Today in my (inaugural!) AI & Society class, students did a version of this "future news" activity: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I like this as a nice positive note to end on!
My favorite future headline? "AI Ethics Become Core College Requirement." The catch is that it's for the year 2046.
A @tante.cc tries to keep his promises. Here it is
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
Methinks it’s one big ploy to ensure Alpha School graduates are properly socialized for their future jobs at Meta.
I shall take solace in the sunshine and pretty little flowers
Okey dokey I see it’s a walk to campus arrive at office open backpack discover I forgot my laptop and walk back home kind of morning
The "public comments at the hearing before the vote left little doubt that Monterey Park residents overwhelmingly disdained not only the prospect of a massive, noisy, and polluting infrastructure project being erected in their backyards, but who that project would benefit, at their expense.”
What’s the best book/article/essay people have read about teaching writing? Am working on something and I’m curious what others have read that have shaped the way they think about their work—can be practical, theoretical, even only tangentially related to pedagogy.
A screenshot of the book “This Time It’s Personal: Teaching Academic Writing Through Creative Nonfiction” by John S. O’Connor.
“This Time It’s Personal” by John O’Connor. When I taught first-year writing at CUNY, I used John’s book to help me reframe the traditional research paper into a me-search paper. There’s a longer excerpt at: cdn.ncte.org/nctefiles/re...
AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
Always happy to tap the sign 😌
Missed this last month. Flock "left two of the cameras installed and covered for the last six months, before swiftly removing them this week after the RoundTable requested comment on their presence."
Thanks to @alexhairysun.bsky.social for your diligent reporting - and support local journalism!
Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.
New from me: “When AI-driven algorithms are deployed to set prices “just for you” as a consumer or to determine the best wage “just for you” as a worker, the corporate objective is not your best interest. Not by a long shot.”
www.governing.com/workforce/ai...
🗑️
Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. n.pr/3QfF8I1
Hey babe your fave AI company is besties with the military and the NSA
"The military is now broadening its use of Anthropic's tools while simultaneously arguing in court that using those tools threatens U.S. national security."
www.axios.com/2026/04/19/n...
I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
America’s wealthiest men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust.
By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.
Students "deserve curricula that recognize the full scope of their humanity, outside of their roles as consumers and users of technology, and they deserve an education that allows them to explore the myriad ways their lives and choices are connected to others"
1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.
WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)
that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵
💯
I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
"The hot take that AI will transform education is running about 780 papers ahead of the evidence. Why? Marketing. Buzz. FOMO. Yep. Evidence that it does anything unique to help kids? Not much."
Yeah, “cooler by the lake” indeed!
I have tricked myself because it’s sunny and I have a beer. (I am easily tricked, apparently.)
A screenshot of a weather app showing the weather in Evanston, Illinois. The temperature states it “Feels Like 39 degrees.”
Grilling in April to feel alive
It happened again.
Today I revised a chapter that argues 1) developing critical data literacies (CDL) can include embracing Luddism; and 2) organizing against data centers is a Luddite CDL practice in action, so maybe that’s why I’m reading that raised hammer as the Luddites’ favorite tool of sabotage: Enoch’s Hammer.
