John Moravec
@moravec.us
Education futurist, technologist, author, and knowmad. Author of "Build a Positive Rebellion." Editor-in-chief, Learning Futures and Emerging Technologies. Working on innovations for global community.
All about KnowMapped map exports: Different formats for different jobs... Exporting a KnowMapped knowledge map as an image, Markdown, graph data, or a portable .know file. knowmapped.com/blog/exporti...
Map exports: Different formats for different jobs | KnowMapped
Using a neighborhood heat-response map to show when to export from KnowMapped as an image, a graph, Markdown, or a portable .know file.
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September 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM
All about KnowMapped map exports: Different formats for different jobs... Exporting a KnowMapped knowledge map as an image, Markdown, graph data, or a portable .know file. knowmapped.com/blog/exporti...
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I am happy to share we are soft launching KnowMapped today to make knowledge mapping a bit smarter and more beautiful. Here's our announcement.
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Introducing KnowMapped: A platform for mapping knowledge
KnowMapped began as an internal tool at Education Futures. We built it because we kept working with ideas that…
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August 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I am happy to share we are soft launching KnowMapped today to make knowledge mapping a bit smarter and more beautiful. Here's our announcement.
educationfutures.com/post/introdu...
(Friends can message me to get a free upgrade to Professional access by the end of this month.)
educationfutures.com/post/introdu...
(Friends can message me to get a free upgrade to Professional access by the end of this month.)
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An ICE guard admitted to assaulting 9 women. He’s no outlier: there are 2,300+ abuse reports in detention. Yet the DOJ argued federal safety laws don’t apply to immigration jails.
You pay for these jails. The DOJ is complicit in every abuse case. Where is the oversight?
You pay for these jails. The DOJ is complicit in every abuse case. Where is the oversight?
July 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
An ICE guard admitted to assaulting 9 women. He’s no outlier: there are 2,300+ abuse reports in detention. Yet the DOJ argued federal safety laws don’t apply to immigration jails.
You pay for these jails. The DOJ is complicit in every abuse case. Where is the oversight?
You pay for these jails. The DOJ is complicit in every abuse case. Where is the oversight?
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This morning, Human Rights Watch released its 180-page report on the federal government’s terror campaign against Minnesota. It is as comprehensive a record as I have seen about what happened, and is still happening, here.
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“A Manufactured Crisis”
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June 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This morning, Human Rights Watch released its 180-page report on the federal government’s terror campaign against Minnesota. It is as comprehensive a record as I have seen about what happened, and is still happening, here.
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
My new conceptual paper on "AI, coloniality, and the pursuit of educational sovereignty" is now available on earlycite!
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June 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
My new conceptual paper on "AI, coloniality, and the pursuit of educational sovereignty" is now available on earlycite!
www.emerald.com/lfet/article...
www.emerald.com/lfet/article...
The crisis facing education is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination ... a/k/a the "the beautiful, blue glow of bullshit."
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The crisis is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination
The cover of a recent international report on artificial intelligence in education captures the crux of the problem schools…
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May 28, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The crisis facing education is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination ... a/k/a the "the beautiful, blue glow of bullshit."
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My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE
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May 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE
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Absolutely crazy: Researchers wanted to put cameras on teachers to observe the behaviors of preschool students and use the footage to train AI
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Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
“With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the ...
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May 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Absolutely crazy: Researchers wanted to put cameras on teachers to observe the behaviors of preschool students and use the footage to train AI
www.404media.co/researchers-...
www.404media.co/researchers-...
My new book "Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures" is now available!
You can download it here: lnkd.in/gDxM6J6k
Or get the print edition: lnkd.in/gNtQSbxG
More info: educationfutures.com/rebellion/
You can download it here: lnkd.in/gDxM6J6k
Or get the print edition: lnkd.in/gNtQSbxG
More info: educationfutures.com/rebellion/
April 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
My new book "Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures" is now available!
You can download it here: lnkd.in/gDxM6J6k
Or get the print edition: lnkd.in/gNtQSbxG
More info: educationfutures.com/rebellion/
You can download it here: lnkd.in/gDxM6J6k
Or get the print edition: lnkd.in/gNtQSbxG
More info: educationfutures.com/rebellion/
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If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great
there are no great consumer AI products…
that’s why consumer AI assistant apps like Gemini, ChatGPT, & Claude have become the fastest growing products in the entirety of human history w/ millions of 5 star reviews and have stayed on the app store’s most downloaded apps list for multiple years now
that’s why consumer AI assistant apps like Gemini, ChatGPT, & Claude have become the fastest growing products in the entirety of human history w/ millions of 5 star reviews and have stayed on the app store’s most downloaded apps list for multiple years now
April 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great
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Robert De Niro: All over the country in cities and towns and factories and on farms north, south, east, west, millions of us are coming together to declare No Kings. It is indeed a beautiful hopeful day in the United States of America, and you, Minnesota, are at the epicenter.
March 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Robert De Niro: All over the country in cities and towns and factories and on farms north, south, east, west, millions of us are coming together to declare No Kings. It is indeed a beautiful hopeful day in the United States of America, and you, Minnesota, are at the epicenter.
"ChatGPT, how does one spark the Kessler Syndrome?"
Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race
Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites.
Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites.
Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race
Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites.
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March 19, 2026 at 11:51 PM
"ChatGPT, how does one spark the Kessler Syndrome?"
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Nekima on the Target boycott.
March 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Nekima on the Target boycott.
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ICE Comes To Shakopee. This is what happens when governmental terror comes to Everytown, USA. For @rollingstone.com
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March 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
ICE Comes To Shakopee. This is what happens when governmental terror comes to Everytown, USA. For @rollingstone.com
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archive.is/BBvVQ
Apple seriously enshittified Keynote. Which open source options should I use to replace it? It would need to handle vector graphics and my nitpicky design requirements...
March 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Apple seriously enshittified Keynote. Which open source options should I use to replace it? It would need to handle vector graphics and my nitpicky design requirements...
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"Trump’s new order, inaugurated with his assault on USAID, is now corroding America’s influence and standing and leaving global leaders with little choice but to treat the United States as an erratic adversary rather than a stable ally." (Gift article)
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Opinion | What We Lost When We Lost U.S.A.I.D.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
"Trump’s new order, inaugurated with his assault on USAID, is now corroding America’s influence and standing and leaving global leaders with little choice but to treat the United States as an erratic adversary rather than a stable ally." (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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Donald MacKenzie on visions of infinite scaling in tech: "AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve too." (NB Mackenzie seems to have taken the hint from Shapin and is now writing essays for LRB, hurrah!) #sts #envhums #envsoc
"Data is not growing, because we have but one internet ... data is the fossil fuel of AI. It was like created somehow, and now we use it, and we’ve achieved peak data, and there’ll be no more." share.google/4EkXwYfGYz6r...
Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale
AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Donald MacKenzie on visions of infinite scaling in tech: "AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve too." (NB Mackenzie seems to have taken the hint from Shapin and is now writing essays for LRB, hurrah!) #sts #envhums #envsoc
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Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
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We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 AM
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
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started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:12 PM
started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free