Andy Liddell

They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.

the nice thing is that hesitation/skepticism about AI is not yet a partisan issue. Fash piss baby Matt Walsh's view here is surprisingly in line with my own, for example

Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas There's still far too much we don't understand about how AI-powered toys can affect a child's development, an expert warns.

Err on the side of not letting your child be a lab rat for unproven AI tech.

Some great charts on #AI from the Wall Street Journal. t.ly/xvvbw "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue"

Selling a Defective Dream | Zephyr Teachout How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.

Grateful for this thoughtful, lucid piece on my book and what a century of predatory worker/consumer policy has wrought on America from Zephyr Teachout in the New York Review of Books:

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The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy

The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

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RIP Todd Snider, one of the best to ever do it.

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I'm very sorry to report that the great alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider has died at 59 of undiagnosed walking pneumonia. I stick by what I wrote about him in 2012. www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2012-0... Here's Rolling Stone's coverage. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Americana troubadour Todd Snider, alt-country singer-songwriter, dies at 59 A beloved figure in American roots music, Todd Snider has died at 59. His record label announced Saturday that Snider died Friday.

Todd Snider, a singer whose thoughtfully freewheeling tunes and cosmic-stoner songwriting made him a beloved figure in American roots music, has died. He was 59.

This replaces an earlier post where the link showed an image that's not of Snider.

You didn't want to throw your fishing line in that old main stream - Lawyers, Guns & Money The brilliant singer-songwriter Todd Snider died Friday at age 59: Todd Snider, a singer, songwriter, and raconteur who helped shape the alt-country and Americana music movements, died Friday. He was ...

Todd Snider, R.I.P. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/you-...

Todd Snider, alt-country singer-songwriter of Alright Guy, dies aged 59 Influential musician who created Americana hits had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia Todd Snider, the influential alt-country singer-songwriter who created Americana hits such as Alright Guy, has died at 59. His passing was shared through announcements on his official social media accounts. Although no cause of death was provided, his family shared on Friday that he had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. Continue reading...

Todd Snider, alt-country singer-songwriter of Alright Guy, dies aged 59

Todd Snider Dead At 59 Todd Snider has died. News arrived yesterday that the Americana singer-songwriter was diagnosed with walking pneumonia, and this morning the musician’s official accounts posted that he has “departed t...

Americana singer-songwriter Todd Snider has died

It’s a rainy morning in California, but our future is bright! ☀️

We are reveling in this incredible win for academic freedom and higher education.

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What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press A conversation with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.

This week, I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.

He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong. Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.

LeCun: “I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within three to five years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today."

Many hazards result from genuinely useful products. Lead paint was also really useful: durable and resistant to moisture. Asbestos is fire-proof and good insulation: our non-carcinogenic insulation options are imperfect. Cigarettes helped people self-medicate for mild mood disorders.

Generally only industry shills explain the advantages of dangerous products like lead paint, asbestos, and cigarettes, but it's important that everyone recognize that dangerous products were appealing, so we can prevent future examples.

AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"

And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.

Asbestos was also a rather stark example of failed regulation. The harms were first discovered 100 years (!) before the material was banned.

And perhaps the biggest reality of AI in education is if you critique it, you get flamed for not helping or having proposals or solutions even if sorting out sociotechnical catastrophes is not what you are paid enough to do.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

…presence on campus, nor facetime with faculty & staff.

Silos are not “bureaucratic inefficiencies,” they are bezzles by design.

Social safeguards won’t change extractivist motives. But regular interaction with the campus community will expose saboteur intent.

This goes for trustees MOST of all.

…the university, the worse the infestation, for obvious reasons. There are more opportunities for extraction & less social safeguards against sabotage.

The social safeguards are important. Far too many people with executive privileges over personnel, budgeting, contracting, etc. have little to no…

Universities allowed themselves to be infested by saboteurs whose sole interest in the institution is the power & status which association with it confers to them.

They have no allegiance to students, but deep allegiances to the extractivists preying upon them.

The larger & more elite…

One of my favorite charities every year.

Third, then Google got access to UK schools to run RCTs of its AI chatbot tutor in live classroom settings, treating them as a pilot sites for more scaleable trials - including a much bigger RCT program in the US
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Schools wanted to become edtech ‘testbeds’ Pilot to build 'evidence base' on impact of workload-cutting tech

Then the Dept for Ed spent a few mill on an experiment in "codifying the curriculum" to be crawlable by AI for purposes of automated teaching materials - and invited schools to become testbeds for these exprriments schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-want...

First, the Department for Education-funded Oak Academy (an online school launched during Covid) announced "experimental generative AI tools", one called "Aila" designed to save teachers lesson prep time, asking for teacher feedback labs.thenational.academy