Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”theamericanvandal.comAll Our Kids Will Go To Alpha SchoolOn the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.” 2813034
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And that has always been the problem with the way AI pushers and the credulous people who seem to be doing most the reporting talk about "AI"'s feelings and "pain": they are far more willing to believe that "AI" feels pain than actual living human beings or non-human animals, even. Its dehumanizing. 05115
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8147061175
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Honestly how dare you 737024
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)cincinnati.comAI makes college writing centers more important, not less | OpinionOpinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write. 25730
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In response to that putrid Bret Stephens column, brilliant @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social made a whole Google Doc with buy links for all of the @nationalbook.bsky.social Prize nominees. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comBret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read themBret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra... 38532
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If we are to truly resist fascism, we must reject the idea that only the strong survive. We must categorically reject any notion that worth is determined by physical ability or socioeconomic status or what you produce under capitalism. We must build networks of community care. 118763
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"And in a test designed to measure optimism, the Galahs grew more hopeful of finding their favorite treat (a walnut) when they’d had several days of free flight and more pessimistic about their walnut prospects after several days of being grounded." Same, birds. Same. No walnuts to be found. 000
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481008386
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026These sorts of things sound good in one sense--we'll do it all! But in what a lot of us teach, this just doesn't make sense. Instead of treating "using AI" like something that is equivalent to "doing the thing," we need to think about what we actually want students to be able to do. Think through/1 3226
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2 171410895
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Very grateful they gave me a waiver so I can attend this as an adjunct without institutional support! 000
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I understand this feeling. Relief at a human-bad essay instead of a machine-bad essay. I can work with human-bad! Machine-bad is an insult to my humanity. 877074
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Taking the photo: ohhhh look at your paws curled up so cute Looking at the photo: EAR what is happening there #catsofbluesky 030
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Haha everyone is posting their bounty but considering the wind abuse my plants take on the fifth floor Chicago balcony and my lackadaisical gardening skills, I’m gleeful to harvest anything beyond heaps of basil. 010
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialScott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Students are often portrayed as antagonists/perpetrators in AI cheating stories, and surely some of them are—I won't entirely dismiss their capacity to make choices. But students are also the main victims. The real villains are not living in dorms or going into debt to learn nothing. 225137
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialamulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10998313
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialShecky @shecky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026These are the only two shareable pictures I have of the cats (gray is Wally, torbie is Doris): 8348247
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJoe Hass @hassgocubs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Via @moryan.bsky.social via @runwithskizzers.bsky.social, a friendly reminder: JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 5399161
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I've been away for a few days, so I'm getting some very loud meows, some very nice cuddles. . .and clearly, a warning. #cats #catsofbluesky 070
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/08/2026Illinois will fight like hell to keep protecting your reproductive freedom.chicago.suntimes.comMany women with high-risk pregnancies can’t get abortions in their home states. Illinois welcomes them.More people travel to Illinois than to any other state for an abortion. A program helps the small percentage who need care in a hospital. 14268601719
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I'll have more to say about this quote from the article below, but for now just this: We are absolutely not solving the right problem if we end up with a system in which students are being policed by bots while writing papers that no one but a bot is going to read. 38935
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This seems so clear to me as a teacher and is what drove me to develop a course and a first-year AI curriculum that are *about* gen AI rather than focused on "how to use it." But there is a lot of FOMO driving the decisions to focus on making sure students "know how to use it" instead 59322
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources. 201898348
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think about this finding a lot: "Students whose school uses AI for many reasons are more likely to report that they or a friend of theirs has had a back-and-forth conversation with AI, like chatbots, in potentially troubling ways." From @cdt.org's report:cdt.orgHand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to StudentsArtificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro... 35027
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026She is sitting here to protest my being at the desk and not in the comfy chair, but a weakness in the strategy is that it makes it way too easy for me to lean in for head kisses. #catsofbluesky 0194
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialStressArt Studio @stressart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026So Cool! www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...thisiscolossal.comLos Angeles Public Library Unveils the World's Largest Pop-Up Book"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery. 29217
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Alone in a pair of really absurdly excellent theater seats trying to pretend it’s on purpose. 010
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026And when (either able bodied or certain disabled) people tell you that we must not criticize AI because it might have access use-cases, its really important to push back with examples like this, but also how gAI will cut the kinds of freelance work many disabled people rely on, and cutting services. 211555
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Yep [as Linda knows] this is also a common response when someone accused of misconduct or abuse: "He was nice to me/I never saw it." Right so [Chidi voice] you get how that makes it worse??! This person KNEW how to be good, thoughtful etc & chose not to act that way in situations where it mattered! 1964237
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I’m staring down my birthday after what has honestly been one (really two) pretty terrible years personally, professionally, healthwise etc. I had to make a new account last month, but if you see this and want to send me cute animal pics, nerdy jokes, yelling about AI, or complimenting my crochet… 130
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.meditationsinanemergency.comPod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh... 381209331
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What I find especially interesting is the section where they tried to get "Bella" to discuss her work and she couldn't with any depth or knowledge. This is the same thing that happens with students who use genAI for research or writing help. There is no there there. 619072
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you are a normal human, and you value something, that is something that AI companies are trying to destroy few things are as multidirectionally malignant as these corporations 215135
Reposted by alula-auburn.bsky.socialAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction! 24460163
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I’m going to hope Clio is directing this face at SCOTUS and not me, because yikes. 130
alula-auburn.bsky.social @alula-auburn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Just a Chicago girl and her cat, yelling at The Things again. 030