Anne Lutz Fernandez
@lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Ex-banker, marketer, & English teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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today's dystopian scifi prompt is: silent epidemic of unlicensed, out-of-scope, probabilistic mental health care
one of the major uses of LLMs is as an unlicensed, cheap therapist. the people who sell them largely don't think about this fact at all.
Roon's trolley problem
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
today's dystopian scifi prompt is: silent epidemic of unlicensed, out-of-scope, probabilistic mental health care
For the ed reformers that only care about test scores and not student mental health, safety, security, peace, and joy.
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
For the ed reformers that only care about test scores and not student mental health, safety, security, peace, and joy.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Lucy, football, etc
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Lucy, football, etc
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Trump‘s people are running around the country, knocking food out of people’s hands.
Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.
Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Shutdown
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump‘s people are running around the country, knocking food out of people’s hands.
Bessent is an alien in a man suit
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy from the shutdown?
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Bessent is an alien in a man suit
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
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March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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U.K. education has a lot of edtech people like this who refuse to engage with questions on risk or harm. Which you absolutely would if you had ethics.
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
U.K. education has a lot of edtech people like this who refuse to engage with questions on risk or harm. Which you absolutely would if you had ethics.
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
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Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
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You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
Underrated: “Big companies and investors have a limited amount of capital to spend each year, and they’re putting the majority of it toward building data centers. That means less investment is flowing to other sectors like manufacturing, which lost 3,000 jobs last month.”
The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Underrated: “Big companies and investors have a limited amount of capital to spend each year, and they’re putting the majority of it toward building data centers. That means less investment is flowing to other sectors like manufacturing, which lost 3,000 jobs last month.”
“The boosting of artificial intelligence by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education, libraries, and government workers being pushed by groups like the Heritage Foundation…”
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“The boosting of artificial intelligence by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education, libraries, and government workers being pushed by groups like the Heritage Foundation…”
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Lots of terrible news out lately about ChatGPT, but it doesn't seem like anyone is investigating Gemini, esp the education space (ie Gems). If you want to crack AI edtech, that's a big one. Lots of Google ecosystem schools have mandated Gemini, and I have few critical resources on it specifically
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Lots of terrible news out lately about ChatGPT, but it doesn't seem like anyone is investigating Gemini, esp the education space (ie Gems). If you want to crack AI edtech, that's a big one. Lots of Google ecosystem schools have mandated Gemini, and I have few critical resources on it specifically
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ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks are not in a bubble and have room to rise further.
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks not at bubble stage
With seven large tech companies now accounting for more than one-third of the S&P 500 index’s weighting, investors are asking if this is a sign of overheating.
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
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Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on layoffs and cost cutting being the result of AI adoption. A recession is coming, & these companies know it
(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates ..
@bloomberg.com #Challenger
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com #Challenger
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on layoffs and cost cutting being the result of AI adoption. A recession is coming, & these companies know it
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“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Resisting the AI push into education - Halifax Examiner
Technology has long been pushed as a way of revolutionizing and personalizing education. But there are no panaceas.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
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The basic story we've been told, over and over, is that Dems must choose: Either they act out their Trump Derangement Syndrome or they offer substance. Some Dems told NYT that Ds were squandering an opportunity to offer an "alternative."
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The basic story we've been told, over and over, is that Dems must choose: Either they act out their Trump Derangement Syndrome or they offer substance. Some Dems told NYT that Ds were squandering an opportunity to offer an "alternative."
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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I would very much like to thank the roughly two dozen educators and experts who answered my call when I started in on the research for this episode. It took longer than I meant to make it, but we got there. ❤️
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
The problems with AI in schools
Teachers had one big question: What are we even doing here?
www.theverge.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I would very much like to thank the roughly two dozen educators and experts who answered my call when I started in on the research for this episode. It took longer than I meant to make it, but we got there. ❤️
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
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Pretty much my take on the AI industry’s effort to disrupt journalism and destroy good journalism, jobs and livelihoods.
“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Resisting the AI push into education - Halifax Examiner
Technology has long been pushed as a way of revolutionizing and personalizing education. But there are no panaceas.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Pretty much my take on the AI industry’s effort to disrupt journalism and destroy good journalism, jobs and livelihoods.
“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Resisting the AI push into education - Halifax Examiner
Technology has long been pushed as a way of revolutionizing and personalizing education. But there are no panaceas.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Making children afraid is a goal.
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Making children afraid is a goal.
I did a better job decorating my classroom bulletin boards than this
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I did a better job decorating my classroom bulletin boards than this
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Now that Mamdani has to govern, "this might scare the Democratic establishment: not because Mamdani could fail, but because he could succeed. Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government." 💥🎯 @moiradonegan.bsky.social
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Now that Mamdani has to govern, "this might scare the Democratic establishment: not because Mamdani could fail, but because he could succeed. Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government." 💥🎯 @moiradonegan.bsky.social