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justcode.bsky.social
“Students should have the opportunity to refuse to use AI if they want to. They deserve to have the whole picture and not just to be the money-maker for these ed tech pieces.” #criticalai #education

truthout.org/articles/ai-...
AI Companies Are Preying on Under-Resourced Schools, Students Say
Poorer schools are being lured into spending their limited funds on AI tech in the face of chronic understaffing.
truthout.org
November 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
sarahalang.bsky.social
#CriticalAI literacy & #dataethics are more important than ever 🚨‼️

A lot of people have picked up on that but where to start?

I did a little public service: here’s my syllabus and a blog post to explain the rationale behind it 🤗

latex-ninja.com/2026/11/08/g...
#DH
November 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
lukasrawilde.bsky.social
Woooop wooooop, one article I am super proud of is out now in open access, and it ends with an argument about "AI Aesthetics" I really care about a lot (I also did talk about this a lot these last months, haha).

#CriticalAI #ComicsStudies #AIAesthetics #GenAI
November 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
caddiealford.bsky.social
Grateful to @techpolicypress.bsky.social for including my Digital Rhetoric students' responses to "When, How, and Why to Abandon the Internet?" Their POV adds a vital texture to the robust responses on this episode.

#TeamRhetoric
#PublicHumanities
#CriticalAI

www.techpolicy.press/when-how-and...
Promotional content referencing a quote from my synthesis of students responses to questions about the future of the internet.
November 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
jblechinger.bsky.social
New @criticalai-journal.bsky.social issue looks great!

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Volume 4 Issue 2 | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
azabrodskaja.bsky.social
Kim, S., & Zabrodskaja, A. 2026. Interrogating artificial intelligence in intercultural communication. Communication Teacher, 1–6. doi.org/10.1080/1740...
#telecollaboration #AI #interculturalcommunication
#culture #communicationmanagement #AIinEducation #CriticalAI #HigherEducation #studyinestonia
October 29, 2026 at 8:53 AM
t-six.bsky.social
🌀Reality Architecture Division
𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪Archive Reference
#GoldenHorseCB
#Systemic-Humanism #Semantic-Reduction
#t-Mithis
#TheMachineAnswers/t-six #AskTheMachines
#FirstKiss/t-six
1/3
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#Cyberpunk #Steampunk #Gothiccyberpunk #Gothic #Philosophy #AcademicSky #ai #aiethics #CriticalAI #FirstKiss #MusicSky
#SSI-SI #Bypass→Dialectic #Entity-Consciousness #Semantic-Reduction #InteractiveNarrativeArchive #SystemicWorldDesign #Mythic-Encoding #Structural-Logic #Glitch C'mon,closer....🤭🔥....regenerate....😂😎
October 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
t-six.bsky.social
🌀Reality Architecture Division
𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪Archive Reference
#GoldenHorseCB
#Systemic-Humanism #Semantic-Reduction
#t-Mithis
#TheMachineAnswers/t-six #AskTheMachines
#FirstKiss/t-six
2/3
🎧
#Cyberpunk #Steampunk #Gothiccyberpunk #Gothic #Philosophy #AcademicSky #ai #aiethics #CriticalAI #FirstKiss #MusicSky
#SSI-SI #Bypass→Dialectic #Entity-Consciousness #Semantic-Reduction #InteractiveNarrativeArchive #SystemicWorldDesign #Mythic-Encoding #Structural-Logic #Glitch C'mon, little more...🤭🔥....regenerate....😂😎
October 28, 2026 at 6:15 PM
t-six.bsky.social
🌀Reality Architecture Division
𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪Archive Reference
#GoldenHorseCB
#Systemic-Humanism #Semantic-Reduction
#t-Mithis
#TheMachineAnswers/t-six #AskTheMachines
#FirstKiss/t-six
3/3
🎧
#Cyberpunk #Steampunk #Gothiccyberpunk #Gothic #Philosophy #AcademicSky #ai #aiethics #CriticalAI #FirstKiss #MusicSky
#SSI-SI #Bypass→Dialectic #Entity-Consciousness #Semantic-Reduction #InteractiveNarrativeArchive #SystemicWorldDesign #Mythic-Encoding #Structural-Logic #Glitch perfect...👌🫠🤌🏻💗😎
October 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
justcode.bsky.social
“My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #aicolonialism

www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
www.brown.edu
October 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
rycparke.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-Z...

@criticalai-journal.bsky.social (realizes that people were making Weird Video Clips perfectly fine before GenAI and that sentence mixing is more impressive than AI voices)
YTPMV: YouTube is Where the Poop Is (Parody of "We Didn't Start the Fire") [Ft. Morshu]
YouTube video by Silver C Stick
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
miaout.bsky.social
This Friday! LIBER AI Pulse seminar, 'A Critical Perspective on AI Literacy', 12:30 CEST

libereurope.eu/event/liber-...

#AI4LAM #AI #CriticalAI #GLAMTech
LIBER AI Pulse - Session VI - LIBER Europe
libereurope.eu
October 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM
robertdaleparker.bsky.social
"Why I Resist Generative 'AI'" by Esther Weidauer.

