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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apparently the shoot has blocked off access to the local food pantry in Livingston.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I got so many smart questions from @garrettbucks.bsky.social about my journey as an accidental organizer. It turns out you CAN fight city hall—or, in my case, the school board.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud to be a designated spokesperson for the anti-AI humanist movement in this excellent @newyorker.com piece. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Paragraph from linked New Yorker article reads: This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love this. Thank you. Sharing with the Kind of Blue fanatics in my household.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Overheard a high schooler explaining that he'd always dreamed of becoming a pilot, but AI is going to take all the pilot jobs, so now he's going to study business administration instead????

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you for seeing us so clearly ♥️

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is like something you'd hear about from a Netflix true crime docuseries. But it's happening right now, out in the open, at Alpha School.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LA clearly kicked this off -- in terms of schools districts taking an about face -- but it's really been due to parents mobilizing in each city

In April, the Los Angeles Unified School District became the first of its size to pass a resolution capping the time students can spend on screens, addressing complaints that students often became distracted by games and social media on school-issued devices. The resolution also ordered an audit of the widely used and often criticized assessment software i-Ready, as well as all other educational technology contracts. And it blocked students from browsing YouTube and set up a committee to craft rules on AI.

During the committee’s first meeting Wednesday, L.A. district administrators said they recently decided to block all grade levels from accessing generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude and Nano Banana. Previously, the district had barred children under 13 from using them.

In New York City, the school system forbade children in preschool through second grade from using computers and recommended daily screen time limits of 30 minutes for third through fifth grade and 45 minutes for middle schoolers. A new committee of school officials, labor leaders and parents will revisit the technology changes next year.

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Jodi Carreon @jcarreo22.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"These changes “prove that the people have the power to reclaim public schools from corporate influence,” said Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social , co-founder of the parent activist group Schools Beyond Screens"

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oh ok so you're telling us that there's one big switch to turn all this shit off at once, interesting

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the night crowd: the wins you’re seeing in NYC and LA this week did not fall from the sky. They are the result of literally thousands of hours of organizing by parents, teachers, advocates in both communities. These wins belong to them - and the millions of kids in both cities who will benefit.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a testament to the power of collective action. We have to pressure our leaders to do the right thing.

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Huge shout-out to everybody organizing in NYC and LA public schools - and beyond! - to fight Big Tech and defend publication education. You truly love to see it.

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It’s an honor to do it with this amazing coalition!

Here’s the official @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social statement on today’s Very Big Day for the AI moratorium movement. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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Please connect with your local @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social chapter if you want to help make this happen in Miami!

Thanks, Kashana! Collective action: what a high.

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Slight correction: the board did not ban access to AI tools. This was an action taken by District staff. It was actually a surprise to the board members during the committee meeting today, as well as to the members of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social who had come to demand an AI moratorium!

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Yes, our work is clearly not done!

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You are the wind beneath our wings!

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Today, America’s two largest school districts sent a message to the rest of the country that AI in schools is far from inevitable. When we organize and fight back, we win.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This comes on the same day that @mayor.nyc.gov announced a 1-yr moratorium on AI use in NYC elementary & middle schools, following a tireless campaign by the heroes in @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social. It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start.

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Today, members of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social showed up at the first meeting of the LAUSD AI Ad Hoc Committee to reiterate our demands for an immediate moratorium on student AI use. But District staff stunned us by announcing that all standalone AI products are now blocked on student devices TK-12!

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh is that where they went after spending all afternoon circling *my* block?

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Okay but what if the calculator frequently fabricated numbers, then would it be useful for students?

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

PTA not beating the charges of being aligned with Big Tech!

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fun movie, btw! I hope it’s a huge box office success and David Zaslav is roundly humiliated for shelving it for the tax write off.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

LOS ANGELES: If you have any thoughts about AI companies using public school kids as guinea pigs for their products, please join @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social Wednesday at the first meeting of LAUSD’s AI Ad Hoc Committee. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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RSVP for the AI Ad Hoc Committee

The meeting will take place at 10am on: Wednesday, September 2nd at 333 S Beaudry Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017. A big turnout would be wonderful! Let us know if we can count on you to show up!

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

COYOTE V ACME is about the Meta trial… how did they do that?

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

docs.google.com

RSVP for the AI Ad Hoc Committee

The meeting will take place at 10am on: Wednesday, September 2nd at 333 S Beaudry Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017. A big turnout would be wonderful! Let us know if we can count on you to show up!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026

Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov, did you see the study of 26,000 kids that showed "A.i." use causing a DECREASE in exam scores of up to 24 POINTS? Don't leave our kids behind by pushing "A.i." on them! Please declare a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools NOW! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yep, it sure is. That’s why I posted it.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At jury duty in SF, one woman was making small talk with another, saying “My school starts soon. But I’m not technically a teacher; we’re called ‘guides,’ because the students do all their learning on AI modules.” And the other said, “Well you’re certainly not a teacher.”

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Juror Number Two, I love you.

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I’m not a fan of Substack, but this link Is to a different article.

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“If you are a parent with a child in junior high or high school who uses generative AI, this data should terrify you.” Duly terrified 🫡

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Andy Liddell @andyliddell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you. This is correct.

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Who’s to say it isn’t? As a longtime organizer around issues of edtech accountability, I assure you that my fellow movement leaders have a nuanced understanding of the problem. But because my compadres are almost all moms and women, they’re often assumed to be unsophisticated moral panickers.

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