How unique are hallucinated citations offered by generative Artificial Intelligence models? This is greatly useful by Dirk Spenneman on "the structure, recurrence, and onward citation" of "phantom references", using a paper I didn't write as an extended example arxiv.org/abs/2604.16407
It is still Wednesday! Ugh. I had forgotten and thought we were rolling into Friday.
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Breaking: Sal Khan, an MIT engineer and Harvard MBA who has no background in education, nor much curiosity about it, still knows next to nothing about the industry he perpetually fails to disrupt.
One of the through lines of my new book THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME is the Akan concept of "Sankofa" -- to go back and get what we may have forgotten. I see this through a cosmic lens: the history of space-time is our history!
Coming to you tomorrow!!! 📚💙🔭🧪
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I don't understand why we're letting this happen other than spy and cop media has acted like this was what they did already for like thirty years. Still, we really don't have to live like this.
...you talked abt movement under the surface of a river & it got me thinking abt moving, traveling & how right that feels. In a new space, new sights, new people, learning a new environment. So, not a single place but a feeling of discovery in a new-to-me locale. It's when I'm "at home." #literacies
This #literacies chat -- between your father's river and the gif of MosterHouse, I have spent the last hour thinking "homeplace." I grew up housing insecure, moving at least every year or more, and so the concept of "childhood home" has never resonated for me. But I will tell you what resonates...
@kpsinedu.bsky.social these two #literacies posts are a poem. I hope you publish it in full sometime soon.
Q1: What is an important place or space that has shaped how you approach the work you do in #literacies and/or literacy learning and/or literacy research?
This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.
This says “trap” in letters three stories high with flashing lights and a siren, and still some profs will walk right into it.
Poster for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction challenge, which starts on 1 May 2026
Excited to see entry is now open to the next @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge, which begins on 1 May.
I do love the challenge of crafting a 1,000-word story in an unfamiliar genre from scratch in just 48 hours.
nycmidnight.com/ffc #writing #fiction #competitions
“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”
All of this stuff is fundamentally about the erasure of consent. At the core of these products is the assertion that your very existence is a tacit agreement to feed the machine.
I've been using your report extensively w/teachers & admin both in courses & in our upcoming study on teachers' critical walkthroughs of AI products they are being required or encouraged to use. It has shifted convos from "use" to systems & histories in critical ways. So, it's been impactful for us!
I wonder this every single time. Can we just go back to paper programs that we keep or recycle after the conference?
An as yet underreported story is how this society-wide experiment is working out at schools and universities. Schools across the country have integrated these systems, and it’s hard to believe similar stories aren’t playing out at these institutions—we just haven’t heard about it yet.
Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.
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🔔Stay tuned! Over the next few months, we will announce articles in Volume 74 alongside companion public media pieces created for youth, parents, educators, and policymakers.
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Yes, friends, I did just light up the feed with posts from the #literacies chat. I hope it helped to drown out the other noise tonight. You can catch up on the chat like I did on the #literacies feed! Honestly, it was a nice timeline cleanse.
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A1: Over the last few years, I have been working to intentionally reframe "victory" as focusing on being present in the moment as opposed to being fully focused on just trying to 'achieve' the next new thing, step, etc. #literacies
Spoiler alert for Dr. Berry’s upcoming book, but brilliant and enticing point to ponder. We’re excited to learn more! #literacies #victory
I think one of the key elements here is the possibilities for language reinvention that happen in these "zero gravity" spaces! Gamers as second-language users mold the language in increasingly creative ways, for example. #literacies
Q4: Working with @amystorn.bsky.social and Kathy Walsh to design the "Open World Writing" framework has shaped how I approach writing in all aspects of my life, not just academic writing. Heuristics/thinking tools matter. www.openworldwriting.com #literacies.
A5: As a gamer infinitely engrossed in any and all character creation processes, I would be very interested in the #literacies and language practices to be explored specific to how students and gamers intentionally make and remake themselves at this preliminary stage 👀
A5 (pt 2): Also. Something that just struck me. As someone still playing #PokemonGo like it’s 2016, I am wondering about the affects of gaming on the go, especially on mobile phones. What #literacies are practiced when gaming is mediated between the digital and physical world?
