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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👋🏻 The @civicsoftech.bsky.social is accepting proposals for our weekly blog on issues at the intersections of teaching, learning, (ed)tech, and society. Share ideas-in-progress, reflections on a classroom experience, research, and more. We’re also always happy to hear from students. More info 👇🏻
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You can also read Santiago’s post in Spanish:
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Diseñar el mundo alrededor de la IA: Jóvenes latinos como diseñadores sociotécnicos — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Conference Page : Missed a session at our recent conference? Check the 2026 conference page to view recordings. Note that we only recorded sessions at the reque...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Today’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog features the brilliant @santiagojedar.bsky.social and his work with Latino youth as "sociotechnical designers: people who shape the terms on which technologies enter their social lives, sometimes by reconfiguring those terms and sometimes by refusing them.”
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Designing the Social World Around AI: Latino Youth Setting the Terms — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Conference Page : Missed a session at our recent conference? Check the 2026 conference page to view recordings. Note that we only recorded sessions at the reque...
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NBA @nba.com · 14/08/2026
The passion. The intensity. The relentless competitiveness. Thank you for bringing it every night, Russ.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
The suit alleges “that xAI had produced, possessed and distributed AI-enabled child sexual abuse material. It seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who had photos of themselves as minors altered by xAI into sexually explicit content in which they are still recognizable.”
washingtonpost.com
Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.
A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Kids born in the 80s read this and think, “my parents would have been in a maximum security prison” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...
New York Times article. Headline: Should letting children play alone outside be a crime? Photo of a woman looking at a child by a bike.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What A Conference! A tremendous shout out to all who participated. What an amazing community we have! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/what-a-...
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What a Conference! — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Last call for Merch: This is your last chance to guarantee a Civics of Technology shirt or hat. Our pre-order ends this Wednesday, August 12th. Purchasing merch ...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/08/2026
A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We have swag! 👀 Check out our limited edition @civicsoftech.bsky.social hat and t-shirt:
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Purchasing this limited-edition Civics of Technology merchandise helps support our work while spreading the word about our mission. Shirts and hats will be mailed unless we are able to arrange in-pers...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
And renewing my offer -- any college class in Texas that wants to discuss the book, I'll happily Zoom in for the chat.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Final call for conference registration! The deadline is tomorrow (Wednesday Aug 5) at noon. After that time, the conference page will be password protected. If you're registered, you'll get the password via email. Register on the conference page! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference
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2026 Conference — Civics of Technology
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last call for the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference happening this week! Registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, August 5, at 12pm ET. For more information on the sessions and to register, go to: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference
A screenshot of the conference homepage. At the page’s top is the text “Against Tech Hype” and under the text are pictures of the keynote speakers Meredith Broussard and Natasha Singer.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“The American Association of University Professors is joined in the Texas A&M lawsuit by four faculty plaintiffs, each of whom says the policy prompted their course to be canceled or not offered.” www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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‘What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&M
Plaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not offered.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Antonio Ingram, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund “unelected Chancelors + Board of Regents are implementing a vision for higher education not mandated by Senate Bill 37…we are here to call out the harms professors + students are experiencing under the guise of SB 37 implementation.” 👏
aaup-texas.org
SB37 Never Required Classroom Censorship
CONTACT: Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org
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Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So excited for the @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference this week! Especially excited to highlight “Voices from the Caregiver Resistance to Edtech.” Hope you can join us Thursday at 1pm EST!
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today, Kelsey Stokes writes about EdTech as a form of Technofeudalism. Read more, and join our upcoming book conversation about it! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/technof...
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What the heck is Technofeudalism, and why does it matter in education? — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Conference This Week! Starting Wednesday, you will need a password to access our conference page, which will have Zoom links to the sessions. If you’re registere...
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Our conferences is THIS WEEK! *Get yourself registered* so that you get access to the conference page and Zoom links. Registration is free! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference
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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Check out my latest “Don’t Call It The Civil War” for @nytopinion.nytimes.com I explain how the Civil War got its name, and why we should call it “The Slaveholders’ Rebellion.” tinyurl.com/4yk634pc
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google didn't just add AI to Google Earth—it briefly turned one of the world's most trusted sources of evidence into a generator of plausible fakes. shirin anlen & Sam Gregory from WITNESS on a foreseeable fiasco, and why tech firms must consult civil society experts before launch, not after.
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Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts
It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google: Be Evil
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Every day, this Administration unlocks new levels of corruption never thought possible. At a time when families are struggling to stay afloat, they’re being denied jobs and opportunities by their president because of their political views.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A MUST READ: “The stories that universities in the United States told about themselves died (again) in Gaza—in some cases by suicide. By contrast, universities in Gaza may be physically destroyed, but they are still less hollow than many universities around us...” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conve...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
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Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“On governance matters alone, Princeton warrants an AAUP investigation, if not sanction… When faculty don’t have the possibility of weighing in independently on administrative decisions, academic freedom is more likely to be compromised.” 1/2 academeblog.org/2026/07/14/a...
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Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception at Princeton
BY JOAN W. SCOTT Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has carefully curated his public reputation as a defender of free speech and academic freedom against the wanton attacks by the…
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
An interview with the man who set his data to self-destruct if his phone was searched by law enforcement: "I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy." www.404media.co/the-governme...
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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Question is: what is the most effective way to stop this? The answer: organize and unionize with your colleagues! Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
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High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists
A local high school physics teacher was hauled out by four police officers for clapping six times during a city commission meeting.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 27/07/2026
America’s history is complex, inspiring, painful, and unfinished. The Smithsonian exists to educate and preserve that history honestly, not to conform to any administration's preferred narrative.
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Don Beyer Questions Historian About Censorship at the Smithsonian Museums
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Counterpoint: the fact that measles cases are exploding is a sign that parents need to stand up locally and say no MAHA bullshit in our schools. MAHA recognizes itself as a political constituency and ppl advocating for basic common sense now have to do the same.
The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record setMeasles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as
Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A screenshot of the cover of the book "More Work for Mother" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. The cover states, "Winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology".
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We've reached "the President wants you to call the federal government to have your disfavored neighbors forcibly removed from the country" stage of "small government conservatism," articulated in the "hip" youth culture idiom of "maxxing."
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/07/2026
US research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...
aaup.org
AAUP, AFT Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
⭐️⭐️Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López⭐️⭐️ “The future of academic freedom depends upon institutions demonstrating that difficult scholarship will be evaluated on its merits and that faculty governance remains a meaningful safeguard against arbitrary decision making.”
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Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López
The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A couple new, well old, quotes for our critical tech quotes activity, which now appropriately starts with a letter from the Luddites since it is our oldest quote! #MachineBreakers cc @bcmerchant.bsky.social
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@OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social @dankrutka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Came across these quotes doing some reading and can't believe we didn't already have a quote from Ned Ludd in our activity! We do now!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
The White House didn’t weigh scientific merit or alleged noncompliance of grant terms when they cut billions in life-saving research, they just looked for words they didn’t like. Blue states were specifically targeted for defunding.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.
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Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...
Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...
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