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AI gives companies and governments immense power to change what is "true". It's easy for them to update the single, central tool to produce convincing mistruths and lies to suit whoever is in power. AI should not be in schools.

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That's amazing! Do you know how he discovered it or thought to try it?

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We also think there should be a pause on SI in schools.

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Not everyone can make a living out of being wrong online. He makes Yglesias look like an amateur.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is AI so popular with people who love defunding schools, attacking teachers, banning books?

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Sure seems like “AI” is a political project being pursued by some less than awesome people and now is a very good time for building coalitions of students, teachers, and caregivers to resist and refuse these people’s attempts to further undermine public education.

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We will be at the West End farmers market this Saturday Oct 3!

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We're looking at AGI within the next few years!"

Disco Stu from the Simpsons pointing at a chart titled "Disco Record Sales."

The chart starts low in 73 and is rapidly increasing through 1976.

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In this country, stopping people from learning how to write has historically been a form of social control and oppression. But I'm sure these "a.i." companies and their mouthpieces just want what's best for all of us.

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Next Tuesday, October 6, For Our Kids and PACES are hosting a climate and AI talk for Vancouver School Board candidates! Have your chance to ask candidates directly on their views on climate education and AI use in schools. Click the link and add to your calendar www.forourkids.ca/vsb_trustee_...

VSB Trustee Candidate talk climate and AI

Tuesday October 6, 7:30-8:45, register for zoom link

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In 2 weeks, we can do the same in BC!

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So many school districts are putting a pause on AI. NYC and LA paused AI, helping nearly a million students. Parents and educators have seem the research that shows how students who use AI learn less, and they're demanding big tech like Microsoft and OpenAI get out of schools. 💪

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LNG Canada Phase 2 would double output to 30 million tonnes a year, while global gas demand falls and a glut approaches. And they want to expand before proving Phase 1 is safe: its flaring already exceeds B.C. permits. Real leadership means scaling up clean energy, not doubling down fracked gas.

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BREAKING: New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets

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tante @tante.cc · 28/09/2026

Silicon Valley brain: They literally don't understand that political action exists. Everything has to be an engineering problem or it's unsolvable. Weird broken men tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 27/09/2026

When the AI bubble bursts, the "AI experts" will just move on to their next grift. Students, teachers, parents will be left to clean up the AI mess was forced into the education system. If we push back now, we won't have to clean up as much wreckage.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 27/09/2026

"Some might want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that cocaine toothache drops don't exist, but there's no putting the genie back in the bottle."

Very old advert for "cocaine toothache drops"

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 27/09/2026

"AI is here we just have to accept that" Because as we know, once something is made, we never go back. Just look at our leaded gasoline, lead-based paints, children's medicine with cocaine. We couldn't put those genies back in the bottle.

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Oh okay it _could_ do those things. It doesn't right now, but you can't prove it couldn't. This is exactly like the crypto bros who said Bitcoin _could_ become the standard world currency. Or Metaverse bros who said it _could_ be bigger than the internet.

“AI could offer an unparalleled category of opportunity for learning, tackling economic and social disadvantage, supporting SEND pupils, and nourishing the independent-minded and curious. But schools, colleges and universities have not been readied for AI’s arrival.”

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My god this is such rubbish. "It could do all these things" is meaningless wish casting. Microsoft Excel _could_ be used to solve world hunger. I could be _up to_ 9ft tall.

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We as parents, educators and members of a society must create environments where students can learn. That means keeping schools free of anything that compromises education: companies trying to make a profit, charlatans trying to push the latest fad for their own gain. Keeping schools free of AI.

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Schools have the ability to turn off that feature. There are other search engines. In any other situation, a site that harmed kids would be blocked, but when it's AI, somehow it's OK to give up. It's frankly a pathetic abdication of responsibility.

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What the panel says again and again is "AI is part of kids lives". One of the panelists says "students used to search for information online, but now Google gives you an AI overview" and students use that. As if that's a justification for giving up teaching students how to think for themselves?

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Name another technology that is universally acknowledged by scientific research as being harmful to children, but that somehow _must_ be put in schools. "Well some kids drink underage at home, so we need to teach them how to drink in moderation at school."

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In the last 6 months the tone of these discussions has changed, but the conclusion has not. Now even boosters will admit that AI has negative effects, that students use it to offload thinking, that it harms them. But then they conclude with "so we have to teach them how to use it well."

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The discussion goes as you would expect for one put on by the Toronto Star, containing 3 pro-AI voices. They say that a ban on AI is not effective, a ban on cellphones is not effective, that students must be taught how to use it "appropriately". Thoughtful refusal is not acknowledged.

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Live Discussion: Al in the classroom - What every parent should know

The Toronto Star hosted a panel discussion on AI in schools, consisting of: - A teacher who uses AI. - An person who owns an AI consulting company, who uses AI to generate stories for his grandchildren. - A researcher who researches how to use AI in education. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0x-...

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YouTube video by Toronto Star

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AI in classrooms? No thank you

New Brunswick Greens are running a petition against the new AI curriculum in NB, asking for a pause on AI. @greenpartynb.bsky.social www.greenpartynb.ca/ai_in_the_cl...

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Political Organization

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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The same technology is being provided by schools to students across BC. We are petitioning the Ministry of Education for a Pause. They have so far said it is not their responsibility.

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Talking about AI and fossil fuels, Huang says ‘in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first.' Huang’s extreme level of privilege is glaring (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/1000140...

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Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain

It’s giving Thanos energy.

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AI is a microcosm of capitalism in how it externalizes costs. AI makes it incredibly easy to generate mountains of slop that others have to sort through. Whether it's terrible code that needs reviewing, or text that needs facts and sources to be verified. These costs are never seen by the user.

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450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools

They could fund more teachers, but instead they're going with the tech that makes students learn less. This is more about boosting the AI industry than helping students. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.

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(Writing this as a programmer of 20 years experience)

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For example "but AI is good at programming I heard" LLM tools are great at generating a lot of really average code, really fast. It can't maintain it, it won't reuse existing code, the stuff it writes is brittle and generally sucks.

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