The Who's Who of AI

“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.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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…”

“"'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...”

“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...”

“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…”

“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..."”

“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…”