The Who's Who of AI

“"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."”

“Meanwhile in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...”

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

“Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' www.404media.co/cocomelons-s...”

“New: the studio behind Cocomelon is telling its artists to start using AI, according to documents seen by 404 Media. Moonbug, the studio that makes Cocomelon, one of the most important children's entertainment studios on the planet www.404media.co/cocomelon…”

“AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing. www.404media.co/anthropics-t...”

“Wrote about text watermarking, a concept only slightly more offensive than AI “writing” by which AI companies show yet again that they don’t understand or care about writing at all: www.404media.co/anthropics-t...”

“New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.social”

“New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social on what we're talking about when we talk about "ethical" "AI", and how to move away from the untenable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistan…”

“Welcoming GenAI into schools continues to be, IMO, an untenable position, unless I suppose your goal is to drive out educators, in which case, the strategy is working as intended.”

“Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 84, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I explore the gulf between what the tech companies say the impact of "AI" on labor is and what they are actually doing with their mathy maths: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

“Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

“Wins against GenAI are “win[s] for democracy - for all the teachers and parents and students who said to district leaders that moving fast with ‘AI’ was going to break things, break people; who asked that their needs be met, their voices be heard over the n…”

““Move Slow, Remake Things” https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/move-slow-remake-things/ > This growing rejection and refusal of technology – inside and outside of schools – is about much much more than the technology itself.”

“Erasure: "a process through which the surface features of academic writing (such as fluency, coherence, and formal structure) are preserved or even enhanced through AI use, while the epistemic, critical, and disciplinary dimensions of writing are progressiv…”

“Evan Shieh & @jbpleasa.bsky.social on why Jasmine Sun’s “No Data Centers in My Backyard” is "an illustrative case study for the persistent shortcomings of technocracy and the 'Abundance Agenda' to faithfully represent the material, socioenvironmental concer…”

“"The premise underlying this paper is that no person or institution should coerce a student, researcher or instructor to use AI chatbots to complete academic tasks." ht: Dagmar Monett”

“Video of all presentations & Q+A spui25.nl/programma/ai... From my talk: ""The chapter counterposes Total Mobilisation and decomputing to make the claim that we either incubate a technofascist order or we shift very idea of 'order' itself..."”

“In the first article, Alan Foley and Fasika Melese "connect technosolutionist logics in education to broader narratives of artificial general intelligence, showing how both obscure the contributions of disabled people and other multiply marginalized communi…”

“In this week's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog, Alan Foley shares two open-access articles that together "move from an analysis of how educational AI reproduces ableism toward a framework educators and institutions can use to recognize and resist it."”

“Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from…”

“"Refusal does not turn away from complexity and inspires us to ask: what is important to us? What do we need to achieve that? Who benefits from the swift adoption of AI and who is harmed? How can libraries serve as community-centered sites for actively refu…”