Lori Emerson

hey let’s send emails tomorrow, ok?

Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.

So the next time someone tries to draw you into a conversation about that piece they saw on 60 Minutes or read in the NYT about how educators are coping with/ combatting/whatever students using GenAI, don’t accept that framing. Make it about the industry that is impoverishing their education.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

I was thinking the same - I admire that he published this piece all the same and probably gave up a nice pay raise

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

come on, pop, bubble, pop! from vice dean for AI initiatives at Columbia: "Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves...administrators are aiding & abetting a hostile takeover of higher ed" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

this is bananas. coming from the vice dean for artificial intelligence initiatives at Columbia University?!

yes, that's what I mean - Cal State admins, not faculty

thank you, Patrick! please also share with folks you're in touch with at CSU

Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT On December 15, 2025 the CU System signed a one year contract with Open AI for $2.1 million, with plans to launch a system-wide ChatGPT Edu access for faculty, staff, and ...

one more time, before I try to let this issue go for the week: please read and share this list of concerns CU faculty, students, and staff have about the deal recently signed with Open AI. it also includes ways to organize and get involved---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

also, a rhetorical question mostly to myself: how many women out there read stories from, say, the last 5 years about sex trafficking and rape and think "yup, that's the world I grew up in, where I knew this is just the way things are & if I'm lucky or make myself invisible enough I might escape it"

I will say this much: Bluesky is a place where random people don't give me shit for circulating a google doc. there are only so many battles I can fight at one time and really, Open AI is by far the more important battle right now

yes and apparently the Cal state people were consulted as part of the proces... :(

Here’s a better way of putting it: if you’d like to know why faculty are so upset about CU unilaterally signing a $2 million contract with Open AI here are a few reasons 👇

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

I’m sure! Please get in touch if you’d like to join forces. Our group is open to anyone in the CU system

"oh no, it's totally 'de-identified'"! as if that is a thing?

Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT On December 15, 2025 the CU System signed a one year contract with Open AI for $2.1 million, with plans to launch a system-wide ChatGPT Edu access for faculty, staff, and ...

if anyone is interested, here are some talking points we've put together on the CU ChatGPT deal, for the sake of educating our friends, colleagues, students, staff, admin, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CU faculty, staff and students push back against university-controlled AI rollout Hundreds have signed a letter of dissent arguing that an AI rollout lacked transparency and technical oversight. Others say campus leaders haven’t adequately addressed concerns about student privacy, ...

word's getting around www.cpr.org/2026/03/09/c...

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? #ai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...

haha omg...!!

I didn't know he was that funny!! what a treat to read...ellipsis...because he'd think I'm a hack and that's ok I probably am

A couple of propagated plants sit on shelves in a window of the NE Seattle Tool Library. The sign says, "NESTL Plant Propagation Library! ... Take a plant ... Leave a plant...".

The NE Seattle Tool Library Plant Propagation Library, which includes a variety of propagated plants on shelves hanging off the windows.

Look how much our plant propagation library has grown!! Everyone is invited to participate and trade plants 🪴🫶

(📍 Located in the NE Seattle Tool Library, Washington)

“Genesis of the Media Concept” - it is SO GOOD

"the dilemma of the cultural disciplines [is] founded on the older scheme of the fine arts; these disciplines manifest a falsely residual character because they remain theoretically unintegrated into the system of the media." [2/2]

daaaamn...with just one sentence John Guillory scolds most of literary studies, while Kittler needed almost all of Discourse Networks to say largely the same thing: [1/2]

I've wondered this too - I often correct students' interpretation of aura but then wonder whether I myself am mistaken and whether the students aren't picking up on some kind of second order (longing for?) aura going on today...I really don't know

also, Adorno would have been able to spot ChatGpt writing, marked by em-dashes from a mile away in 1953: "All the dash claims to do now is to prepare us in a foolish way for surprises that by that very token are no longer surprising."

I mean, I have to say it: #othernetworks.