Matt Crosslin
@grandeped.bsky.social
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Matt Crosslin
@grandeped.bsky.social
· Nov 9
BTW - my screen name is currently “Rage Against the AI Cyberocracy” over on Xitter for those trying to figure out who this rando named Matt is that followed you here.
I guess it should be an honor to be on this list, even though they totally get Luddites, GPTs, machine learning, and blockchain wrong. None of these are designed as “assistive” technologies, and none of them give anyone a “voice.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I guess it should be an honor to be on this list, even though they totally get Luddites, GPTs, machine learning, and blockchain wrong. None of these are designed as “assistive” technologies, and none of them give anyone a “voice.”
The marching band kids are rocking out to Creed’s “Higher” as an oldie, so excuse me while I am over here dying of old age.
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The marching band kids are rocking out to Creed’s “Higher” as an oldie, so excuse me while I am over here dying of old age.
Just coming back to this - why do Ai Cheerleaders resort to this response when people bring up how real life data centers are currently consuming water and raising electric bills? What does this matter if the people building the data centers keep building them?
Also, only frontier infrastructure type models require that much resources. We're at the point where a GOOD home system can run GPT-4 quality models locally and that will keep improving.
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just coming back to this - why do Ai Cheerleaders resort to this response when people bring up how real life data centers are currently consuming water and raising electric bills? What does this matter if the people building the data centers keep building them?
So many things coming from this admin have strong “my girlfriend goes to another school, but she’s totally real” vibe to it.
They're gonna perp walk a 120-year-old Italian woman who had dinner with Antonio Gramsci
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So many things coming from this admin have strong “my girlfriend goes to another school, but she’s totally real” vibe to it.
Anthology (Blackboard) filed for bankruptcy? Guess going all-in on Ai won’t save companies…
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Anthology (Blackboard) filed for bankruptcy? Guess going all-in on Ai won’t save companies…
Sure, Trump is setting troops from one state against another state, but self-described “freethinking centrists” are convinced they have discovered that the real instigators of civil war are random people like my friend John in North Carolina saying “we should do something about this.”
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sure, Trump is setting troops from one state against another state, but self-described “freethinking centrists” are convinced they have discovered that the real instigators of civil war are random people like my friend John in North Carolina saying “we should do something about this.”
I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel in a while. He is going hard after Trump and the FCC tonight. Not really a monologue as much a rally cry.
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel in a while. He is going hard after Trump and the FCC tonight. Not really a monologue as much a rally cry.
I’m going to laugh if Jimmy Kimmel gets on the air tomorrow, makes fun of how MAGA misunderstood him, and then just quits on air.
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’m going to laugh if Jimmy Kimmel gets on the air tomorrow, makes fun of how MAGA misunderstood him, and then just quits on air.
Looks like the Matter and Space website has been updated to remove all the problematic videos. I had forgotten that this project was originally launched as a way to convince people that micro-credentials were taking off: guild.com/compass/behi...
Behind the boom in micro-credentials | Guild
Behind the boom in micro-credentials | Guild
guild.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Looks like the Matter and Space website has been updated to remove all the problematic videos. I had forgotten that this project was originally launched as a way to convince people that micro-credentials were taking off: guild.com/compass/behi...
Knowing the context of a quote more often makes it worse than better… just FYI.
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Knowing the context of a quote more often makes it worse than better… just FYI.
I just knew before going into this that it would be a student complaining about religious beliefs, and it was. She will be the hero of hundreds of sermons this weekend. This is bad. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I just knew before going into this that it would be a student complaining about religious beliefs, and it was. She will be the hero of hundreds of sermons this weekend. This is bad. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
I know a lot of people respect Anil Dash, but I am having a hard time with his very one-dimensional take on Ai critics. Not only is it inaccurate, those of us that actually do what he claims we "refuse" to do will tell you that it doesn't change much, either.
I don’t give a shit about being blocked, I wish more people would block or mute me. What I wish people would do is actually understand what kinds of AI critique would be effective, and it starts with engaging with the actual people in their lives who use these tools today. But people refuse to.
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know a lot of people respect Anil Dash, but I am having a hard time with his very one-dimensional take on Ai critics. Not only is it inaccurate, those of us that actually do what he claims we "refuse" to do will tell you that it doesn't change much, either.
It is wild to see how many people have engaged so little with Ai criticism. So many think all there is out there are condescending rants by people who have no idea how to use Ai.
September 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It is wild to see how many people have engaged so little with Ai criticism. So many think all there is out there are condescending rants by people who have no idea how to use Ai.
Just a thought: before someone decides to post the ten millionth “you don’t like Ai because you are doing it wrong” post again, maybe consider most of us frustrated with it have already done all the right things and still get boring results at best, horrible results at worst.
September 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just a thought: before someone decides to post the ten millionth “you don’t like Ai because you are doing it wrong” post again, maybe consider most of us frustrated with it have already done all the right things and still get boring results at best, horrible results at worst.
