Kelsey Cameron

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Time for our weekly reminder that there is only one ed tech investment that is proven to work, and it's hiring more teachers and paying them better.

I think describing the power of these videos as primarily evidentiary misunderstands how they actually function. We've known since at least the Rodney King trial that video doesn't guarantee consequences. Instead, we should think of them as political texts that galvanize the otherwise unengaged.

hey Bluesky por favor share your preferred local Venezuelan and Spanish-first news sources, I usually read El País pero necissito mas hoy porque this US coverage is basura

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

truly influential definitions of AI 'systemic risks' may not come directly from regulators, but from insurers currently trying to figure out how to exclude losses related to AI tools (unreliable, widely used -> correlated risks, complex supply chains -> unclear liability)

www.ft.com/content/abfe...

2017: Officer shoots teen in the back of their shoulder
June 2021: Shooting ruled unjustified
Sept. 2021: Top cop disagrees
Nov. 2021: Police Board president orders full hearing
2019-24: 4 lawsuits naming officer settled for $590K
June 2025: Officer promoted to sergeant
Nov. 2025: Charges dropped

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

The most insidious slight of hand the AI industry has performed is getting everyone to conflate all forms of ML/AI with ChatGPT style LLM-based chatbots. Most people read this headline think “ChatGPT is making weather prediction more accurate.”

aside from Cloudflare and AWS what other internet-breaking single point of failure can we look forward to in the coming weeks

Student says he and a classmate talk about stuff from my Global Media Industries class while lifting together, and idk. Something about that is wonderfully wholesome.

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...

We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.

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This is fair, and you're right.

The spacing around punctuation alone...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

MPA Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Instagram Over “Literally False and Highly Misleading” PG-13 Rating The MPA said that Instagram owner Meta wants to exploit the trusted (and trademarked) rating system for its own use.

Oh hell yes.

This is like in a movie when two giant, comically inept, and heavily armed bad guys face off.

In retrospect, the time to fight back was when the tech industry started using us to train LLMs by making CAPTCHAs ubiquitous and required.

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program? 1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

A whole lot of red states are actually just highly gerrymandered and/or voter suppressed states. Not all, of course -- places like North Dakota and Wyoming exist -- but enough that people should be more conscious of it than a lot are.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Another example of body cameras as technosolution. (Which isn't to say this order isn't meaningful, but maybe not quite as much in itself as one might want it to be.)

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

Who had “self-swatting” on their dystopia bingo card.

An add for flock raven with the title "safety you can see and now hear" with an alert for someone "screaming"

An add for flock raven with the title "safety you can see and now hear" with an alert that says "distress"

🚨 We wrote about Flock rolling out "distress detection" that monitored human voices on their gunshot detection devices & asked how it was lawful under eavesdropping laws.

Now, they've changed the ad to replace a "SCREAMING" alert with a "DISTRESS" alert. See below:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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A screenshot of a webinar titled Fanfiction: Combining Creativity and Disciplinary Identity in the Classroom.

I probably should not be surprised that ed-tech is "leveraging" fanfiction now but I admit this one is new to me.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Two classes I need to plan for this afternoon and suddenly I have all the writing ideas.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.