So fun! And such a privilege 💕

Sometimes the universe aligns and one gets to have dinner with three super stars ✨✨ @alexsaum.bsky.social @loriemerson.net @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨

Um.

So pumped for this! 💜💜

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways.

Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence

This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bay Area Poets! my friends are in town; come and read some poetry with us? This Thursday 4/9! <3
bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/109/s...

AI's aesthetics of failure On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

Every year, around this time, someone leaves a chocolate egg on my desk at work. It's definitely trespassing, but still, thank you.

The World's First Fully Automated Genius System Experience the future of education with PureGenius - an AI-powered learning platform that unlocks every student's potential. Sign up for early access today.

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

"Hello World Wide Web" by Raúl Feliz & @Mai.bsky.social offers an interactive timeline tracing the web’s origins 🕰️

This Internet Archive x #GrayArea.org Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commission shows how archives aren’t just storage, but memory 🌐

More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/internet-arc...

#Wayback1T

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

I worry about this with writing. It’s become clear to me that students don’t understand that writing is a way to build and discipline thinking, which is very important. They’re right to be confused, because we (I) haven’t done a good job explaining. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Author Function: Humanity (and Humanities) in the Age of AI YouTube video by Linda Hall Library

Apparently my talk on AI and the author function was recorded and is available from Linda Hall Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3te...

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of speaking with some very smart people about important #AI issues.

Catch a recap here!

#algorithmicmanagment #genderbias

spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/news/profess...

No se pierdan a la brillantísima @alexsaum.bsky.social en estas mesas!

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com

People who know more about AI art find it less ethical When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept

You don’t say.

Thinking about #MLA27? The @eliterature.bsky.social has a CPF!! Please consider submitting!!!

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Happening now 💫🔥👀 #ai #labor

Ministerio Trabajo y Economía Social Canal del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social - Gobierno de España

Mañana por la mañana estaré participando irl en las jornadas organizadas por el Ministerio de Trabajo "El poder del trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos: reinventando el empleo digno" --Amigues, únanse, que estará en streaming! ✨

www.youtube.com/@Empleogob

Ministerio Trabajo y Economía Social Canal del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social - Gobierno de España

Mañana por la mañana estaré participando irl en las jornadas organizadas por el Ministerio de Trabajo "El poder del trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos: reinventando el empleo digno" --Amigues, únanse, que estará en streaming! ✨

www.youtube.com/@Empleogob

Virtual Events These virtual #AWP26 events will be prerecorded and made available for registered conference attendees to watch on-demand online during the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair in March 2026, and for one mo...

So thrilled to be talking about "Resistance to" at the AWP conference this week, together with the wonderful folks at The Los Angeles Review behind the latest Latinx Digital Poetics issue <3

conference.awpwriter.org/virtual_even...

Funniest thing I've seen in a while, enjoy #enshittification

VOTE for ME!

(or for any other of the wonderful entries, yay, but mostly, for me)

"Resistance to" by Alex Saum <3

newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...

ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

via @alexsaum.bsky.social: another spectacular live performance to restore our souls barely three weeks after the last one.

Thinking about #MLA27? The @eliterature.bsky.social has a CPF!! Please consider submitting!!!

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

2 more days to submit to present or to the gallery of ELO26! Don't miss out!

anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

“I can’t really remember a boom with such active hostility to it”

Why oh why

#ohmyAI 🤦🏻‍♀️

futurism.com/future-socie...

Several strengths and plenty of weaknesses. From the new series #ohmyAI