Jennifer Sano-Franchini
@jsanofranchini.bsky.social
assoc prof | cultural & digital rhet // asian am rhet // UX // beneficiary of affirmative action // refusing genAI @ http://refusal.blog 👹
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☀️ Summer School 📚
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming | Radboud University
This course is designed to foster critical AI literacies in participants to empower them to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.
www.ru.nl
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
☀️ Summer School 📚
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
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NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣
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Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position
January 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position
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The IRS is effectively unable to audit private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firms.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The IRS is effectively unable to audit private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firms.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
blog.bandcamp.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:08 AM
I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
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@emilymbender.bsky.social Hi Emily (love your book!), we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board
Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms.
As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...
actionnetwork.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
@emilymbender.bsky.social Hi Emily (love your book!), we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
I'm so excited about this event starting in 8 minutes!!!!
Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing.
Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...
Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I'm so excited about this event starting in 8 minutes!!!!
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I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
Information literacy and chatbots as search
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...
buttondown.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
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This is absolutely what happened.
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is absolutely what happened.
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As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.
As fucked up as it is true
Welcome to the US, where a chatbot has more protection than a mom observing demonstrators
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM
As fucked up as it is true
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This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Don’t miss it.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Don’t miss it.
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Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
Happening next week!! Get ready for the Spring semester with our third CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom, Mon 1/12 at 4–5 PM Eastern.
Register here: my.ncte.org/event-inform...
Register here: my.ncte.org/event-inform...
Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing.
Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...
Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Happening next week!! Get ready for the Spring semester with our third CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom, Mon 1/12 at 4–5 PM Eastern.
Register here: my.ncte.org/event-inform...
Register here: my.ncte.org/event-inform...
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I am, once again, struck by the poverty of examples of how AI will meaningfully improve student learning. If anyone thinks these relatively simplistic tasks are the key to education revolution, I invite them to join me on a tour of literally any American school district to reassess their position.
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I am, once again, struck by the poverty of examples of how AI will meaningfully improve student learning. If anyone thinks these relatively simplistic tasks are the key to education revolution, I invite them to join me on a tour of literally any American school district to reassess their position.
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I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall!
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall!
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
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If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Happy 2026!
Happy 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 5:42 AM
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Happy 2026!
Happy 2026!
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eric adams just went on tv and when he was asked what he’s going to do tomorrow he said “travel to some countries”
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 AM
eric adams just went on tv and when he was asked what he’s going to do tomorrow he said “travel to some countries”
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It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.
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The mail is a public mass communication service ie essential to democracy
“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The mail is a public mass communication service ie essential to democracy