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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Way to carry water for big tech, JCO. Just what creative people battling automation need, a sexist genre fiction debate that sounds like Hawthorne hacked your X. Written by hand, A damned mob of scribbling women #AIRefusal #ReadBooksByHumans #RomanceWriters #RomanceReaders #EduSky #BookSky

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Which tech billionaire Lex Luther do you think will be named the U.S. AI czar? I think Peter Thiel is already Vance's American operator, but I'm not sure he'd give up kicking puppies all over Europe and his skull & bones anonymity. Gimme your barmy predictions in the comments. #ResistBigTech

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The outsourcing of reading to automation derails learning in all disciplines. Reading isn't just cute & fun, it is foundational to all other literacies. We continue to test this unethical tech on children at our peril. #EduSky #AIrefusal #Humancreativity #NoAI www.edweek.org/leadership/3...

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3 Takeaways From the Latest PISA Test of Reading, Math, and Science

The results show reading performance dropping across the world—and one uniquely troubling U.S. trend.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me: should I get autumn bangs? Ruby: girl, not while you're querying. Me: but... Ruby: calling them "autumn bangs" doesn't make it right. Fin. ❤️🐾 #dogdays #amquerying #fringe #romancewriter

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm thrilled to join this pedagogy panel at AWP 2027 in Chicago. I'd also love to connect with other teachers who resist generative AI in creative ways that centers compassion for students. #EduSky #AIRefusal #AWP27 #CreativeWritersAgainstBigTech

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We are OPEN to poetry!!

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The automation of education by fiat is MAGA. But the automation of education with our help and assistance is antithetical to all that is still good about our institutions of higher learning. #EduSky #ResistUnethicalTech www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom

A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every novelist, agent, professor, editor, & imprint, trad & indie, should read this. When I talk about the disconnect between academia & publishing, this is what I mean. LLMs do not belong in the writing process OR classroom. #EduSky @ecniumata.bsky.social erinniumata.substack.com/p/the-25-mil...

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The $2.5 Million Question

What the latest AI scandal tells us about publishing, trust, and the writers who are about to pay for it

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today is August 4, 2026, today is August 4, 2026, today is... " youtu.be/ONfRTZhNjGY?...

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There Will Come Soft Rains (Animation)

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

AI detectors are deeply flawed. The same ethical concerns about the training corpus of most commercial chatbots applies to these punitive, unreliable, and potentially reputation-destroying detection technologies. The Atlantic owes HM Wolfe a public apology. www.thebookseller.com/news/tor-bra...

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Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth

Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Beyond excited to be chatting about analog craft inspiration & automation-free pedagogy with @kconrad.bsky.social at this amazing conference. @civicsoftech.bsky.social #EduSky #AIresistance

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Please read this stunning piece of investigative journalism by @heidiblake.bsky.social Don't look away. 👇

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Unethical tools made by the worst men on the planet for the most corrupt administration in modern history. It's not too late to refuse to carry water for the mad king and his broligarchy bootlickers. #EduSky #ResistAI @edzitron.com is right: www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

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Let AI Burn

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's time! We can't wait to see what you have in store for us 👀 forget.cool/submissions/

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

FU, Joe Rogan & your masculine rage bait, incel apologist spectacle of stupidity, rubes & propaganda enablers. UFC's circus of cringe-inducing nationalism isn't fit to carry Michelle Obama's bags. If there was any truth-telling in your sorry platform, you'd say so out loud to your dumbass followers.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Last day in Scotland! Or will I stay in North Berwick forever? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🌊 #Scotland

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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Don’t forget to submit your abstract for our Life After Data conference, happening at Georgetown Law in October. Deadline is about a month away! www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

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Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm just here to support the wizards of Scotland and Nessie, our underwater ally. 🐍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧙‍♀️ #Scotland #Studyabroad #EduSky

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Teltales @teltales.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Zine making workshop: building creative communities of resistance at #edtech26 www.conftool.net/edtech-annua...

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Once more, with feeling: respect readers. If writers publish without disclosing their use of AI, they will lose their audience & the trust of publishing houses and journals. LLM syntax, especially in fiction, is cringe-inducing in its obviousness. #publishing #AI www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm so thrilled to have two poems published in issue #21 of Steel Jackdaw. What a delight to share these pages with such wonderfully uplifting & subversive words & art: all 100% human made creativity. Thank you @daydreamacademy.bsky.social for this gorgeous issue 👇 www.steeljackdaw.com/edition-21

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

dear diary: we knew launching LLMs despite pedagogical & psychological evidence was wrong, but making for-profit bots "edu" was insanely easy. also, we wanted to be billionaires. millionaire is so early aughts. your real live boyz, OpenAI #EduSky #AIrefusal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Beware what you tell your AI chatbot. It’s not a shrink – it’s a snitch | Arwa Mahdawi

In a case of ‘oh dear diary’, the OpenAI president Greg Brockman is having to read extracts from his musings about Elon Musk in court. It’s a terrifying reminder that what’s divulged to AI really isn’...

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If it wasn't posted to the Canvas gradebook, did it even happen? If only there were another way to "manage" learning. ✍️📚🚫🤖 #WOKEuplikethis #HippiePedagogy #Analog #EduSky #AIresistance #AutomationSucks #LuddLikeMe #FreeStudentsFromCorporations

Photo of Abbie Hoffman with caption: Steal this LMS

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you were putting together a set of critical learning management system (LMS) studies readings, what’d you include?

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Countdown to Ireland! I'll be: helping students with their projects, mining uni archives for my paranormal project, searching for gingers for my poetry chap, & presenting at ILTA in Dublin with my Library of Babel comrades. 🇮🇪 #studyabroad #amquerying #travelingprof #writinglife #poet #romanceauthor

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’ — theonion.com/sam-altman-i...

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Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

When historians reckon with the ease that AI found a foothold in higher ed despite its many failings, they'll be left with a story of misogyny & eugenics that should make it obvious why DEI had to be destroyed for automation to flourish in our universities. #EduSky www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story

The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It's harder to think about the CNN r@pe story alone than it is to think about it after reading this article. Reading this will fill you with alternating feelings of rage and hope. Don't look away. #oldmagic #witches #witchsky elaynekalila.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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What Happens When the World Is Motherless

On the CNN "rape academy" story, the ten thousand year erasure of the Mother, and what we do now.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Happy National Poetry month, nerds! ✍️📚☘️❤️ Vist my website if you'd like to read some of my poems available online. 👇 www.melaniedusseau.com #writersky #poetry #writingcommunity #booksky #amquerying #romancewriter #englishprof #supportyourlocalpoet

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

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