I put “AI” in quotes because of course these pushers don’t distinguish between the LLMs called generative AI and true AI. It’s deliberately misleading.

NEA receives Microsoft grant to expand AI literacy and leadership | NEA NEA President: This technology will continue to fundamentally change the way we teach and learn

NEA is wrong for this and it’s harming the future of education. The president of Microsoft is claiming that “AI” is a tool for creativity and critical thinking when we keep getting data, such as from the MIT study, that shows the opposite. @neatoday.bsky.social www.nea.org/about-nea/me...

Two vintage dinner plates with strawberry plant design. Each plate has three golden brown pupusas on it.

I’ve been teaching cooking club after school and this week I had to try making pupusas. This was a practice trial before teaching kids how to make them. I filled mine with roasted garlic and queso fresco.

@neatoday.bsky.social How much are you getting from these companies to push generative AI onto educators?

This information should be included in every statement that AFT and @rweingarten.bsky.social makes about AI. It would be interesting to know how she is personally invested in these companies too.

I wonder how much NEA is getting. 🧐 It’s so sad to see teacher unions caring more about money from the private sector than they do about students.

As a teacher and proud union member, I’m so glad to see AFT getting dragged for this. I’d love to see NEA get dragged as well for pushing AI through articles and trainings. Generative AI has negative effects on thinking skills and does not belong in education.

Thanks so much for finding this! Now I’ll have to look into how much NEA is receiving.

From AP News: "Microsoft is contributing $12.5 million to AFT over five years. OpenAI is providing $8 million in funding and $2 million in technical resources, and Anthropic has offered $500,000."

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings"

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I don’t know if AFT is familiar with the MIT study the suggests that use of generative AI erodes critical thinking skills, which seems entirely oppositional to the mission of education, unless AFT has already had their critical thinking skills eroded by ChatGPT.

Don’t follow me if you promote generative AI. I will block you.

Please continue to remember everyone in Gaza is still suffering and continues to need support. Please consider donating to Sahar and her son if you can, or any other of the many families who need help.

I received an email recently that two of my poems previously published online only in The Write City Magazine were chosen to be published in their fifth anthology this coming June. www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1...

A plate of food: five square slices of tofu wrapped in nori and fried till crispy, a mound of rice, and some Chinese Eggplant glazed in a brown sauce of white miso.

Another banger of a meal: nori-wrapped tofu with rice and miso glazed eggplant.

Your Outie Is Whatever You Need It To Be: Severance and the Entrepreneurial Self When Severance first premiered on Apple TV in February 2022 it scratched an itch that hadn’t received much attention in the proceeding years. After Lost...

The Entrepreneurial Self is a fragmenting of the self. It rejects the idea of a set personality so that you have the flexibility to take advantage of any opportunity that comes your way. It is something Severance made literal within its world

Happy birthday!

I heard someone at the front desk inside say “I was wondering who scored a Cybertruck,” lol.

Haha I doubt it but that would be very ironic.

A photo of a cyber truck with an Autism “puzzle piece” wrap that says “inclusion matters and has a QR code on the rear. It is pictured through a very dirty bus window.

My apologies for the very filthy bus window but I saw this in the parking lot of our field trip this past week and there’s a lot to unpack here.

Stop saying ICE needs better training. THEY ARE TRAINED–to kill with impunity. Murder is brutal and clumsy, and that's exactly what they're doing.

That sounds like a lot. I hope you’re feeling better.

Bulleted facts from that article: “ single generative AI text query consumes energy at four or five times the magnitude of a typical search engine request. Generating a single image using AI consume the same amount of energy as charging a phone to full power. Training one large AI model consumes nearly 5 times the lifetime emissions of the average American car. Data centers-giant warehouses filled with endless rose of computer servers that are continuously working to complete tasks-used 4% of total US electricity in 2023 and that number is expected to jump 7 to 12% in the next three years alone.

Bulleted facts about it the impacts from the article. NEA knows the impacts. So how can its continued push of generative AI show anything but a lack of commitment to its stated beliefs about climate change and environmental justice?

Environmental Impact of AI | NEA As you are making decisions about the use of AI in your classroom, it is important to understand the environmental impact of AI's use.

Another article from NEA about the environmental impacts of using generative AI. www.nea.org/professional...

Climate & Environmental Justice | NEA The NEA supports advancing climate solutions and environmental justice. From curriculum planning, to advocacy, to policy, we have resources to help you take an active role in protecting the environmen...

The belief that climate change is primarily due to human activities and that humans should immediately address activities contributing to climate change. www.nea.org/climatejustice

It is always so very disheartening to hear teachers using generative AI to write emails, lesson plans, and come up with ideas and unfortunately it’s because there are too many people coming in to tell teachers how AI can help us with our workloads without ever mentioning the impact.

A screenshot of a feature article published by NEA Today for the January 2026 issue. The article is titled “How AI is changing the way you teach” and says “Educators use artificial intelligence to support not replaced the human connection and learning.” The accompanying picture shows a smiling young woman at a laptop.

I was very disappointed to see NEA encouraging teachers to use generative AI in their teaching practices and in the classroom, especially when paired with NEA’s affirmed belief in Climate and Environmental Justice. I just sent some feedback and I hope they will do better in the future.

The Devil would do it for free.

The cover for the book Ring Shout, which shows the image of a Klan hood with two mouths for eyes, the tile underneath them, and a pair of black hands reaching up from the bottom of the cover all over a red background.

Started the new year reading P. Djeli Clark’s Ring Shout. Very good and quick read.

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The Unexamined Life, Brought to You by AI I think about a profile of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a lot. Amidst the fawning typical of these kinds of puff pieces, a particular passage stood out and...

My latest newsletter. As boosters insist more and more of our lives can be offloaded to AI, what exactly is left for us to do in this promised future?