tekla 💜✨
@tekla.bsky.social
writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.
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This is the only real point of any debate about the trans instructor being targeted at OU.
It’s a system designed to do exactly this.
Nitpicking about rubrics is..wild, to me, as someone who spent seven years in this system.
It’s a system designed to do exactly this.
Nitpicking about rubrics is..wild, to me, as someone who spent seven years in this system.
That’s the thing, it didn’t matter what they did. The administration is committed to the witch hunt.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is the only real point of any debate about the trans instructor being targeted at OU.
It’s a system designed to do exactly this.
Nitpicking about rubrics is..wild, to me, as someone who spent seven years in this system.
It’s a system designed to do exactly this.
Nitpicking about rubrics is..wild, to me, as someone who spent seven years in this system.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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The professor did nothing wrong. The kid’s paper was trash, showing they were not even intellectually equipped to deal with university level thinking. The paper was written with the express purpose of harassing and getting the professor in trouble. TPUSA is a stochastic terror organization.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The professor did nothing wrong. The kid’s paper was trash, showing they were not even intellectually equipped to deal with university level thinking. The paper was written with the express purpose of harassing and getting the professor in trouble. TPUSA is a stochastic terror organization.
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There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
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I cannot express how enraged this makes me.
Our institutions are so fucking *gleefully* naive whenever a wannabe conservative celeb decides to ruin an instructor's live.
I had hoped OU had improved on protecting trans students + employees since my time there, but unfortunately appears not.
Our institutions are so fucking *gleefully* naive whenever a wannabe conservative celeb decides to ruin an instructor's live.
I had hoped OU had improved on protecting trans students + employees since my time there, but unfortunately appears not.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I cannot express how enraged this makes me.
Our institutions are so fucking *gleefully* naive whenever a wannabe conservative celeb decides to ruin an instructor's live.
I had hoped OU had improved on protecting trans students + employees since my time there, but unfortunately appears not.
Our institutions are so fucking *gleefully* naive whenever a wannabe conservative celeb decides to ruin an instructor's live.
I had hoped OU had improved on protecting trans students + employees since my time there, but unfortunately appears not.
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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This right here.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This right here.
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems
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“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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There’s an old saying, “Anything a computer can’t do yet is Artificial Intelligence. Everything the computer can already do is Machine Learning.”
One annoying part of the AI hype bubble is now they just call everything — the stuff computers do well and the stuff that doesn’t work at all — AI.
One annoying part of the AI hype bubble is now they just call everything — the stuff computers do well and the stuff that doesn’t work at all — AI.
you would be well served to pay attention when paul says this and it's also worth noting that the shoddy elf tit machine and the coding assistant machine are _different machines_. you can very much have one and not the other.
He’s right! You don’t have to use it—but it’s going to sweep through codeworld like a purifying fire. You may not care! But it’s not like when it draws you a bad picture of a large-breasted elf. It’s more like it shreds the foundation of what makes tech “valuable.”
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There’s an old saying, “Anything a computer can’t do yet is Artificial Intelligence. Everything the computer can already do is Machine Learning.”
One annoying part of the AI hype bubble is now they just call everything — the stuff computers do well and the stuff that doesn’t work at all — AI.
One annoying part of the AI hype bubble is now they just call everything — the stuff computers do well and the stuff that doesn’t work at all — AI.
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Think about what it takes from us and especially learners bsky.app/profile/oliv...
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Think about what it takes from us and especially learners bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
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They are betting AI will replace us. Make them lose the bet.
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
They are betting AI will replace us. Make them lose the bet.
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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Lord I see what You’ve done for others
But if the court finds OpenAI knowingly trained on pirated books and deleted the evidence to to avoid scrutiny, that could mean actual consequences to the tune of billions of dollars.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lord I see what You’ve done for others
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One result is that subject-experts (like me) increasingly encounter head-scratching claims that seem to appear out of the ether.
No real solid conclusions to be drawn other than my dirge-like eternal chant of how urgently we must fund and protect our libraries at this historical juncture.
No real solid conclusions to be drawn other than my dirge-like eternal chant of how urgently we must fund and protect our libraries at this historical juncture.
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One result is that subject-experts (like me) increasingly encounter head-scratching claims that seem to appear out of the ether.
No real solid conclusions to be drawn other than my dirge-like eternal chant of how urgently we must fund and protect our libraries at this historical juncture.
No real solid conclusions to be drawn other than my dirge-like eternal chant of how urgently we must fund and protect our libraries at this historical juncture.
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The entire purpose of building research on a citational structure is that the inevitable flaws are traceable and stable enough in their location that the overall field structure can take those mistakes/debates into account as part of the field discourse.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The entire purpose of building research on a citational structure is that the inevitable flaws are traceable and stable enough in their location that the overall field structure can take those mistakes/debates into account as part of the field discourse.
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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Indeed. The "Western Civilization" they like is Nero, Columbus, and Hitler at the apex of their power.
They hate all the rest of it, especially the art, philosophy, and democracy. Hence stuff like their confusion and outrage when the Olympic ceremonies included the Olympian God of Festivals.
They hate all the rest of it, especially the art, philosophy, and democracy. Hence stuff like their confusion and outrage when the Olympic ceremonies included the Olympian God of Festivals.
It is odd to me that, like, you'd think it'd be parody if you said: to be clear, they only like the bad bits of Western Civilisation -- but that turns out to be true. They like the rapacious imperial murder, but not the art or intellectual achievements or civil liberties, etc.
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Indeed. The "Western Civilization" they like is Nero, Columbus, and Hitler at the apex of their power.
They hate all the rest of it, especially the art, philosophy, and democracy. Hence stuff like their confusion and outrage when the Olympic ceremonies included the Olympian God of Festivals.
They hate all the rest of it, especially the art, philosophy, and democracy. Hence stuff like their confusion and outrage when the Olympic ceremonies included the Olympian God of Festivals.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.