Danica Savonick

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

I spoke w/ a reporter at The Guardian about AI & she used one of my quotes as the title of her article 😂.

Thanks to Alice Speri & @theguardian.com for covering our Sisyphean struggle.

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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

““It creates hours of additional labor ... And makes me feel like a cop” @danicasavonick.bsky.social holding a mirror up to my experience teaching and assessing in this AI hellscape.

I'm co-organizing an #MLA2027 panel on Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom -- please submit & spread the word! Happy to answer questions. Abstracts due March 20 @modernlanguage.bsky.social mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

Looks like a ship’s hold

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

Columbia’s dean of AI initiatives on the predatory nature of AI companies on college campuses

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

@nhannahjones.bsky.social on the importance of white folks becoming race traitors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Bad Bunny in the Sugar Cane and ICE on the Streets From Santa Clara to Puerto Rico to Minneapolis

“The air-brushed AI commercials spun out creepy fantasies of imitation life, decontextualized knowledge, robotic efficiency. Bad Bunny…—in contrast—gave life to the realities of work, history, struggle, community& joy that make us all human” @emdillon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

The Rump administration fired half of the employees working to address discrimination in education & wasted 28-38 million in taxpayer dollars preventing investigators from doing their jobs.

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A great blog by @cathyndavidson.bsky.social on Artificial Ignorance & Data Sycophancy! cathydavidson.com/blog/artific...

“Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.“

Hello!

Thank you so much for organizing! Such an inspiring conversation!

Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College

I am grateful to Colleen and to @danicasavonick.bsky.social along with everyone who joined our book discussion this afternoon. Open Admissions is a terrific and enlightening read. Get a copy and read for yourselves. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...

An Antifascist Education Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.

A fantastic article by Jeanelle K. Hope on Black women's traditions of anti-fascist organizing + education as a key battleground in the struggle for democracy @readlux.bsky.social

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So many brilliant, creative, and inspiring ideas about how to resist & shut ICE down!

"If resistance is a muscle, June Jordan’s regular exercise of dissent produced a mode of courageous truth-telling that was not limited to foreign policy."

Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare

radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

(PDF) Call for Papers: Lesbian erotic life PDF | 'How do lesbians have sex?' is a question frequently posed with a lesbophobic undertone. However, for those engaged in lesbian sex it can also... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

An exciting CFP for the Journal of Lesbian Studies on "Lesbian Erotic Life." Abstracts due Feb. 15!

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The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists. At a time of deepening opportunity divides, that distinction has never mattered more.”

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.

**Thread** Actions are continuing to spread across the country to protest ICE, the killing of Renee Good and all those killed and at risk from ICE goons.

Protests Greet DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on New York Visit After Minneapolis ICE Killing

As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly.

from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:

Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

This is so good! The Baldwin Test offers a framework for challenging the mystifying, celebratory rhetoric of tech companies, with specific questions for interrogating surveilling, proprietary ed tech. Long live critical & creative pedagogy!

Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition "A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...

Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

NEW from Important Context:

Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.

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