It must be nice to have all this time to “coax useful information” out of Ai when a simple non-Ai fueled web search turns up the answer in 5 seconds. 😂 Maybe some of us wouldn’t be so skeptical of Ai if the hype wasn’t so wildly audacious.
September 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It must be nice to have all this time to “coax useful information” out of Ai when a simple non-Ai fueled web search turns up the answer in 5 seconds. 😂 Maybe some of us wouldn’t be so skeptical of Ai if the hype wasn’t so wildly audacious.
I guess I have to disagree with this post via quote then. The first concern I have is that the example given of finding the truth about the Slade photo takes most people seconds, not minutes to figure out. I have done this many, many times myself. So the question remains...
September 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I guess I have to disagree with this post via quote then. The first concern I have is that the example given of finding the truth about the Slade photo takes most people seconds, not minutes to figure out. I have done this many, many times myself. So the question remains...
To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Looking at some recent definitions of intelligence, and how calling Ai "pattern recognition" probably isn't the best metaphor for what Ai does:
Pattern Recognition is Something That Intelligent Entities Do, But Ai Doesn't Really Do Pattern Recognition www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/09/02/p...
Pattern Recognition is Something That Intelligent Entities Do, But Ai Doesn't Really Do Pattern Recognition www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/09/02/p...
Pattern Recognition is Something That Intelligent Entities Do, But Ai Doesn’t Really Do Pattern Recognition – EduGeek Journal
www.edugeekjournal.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Looking at some recent definitions of intelligence, and how calling Ai "pattern recognition" probably isn't the best metaphor for what Ai does:
Pattern Recognition is Something That Intelligent Entities Do, But Ai Doesn't Really Do Pattern Recognition www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/09/02/p...
Pattern Recognition is Something That Intelligent Entities Do, But Ai Doesn't Really Do Pattern Recognition www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/09/02/p...
Just a regular reminder that extremist centrism / moderatism / bothsidesism is a thing and some powerful people want to force it on everyone in order to not deal with hateful ideologies via a guise of civility.
Yeah this fucking sucks. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
August 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just a regular reminder that extremist centrism / moderatism / bothsidesism is a thing and some powerful people want to force it on everyone in order to not deal with hateful ideologies via a guise of civility.
What happened to that Matter and Space thing, the one that was "redefining what it means to learn in the age of AI"? The only update I can find is that they "expect our first commercial release, LE-1, to arrive in the Fall of 2025."
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What happened to that Matter and Space thing, the one that was "redefining what it means to learn in the age of AI"? The only update I can find is that they "expect our first commercial release, LE-1, to arrive in the Fall of 2025."
Honestly, I had no idea that the unrecognizable blob on the left side of the Cracker Barrel logo was a dude. I just thought it was some piece of junk representing one of the health code nightmares nailed to their walls inside.
I guess out of two ugly logos, they kept the slightly less ugly one?
I guess out of two ugly logos, they kept the slightly less ugly one?
August 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Honestly, I had no idea that the unrecognizable blob on the left side of the Cracker Barrel logo was a dude. I just thought it was some piece of junk representing one of the health code nightmares nailed to their walls inside.
I guess out of two ugly logos, they kept the slightly less ugly one?
I guess out of two ugly logos, they kept the slightly less ugly one?
So AI in education is being led by someone whose only qualification is married to the President. A President that is destroying education in this country.
But hey, at least our educational thoughts leaders really, really wish someone would become an Ai critic. Someone else, that is.
But hey, at least our educational thoughts leaders really, really wish someone would become an Ai critic. Someone else, that is.
"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."
Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.
nypost.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So AI in education is being led by someone whose only qualification is married to the President. A President that is destroying education in this country.
But hey, at least our educational thoughts leaders really, really wish someone would become an Ai critic. Someone else, that is.
But hey, at least our educational thoughts leaders really, really wish someone would become an Ai critic. Someone else, that is.
This really should be the constant message to every ICE agent, FBI agent, local official that follows Trump: no one lives forever. He will be gone one day. There is no one in MAGAland that has the ability to take over for him and hold the movement together…
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This really should be the constant message to every ICE agent, FBI agent, local official that follows Trump: no one lives forever. He will be gone one day. There is no one in MAGAland that has the ability to take over for him and hold the movement together…
Oh - I guess we are still pretending that cell phone bans work, and that parents in places that have had bans the past year or so aren’t still getting texts all day long on school days from these supposedly banned devices? 😂
August 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oh - I guess we are still pretending that cell phone bans work, and that parents in places that have had bans the past year or so aren’t still getting texts all day long on school days from these supposedly banned devices? 😂
I’m in charge of giving my team Ed-Tech updates. Every time I talk about problems with Ai (like this week’s chatter about the Ai bubble bursting) it’s like I’m announcing the apocalypse or something. If skeptical+annoyed looks could kill, it would be R.I.P. me over and over again.
August 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I’m in charge of giving my team Ed-Tech updates. Every time I talk about problems with Ai (like this week’s chatter about the Ai bubble bursting) it’s like I’m announcing the apocalypse or something. If skeptical+annoyed looks could kill, it would be R.I.P. me over and over again.