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Shannon Mattern

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director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; resigned full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + upstate wordsinspace.net
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social

The chef’s kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

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AI Weekly's analysis →
  • ChatGPT's 2022 debut triggered cascading honor code violations and policy reversals that persisted across all four years of one college cohort.
  • Faculty policy swung between banning and requiring AI tools within single academic years, leaving students unable to follow consistent rules.
  • A documented social rift formed within the Class of 2026 between students who adopted AI tools and those who refused throughout their degree.
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404 Media @404media.co

Across the US, people in cities and towns are fighting back against the construction of data centers. Today on the podcast, scholar Britt Paris joins 404 Media's @samleecole.bsky.social on why that gives her hope. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Outcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”

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“Nonfiction publishing is uniquely vulnerable to AI because the industry has long neglected to do anything to ensure the books it publishes are factually accurate. ‘Ppl outside of the industry don’t understand that, contractually, publishers are not obligated to fact-check.’”

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Rdg lots of stuff acknowledging mounting public *fear* of AI. Yes, I’m glad there’s more attention to the aversion — but it’s more than fear: it’s distrust, resentment, disgust, the Spectrum of Justified Bad Affect. “Fear” implies a phobia one can conquer with exposure, understanding, etc.

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So many subway ads for genAI agents promising to make “killer pitch decks” – for more stupid AI agents, no doubt

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