Luis Morales-Navarro
@luismn.bsky.social
learning sciences phd candidate @penn 🌈 🐛🐞 | youth's understanding of socio-technical systems + constructionism + algorithmic justice
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking.
i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.
depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.
i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.
depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.
"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.
EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.
Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.
Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
August 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking.
i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.
depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.
i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.
depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.
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Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
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pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”
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August 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
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Every "tech" guy is just a VC guy in a subculture that gets called "tech" for no particular reason. Most real "tech" - like, i dunno, cutting edge materials research - doesn't get called that while "a new pizza delivery app" does
I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
July 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Every "tech" guy is just a VC guy in a subculture that gets called "tech" for no particular reason. Most real "tech" - like, i dunno, cutting edge materials research - doesn't get called that while "a new pizza delivery app" does
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A very odd thing about Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in computer science is that it historically shifted from “understanding the human brain better” to “we give up on understanding the brain and will just replace humans despite having no fucking clue”
July 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A very odd thing about Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in computer science is that it historically shifted from “understanding the human brain better” to “we give up on understanding the brain and will just replace humans despite having no fucking clue”
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In this #WIConf2025 session on GenAI and Algorithmic Impact, Yasmin Kafai and @metaxa.net talk about computational empowerment and break down #AI #auditing into simple steps for end users. Contributions by @luismn.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In this #WIConf2025 session on GenAI and Algorithmic Impact, Yasmin Kafai and @metaxa.net talk about computational empowerment and break down #AI #auditing into simple steps for end users. Contributions by @luismn.bsky.social
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Writing is a skill to be trained!
I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase
I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase
Reminds me of the time I heard a senior academic speak to a room full of PhD students about how he was sympathetic to people using AI to write essays because "writing is hard"
Yeah, writing *is* hard, it's a skill that needs to be developed like anything else
Yeah, writing *is* hard, it's a skill that needs to be developed like anything else
This. If you don’t think so, maybe do something else.
May 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Writing is a skill to be trained!
I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase
I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase
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it feels like the call of our times is to figure how to make abstract/non-immediate harms (like climate, tech, how hurting one hurts us all) resonate enough for many people to act against their material/immediate comfort
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
it feels like the call of our times is to figure how to make abstract/non-immediate harms (like climate, tech, how hurting one hurts us all) resonate enough for many people to act against their material/immediate comfort
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Would it hurt people in tech to go and *talk* to someone with a degree in education? Most people don't understand what schools do. TL;DR: it's a lot more than info dumping into student's heads and it is certainly a lot more than daycare.
Ok well this sentiment from Luis von Ahn is absolutely gross. I will not be giving Duolingo any more money. AI first: 🤮 fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...
May 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Would it hurt people in tech to go and *talk* to someone with a degree in education? Most people don't understand what schools do. TL;DR: it's a lot more than info dumping into student's heads and it is certainly a lot more than daycare.
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When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
Translation services are now common on phones, but another language barrier is being broken with Google Meet’s new real-time tools, revealed at #GoogleIO.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
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Here is Pope Leo’s page. Edit history is already fascinating: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Le...
Pope Leo XIV - Wikipedia
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May 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Here is Pope Leo’s page. Edit history is already fascinating: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Le...
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved
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After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
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Why let corporations decide what is true or important? asbruckman.medium.com/why-let-corp...
Why Let Corporations Decide What is True or Important?
It’s not good news that Facebook is turning off fact checking — but the system was already fundamentally flawed. Commercial platforms make…
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January 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Why let corporations decide what is true or important? asbruckman.medium.com/why-let-corp...
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From Ursula K. LeGuin’s introduction to “The Left Hand of Darkness:”
January 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
From Ursula K. LeGuin’s introduction to “The Left Hand of Darkness:”
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Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.
Octavia Butler couldn’t see the future. She saw what was happening in front of her and, in addition to studying the past, was able to imagine where it would lead. It’s important to tell the truth about her because mythologizing her is a disservice to her legacy.
January 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.
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✨ Very excited that my book proofs arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out with @dukepress.bsky.social in May 2025 ✨ It’s starting to feel real!
December 2, 2024 at 3:51 PM
✨ Very excited that my book proofs arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out with @dukepress.bsky.social in May 2025 ✨ It’s starting to feel real!
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a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen"
January 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen"
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At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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January 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
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Historian here. Can confirm!
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Historian here. Can confirm!
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"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science
www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky
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Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds
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December 1, 2024 at 10:25 PM
"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science
www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky
www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky