“‘I think the vast majority of people who are angry at AI are regular consumers,’ Hanna said. ‘People who were promised one thing, especially online, and they’re just getting a completely different experience.’”
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."
i asked a magic 8 ball if everything was going to be ok and it collapsed in on itself like a dying star is that good
Microsoft is removing CoPilot from Notepad
"People are afraid they'll be criticized if they talk about AI at Cs" man, none of you would last a second as a transsexual woman
its unbelievable that someone who uses activity theory to think about writing would make the claim that we can't refuse AI because we've always engaged with tech before
The first thing I read and talk to my graduate students about is generous reading as a foundational practice for our class. We're going to assume that I chose each thing on our reading list because we can get something out of it, and we're going to read for that first. Then, we can critique.
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
I love bcc it's so great that email has a secret "can you believe this bullshit" feature
“Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities.”
New guest blog up on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies this morning from the brilliant @claire.northsky.social:
"Eloquentia Perfecta as Antidote to AI: A Lenten Reflection"
refusal.blog/2026/02/23/e...
we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling
i don't know how to put this politely but stating that your work is approved/supported by companies like open ai, google and anthropic doesn't give you the credibility you think it does.
for me, this is a clear sign that i am not interested in engaging or working with you
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Please share with folks you know who read or write fanfiction!!
New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
In "Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, and Matters of Agency," Lu and Horner argue that language difference is the norm in language use--not just deviations from sameness--as all languaging requires the labor of negotiating and constructing meaning, thus always evincing agency
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
The bar for quality journalism in higher ed is literally in the deepest reaches of hell.
This absolutely screams “written by a loser crypto bro”
1/2 "The most striking finding we had is that the students that practiced math problems with ChatGPT without any guardrails did 17% worse on immediate subsequent exam where they did not have AI assistance." Hamsa Bastani of @upenn.edu at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/hamsa-...
I am begging these people to get a grip. This is an especially wild thing to say right now.
