Jennifer Sano-Franchini

More like this, please.

Refusing Gen-AI: Seeing the Signs that are Hiding in Plain Sight Kelly L. Keel, West Virginia University Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A year ago I was a first time college composition instructor. I came to WVU to pursue a second master’s degree in creati…

New blog post by Kelly L. Keel:

"It should be absolutely concerning to all of us that these companies are trying to take up space and resources in our towns without even having to be identified or named."

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NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.

"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

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Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more private-sector usage of AI and fast tracking permits for more data centers after Big Tech companies donated huge amounts to his inauguration.

Flyer for CCCC Fall 2025 Reading Circle, Labor, Land, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom. Book Discussion: Empire of AI by Karen Hao, Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:30–6:30 PM ET.

Join Carmen Kynard and Cindy Tekobbe for a discussion of @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI!

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It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn’t scale linearly

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

Violent crime is at a 50-year low.

This is amazing.

www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain

This video is really important.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.

@katecrawford.bsky.social

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

To have my book mentioned in the same breath as Karen Hao's magnificent Empire of AI is a career highlight. Thank you to Jennifer Sano-Franchini for organizing a CCCC Virtual Reading Circle on Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom.

oh I'm HYPERVENTILATING !!

CCCC Fall 2025 AI Reading Circle - Conference on College Composition and Communication Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom These events are free for CCCC members. Not yet a member? Join today! Join CCCC for a critical, nuanced, and though...

Announcing a three-part CCCC Reading Circle Series:

Oct 16—Discussion of Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social!

Dec 10—Discussion of Enduring Digital Damage by
@dustinedwards.bsky.social!

Jan 12—Teaching Session on bringing these ideas to the writing classroom!

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I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

Refusing Plagiarism Detection and EdTech Surveillance Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Photo by Kadri Võsumäe on Pexels.com It’s week 6 of the semester here, and we have reached the end of the first major project for most of our first-year writi…

A new blog from @rcmeg.bsky.social on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies about refusing plagiarism detection. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization.

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)

and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

Thanks for this and for the fantastic work you've been doing! Also tagging @nobugsnous.bsky.social @rcmeg.bsky.social

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

"In a lot of ways, this zero-sum conflict becomes a distraction from what we should arguably really be paying to—the diverse affordances, material conditions, flows of capital, and concrete harms that result from these technologies with disparate impacts for different groups of people."

Beyond “Two Sides” and the “Middle Ground” in GenAI Discourse: The Affordances and Limits of Linear Reasoning Models Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Steve Johnson on Pexels.com Not long after my child started attending the childcare center near campus, another parent asked whether my sp…

New blog post: Beyond “Two Sides” and the “Middle Ground” in GenAI Discourse: The Affordances and Limits of Linear Reasoning Models refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... #RefusingGenAI

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Unreal.

South Korean woman who bit off attacker's tongue acquitted after 61 years Choi Mal-ja only managed to break free after biting off about 1.5cm of her alleged attacker's tongue.

this is a story of great importance and I hope everybody will read it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...