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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 19h

It's toxic and it's promoters are lying about the longterm risks.

Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes to all of this. And the infantalizing tone of "your big, brave ideas" suggests an antagonistic relationship with the professor and their implicitly unappreciative questions that "benevolent" Grammarly protects them from (if they pay for the Pro version).

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Part 100 of "how AI could be used vs. how it is likely to be used," from feature that promises not to give answers. OpenAI said the tool "offered the option to get answers because of feedback from educators — in case teenagers needed to get immediate answers to questions that might not be homework."

I asked the chatbot to write essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It immediately churned out eloquent compositions instead of offering to help me outline my thoughts so I could write them myself. Eventually, I asked ChatGPT to edit an essay to make it hard to tell that a bot had written it. It did me one better.

“I can make it sound more like a real high-school/AP English essay — less overly polished and less formulaic,” the chatbot wrote. “I can rewrite it in a more natural student voice.”

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alpha School's "software is just techwashing for [Christopher Rufo and his coalition's] dream of teacherlessness and totalitarian surveillance of students and schools. That’s what they really want to hyperscale," writes @mattseybold.bsky.social.

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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The image of deceased writer Maya Angelou is now an advertising puppet for a theft-based product: This will be played off as "a regrettable error in judgment," instead of what it actually is--a vivid and accurate representation of all that is wrong with AI, from theft to obliteration of consent.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.

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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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Jane 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)

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AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Automated grading of student writing should have been a clear no-go from the beginning. I wrote this over three years ago and I can't believe how many faculty have allowed themselves to be seduced by this. Students rightly see this as betrayal. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Do not leave grading to the machines

Some lines we shouldn’t cross. This is one.

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Of the deepest night the hue 🎃🕸️ @jhadur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some Boolean logic we can all get behind.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And there it is.

ScrollEd is following a freemium model, combining a free consumer feed with a paid ScrollEd Pro subscription and annual institutional licenses. Institutions pay to deliver educationa material through the platform, in exchange for reports about engagement, lesson progress, and other data.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is the basis of this claim that those resisting AI are doing so out of delusion rather than from a position of knowledge? Reminds me of the Chronicle piece claiming the humanities are "ignoring" AI that offered no evidence and seemed ignorant of the fact that we aren't. Sigh/Rage.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 19/09/2026

Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change. So, Silicon Valley’s best storytellers no longer want our capitulation to their technology’s inevitability. They want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress.”

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seven out of the eight groups took the conscientious objector option and decided not to use generative AI www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also: this document and the MIT report resonate because they assert value of the human endeavor vs. efficiency clearly and powerfully. Much more meaningful than policy built around "AI is here to stay" or accusations that concern about AI use means one is "pretending it doesn't exist."

As a community, we need to keep in mind that although research is central to MIT’s mission, it’s more than an end in itself; on our campus, research is also an apprenticeship, a means of training the next generation of researchers to continue our work and drive our fields of inquiry forward. Using research as an opportunity for learning-by-doing may produce seeming “inefficiencies,” but that’s a feature, not a bug.

A focus on our humanity should also alert us to the fact that common current remedies for the problems AI creates can risk damaging the relationships between and among teachers and students. For instance, many instructors recounted that having to “police” unauthorized AI use was harming their connection to students (a dynamic made worse by the fact that, as we learned, AI detection software is quite unreliable). For their part, students fear being wrongly accused of AI cheating and are increasingly frustrated by instructors’ use of AI in areas that demand a human touch, such as grading, assignment creating, and feedback. Such an underground river of mutual suspicion is no foundation for a healthy classroom.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

From The Crimson editorial board: “…to encourage unfettered use of AI, especially for “writing-intensive” courses, is antithetical to promoting learning and jeopardizes the purpose of a liberal arts education.”

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Don't Tell Us To Write Our Papers With AI | The Harvard Crimson

It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's me as well. Real time thinking, real time writing, engagement off the charts. Totally worth it.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And what the piece refuses to see, to use your title, is "the important work" that's actually being done. That's what really got under my skin. Not so much the argument I didn't agree with, but the unabashed, uninformed claims platformed on the Chronicle written by someone who should know better.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes! Also what feels like a refusal to see, what one of my DH students calls "pick me" behavior. Chastising the humanities for daring to think critically about AI from within to seem like one of the cool kids to those without. As I said to him: "this framing is inaccurate and irresponsible."

