Reposted by Marie BeckerSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026She’s so stupid. I love her so much. 40788117
Reposted by Marie Beckermgm1229.bsky.social @mgm1229.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Quilt in community room at John Campbell Folk School. F#ck AI. 310021
Reposted by Marie BeckerLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A 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. 51079253
Reposted by Marie BeckerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW — 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:thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 12769331720
Reposted by Marie BeckerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Few 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. 241156253
Reposted by Marie BeckerEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026I 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. 310813
Reposted by Marie BeckerDefector @defector.com · 05/05/2026You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...defector.comYou Should Never Be The Most Sycophantic Participant In A Conversation With A Chatbot | DefectorIs 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… 315030
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Was 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 010
Reposted by Marie BeckerMikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I 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. 482020512
Reposted by Marie BeckerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026more 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 131302194
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I 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 100
Reposted by Marie BeckerDe-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️ 14142777210
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Trying 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. 1580
Reposted by Marie BeckerLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚 562686776
Reposted by Marie BeckerCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I 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.blockclubchicago.orgAn AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This FallAlpha 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... 96534
Reposted by Marie BeckerElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l... 82324589
Reposted by Marie BeckerMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Props 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...moryan.comAn open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo 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... 219552
Reposted by Marie BeckerAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026People 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. 424561
Reposted by Marie BeckerIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Won'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. 213823
Reposted by Marie BeckerAndrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026How a Philadelphia high school is fighting AI slop and internet lies: www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...chalkbeat.orgThese Philly teens are battling AI slop and political lies in their school hallwaysAs midterm elections near, Kensington Health Science Academy seniors are ramping up their fight against online disinformation — for their classmates and their families. 094
Reposted by Marie BeckerThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort. 10270911628
Reposted by Marie BeckerCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026AI 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.bloodinthemachine.com"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 offAI Killed My Job: Educators. 315553
Reposted by Marie Beckerve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 12/03/2026Yeah, 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. 4298125
Reposted by Marie BeckerMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I 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...moryan.comAn open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo 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... 837971495
Reposted by Marie BeckerKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 02/03/2026The 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. + 14124
Reposted by Marie BeckerJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The left is winning the AI debate. Really outstanding piece by Brian Merchant. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...bloodinthemachine.comActually, the left is winning the AI debateBut it does need to get organized. 68120
Reposted by Marie BeckerAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I 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… 25415
Reposted by Marie BeckerMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠 140299
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026When 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. 000
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Pro-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 130
Reposted by Marie BeckerPablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 07/02/2026People 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 2276
Reposted by Marie BeckerCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Childhood 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. 6474162
Reposted by Marie BeckerDr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...read.dukeupress.eduA Pedagogy of the InevitableOver 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... 3243116
Reposted by Marie BeckerBen Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 02/02/2026for, 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...newyorker.comThe Myth of Whiteness in Classical SculptureFor centuries, Westerners have been engaged in an act of collective blindness. 010534
Reposted by Marie Beckerashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026my 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 7579581918
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Calliope reminds you to stay hydrated in spite of the Everything of it all #catsofbluesky 040
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026It 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 130
Reposted by Marie BeckerDawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹uncannymagazine.comThese Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny MagazineChicago, 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... 1116081
Reposted by Marie BeckerGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025Thanks 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... 131163418
Reposted by Marie BeckerShane 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! 8589664143
Reposted by Marie BeckerThe labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/12/2025We 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. 81373376
Reposted by Marie BeckerRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025There 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 1055651586
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Red Scarf project scarves to be mailed on my way to work tomorrow, hopefully just in time #crochet #crochetsky 010
Reposted by Marie BeckerLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14/11/2025If 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. 263761862
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Hitting 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) 000
Reposted by Marie Beckerkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 08/11/2025The 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/...buttondown.comThe People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in ChicagoIf passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials. 2263188
Reposted by Marie BeckerPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I 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... 1138484
Marie Becker @alulaauburn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Posting my month of creepy #crochet! Pattern credits in the alt text 150