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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

Putting aside the question of AI personhood, a slur requires a history of dehumanization.

In order to fuction, the slur has to call into being that history of dehumanization for its injurious force. There is no such history for LLMs, regardless of claims otherwise.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 6d

AI as wage depression tool is a very useful and compelling framing

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6d

Hagen is the author of a great short book, Why We Fear AI, which argues, among other things, that AI should not be viewed as a productivity tool, but a *wage depression* tool.

www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press

Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.

www.commonnotions.org

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 8d

for a longer explanation firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 10d

Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health

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Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health

Abstract. The digital determinants of health have recently attracted attention in the medical and public health literature, but the environmental aspects o

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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 9d

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 10d

THE MEME IS REAL

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Bryan Godbe @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 11d

This is a critical story, thanks Guardian.

However, the shocker is 11 major outlets ONLY did an average of 85 climate articles each, most were buried in the Climate section.

This is an existential threat. All 11 need 5 stories a day in the top news section.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 14d

this! there is room between approval and policing!

Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 15d

I also understand that it’s difficult to know what is and is not AI generated content, which makes these policies a bit more difficult to enforce. But having these policies at least deters the normalization of relying on genAI for our scholarship.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 15d

A few friendly reminders about autism:

- Autism is not inherently a bad thing.
- Autism is not a death sentence.
- Autism is not a pejorative term.
- Autism is not a moral failing.
- Autism is not something to shame or ridicule.
- Autism is not something to hide.
- Autism is not a crime.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16d

Trust me, I feel this. Deeply. I don’t promise to have it figured out. But I am blocking two hours a day for what I call “this shit here”: the headlines from the majors, the 9 or so newsletters in areas I follow, a scroll through my subscribed content in Gmail, & then I clock back out.

Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 16d

I think I'll give up constant doomscrolling, but also the times require hypervigilance? It's an impossible balance.

I first saw the H1B nonsense on here Friday, and we needed to extricate a team member from fieldwork for immediate return. So in lieu of a society, we must scroll 😭

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16d

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 16d

No, of course not. But this specific blog responds to the convo about genAI and plagiarism in higher ed and writing courses, specifically.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 16d

I can only speak to writing studies courses, but I’ve yet to see a compelling argument for edtech surveillance of any kind as a response to an edtech problem.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 16d

I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 16d

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Refusing Plagiarism Detection and EdTech Surveillance

Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Photo by Kadri Võsumäe on Pexels.com It’s week 6 of the semester here, and we have reached the end of the first major project for most of our first-year writi…

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 16d

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Refusing Plagiarism Detection and EdTech Surveillance

Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Photo by Kadri Võsumäe on Pexels.com It’s week 6 of the semester here, and we have reached the end of the first major project for most of our first-year writi…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17d

A woman with a speech bubble says “OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”. A man opens a calendar to see ed Zitron, the smiling man

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 18d

"It is critical that we pay attention to fights like these and stand in solidarity with the Black, Brown and working-class communities being harmed by Big Tech and federal and state governments."

Teachers, here's a chance for civic education & engaging youth in collective action for social change.

Truthout @truthout.org · 18d

As the South becomes the new epicenter of data center growth, it is becoming increasingly clear that Big Tech is following Big Oil’s footsteps.

Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South

The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 18d

Get a DVD player!!! Turn to physical media!!!!

Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 18d

If you want to cancel Disney, but are reluctant to do so because your kids like to watch one or more of its shows, then this is an opportunity for you to step up and be a good parent. Explain to them why you are cancelling it. Teach them about doing the right thing. Kids are smarter than you think.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18d

Some folks seem to think it is possible to have a pact with the devil and use it to teach about ethical AI.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 18d

I gotta say — platform minimalism rules lol

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19d

This is another time to recognize how the digital rights framing harms our understanding of technology and ability to hold companies accountable. Its playbook was developed when they were the Davids; now they’re Goliaths, but the approach has barely changed.

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Watching the debate around social media restrictions has been another important moment in recognizing the deception of many digital rights groups and activists, and how often they serve major US tech companies while pretending to do the opposite. This isn’t new. From Canada, I’ve been watching this developing domestically, where over time the companies have sent out their own representatives to argue against these policies far less often. Instead, you have a series of experts who present themselves as independent voices, but just so happen to say things that sound exactly like tech company talking points.

Honestly, it can be fascinating to see how clever their deceptions are. In some cases, they’ll acknowledge the problem at hand and say we need regulation, but then argue against the actual regulation being proposed as always having some fatal flaw. Digital rights groups famously position legislation to make companies like Google and Meta pay some of their profits to news companies as “link taxes” that are supposed to destroy the internet. The Australian, Canadian, and European legislation have done no such thing.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

I’m with Paris on this one.

I’d include Google Classroom in the ban though. Get the tech out of classrooms all together.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19d

Age restrictions aren’t my preferred policy. But now is not the time to sit on our hands as companies get away with harming people’s mental health, amplifying right-wing politics, and even worse. It’s time to experiment with ways to rein in their power.

disconnect.blog/social-media...

So, all in all, do I love the age restrictions? Not really. But at this point, I’m open to measures to restrict the power of these companies, even if there are some drawbacks. Social media is a net negative: sure, it allows us to connect, share information, and have some laughs, but it’s also enabling widespread social harm and amplifying increasingly extreme right-wing political positions that negates its positive aspects. Hate speech is not free speech, and even then, no one’s rights are impeded if they can’t post as much on a social media platform. Yelling “censorship” at every opportunity is only playing into the extreme right’s deceptive framing of free speech.

It’s time to rein in these platforms and all the harm they’ve wrought.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 20d

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years?
Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 20d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24d

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

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