It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
Now consider the discursive effect of this in terms of neurodivegence and other ways of knowing. How are people's voices being shifted towards a norm? How are different epistemologies being illegitimized?
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
"Our system is an investment in human dignity. Yours is a GoFundMe waiting to happen" is a bar
Is it possible that more people are resisting grind culture and actually taking sick days instead of pushing through? VS more people are sick?
I think the pandemic has been a catalyst for radical rest in many ways.
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Large Black Oyster mushroom
A slightly greyish mushroom with many small nodules and golden droplets of liquid.
Small growths on a white mushroom.
Large white lion's mane mushroom.
Starting a new project with mushrooms. This week involved creating monotubs (basically plastic buckets with strategically placed air holes), collecting substrate (the growing materials that provide nutrients) and transplanting spawn. I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm certainly enjoying myself.
The disruption that generative #AI has brought to #education indicts the dominant "knowledge factory" model and should prompt educators to consider different (even old-school) instruction and assessment practices, argue @danid.bsky.social & Mark Daley
theconversation.com/ai-disruptio...
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
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Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Yes!!!
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
True story 😂
I think that's wise. I'm in a phase of dissertation writing where I feel like I'm running out of time, so I'm trying to do both things. Which I think is actually taking MORE time....
This popped to the top of my feed as I was avoiding writing myself. I like the way you've set up the goal! Is there a quality metric as well? Or just word count?
enjoying being in community with folks who are, if not hardline refusers, at least extremely critical of AI in ways that are hopeful and intent on shifting perspectives of those who uncritically take to AI tools. appreciate what @civicsoftech.bsky.social is doing to foster this conversation :)
I presented on the Domains of AI-Awareness framework that I've been working on as a tool for critical engagement with GenAI. teaching.uwo.ca/genai/posts/...
I took a short break from my self-imposed writing isolation today to attend the @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference today.
I love the conversations on resisting Ed Tech narratives.
Thank you for coming. I feel like we keep ending up in the same spaces!
Credit: @liberaljane.bsky.social
A friend shared the following exhibit with me that highlights the legacy of techno-trash. What will we leave behind? How will nature reclaim it?
The exhibit focuses on material waste (electronics), but it got me thinking about information trash as well.
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TECHNOLOGY An AI that sees what you see Microsoft wants an AI companion to follow you around the web. This is only the beginning.
To me, though, the ambition here feels somewhat limitless. What if an AI assistant could see your whole world, know what was what, and help you navigate it? That’s the big idea behind Copilot Vision. Letting an AI watch you browse the web is just a step toward putting an AI companion on your shoulder everywhere you go. In a recent interview, Suleyman explained why collaborating with AI is the future of computing. This is frankly something I’ve heard tech companies pitch for years. But the way things are heading, I’m finally starting to buy it.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...
If inclusivity is not in the best interest of the self-preservation of the institution, what impact does that have on real commitment to EDI work?
New blog post from #HESA speaks volumes to how elistism is a design feature of HE institutions. As higher education institutions reduce barriers to access, they are becoming less prestigious & less appealing, which threatens their financial security.
higheredstrategy.com/the-meaning-...
