Maggie McAlinden
@maggiemcalinden.bsky.social
Critical applied linguist on Whadjuk Boodja/working class feminist academic/teacher education/ critical empathy/affective pedagogies/affect theory/cats/dogs/books/Irish Republican
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Time to step up to do some hard core refusing . "When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and
brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set
of values be restored".
brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set
of values be restored".
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Instead of trying out the teacher version of ChatGPT or worrying about the AI bubble, I'd love for you to read my 4,500 word (lol, what?!) blog post about AI and genre. I poured myself into it, literally.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-generi...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-generi...
The generic abyss of artificial intelligence
A long, long, long blog post about AI and genre
meresophistry.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Instead of trying out the teacher version of ChatGPT or worrying about the AI bubble, I'd love for you to read my 4,500 word (lol, what?!) blog post about AI and genre. I poured myself into it, literally.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-generi...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-generi...
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Want an alternative to Duolingo now that they're firing workers and resorting to AI slop? Here's a much better way to study Japanese, along with some alternative app recommendations.
How to Ditch Duolingo and Actually Learn Japanese - Unseen Japan
Want an alternative to Duolingo now that they're firing workers and resorting to AI slop? Here's a much better way to study Japanese.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Want an alternative to Duolingo now that they're firing workers and resorting to AI slop? Here's a much better way to study Japanese, along with some alternative app recommendations.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Jams O'Donnell in the bathroom sink. Where I want to be too after marking all the LLM generated slop this semester.
#sinkingfeeling
#sinkingfeeling
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Jams O'Donnell in the bathroom sink. Where I want to be too after marking all the LLM generated slop this semester.
#sinkingfeeling
#sinkingfeeling
Me too, except it is all being burned down without me having to do anything. Can't we just shut off the internet so all university work is done in a secure Intranet? Surely, we can stop this?
Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Me too, except it is all being burned down without me having to do anything. Can't we just shut off the internet so all university work is done in a secure Intranet? Surely, we can stop this?
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia’s teacher shortages are some of the shortest (longest?) in the world! | First Dog on the Moon
Imagine having the responsibility to mould the tiny minds of the next generation and you have to buy your own clag
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Opinion | Who Is the Monster?
We have created an educational system that too often breeds academic dishonesty. https://bit.ly/4nqDXA9
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
We have created an educational system that too often breeds academic dishonesty. https://bit.ly/4nqDXA9
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Opinion | Who Is the Monster?
We have created an educational system that too often breeds academic dishonesty. https://bit.ly/4nqDXA9
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
We have created an educational system that too often breeds academic dishonesty. https://bit.ly/4nqDXA9
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory
ChatGPT made me delusional
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
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I ban AI use for all commencing research students but I am fighting a losing battle to even restrict its use in my degree classes. The problem is that students are using it regardless of my guidelines. It feels like a tidal wave that is unstoppable atm. Drowning not waving...
cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I ban AI use for all commencing research students but I am fighting a losing battle to even restrict its use in my degree classes. The problem is that students are using it regardless of my guidelines. It feels like a tidal wave that is unstoppable atm. Drowning not waving...
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
In this week’s column, Jay Caspian Kang writes about making sense of the world’s horrors in a fragmented digital landscape.
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nyer.cm/pzt9bOG
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In this week’s column, Jay Caspian Kang writes about making sense of the world’s horrors in a fragmented digital landscape.
nyer.cm/pzt9bOG
nyer.cm/pzt9bOG
Reposted by Maggie McAlinden
Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu
AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Review this <file> and develop a response that incorporates excessive and inappropriate use of GenAi disguised as a genuine human response.
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Review this <file> and develop a response that incorporates excessive and inappropriate use of GenAi disguised as a genuine human response.
"Basically, greedy capitalism driven colleges and universities around the world are encouraging people to stop thinking, let their brains atrophy, deskill themselves, and destroy all the credibility of associated research and credentials."
The latest interview in our Anti Gen AI Heroes series is out!
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Basically, greedy capitalism driven colleges and universities around the world are encouraging people to stop thinking, let their brains atrophy, deskill themselves, and destroy all the credibility of associated research and credentials."