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Marie Becker

@alulaauburn.bsky.social
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Reading, writing and herding cats. Trying to advocate for students and humanist pedagogy in a tiny flailing way. She/her. AI-critical, chronically ill, trying to build shelter out of books and yarn.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
She’s so stupid. I love her so much.
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mgm1229.bsky.social @mgm1229.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Quilt in community room at John Campbell Folk School. F#ck AI.
Quilt with We Still Make Things text.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
I just want to know what women who weren't "chosen" when we were younger / "in our prime" were supposed to do with our lives... not get jobs? Not buy homes? Not live our lives? Not be peaceful? Not hydrate and mind our business? If the cultural script has failed, certainly it's not on us.
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Defector @defector.com · 05/05/2026
You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...
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You Should Never Be The Most Sycophantic Participant In A Conversation With A Chatbot | Defector
Is this AI psychosis? You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest…
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Was just offered an admin job that basically would mean giving up on teaching or curriculum design, I think. Oh, and I'm supposed to sign the contract in one hour and start tomorrow morning. This is fine, I'm fine. #teaching #EduSky
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I love that my institution will support the claims of students that I told them the final paper (broken into components we spent weeks on, and the importance of turning in even if incomplete was discussed in every class and every GClassroom post for the last three weeks) was optional. #teaching
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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️
David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Trying to find grace for students demanding I grade an entire term’s worth of work submitted this week, after the most miserable teaching quarter of my life and saying an abrupt good-bye to one of the two cats I’ve had for sixteen years on Monday. It’s hard.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I spoke with @blockclubchi.bsky.social about Alpha School opening in Chicago and why Alpha School's approach to education is anti-student, anti-teacher, and anti-democratic.
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An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall
Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there's...
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Props to Nilay for doing this work. Also posting this again, because Grammarly & so many companies & LLM-pilled techies built whole business models around ignoring consent & stealing shit & I don't like it. Grammarly stopped Expert Review but the gross mindsets remain www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
People are characterizing this as a situation in which Wachspress describes the inappropriate relationship as beginning after Daniel Biss was no longer her teacher. No. That's not what she's describing.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Won't be voting today, since I already turned in my mail-in ballot last week. But remember to hit the polls if you're an in-person type, Illinois.
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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How a Philadelphia high school is fighting AI slop and internet lies: www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
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These Philly teens are battling AI slop and political lies in their school hallways
As midterm elections near, Kensington Health Science Academy seniors are ramping up their fight against online disinformation — for their classmates and their families.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
AI is fundamentally a labor issue - and if after reading these testimonials from educators that @bcmerchant.bsky.social has collected you're not convinced it's time for a Luddite praxis in K-12 and higher education, then shit, I'm not sure what else to tell you.
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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 12/03/2026
Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of
"highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men.
"This technology disrupts humanities-trained-largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less.
And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters," Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. "And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we're going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 02/03/2026
The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The left is winning the AI debate. Really outstanding piece by Brian Merchant. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I hear we’re bashing Luddites again so: they were not against “progress”, they were against DANGEROUS “progress” that had almost zero guardrails or oversight at the cost of human lives. Now wait, I have heard that somewhere before…let me think about it…
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Al enables authoritarianism
What else would it do?
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When I pointed out a student's essay was clearly a ChatGPT hallucination (the text was about mountain climbing, not drug use; it makes sense in context), he decided the best strategy was to tell me he asked his sister to do the assignment because he was too busy, so academic honesty is going great.
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pro-tip: it's not actually "at the instructor's discretion" if you, my boss, ask me, if I would allow a student who simply decided he didn't need to turn in his final project last quarter to accept it and regrade him now, two months later in front of said student. #teaching
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
People talk about mental health like it’s a bad week or a rough patch. For some of us it’s a background hum that never fully switches off. A constant static in the skull. You learn to function with it the way people learn to sleep near a motorway, you adapt, but it’s never silent. 1/2
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Childhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
for, um, almost no reason at all, here is Margaret Talbot's 2018 article on how we got the myth of whiteness in classical statuary, with references to @sarahebond.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
For centuries, Westerners have been engaged in an act of collective blindness.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Calliope reminds you to stay hydrated in spite of the Everything of it all #catsofbluesky
Calliope, a brown tabby cat, is sitting on a bathroom vanity sink counter in front of a mirror, sipping out of a green plastic cup. This is her VERY OWN TUMBLER that her human gave her after many attempts to share. You can see Calliope’s reflection in the mirror, as well as various toiletries and cosmetics behind her, hopefully nothing too embarrassing. Those belong to the human; Calliope naturally looks this good.
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It feels petty to complain with all of the (waves hands helplessly at the world) but tfw when they cancel one of your sections ast minute and instead give you a first-year writing course with 50 students on the first day roster because, well, some of them will probably drop it, right? #teaching
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
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These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine
Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Red Scarf project scarves to be mailed on my way to work tomorrow, hopefully just in time #crochet #crochetsky
Five crocheted scarves in various red or red variegated yarns, using a variety of yarn weights and patterns.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Hitting the point in the term where I fear I've been sweet, understanding Miss Nelson for too long and need to bring some Viola Swamp energy to drag us all to the finish line. (iykyk)
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
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I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago—to feel something settle inside of me when I saw her skyline from the expressway, or her lights from the window of an airplane, after crossing the cloud line. I thought I knew what it meant to love her brick and steel towers, her annoying street preachers, her chorus of accents and the poetry of her activists, the grit of her workers, awaiting buses and trains in icy air, her guerrilla gardens, bookshops, bucket boys, and crashing winter waves becoming shelves of ice—so many corners that feel like home, even though you’ll never live there. I know this place. I love this place, and I thought I knew how much, until you made me love it more." - Kelly Hayes
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Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Posting my month of creepy #crochet! Pattern credits in the alt text
Three crocheted pottedplants, from left to right: a purple-petaled flower with a bloodshot eyeball in the center (pattern by Tatyana Pogosova/@mrs.crowlet); a plant with three thick green stems each ending in an eyeball still “budding” and lateral tendrils (pattern by Dasha House); a striped potted plant consisting of five purple curved “monster finger” like fronds (also Dasha House). Fwiw I made some tweaks to the patterns for structural/supply reasonsThree crocheted skulls (two in cream and one bright white) each with exposed “brains.” One brain is lavender, one is a grayish green and one is half bright green and half purple. Pattern by Svitlana Hurova/@fayni_toysThe bright white skull from the previous pic with the “brains” unfolded to reveal they are granny-square-ish coasters, with a skull in the center and ruffled edges that roll up to make the brains. Pattern by Svitlana Hurova/@fayni_toysAnother skull from the previous photo. Showing the lavender edged “brain” coasters unfolded. Pattern by Svitlana Hurova/@fayni_toys
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