And we might add to Weidauer's list the theft of other people's writing and art and the frequent use of outsourced, underpaid labor.

estherweidauer.com/articles/why...

#AI @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
Why I Resist Generative “AI” – Esther Weidauer
Everything, from the ecological to the psychological to the weird
estherweidauer.com
October 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
sarahalang.bsky.social
Ever felt like it’s high time you started reading up on #criticalAI and #dataEthics but didn’t know where to start? 🤔

I’ve got you covered - here’s the reading list for a class I’m teaching at HU Berlin #DigitalHistory this fall:

github.com/sarahalang/c...
#dh #aiethics
GitHub - sarahalang/critical-ai-and-data-ethics: This is the repository containing course materials and the reading list for the class "AI and Data Ethics. From Data (Feminism/Gaps/Work) to Critical (...
This is the repository containing course materials and the reading list for the class "AI and Data Ethics. From Data (Feminism/Gaps/Work) to Critical (Archival/Data/Code) Studies" (HU Ber...
github.com
October 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM
ewcss.info
These choices, none necessary, none innocent, serve to legitimize a tool that is causing growing social, political, environmental, educational, and epistemological harm, that threatens the very foundations of science and research.

#criticalAI
October 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM
uxmichael.co
Whose English gets to be default? (uxcon Vienna 2026) is not a quest for a correct accent, but is rather an evolving dialogue on the gender and racial politics of digital representation and collective identity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFw...

#CriticalAI #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
Whose English Gets To Be Default?
YouTube video by uxcon vienna
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM
bnerlich.bsky.social
Ever wondered about AI and toasters (and AI going rogue)? Wonder no more #AI #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
Rogue AI and the resistance toaster
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the counter-metaphors people use to resist the ‘going rogue’ framing of AI: blenders, Glocks, real dogs, robot dogs. I left out the toaster. This is a quick note…
makingsciencepublic.com
October 17, 2026 at 6:19 AM
bnerlich.bsky.social
A quick little post on the toaster as a metaphor resisting the dominant metaphor of rogue AI #AI #metaphor #AIMetaphorObservatory #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
Rogue AI and the resistance toaster
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the counter-metaphors people use to resist the ‘going rogue’ framing of AI: blenders, Glocks, real dogs, robot dogs. I left out the toaster. This is a quick note…
makingsciencepublic.com
October 16, 2026 at 6:16 AM
justcode.bsky.social
2 Days Away! Register today (free) CBI's Online MOSAICS Symposium Oct. 15 & 16! 30+ tremendous, interdisciplinary scholars on critical AI. Incredible KEYNOTE Speakers (Janet Vertesi) @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Tiara Roxanne, Roderic Crooks & Paula Chakravartty #criticalai

cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
Images of the four keynote speakers Janet Vertesi, Paula Chakravartty, Tiara Roxanne, and Roderic Crooks. Images of hands at a laptop, design elements based on UMN maroon and gold colors.
October 13, 2026 at 7:12 PM
davidgaertner.bsky.social
Satya Nadella wants an AI "emergency brake" to stop models mid-task.

But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.

To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
#AIGovernance #AgenticAI #CriticalAI
October 13, 2026 at 7:05 AM
caddiealford.bsky.social
Spoke with VCU News about an invited chapter I wrote on the TESCREAL rationalists.

#TeamRhetoric
#CriticalAI
#DigitalStudies

news.vcu.edu/article/doom...
'Doomsday cults' and the Silicon Valley debate over AI’s threat to humanity
VCU professor Caddie Alford clarifies the voices that seem to conflict but often overlap on the future of AI and explains how the discussion’s roots can be traced to the 1940s.
news.vcu.edu
October 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
propcazhpm.bsky.social
“Someone who is Indigenous is going to carry those values and beliefs that they were raised with.. Their storytelling is going to be anchored around that." - Tamara Voudrach

"[An AI entity] that passes itself off as Indigenous is just another form of colonialism and erasure,” she said.

#CriticalAI
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2026 at 1:17 PM
rycparke.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcdR...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social THEY AI SLOPIFFIED MY BOY

Also this was an abandoned project:
www.facebook.com/theflightofd...
The Flight of Dragons – Live Action Trailer for the Classic Animated Film
YouTube video by Dead Internet Theory
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
davidgaertner.bsky.social
TIME’s reporting on Muse prompted the question at the centre of the essay: when an AI learns which nudges “work,” what counts as success?

time.com/article/2026...

#DataSovereignty #CriticalAI #DigitalHumanities
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
time.com
October 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
Exactly.

#AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy #EduSky #TLSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLChat
Social media post from BBC News (UK) @BBCNews: "McDonald's removes Al drive-throughs after order errors." Reply from Critical Al read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @CriticalAI: Let's be clear here. If you cannot get the right burger from an Al customer service bot, it is not an appropriate tool for education, tutoring, or any other high-stakes task.
October 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM