Some wise-acre academic needs to create a class on "The Neoliberal University" taught by AI clones.... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
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Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press)
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nytimes.com
Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall chicagomaroon.com
The Pope’s Encyclical on AI Was Important—Now Comes the Hard Part techpolicy.press
The AI Question: A Movement Debate streamyard.com
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AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State inthesetimes.com
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Data & Society Launches AI Civics, a Public Education Program to Build Democratic Power Over Technology datasociety.net
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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
The revolution was the easy part uxdesign.cc
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I've been slowly coming around to this view... Not because I'm anti-technology, but I think that 18-year-olds aren't ready to handle these powerful tools.. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
The popes enyclical was a powerful statement demanding that AI be developed in ways there are consistent with human dignity and foregrounding human relationships (1/?) techpolicy.press/the-popes-en...
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The AI Question: A Movement Debate, Thurs May 28th 7pm ET. Hosted by @mediajustice.bsky.social and @conmijente.bsky.social, LIVE BROADCAST: streamyard.com/watch/SKsxNh...
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“I didn’t sign up to help kill people.” In a new piece co-published with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social looks at tech workers confronting the military uses of their own labor, from Microsoft to Google to Cisco to Palantir.
Is "buy our much more expensive tech and sell us your rare earth metals at a discountbor else" is a winning strategy? The is still have financial and military leverage, but increasingly limited soft power...
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You can learn about our upcoming AI Civics program, which is mentioned in this op-ed, here. datasociety.net/announcement...
A small but significant advance.. a $399 "roboduck" with an open source platform on huggingface that allows users to upload different reinforcement learning skills that can be plugged into the "duck" techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/h...
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- Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics unit is taking pre-orders on Microduck, a 25-centimeter bipedal duck with 15 motors, at $399 shipping before Christmas.
- The SDK, MuJoCo simulation environment and full RL training stack are on GitHub under Apache 2.0, with PPO policies training in roughly one to two hours per gait.
- Onboard hardware includes a camera, a small LiDAR, two IMUs, 32GB storage, 1GB RAM and a 2,600mAh battery good for about an hour of runtime.
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Good stuff from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy AI produces an epistemic void where people develop a distrust of all types of authority including scientific authority I think it also leads to an ontological crisis where we begin to demand that our experience is the world be free …
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"Jakob Nielsen frames AI as the fourth great economic revolution, after tools, agriculture, and industry. Each one took something scarce and made it stupidly abundant: muscle, then food, then power, now cognition." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
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