Heather Hill
@rollin-academic.bsky.social
Sitting at the nexus of disability, critical disability justice, accessibility, and libraries. Punk ass book jockey and associate professor, UWO. She/her
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“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
always look forward to re-reading this tale
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
always look forward to re-reading this tale
don't go to america folks. and if you're already there be so very careful.
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., according to the colleague.
ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor With H-1B Visa, Colleague Says
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
don't go to america folks. and if you're already there be so very careful.
yup
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
yup
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I mean, does anyone really believe that Google will honour our efforts to opt out?
I'm still going to op out i just don't believe google cares about my preferences
I'm still going to op out i just don't believe google cares about my preferences
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I mean, does anyone really believe that Google will honour our efforts to opt out?
I'm still going to op out i just don't believe google cares about my preferences
I'm still going to op out i just don't believe google cares about my preferences
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Dr. Barr from the TOP FUCKNG ROPE
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Dr. Barr from the TOP FUCKNG ROPE
saving for later
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
saving for later
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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He explains how in the past in healthy orgs there were many layers of experts (like him) to advise against believing pitches of tech products to CEOs that do not work, while now AI companies go directly to executives and convince them their nonsense is real.
www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...
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www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...
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The Tech Industry’s "AI" Play for Education Dollars with Dwayne Monroe
YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
He explains how in the past in healthy orgs there were many layers of experts (like him) to advise against believing pitches of tech products to CEOs that do not work, while now AI companies go directly to executives and convince them their nonsense is real.
www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...
2/n
www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...
2/n
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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.
1/n
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.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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.
1/n
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.
1/n
"The corporations profiting from AI – including Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, and ASML – have a vested interest in maintaining the current hype. Their oligopolistic control over both hardware and software depends on the exaggerated claim that cognitive labor can be fully outsourced to their models"
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"The corporations profiting from AI – including Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, and ASML – have a vested interest in maintaining the current hype. Their oligopolistic control over both hardware and software depends on the exaggerated claim that cognitive labor can be fully outsourced to their models"
So every 'AI literacy' thing I read begins with:
"AI offers opportunities for innovation and efficiency"
"AI technologies can bring important benefits"
And sorry, but no, I have yet to see how these computer programs are innovative, create efficiencies, and bring important benefits.
"AI offers opportunities for innovation and efficiency"
"AI technologies can bring important benefits"
And sorry, but no, I have yet to see how these computer programs are innovative, create efficiencies, and bring important benefits.
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So every 'AI literacy' thing I read begins with:
"AI offers opportunities for innovation and efficiency"
"AI technologies can bring important benefits"
And sorry, but no, I have yet to see how these computer programs are innovative, create efficiencies, and bring important benefits.
"AI offers opportunities for innovation and efficiency"
"AI technologies can bring important benefits"
And sorry, but no, I have yet to see how these computer programs are innovative, create efficiencies, and bring important benefits.
I would not be who I am today without @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Listening to and reading her words made me a better person. Thank you, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I would not be who I am today without @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Listening to and reading her words made me a better person. Thank you, Alice.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
travel well, Alice. You made the world a better place.
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
travel well, Alice. You made the world a better place.
a little something to brighten the timeline
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
a little something to brighten the timeline
fucking hell
A Congressional Select Subcommittee report (2022) found that Tyson’s legal department drafted the executive order Trump signed forcing meatpacking plants to stay open as Covid raged through plants.
Tyson claimed in court it was shielded from responsibility for the deaths by the executive order.
Tyson claimed in court it was shielded from responsibility for the deaths by the executive order.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
fucking hell
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'
it fascinates me how society wants me to be afraid of my unhoused neighbour when the real threat is the dudes in power
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
it fascinates me how society wants me to be afraid of my unhoused neighbour when the real threat is the dudes in power
yup. Larry has always been a piece of shit.
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
yup. Larry has always been a piece of shit.
Released 33 years ago
Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
Live at Pinkpop 1993
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
Live at Pinkpop 1993
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
my students are the best. let them know i was headed to migraine town during class.
voices popped up from around the room:
"would you like some ibuprofen?"
"i have tylenol"
"i have some electrolytes if that will help"
voices popped up from around the room:
"would you like some ibuprofen?"
"i have tylenol"
"i have some electrolytes if that will help"
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
my students are the best. let them know i was headed to migraine town during class.
voices popped up from around the room:
"would you like some ibuprofen?"
"i have tylenol"
"i have some electrolytes if that will help"
voices popped up from around the room:
"would you like some ibuprofen?"
"i have tylenol"
"i have some electrolytes if that will help"