I can tell you what I think.
It's very, very bad. A 🧵
It's very, very bad. A 🧵
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The only training teachers need on AI is how to organise a Butlerian Jihad.
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It should go without saying that attacking Iran is simply the latest in a long line of moral atrocities by a fascist, genocidal Israeli government that absolutely refuses to treat human lives with anything resembling the respect and dignity they are due.
June 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It should go without saying that attacking Iran is simply the latest in a long line of moral atrocities by a fascist, genocidal Israeli government that absolutely refuses to treat human lives with anything resembling the respect and dignity they are due.
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"Outsourcing learning, commodifying education, and deskilling humanness is not progress. The answer is easy and short: we must say no and truly mean it. These are times of Luddite pedagogy," argue Dagmar Monett and Gilbert Paquet. Read the open access article at:
Against the Commodification of Education — if harms then not AI
| Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education
ojs.uni-oldenburg.de
May 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"Outsourcing learning, commodifying education, and deskilling humanness is not progress. The answer is easy and short: we must say no and truly mean it. These are times of Luddite pedagogy," argue Dagmar Monett and Gilbert Paquet. Read the open access article at:
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You've heard of "food deserts", and you've loved the trend of adding "epistemic" as a modifier to any category, so, with the onslaught of AI, and the increasingly garbage media environment we are all facing, I gift you all the concept of "epistemic deserts"
May 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
You've heard of "food deserts", and you've loved the trend of adding "epistemic" as a modifier to any category, so, with the onslaught of AI, and the increasingly garbage media environment we are all facing, I gift you all the concept of "epistemic deserts"
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"I would rather be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...
The Spooklight
It is better to be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"I would rather be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...
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Trump and the GOP are waging war on an educated public. They don’t want Americans to develop critical thinking and a sense of history so they are undermining public education through vouchers for religious schools, attacking universities, and decimating the Department of Education.
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trump and the GOP are waging war on an educated public. They don’t want Americans to develop critical thinking and a sense of history so they are undermining public education through vouchers for religious schools, attacking universities, and decimating the Department of Education.
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I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
April 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
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“AI helped me code and do excel and make this picture and write this essay!” exploited labour helped you do that you asshole
April 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“AI helped me code and do excel and make this picture and write this essay!” exploited labour helped you do that you asshole
Again, YOU are the ones killing your own industry. Don't blame anyone else for killing journalism.
These so-called journalists parroting press releases are the biggest sources of the disinformation that has allowed the broligarchy the highest levels of power centralization and control.
These so-called journalists parroting press releases are the biggest sources of the disinformation that has allowed the broligarchy the highest levels of power centralization and control.
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
April 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I think we should be destroying every AI data center with hammers, personally
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I think we should be destroying every AI data center with hammers, personally
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Approach each day with the childlike wonder of a New York Times reporter reading a new press release from a demented 30-something right-wing basement blogger wholly devoted to the reversal of civil rights
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Approach each day with the childlike wonder of a New York Times reporter reading a new press release from a demented 30-something right-wing basement blogger wholly devoted to the reversal of civil rights
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ai is a political project to centralize power
Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel’s military (April 7, 2025) by Hayden Field @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/m...
Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel's military
At Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, two engineers interrupted events to protest the use of the company's artificial intelligence by Israel's military.
www.cnbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
ai is a political project to centralize power
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April 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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You can keep being confused about everything Trump and the Democrats are doing or you can read Sarah Kendzior. Up to you at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
April 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can keep being confused about everything Trump and the Democrats are doing or you can read Sarah Kendzior. Up to you at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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Some good news: I talked to a retired teacher today and, as one does, asked if they’d heard of Curtis Yarvin.
They not only knew his name, they also knew of his evil anti-democracy plot and connections to Peter Thiel!
Keep getting the word out, people! It’s working!! 📢📢📢
They not only knew his name, they also knew of his evil anti-democracy plot and connections to Peter Thiel!
Keep getting the word out, people! It’s working!! 📢📢📢
March 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Some good news: I talked to a retired teacher today and, as one does, asked if they’d heard of Curtis Yarvin.
They not only knew his name, they also knew of his evil anti-democracy plot and connections to Peter Thiel!
Keep getting the word out, people! It’s working!! 📢📢📢
They not only knew his name, they also knew of his evil anti-democracy plot and connections to Peter Thiel!
Keep getting the word out, people! It’s working!! 📢📢📢
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Why are you spreading synthetic text as if it were information?
March 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Why are you spreading synthetic text as if it were information?
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It’s already over. An “opposition” party that controls the executive branch for four years and fails to prosecute the open criminality of the former executive is not, in fact, an opposition party, and is complicit in fascism and the dismantling of our democracy. Wake TF up!
March 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s already over. An “opposition” party that controls the executive branch for four years and fails to prosecute the open criminality of the former executive is not, in fact, an opposition party, and is complicit in fascism and the dismantling of our democracy. Wake TF up!
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🧵I know what the Trump administration is doing to the country because they’ve already done it to rural America.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
March 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🧵I know what the Trump administration is doing to the country because they’ve already done it to rural America.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
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they said millennials were killing all the things but it was private equity the whole time
March 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
they said millennials were killing all the things but it was private equity the whole time
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Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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Educators, how are we teaching young people about AI’s environmental racism?
“If you mapped all of the existing power plants in South Carolina, they’d follow the old path of one of the foundational pillars of the American economy through South Carolina: plantations and enslaved labor…We’ve seen the repeated pattern of these threats in our community.”
America's Digital Demand Threatens Black Communities with More Pollution
The collective costs of artificial intelligence and data centers are disproportionately harming Black households.
capitalbnews.org
March 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Educators, how are we teaching young people about AI’s environmental racism?