Charles Logan

This is the kind of critical AI literacy practice that I'd like to see make its way into schools. It's not about how to best use this or that product; it's about mapping systems of power.

“[R]emember that nothing puts the ‘artificial' in artificial intelligence more clearly than the claims that it’s good for energy and the environment."

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

I'm not sure how much more evidence school administrators and teachers need before they put a stop to socializing children into lifelong Google customers and users of Gemini, but I sure hope that day arrives sooner rather than later.

a man is standing in front of a microphone with his arms outstretched on a stage . Alt: The singer David Byrne, a white man with brown hair dressed in a tan suit, is standing in front of a microphone on a stage. Bryne is making wave-like motions with his arms and swaying his hips side to side.

Perhaps next time I'll combine them with some twisty dancing too

TFW you recommended Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines weeks ago and a student pulls you aside after class today to say he read the book and nobody's learned anything have they? And you nod and repeat, "Same as it ever was, same as it ever was," and wonder if the Talking Heads allusion was too much.

Two New Reports Urge ‘Human-Centered’ School AI Adoption Results of two gatherings make case for visionary yet balanced approaches to AI.

Reports from whom is a really important question here.

Reading Mariame Kaba's newsletter and following her to Mary Oliver's "Messenger" and these lines:

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.

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:

🙏🏻

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!"

LOL

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...