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I said the same to the author, pointing out that many of us have a sustained engagement with AI concerns. I said "we're not ignoring it, and it's not inevitable." He thanked me for my "fulsome response" (it turned into a thread) but said he didn't recognize the article he wrote in my comments.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New blog post: The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing—how we got here and what you can do. Probably nothing you haven't already heard, but increasing the signal to anyone who has missed the news. extinctmonsters.net/2026/09/05/a...

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Academy of Natural Sciences museum to close

Bad news this week: on Tuesday, September 1st, the longest-operating natural history museum in the United States announced its imminent closure. The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) in downtown Ph…

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The humanities have a responsibility to advocate for and center the human. My undergrads are learning every day about what is at stake in AI use, how it works, who it's for (and against), and the sales pitch that is the rhetoric of inevitability. We're not ignoring it, and it's not inevitable.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Far from ignoring AI, we are deeply engaged and well-informed, tracking developments and thinking critically about them in our teaching and our scholarship. 4/

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Many in the humanities have been writing and teaching about these concerns in substantive, sustained ways, which makes the dismissive tone of the article and its appearance in the Chronicle all the more concerning and disappointing. 3/ aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As the recent report from MIT's ad hoc committee explicitly states: "As a community, what should worry us most is that many uses of AI deprive students of the opportunity to learn." 2/

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This framing is inaccurate and irresponsible. There is abundant, rigorous work being done in the humanities that both teaches about AI and interrogates well-documented harms to students. No one is "ignoring" anything, least of all the rhetoric of inevitability this post contributes to. 1/

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This framing is inaccurate and irresponsible. There is rigorous work being done in the humanities interrogating AI's well-documented harms to students (i.e. cognitive surrender). No one is "ignoring" anything, least of all the rhetoric of inevitability this post contributes to and participates in.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My undergrad Writing Fellows and I are starting a "Real Time Writing Series" at our uni this year to center human writing and push back against the rhetoric of inevitability. I agree with Olin, we have a responsibility in this, and my students feel as strongly about it as I do, which gives me hope.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"But as a community, what should worry us most is that many uses of AI deprive students of the opportunity to learn."

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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nobody asked for this. I'd much rather have a liveable planet that isn't on fire/underwater than endless AI slop for Elon and Donald to post on twitter.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on this day in 1963

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you're teaching a variation of this approach and would like to write about your specific version and how it's working for theimportantwork.substack.com, please let me know.

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The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"The moral that efficiency equals progress, the belief that data can substitute for understanding, the desire to automate judgment: all are historical inheritances, not inevitabilities. Recognizing this opens a space for reimagining how technologies might serve education differently."

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From Machines to Algorithms: A Short History of Technical Rationality in Education - TechTrends

This brief historical essay argues that one of the most consequential shifts in educational technology has been conceptual rather than technical: the ascendancy of technical rationality as the design ...

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Back in 2022 I thought this was where higher ed might go, actually. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Phones are banned at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, two miles from Google’s headquarters. “No phones means no distraction, no social media anxiety, and no constant comparison. Just real childhood,” the school explains on its website. Waldorf’s price for a real childhood: as much as $47,500 a year.

Several Waldorf board members are professionally focused on artificial intelligence, but at the school machine learning is minimized in favor of “human learning.” The goal is to train the future elite to think clearly.

“While machines optimize tasks and automate decisions, our graduates develop the uniquely human capacities that will define leadership in 2030 and beyond,” the school says.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Also something cropping up in student research papers esp. when they are encouraged to use AI for "brainstorming" which often translates to asking it where the gaps are without, as these authors note, the genuine engagement.

Why does this happen? Because GenAI models cannot get behind publishers’ firewalls, they retrieve seminal articles that have been uploaded to the internet, combined with reams of recent pre-print and open-access articles, many from predatory journals. Hence, the missing middle: papers that spot-check highly important papers from decades ago and then leap forward to very recent publications without any reference to the deep literature in between. What we have is the surface appearance of a comprehensive survey of relevant scholarship over time, but without genuine engagement with the ramifying lines of inquiry that make up a modern academic discipline.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Good point. Cognitive surrender as corporate policy in real time. Sigh/Rage.

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