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 noticed that the Matter and Space (Ai company claiming to revolutionize education) website just forwards to SNHU website now. I went looking for what happened.
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education – EduGeek Journal
www.edugeekjournal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I noticed that the Matter and Space (Ai company claiming to revolutionize education) website just forwards to SNHU website now. I went looking for what happened.
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/12/19/a...
While I know there are good people working to create ways to improve critical thinking in media, there have always been concerns that this is not enough. This tread looks into why it is not enough to just improve how we evaluate information.
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
While I know there are good people working to create ways to improve critical thinking in media, there have always been concerns that this is not enough. This tread looks into why it is not enough to just improve how we evaluate information.
Story on the news last night about how North Texas lakes are full, but the water table is “mysteriously”dropping over the last year. Which is when the first Ai data centers went online. Gee… I wonder where all the water is going…
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Story on the news last night about how North Texas lakes are full, but the water table is “mysteriously”dropping over the last year. Which is when the first Ai data centers went online. Gee… I wonder where all the water is going…
A friend of mine that passed away several years ago was in a few underground club bands in LA in the 80s. He passed away while writing lyrics for his next album. Someone took those lyrics and used Ai to create the lost album. Don’t do this BS to the deceased. It is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A friend of mine that passed away several years ago was in a few underground club bands in LA in the 80s. He passed away while writing lyrics for his next album. Someone took those lyrics and used Ai to create the lost album. Don’t do this BS to the deceased. It is evil.
Look, I am about as anti-Ai as anyone. If every Ai system got deleted and every Ai company shutdown, I would not shed one tear. I used to research LLMs in education and learning analytics pre-ChatGPT explosion. I decided it was all bad long before most even knew there was an anti-Ai stance…
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Look, I am about as anti-Ai as anyone. If every Ai system got deleted and every Ai company shutdown, I would not shed one tear. I used to research LLMs in education and learning analytics pre-ChatGPT explosion. I decided it was all bad long before most even knew there was an anti-Ai stance…
Saw a bumper sticker that says “I’m not smart enough to be a socialist.” While I get the intent of the joke there, technically it sounds more like they are saying only ignorant people are against socialism.
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Saw a bumper sticker that says “I’m not smart enough to be a socialist.” While I get the intent of the joke there, technically it sounds more like they are saying only ignorant people are against socialism.
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
And wouldn’t the opposite be “I’m not dumb enough to support fascism”?
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.