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Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

The Dangers of using AI to Grade Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

I don't know if he's sheltered or naive. I think he's engaging in what a lot of religious people who are part of churches doing harmful things, but who personally say they support queer/marginalized folks, engage in. Either willful ignorance, cognitive dissonance, or genuinely not actually caring.

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

This keeps getting overlooked because we’ve been doing this with tech for the past 20 years in schools.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Nothing fills my heart w such joy as this or looking over during independent play and seeing my toddler reading to himself 🥹

I wish I could say I was surprised but I'm not.
At least now it's in the open
(if you're spending money on Harry Potter, watching Harry Potter themed stuff etc., please reconsider in view of where this money might be going?)

Started Paladin’s Strength and on page 5 I am already grinning and giggling #booksky

This one was not one of the three on the original list. Then we received a package of new-to-us books in the mail and as we open it, out tumbles Dim Sum for Everyone. I always forget just how many board and picture books featuring food we have. We are just a family that loves food and reading lol

I was planning a sort of “kids books we love that feature food” post and I had three in mind. Then I started reorganizing toddler’s bookshelf and bringing out books that had been in another room for a while, and what do I see - Bilal Cooks Daal (which was immediately requested to be read)

Untamed Shore is high up on my SMG reads. I really enjoyed it. It didn't make me feel good, but it was a good read, ya know. #booksky

Absolutely OBSESSED with how these macarons inspired by The Spear Cuts Through Water turned out!!! I can't wait to mail these out to @ebook-em.bsky.social who won the Macarons 4 Trans Rights Giveaway 🙌 💙📚 #Booksky #bookrecommendations #fantasybooks #thespearcutsthroughwater

Reading tracker graphic with a light green background. The left side has the title "Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading tracker". Under the title "novels" are images of all of SMG's novel covers. Under the title "short fiction" are images of the covers of SMG's short fiction. Each cover has the words "owned" and "read" under them, with a bubble next to each word to fill in. Silver Nitrate, Certain Dark Things, The Beautiful Ones, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Untamed Shore, Mexican Gothic, Th Return of the Sorceress, Prime Meridian, This Strange Way of Dying, and The Lover are all marked as owned. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Certain Dark Things, The Beautiful Ones, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Mexican Gothic, Velvet Was the Night, The Return of the Sorceress, Prime Meridian, and The Lover are marked as read.

Inspired by this and my newfound free time due to the end of the grad school semester and the nearing end of my work contract, I made a lil SMG book collector/reading tracker

Started Untamed Shore yesterday as part of my quest to read all of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's novels an short fiction. Took a break from this journey and now i am BACK and was immediately reminded of how much enjoy her writing

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

I've been reading short stories and novellettes as I try to read through stuff for the hugos and I really need to make reading short fiction a regular part of my reading life

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

But so many will remember. We say that, sometimes, when it's our children killed: Remember. And it may seem now like it's someone else's children, but there's no such thing as someone else's children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one's opponent has descended while simultaneously digging ones own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.

but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.

(From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)

What’s clear is that the GOP, AI executives, and Gulf State princes all have a common belief in AI—as a means of accumulating capital, undercutting labor, and concentrating power. And the terms of AI development and deployment are on the cusp of being set entirely by oligarchs, billionaires, and their allies in the ruling party. And those parties are intent removing any impediments—like the democratic process—from their pursuit of power and profit.

I'm not sure how you read this paragraph from @bcmerchant.bsky.social today and reach the conclusion that AI/GenAI is something you should be welcoming into your teaching and asking students to embrace as ~the future of learning~ Read the post at: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democra...

If you are embracing "AI" in schools, it's not your students' futures you are looking out for. It is these guys'.

Ferreira de Oliveira, who is 40 years old, was still at their nearby home when she received a phone call from one of her daughters, who said ICE had pulled them over and were threatening to arrest Clara. Ferreira de Oliveira’s frightened daughter told her mother that she needed to leave the home now and come meet them on the street, because ICE was telling them that if they arrested Clara, they weren’t allowed to leave the baby in the hands of a minor. So, the feds insisted, grandma needed to rush over to take custody of the baby. Shortly after Ferreira de Oliveira arrived on the scene, ICE took her into custody. The agents suddenly no longer seemed interested in the 21-year-old daughter. ICE did not arrest her or her 17-year-old sibling.

ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Remember that nobody deserves to be lied to; and no child deserves to be rendered ill. Retain your humanity. Pull your boots back on. And keep going.”

This topic is what I structured my research around for one of my grad class major projects last semester, interested in reading this much larger scale study about it