Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
This Thursday! And thanks again to @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social and Haesol Bae for the invite!
If you'll be in Albany next week, I'll try to connect threads on anti-democratic parents' rights groups, AI, democracy, and education at a talk I'm giving at SUNY-Albany on Thursday afternoon as part of the AI and Democracy: Critical Questions Speaker Series.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This Thursday! And thanks again to @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social and Haesol Bae for the invite!
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Just read a talk announcement about "AI" and K-12 education that looked like it maybe, maybe embedded a critical perspective but was still dressed up in the language of AI hype, presupposing both job market & education "reshaped by AI".
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November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just read a talk announcement about "AI" and K-12 education that looked like it maybe, maybe embedded a critical perspective but was still dressed up in the language of AI hype, presupposing both job market & education "reshaped by AI".
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Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
shows.acast.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
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Data centers are not the frontline of innovation. They are the dirty structures that nobody - certainly tech leaders in Silicon Valley - wants to live next to.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Data centers are not the frontline of innovation. They are the dirty structures that nobody - certainly tech leaders in Silicon Valley - wants to live next to.
"'This project is furthering inhumanity, this project is furthering destruction, and we don’t need more nuclear weapons built by our citizens.'"
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"'This project is furthering inhumanity, this project is furthering destruction, and we don’t need more nuclear weapons built by our citizens.'"
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On the “strategy” of scholars changing language they use to get around censors: You will never win. They know where the ideas they hate hide, and they will take the next word and the next word and the next until you are left with the most impoverished language for the world’s most complex problems.
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On the “strategy” of scholars changing language they use to get around censors: You will never win. They know where the ideas they hate hide, and they will take the next word and the next word and the next until you are left with the most impoverished language for the world’s most complex problems.
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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We've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET!
Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social
Register on our events page!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
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Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social
Register on our events page!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...
Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking our Digital Futures
We are fast approaching the point of “peak digital”, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecol...
www.wiley.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET!
Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social
Register on our events page!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...
Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social
Register on our events page!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...
Doing the dishes and listening to Snocaps
Snocaps, by Snocaps
13 track album
snocaps.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Doing the dishes and listening to Snocaps
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I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
Listening to the third grader and her friends writing, singing, revising, and singing again an original pop song and it's wonderful to hear them negotiate and try out different things and the thought that a tech bro wants to deploy some chatbot toy into their play is just so so sad and ridiculous.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Listening to the third grader and her friends writing, singing, revising, and singing again an original pop song and it's wonderful to hear them negotiate and try out different things and the thought that a tech bro wants to deploy some chatbot toy into their play is just so so sad and ridiculous.
My hex is not working wtf
Be gone, blue wave follow farmers!!!
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My hex is not working wtf
“As Big Tech collects hundreds of millions in tax breaks, residents and newfound tech activists are saying it leaves residents with higher light bills, reduced drinking water, and deepening inequality.”
From Mississippi to Maryland, Black Communities Are Taking On Big Tech
There are 1,200 data centers in the South, and $200 billion worth are on the horizon. Black community members said they are fighting a new wave of “extraction.”
capitalbnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“As Big Tech collects hundreds of millions in tax breaks, residents and newfound tech activists are saying it leaves residents with higher light bills, reduced drinking water, and deepening inequality.”
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Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Be gone, blue wave follow farmers!!!
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Be gone, blue wave follow farmers!!!
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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Pulling together a list of AI-critical folks for my school, and am particularly those who can talk critically about AI in K-12 and to a lesser extent higher ed. I have a bunch of names already, but would love to get the crowdsourcing on this for anyone I might have missed.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Pulling together a list of AI-critical folks for my school, and am particularly those who can talk critically about AI in K-12 and to a lesser extent higher ed. I have a bunch of names already, but would love to get the crowdsourcing on this for anyone I might have missed.
And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."
Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.
Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."
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The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
No coincidence that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education signed the Trump Administration's "Pledge to America’s Youth: Investing in AI Education".
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
No coincidence that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education signed the Trump Administration's "Pledge to America’s Youth: Investing in AI Education".
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PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
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Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social:
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
FBI investigating recent incident involving feds in Evanston, blocks city from releasing records - Evanston RoundTable
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the car crash and subsequent confrontation between federal immigration agents and
evanstonroundtable.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social:
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
"EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."
For me this is The Chair Company
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
For me this is The Chair Company