Charles Logan

Waiting for the pitch from tech bros that GenAI is going to save teachers time to focus on what really matters: their side jobs.

Bar graph comparing emissions from Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres to avoided emissions from Tesla's products for the years 2023 and 2024.

Comparison of emissions from manufacturing xAI's chatbot responses (5,127,553 tonnes CO2e) versus all Tesla products (1,056,000 tonnes CO2e) with respective analyses.

*New short blog* - finally (with help) got around to getting a total estimate of Grok's climate pollution 🫠

- Once all fossil gas online, = to between half and all of Tesla's ANNUAL GLOBAL avoided emissions

- Currently, 5x the emissions of Tesla's total manufacturing

ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

In this episode of The Data Fix, Daisy Maldonado, Annie Ersinghaus, Gilberto Manzanarez and I discuss on-the-ground opposition to two data centers being built against the will of local residents:

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I guess the single benefit of continuing to return empty-handed from journeying into the academic job market is boy oh boy do I have cupboards full of lush cover letters and bursting cornucopias of statements to select from when steeling myself to face the biting winds of the next application 🫠

U.S. Schools Are Betting Big on A.I. Will New York City Be Next?

"As recently as the middle of last year, there was little organized opposition to A.I. in schools. Today, though, many families want to hit the brakes, signing petitions to demand a two-year moratorium on generative A.I. in public education."

A Digital Delusion? — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heat...

If you're interested in trying to make sense of a book that's become quite popular in the fight against Big Tech in schools by invoking the work of Jonathan Haidt alongside the Luddites, then the next @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club is for you. We'll gather on Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm ET.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

A Digital Delusion? — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heat...

If you're interested in trying to make sense of a book that's become quite popular in the fight against Big Tech in schools by invoking the work of Jonathan Haidt alongside the Luddites, then the next @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club is for you. We'll gather on Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm ET.

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

Same OpenAI that's partnered w the American Federation of Teachers and whose models are used by popular ed-tech products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool.

School admin/teachers who've ignored this company's disdain for people and planet need to explain why they keep doing business w these ghouls.

#Goals

Tonight's Proud Dad Moment™:

It's 3 kids vs 1 Dad playing Nerf basketball and the 3 y.o. is air-dribbling and looks at me and looks at his older siblings and looks back at me and points at me and then says, "Box him out! Box him out!"

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YouTube video by Bloomberg Television Trump Tells US to Stop Using Anthropic Products

I spoke with @bloomberg.com about the designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" by the Trump Administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQ0...

Personally, I always wanted to be a teacher because I so cherish my role as a cog in economic infrastructure.

YouTube video by Bill Callahan - Topic Computer

Autotune? I don't wanna hear it / That's just prepping us to be satisfied / Being sung to by something without a spirit / Until the human voice sounds so flawed and raw / That we just quit it / Just because something is / Doesn't mean it should be

Bill Callahan, “Computer”

Elon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi The 27 temporary gas turbines roar like jet engines day and night to power data centers, residents say.

“This was not a thoughtful, phased development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.”

NEW! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

@naomiaklein.bsky.social joins @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss how AI boosters & the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair.

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

That Won't Work, Bro Announcing my new ed tech consultancy.

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

See also: Bill Callahan

Sometimes it’s nice to walk along Lake Michigan while listening to The War on Drugs

OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker, The Information reports OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, the Information reported on Friday, citing a pe...

What could go wrong?

"The smart speaker, the first device OpenAI will launch, is likely to be priced between $200 and $300 [and it] will have a camera, enabling it to take in information about its users and their surroundings, the report said."

Agreed!

AI sexualized a California 4th grader's book report. Can the state safeguard students? An incident with Adobe AI software is raising question about whether the California Department of Education can effectively patrol a new technology.

Thanks to @khari.bsky.social for the chance to share my thoughts about socializing children and teachers into using AI technologies.

As I said to him about CA's guidelines, I think they "fall short by not offering teachers and parents clear guidance on how they can opt out of using the technology."

YES

And one of the reasons I continue to appreciate, "Against 'Both Sides' Argumentation: Resisting Dehumanization in Intellectual Community" by @vea.bsky.social, @suraju.bsky.social, @learnsolidarity.bsky.social, and @aeolani.bsky.social.

Read their paper at:
repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/...

Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters Pritzker’s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boom

"In addition to calling for a suspension of tax incentives, Pritzker also demanded that northern Illinois power grid operator PJM mandate that datacenter developers assume the additional costs of their power demands."

"While Prism couldn’t confirm it, Sarah believes the first people to tag Friend ads were informal groups of high schoolers calling themselves Luddites."

Young people showing us again the need for developing a Luddite praxis in education.

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