Stephen Francoeur
@stephenfrancoeur.bsky.social
I am a user experience librarian at Baruch College (New York, NY). Enemy of techno-determinism. Mastodon: https://glammr.us/@stephenfrancoeur
https://www.stephenfrancoeur.com/
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I wrote a blog post about who I have been reading as I prepare to teach a course on AI again. www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...
Who I Have Been Reading and Planning to Read | Beating the Bounds
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wrote a blog post about who I have been reading as I prepare to teach a course on AI again. www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...
Starting a series of posts on my blog about gearing up to teach a course again on AI. Here's the first one: www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...
Prepping to Teach a Course on Artificial Intelligence Again | Beating the Bounds
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November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Starting a series of posts on my blog about gearing up to teach a course again on AI. Here's the first one: www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...
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A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
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The raw dynamism just leaps out of that image
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The raw dynamism just leaps out of that image
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“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
How too many react to the popular advent of text extruding tech in higher ed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcU...
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
YouTube video by Or Rent
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October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How too many react to the popular advent of text extruding tech in higher ed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcU...
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Today in luxury surveillance.
AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads | TechCrunch
If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.
techcrunch.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today in luxury surveillance.
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If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models:
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
September 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models:
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
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“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”
They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now?
Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”
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Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:
www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
@ryanjreilly.com
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August 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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I wrote about the disappearance of Andry José Hernández Romero, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in more than four months. www.salon.com/2025/07/16/t...
Trump admin "disappeared" a gay stylist for propaganda. He hasn't been heard from since
Asylum-seeker Andry José Hernández Romero hasn't been heard from in 4 months despite never being accused of a crime.
www.salon.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I wrote about the disappearance of Andry José Hernández Romero, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in more than four months. www.salon.com/2025/07/16/t...
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Quote tweeting w alt text because we need to properly communicate emergency messages
National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!
National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!
July 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Quote tweeting w alt text because we need to properly communicate emergency messages
National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!
National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Domestic terrorists…
July 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Domestic terrorists…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
June 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
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What's the best evidence that free speech is dying in America? That a US Attorney could do this:
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May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What's the best evidence that free speech is dying in America? That a US Attorney could do this:
archive.is/202504271714...
archive.is/202504271714...
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WeaveUX Vol 8, No 1 is now available! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/issu...
Weave: Journal of Library User Experience |
Issue: Issue: 1(8) (2025)
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April 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
WeaveUX Vol 8, No 1 is now available! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/issu...
Gift link to the Atlantic article about gen AI producing a flattening of language. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
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April 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Gift link to the Atlantic article about gen AI producing a flattening of language. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Maybe they'll be to my audience a pleasant reassurance that the text was in fact composed by a human, not gen AI. (2/3)
April 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Maybe they'll be to my audience a pleasant reassurance that the text was in fact composed by a human, not gen AI. (2/3)