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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message. We only have 24 hours in a day.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will say, everyone I know in this space is wrestling with their AI position. Part of the problem is…well complicated. But boils down to, a lot of labor unions have become enmeshed in owners’ priorities because profit benefits dues paying members. AI is a bright line between workers and owners.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But then how would they use the OpenAI credits they're getting gifted as part of their apology for OpenAI hacking government records, or is that just Australia

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was struck by the extent to which this reviewer (and many other people, I'm afraid) have lost sight of the possibility of refusal. And so I want to reaffirm: There is no responsible use without the possibility of refusal. >>

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The policy and procedures nerd on the inside, as described in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual... I cannot be beaten

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026

If you issue a public apology and offer pro bono IT services, you can not only get away with cybercrime but also monetize it through institutional lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/o...

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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But then there would be no air disaster reports for me to read for my feelings (idk I just find them so soothing). Although no disasters is, in fairness, objectively good

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When we tell students that we have to use generative AI because it’s inevitable, we spread antidemocratic misinformation, while also saying that the following are all inevitable too: surveillance, white supremacy, language homogenization, mass theft, environmental devastation, and and and…

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am teaching myself to embroider so I can put "email is an asynchronous medium" on a hat and/or tshirt to wear to work because, as well as hating scheduled send, I also hate the virtue signalling subject lines that say "I might be emailing outside of [my] business hours but you don't have to!"

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you sent it at that actual time it would arrive in business hours here (I hate scheduled send, email is an asynchronous medium, timezones exist, people work different hours even within a timezone, they make their own choices about notifications and work emails on personal phones!)

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also I just immediately stopped drinking tea all day every day but thankfully diagnosed my headaches as caffeine withdrawal and not a medication reaction, and so had to put myself on a tea taper 😂

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes this is the line! I have never stopped thinking it tbh

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In my first week on meds I rang my mum and apologised because I learnt that it is in fact possible to "clean the kitchen as you go when cooking"

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't forget, these folks knew well, well in advance of polluting their research journal platform with a perpetual pop-up AI summarizer that this would annoy their users. It's the year 2026 after all, it's not 2022 anymore.

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a LOT of PhDs are finished out of spite

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My line from the beginning has been that I can think of lots of "secure assessment" that isn't actively harmful but not that I can do in 10 75-minute tutorials a semester AND cover the class content. More class time is not cheap but valuable things shouldn't be cheap

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This but we aren't allowed lab length classes either: "Papers are the lab work of the humanities... the crucible for ideas invented, discarded, reanimated, rearranged & revised into sentences that reveal something to the writer that they didn’t know before." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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The Cures for AI Are Killing the Humanities (opinion)

The retreat from take-home essays jeopardizes the future of the humanities.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you send me one I'll frame it and put it on my wall

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

... I guess it is good they notify you though?? 😬

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If ever, here... Meanwhile the junior scientist is hired with no startup funding to do their experimental research until and unless they get an external grant to pay for equipment 🙄

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The teenager likes to walk Charlie and it helps with the teen's confidence, but we just tried handing them Andie's leash and it was unbelievably good for MY confidence that someday she will be dogsittable 😂

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We haven't been in ages because of transport issues but currently her main thing at home is working on bare minimum grooming and general bravery ... Several weeks ago she let a teenage family friend walk her on an oval!!

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Andie's scentwork trainer has a very fresh baby beagle named Lenny, which I'm very pleased by because it's close to what I've been calling him since the first photo I saw, "Lefty" bc he was on the left with great eyebrows

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What's most upsetting me as a journal editor is that many papers we receive where AI use is disclosed for editing and language refinement actually appear to have been ruined rather than improved by AI. We get what seem like promising underpinning studies, but totally obscured by over-complex text.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Be sure to read this piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com by Jessica Grose. There's a straight line between what she's talking about here--college-as-trade-school-- and the options for how we deal with AI in the classroom. If everything is output and product, then the outsourcing of writing /1

Who knows how many kids we have already trapped in a cutthroat competition to get a small number of finance or tech jobs, when their brains might have been put to better use creating the next great piece of literature, designing a new kind of green building, or working in a lab that could lead to the next medical breakthrough? When we impugn the more esoteric ambitions of higher education, we lose the ability to dream big about what our young people can accomplish.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Perish then publish - death is no barrier, the AI can write in your voice

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

oh jeez I still have that fairy bread sock yarn to send you from before I moved last year but I guess it will be after I move this year now 🙄 This week I picked back up my sock yarn scraps (because same) granny stripe blanket and it has been very fun and soothing to do

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/08/2026

This shift to computerized state tests was made possible by schools' adoption of one-to-one devices. Which mostly happened with Covid. And yet, we rarely discuss the possibility that computerizing tests--without first teaching computing skills--might've contributed to subsequent test score declines.

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Cin (they/them) @skyalin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And yet, internet is still not classified as an essential service in Australia, so they can weasel out of actually providing it to people any time they want. Which is it, hmm?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'd be happy to give High-level Academic Advise on AI in research, but this call makes clear that genuine advice is not welcome. Yet, advice is much needed! Even EU president promotes hype & pseudoscientific claims. See e.g. open letter by experts last year www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Donnie posted last week after the initial Facebook posts that he had been invited for a meeting on 31/7 so I was expecting Friday night news drop again (although actually Saturday morning here, it was 7.30am Sat last week)

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was pretty struck that they pushed it out today, 24 hours ahead of the scheduled meeting with the conference chair?

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Beck Wise @wisebeck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's bloody stupid too because the voids simply will not walk in my neighbourhood - Andie will go one single block at very quiet times of day or if carried, & Charlie just immediately wants to go home for food - but if Millie comes they are normal and walk beautifully???

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