Anne Jonas 🌻

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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I may sound partisan but I’m against the criminal administration doing constant armed crime sprees across the nation, constantly, ruining lives and traumatizing and harassing people for fun, idk seems bad

Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism — Interrupting Criminalization A discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring Interrupting Criminalization's Andrea Ritchie, Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wall...

I'll be with @interruptcrim.bsky.social for a conversation about how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity. Join me, @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Lewis Wallen on October 15th, 3pm est! ❤️ ❤️

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather data and lift up stories of censorship, and hold

Here are the key lessons from our #StopCensoringAbortion campaign: what we uncovered, how platforms can do better, and why pushing back against censorship of reproductive health information matters more now than ever. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

Here's the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) statement on Trump's proposed "Compact" for higher ed:

www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

I think this is right:
"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."
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Indigenous people bear the worst of Canada’s historic wildfire season Indigenous people make up 5 percent of Canada’s population but have made up more than half its wildfire evacuees this year.

Canada’s wildfires have had an outsize impact on Indigenous people as climate change is making blazes larger, more destructive and more frequent, threatening the land and wildlife on which they rely for sustenance, survival and cultural traditions.

America's first attempt to tackle climate relocation sparks regret Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.

In 2016, Louisiana received $48.3 million to relocate 37 residents or families of Isle de Jean Charles as climate-charged hurricanes and sea-level rise made the community uninhabitable.

Years later, Indigenous residents report broken homes — and promises.

From our friends at @floodlightnews.org:

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

Big thanks to @mrafalow.bsky.social for seeing the connections between my work & Brooke's and introducing us! And to @karlynjane.bsky.social for her advice on how to frame the paper.

In this new article, "Cameras On: How Schools Reify Unequal Relationships Through Decisions About Online Visibility," @bdinsmore.bsky.social & I complicate narratives about online classrooms through research into covid-era and pre-pandemic remote schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Feds Threaten to Withhold CPS Grant Funds Due to Black Student Success Plan, Transgender Student Guidelines Federal education authorities have threatened to withhold grant money from Chicago Public Schools unless the district agrees to do away with its Black Student Success Plan and revises policies regardi...

Federal education authorities have threatened to withhold grant money from Chicago Public Schools unless the district agrees to do away with its Black Student Success Plan and revises policies regarding transgender students.

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Alright I have something useful for you to do.

Think of any teachers and librarians you know. Do they know about Skype a scientist? Our program matches classrooms & other groups w/scientists for virtual Q&As. It’s free!

They can sign up here!
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#Edusky #StemED

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

i am far from a regular reader of this magazine but credit where due, that is a great hed+dek pairing

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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@annehelen.bsky.social on bullshit jobs.

@mvenetucci.bsky.social Loved your #4s2025 talk yesterday and found it so resonant! Was sorry I couldn't stay for the discussion, looking forward to reading whatever you publish on this topic.

So many great #4s2025 talks I will be thinking about for a long time.

at #4s2025 in an hour i will reveal whether you can talk your way out of social problems or not in the "writing things down" session

Tapping the sign

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

I'll be presenting at 1040 at #4s2025 on the "New Alliances between EduTech and Politics: Defining the Field of Education in Digital Societies" session, Sheraton 2nd fl, Juniper room.

Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...

NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

People hate when abolitionists say this. But it is correct.

Big tech signs on to White House plan for AI education in US schools The White House hosted several tech and AI leaders at an event today centered on teaching artificial intelligence in US schools.

“The business commitments include things like cash prizes for students and teachers who use AI in educational ways, and cheap or free access to the companies' AI tools, trainings and certifications.”

Running into so many awesome people at #4s2025 makes the ridiculous amount of travel & balancing paper deadlines & conference presentations & first weeks of semester teaching worth it.

Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
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