On chatbots: publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

My refusal to use/assign/allow AI in class is a refusal from the perspective of a human worker. I cannot ethically support an increase in demand for a technology that benefits You Know Who and aims to replace You and Me. Hell no. And I am being neither paranoid nor sorry.

I want to read slow research. I want to read slowly developed ideas and thoughts. I want to read slow work. I don’t want to read “fast fashion” style research, and I don’t want incentives to write it.

10 min of my life during finals week: Student drops by with a gift. I cry. As we walk out of my office, I lock my keys inside. She asks if “that’s the one” on the floor. My wallet has spilled open. I pick up everything while saying “this is future Savannah’s problem. See you at graduation!” 🙃 lolll

AI does not belong in intro-level communication courses. I want to read what’s in students’ brains and how they’re making sense of what they’re learning about relationships, media and culture. I am so over a chat gpt response to a literal question that asks what do *you* think. It’s all I wanna know

The AI discourse that wants to frame itself as it's all inevitable, particularly in higher ed, is at the root of the problem. To not understand that makes me truly fear of any ability to do the work of education that society so desperately needs.