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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 1d

Judging from what I see in college, nope, not usually.

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 6d

this is like a miniature symphony in three movements

Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “retarded degenerates”.

Class didn’t appreciate it.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 11d

Teaching and learning is hard work worth doing.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jun 7

👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · Jun 7

Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 15d

Turns out big pharma is better than no pharma.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 21d

Apparently a Faustian one!

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 21d

I cancelled my account when they turned an article of mine into an AI podcast without my consent. This is a real 🚨🚨🚨🔥 situation now.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 28d

A big reason to tax billionaires is to protect the rest of us from their stupid ideas.

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wait until it’s Justices Brooklyn and Madison

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 6

“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it. . . The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Sep 6

“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education

Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 4

What if the Turing Test isn't a good measure of intelligence?

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 1

The other cassette single that I can recall was Ace of Base which is much less cool.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 1

As you were sitting at an adult table at my bar mitzvah, you probably were unaware that this was a cassette single party favor for the teens. (At this point most of the former teens probably don’t remember either).

I’ve been on a big REM kick lately, making discoveries in the earlier discography.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 1

Electrolite

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Sep 1

Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?

michael stipe in a black suit blue shirt bald five o clock shadow leaning into the side of a brown building with a zig zag design. hot.

"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Sep 1

At your institution have they opted for in-person classes? This is the first time in years that we did not see mass cancellations of in-person classes in years. Even a few online sections struggled.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Jun 20

“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 30

Who would be doing the programming without these skills? Is he just imagining self-perpetuating AI agents? It’s just serfdom for most, maybe in Mars, trillions for others. I feel like Rucka’s Lazarus is the newspaper.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 30

I am not that optimistic. #youknowwhatImean

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m a college educator and proud union rep and negotiator here and while I am not speaking for my union let me say . . . No in thunder.

AI is not helping education. It’s a bullshitting device that spews misinformation and develops dependency. It is the opposite of enlightenment.

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 29

Who would have thought? The point is AI brings both promise & challenge & educators must shape how it’s used in schools & society. That’s why we launched the Nat’l Academy for AI Instruction: to help teachers navigate AI safely, effectively & ethically. #TIME100AI of 2025. time.com/collections/...

TIME100 AI 2025: Randi Weingarten

Find out why Randi Weingarten made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence

time.com

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 27

I filed mine. Remember to file yours!

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 27

Maybe something like 49th Parallel, an old WW2 British propaganda movie that is also somehow a Nazi roadtrip film through Canada, but this time the Nazis are Americans on the run through Greenland.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 23

Watching Casablanca today. We need more anti-fascist films!

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 23

A career that could have been an email.

Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 23

A class that could not be an email.

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Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · Aug 21

I haven't seen your TikTok dances yet so it's too early for me to fill out that teaching evaluation.

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Antonia Marrero @antoniamarrero.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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