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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

IE and Bakers mentions and I thought a twin kitchen drive thru reference was coming! 😉

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yes sir! Park on the other side so it’s enjoyable all around.

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Walnut Street Bridge should be open again and you can cap off a walk with ice cream near there. Art museum is right there too if inclined - we enjoyed just the outside exhibits and river.

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Am I missing out on free lunch emails?!

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@linkletter.org congrats to you and all the other OEGlobal Award shortlisters! Inspired by your work! awards.oeglobal.org/2026-shortli...

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2026 Shortlist of Finalists – Open Education Awards for Excellence

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They preferred their version and didn’t make it past Pyramid Song 😜

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Child: walking with water bottle clanging rhythmically. Me: you’re going to love the opening track for Radiohead’s 2001 album Amnesiac.

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our 2026 Conference schedule has been posted! You won't want to miss these excellent sessions. New research, lessons to share, workshops, and more! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference

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2026 Conference — Civics of Technology

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

AI Refusal Statement
I did not use generative AI at any point in the production of this book or presentation, including the literature review, writing, editing, translation, organization, or any other task (e.g. brainstorming). To the extent that it is possible to know, I did not cite any studies that used generative AI.
Justification: GenAI technology is based on stolen labor, anti-solidarity between workers, class exploitation, structural racism, misogyny, environmental injustice, and climate destabilization.

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Gross. This just appeared on our LMS (Canvas) today. After only a couple of hours, it disappeared. Anyone else notice it at their institution? Looks like they're still trying to push their AI tools but couching them in some "you're still in control" language.

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Want to present at our 2026 conference? You've got two weeks to put a proposal forward! Share your research, your instructional approaches, proposal a panel, or something else that you think would interest our audience. forms.gle/rKEwypkdJpHL...

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Session Proposal Form: 2026 Civics of Technology Conference

Please use this form to submit your session proposal. Proposals are due June 14.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16/05/2026

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual

bloodinthemachine.com

AI as the new avatar of American capitalism

Why "AI populism" is just "populism"

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/04/2026

Q: Why weren’t faculty consulted? A: On the contrary, Skynet was trained on an extensive archive of pirated humanities articles—hence its misanthropy, overuse of the em dash, and proclivity for always already predictively adding “already” after “always.”

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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration

“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible. Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:

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Introducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of Technology

Upcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap...

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Racially-Just, Inclusive and Open STEM Education @rioscommunity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

**Implementing Alternative Grading** The Center for Grading Reform and the RIOS Institute are hosting a six-week Learning Community on alternative grading. Participants will apply a structured approach in a course. Prior familiarity and a target course required. Starts May 5: bit.ly/48J4sMF

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RIOS Learning Community Application: Implementing Alternative Grading

The Center for Grading Reform, in partnership with the RIOS Institute, is pleased to sponsor a Learning Community on Implementing Alternative Grading for post-secondary faculty. In this six week…

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/04/2026

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

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The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™

As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 13/04/2026

The RIOS Institute @rioscommunity.bsky.social is sponsoring a learning community on Alternative Grading, beginning May 5 (and ending right before @thegradingconference.com). Join me and @melanielenahan.bsky.social for a weekly community where you design an alt grading scheme for your upcoming class.

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QUBES - Implementing Alternative Grading - A RIOS Learning Community

QUBES Hub - The Power of Biology, Math, and Community

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Joep Schuurkes On the Acceptance of GenAI 🙏 smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on...

On the acceptance of GenAI

Joep Schuurkes — 5 April 2026

By using GenAl:
• I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
• I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
• I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
• l accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
• I accept these companies don't have a viable business model.
_ I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world.
• I accept that I am granting more power to the United States.
• I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.

If any of these facts are new to you, you haven't been doing your due diligence.

I have the deepest respect and sympathy for people who are forced by circumstances to accept these things.

I acknowledge the people's ethical behavior is neither deterministic, nor consistent.

But yeah, GenAl radicalized me.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …”

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Excited to share this call for proposals to contribute to a new open-access book on the EdTechBooks platform on "Public Scholarship in Education." The editors are looking for "cases of educational researchers engaged in public scholarship, or sharing their research in open and accessible ways."

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public-scholarship-cfp.pdf

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Khakionion (8MB) (for PlayStation®2) @khakionion.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

there is no such thing as a low-value education task

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I just wish there was some consortia that could come together and have a truly open access LMS (minus the M?) for universities so we aren't beholden to every little update from a stack of tech bros in a teaching & learning trenchcoat.

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Sharing for the afternoon crowd

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Sharing our new open access text on transformative care with writings about care as a disruptive force that challenges the status quo. edtechbooks.org/transformati...

Book cover for "Transformative Care: Challenging Educational Practices for Meaningful Change" with a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/09/2025

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Waiting for the pitch from tech bros that GenAI is going to save teachers time to focus on what really matters: their side jobs.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 28/02/2026

Individual solutions won't stop systemic problems, but talking to the children in your life about the myriad dangers of AI is now a necessary part of being a responsible adult.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

www.elearningcolorado.org/2026-cfp.html has a research in action option that seems open enough that you could probably do that? (At least the organizers have always been chill with ideas). I’m putting together what is essentially a focus group as proposal.

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2026 CFP

The eLearning Consortium of Colorado conference is virtual from April 8 - April 10, 2026. We want to focus on discussions and explorations with our community of learning/instructional designers,...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I finished writing it all up: Generative AI ∉ (Teaching ∪ Learning). I'm going to keep using this as a reference, incomplete as it is www.peter-keep.com/2026-02-06-g...

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Generative AI ∉ (Teaching ∪ Learning)

There are no ethical use cases for generative AI in higher education

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Don Caballero - Details on How to Get ICEMAN on Your License Plate youtu.be/d5yeE8NvSSo?... or Sufjan Stevens - The Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About... youtu.be/QRnY5g9vXE0?...

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Details on How to Get ICEMAN on Your License Plate

YouTube video by Don Caballero - Topic

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

To all those Catholics still saying "America first," I would like to remind you that the official teaching of the Catholic Church is "the poor first." And neither Christ nor the Church are bound by borders.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 15/12/2025

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 06/12/2025

A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended. "John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts" wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...

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Bricolage and the Battle for the Catholic Imagination

Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2025

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!

Call for Submissions
Issue 28: General Issue
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology
• Textual and multimedia submissions - interdisciplinary approaches in humanities, sciences, and social sciences welcome
• Audio/visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials and/or methodologies - work addressing labor and care considerations of teaching and creating projects with digital technology

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