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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed; they’re the ones with no respect for the craft of teaching and who see it as something to be “optimized” and made more “efficient” à la Silicon Valley

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alpha Schools are clearly a nightmare for a million reasons but it’s particularly telling that the Trump’s far-right secretary of education is boosting them 🙃

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What they would learn from that is that artists work has no value and that it exists to be stolen

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Agreed, and I also don’t think faculty should cheapen and offload their labor like this, especially at a time when higher ed is under attack and ppl are already questioning the value of a degree. Why make ourselves look expendable?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important point and makes me think of @edwardongwesojr.com 's argument that aesthetic and moral opposition isn't to AI isn't enough, we need to "articulate an opposition that will survive improvements in the technology"

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I used to love this time of year, hearing from students applying to work in my lab. No more. Every day a fresh batch of nearly identical emails with nonsensical remixes of the text on my lab website. It makes me so sad.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I still believe that AI will only kill us spiritually and intellectually. Not physically.

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Man, we do not hate these AI companies enough.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Agreed, and as a reviewer I’ve noticed AI can introduce integrity issues. Sometimes the study is fine, but the front end and discussion make assertions - in beautiful prose, sure! - that are not at all supported by the data

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From journal editing experience, LLMs appear to be *undoing* the good research of non-English speaking scholars. You can see signs of a solid study in a manuscript that chat or claude et al - used for "editing only" - have otherwise *wrecked*. I keep suggesting they try again without AI "editing."

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

its funny how rayban took a brand whose single biggest association was "cool" and changed it to "pervert"

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

UChicago law school also put new limitations on AI in the 1st year curriculum - banning electronic devices in classrooms, having in-class written exams, and instituting an oral component of research papers. chicagomaroon.com/53131/news/t...

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“The Template for Law Schools Around the World”: UChicago Law School Announces New AI Strategy

The Law School will prohibit electronic devices in most 1L courses next academic year, according to a broad strategy statement outlining its new approach to legal education amid increasing use of AI a...

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Correct but for the wrong reasons. AI won't go away but it has already made the internet (A seperate thing!) so much worse and has already caused significant amounts of physical destruction to both physical land and archives, databases etc. That legacy can't be undone

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New: Target staff "pranked" for social media; a comedian filmed mid-set; a Sprouts worker whose boss started wearing Meta glasses; and a cashier worried customers are filming down her shirt. Meta glasses are in the workplace, and workers feel powerless to stop it. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/98241...

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Meta glasses are a workplace menace

“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

[watching megacorps pulp truckloads of rare books to train the very bots that are tanking our collective literacy] so weird that academics hate this, must be some kind of echo chamber

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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

(AI New Yorker): Hello—I'm not just here, I'm walking

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/08/2026

This is it. Data centers have become a target not because of the specifics of their water usage or whatever but because they're the one visible, local leverage point for ordinary people to push back on the "turd mountain" of AI that's being foisted on them with little tangible benefit and no consent

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20/08/2026

An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/sile...

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‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisis

An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza’s failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing…

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Rob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We also know that AI is only helpful if you have the discipline specific skills and knowledge to understand when, how, and why the AI is giving you incorrect results. Therefore the most important thing we can do to prepare students to work with AI is double down on the fundamentals.

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

AI’s effect on academic publishing is devastating, as shown in these posts. Another depressing aspect: having to compete with a deluge of garbage as a junior scholar. The editors of journals in my field have said AI is making review times longer and making it harder to find reviewers. It sucks!!

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Who could possibly have predicted this

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I appreciate these articles pointing out the corrosive effects of AI on education, but wish they didn’t always default end by regurgitating industry propaganda about how students need to do at least some assignments with AI to prepare for some nebulous future.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.

Jenny Maxwell, general manager for education at Superhuman, the A.I. company that makes the popular writing app Grammarly, told me that we are living through a “burn it down” moment for teaching and learning. Educators who try to withhold A.I. writing tools are essentially announcing to their students — “consumers,” she called them — that their coursework is irrelevant to the job market.
She did acknowledge that some basic, human writing skills remain valuable. Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject, she said. Ms. Maxwell also insisted that creativity in writing would persist, because people would still want to express their personal voice and style.
To that end, companies like Grammarly, Google and OpenAI are creating so-called Socratic versions of their chatbots, sold to schools as writing helpers that will guide students through assignments without doing the work for them.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

So many of the norms underlying academic culture relied on frictions associated with writing. It was entirely predictable that academia would be profoundly harmed when a machine came along to remove those frictions by making (insincere, inaccurate) communication effortless.

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Important thread. What AI is doing to academia is so upsetting.

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'll never forget the time I interviewed for a faculty position at a large state university and the dean told me, proudly, that bc people loved working there, they hadn't needed to increase adjunct pay in 15 years (they were basically poverty wages)

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 15/08/2026

Gosh I wonder if there's something shameful about using AI, if AI users are upset that AI content will be labeled as AI content?

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lest we forget a guy just got hounded to death by the national media for what should have been an internal employee conduct matter regarding plagiarism in the same week Andy Burnham announced it's unavoidable & vital that young people be trained up in how to use an industrialised plagiarism machine.

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sam @samthielman.com · 15/08/2026

I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wrote this up as a blog post so I can easily find it again in the future. If you see any examples of this phenomenon I'd love it if you could share them in the comments! jilltxt.net/misaligned-c...

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Misaligned citations and LLM-generated scientific fraud

This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Attaching your brand to stuff that has "the AI look" now means that people are tightly associating your brand with garbage made for morons and idiots and (free marketing advice) you probably don't want to actually do that.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 02/08/2026

freezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

look. nobody here likes paying consultants. but the only alternative is paying *instructors*

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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

100% this, I’ve managed to cut my em-dash usage substantially and play up any writing quirks

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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 29/07/2026

lying in bed kicking my feet like a girl with a crush in a cheap comedy

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My Trans Pride interview included a reference to Cass that UK reports left out, but interestingly the Murdoch owned NT News Australia did broadcast these words. ‘If you continue adhering to the Cass report, which has been widely discredited, you are complicit in the deaths of these young people’.

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