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Small bookstores are popping up across the country. What's behind the boomSmall bookstores are opening up around the country and finding new ways to bring people in.www.npr.org

Not exactly Enoch’s Hammer, but it’ll do!

One of the things I’ve been doing in preparation for my new job researching issues of AI and society with first-year students at Binghamton University is to look into whether the city has a contract with Flock and this is good news:

Reporter Debrief: Binghamton reconsiders its Flock contractsThe number of municipalities reconsidering the use of Flock Safety's A.I.-powered automatic license plate readers is growing. The Binghamton City Council is considering whether to renew one of its con...www.wskg.org

"Through theoretically grounded case analyses of AI tools such as chatbots, learning analytics, robotic tutors, and intelligent tutoring systems, we highlight patterns of sociotechnical ableism, algorithmic marginalization, and limited technological agency,” write Alan Foley and Fasika Melese.

Disabling AI: power, exclusion, and disabilityThis paper explores how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in education reproduce systemic inequalities by embedding ableist and normative assumptions into their design and use. Drawing on f...www.tandfonline.com

Preparing to move from Chicagoland (again) and spending some of my final hours driving up and down Green Bay Road and listening to Guster’s Goldfly like I did in high school and that everybody has their road(s) and album(s) that launch Big Feelings is I think comforting in this time of transitions.

"In teaching, attention has turned to the challenges faced by the profession regarding the ethical use of AI in the classroom. However, much of this discourse neglects the inherent governing politics of these technologies as well as their inherent violence in reproducing systemic injustices.”

The ex-machination of teacher education: a genealogical critique of the politics of AI and the ‘responsibilities’ of teacher educatorsAdopting a critical genealogical method inspired by Foucault, complemented by Shoshana Zuboff’s theorisation of surveillance capitalism, this article analyses the position of AI in education as a t...www.tandfonline.com

Making small talk with a parent while waiting to pick up our kids from camp and I revealed I was an AI hater and the other parent said she too was an AI hater and also she was a documentary filmmaker and of course we bonded further over our love of @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social which you should watch:

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILERYouTube video by Ghost in the Machineyoutu.be

Next week! Join us as we reflect on caregivers' everyday practices challenging ed-tech, discuss what it feels like to engage in this labor, and learn from one another in the struggle to redefine when, why, and to what ends technology is used in schools.

Solidarity with all the caregivers, children, and everybody else fighting to keep climate-destroying, fascist “A.i.” products out of NYC public schools.

"Let’s stop pretending Big Tech companies care about kids, educators or our public schools. It’s time we admit their end goal isn’t to better the educational landscape...And educators need to be more involved with decisions that directly affect what we do in the classroom,” writes Liz Shulman.

Liz Shulman: Why are we still pretending Big Tech cares about our classrooms?All kids deserve protection in school. Instead, AI companies are equipping classrooms with surveillance tech to gather data on K-12 students.www.chicagotribune.com

As an incoming SUNY faculty member, I was happy to hear our union’s new contract addresses AI: "The agreement includes wording that all SUNY courses will be under the 'direction and responsibility' of humans, and that humans will have the 'ultimate accountability' for work done by AI systems.”

The zine by Jen Liu and Sheila Tahir:

Zines ftw: "We read AI infrastructure as haunted by these histories that have never been fully reckoned with. How the past persists in the present, how spectacular promises can reek of rot, how prosperity is hoarded, how violence repeatedly returns in a new guise, and how we live to tell the tale."

I’m reminded of Audrey Watters’ argument that we need to view school shooting technologies as educational technologies. "What happens if we refuse to talk about these as 'ed-tech', if we refuse to address the practices of surveillance and control as well as products of surveillance and control?”

Anybody have syllabus language about banning pervert glasses and other AI wearables that they want to share?

“Far from the distorted caricature of Luddites as curmudgeonly, puritanical tsk-tsk’ers, the new Luddites attract people to their movement through playfulness and participation.”

"In the world we live in today, any policies for embracing the adoption of 'artificial intelligence' must also be understood as policies for expanding the dominion of capital,” writes Jathan Sadowski. ht: @14prinsp.bsky.social

And higher ed comms leadership too tbh

TIL about the Earthkeepers: "Every server. Every algorithm. Every line of code is built on the territories, the labor, and the knowledge of the communities who have always tended life. There is no Cloud. Only Earth. And those who fight every day to keep it thriving."

Moving: so easy, so relaxing