Nathaniel Rivers

You wouldn’t download a trillion dollar corporation

I am worried that students might use an environmental disaster to cheat.

I am worried that students might use a tactic for disenfranchisement to cheat.

I am worried that students might use an engine of economic disparity to cheat.

The (pedagogical) question of how does one ethically engage AI (in the classroom) is sort of like asking how does one ethically engage child labor or burning styrofoam (in the classroom).

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

Oblique Strategies card reading “change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency.”

Yes!

Oblique Strategies card reading “look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.”

Brutal but fair.

An oblique Strategoes card reading “simply A matter of work.”

A box of Oblique Strategies cards.

I’m now just using these for dealing with people.

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Plato’s Republic adorned with a yellow highlighter.

This book is just aristocrats complaining about horny poor people and their loud music.

You wish

This image is what being in the car with as you attempt to parallel park.

My Monday hot take for genAI in education: Nobody needs to embrace any tool or technology. Tools don't need hugs.

As is the custom of every demagogue to pull the ladder up behind them.

Plato was the last person Plato let make art.

There are certain types of tech critics who avoid any mention of racism, sexism, colonialism, genocide & eugenics. If they do it is to attack those of us who expose these threads.

Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy"

Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄

Schools use AI to monitor kids, but investigation finds risks Schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology to monitor students on school-issued devices like laptops and tablets

I wrote about Gaggle in Privacy Is Power. It's sad that it's still in business, surveilling some 6 million students. #Surveillance doesn't solve social problems. It teaches children that rights are worthless. And it is a security risk in itself

#AIEthics

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I devote myself wholly to the cult of the Muses.

Can’t wait to read this. Thanks!

In a way the Post Office *is* the United States. It is what guarantees that anyone can be in touch with anyone.

cover of strange bird with bird image montage

"For what are bodies? Where do they end and where do they begin? And why must they be constant? Why must they be strong?"

a president who can create and destroy federal budgets is just a monarch

How else do you kick off a class discussion of Authority (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social)but by putting a 100 tiny white rabbits all over the room?

Suddenly the Democrats don’t know how to send the cops after a bunch of 19 year olds

"Some questions are hazard, some are instinct, some—like this one—are based on a premature understanding that is more than instinct, but less that knowledge."