Shame on MIT. Arresting their own students and destroying the Scientists against genocide encampment instead of meeting the simple demand to stop accepting direct research funding from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same #xmen 97 #xmen

Congratulations to all 50 of the The Boston Globe's Tech Power Players!  AJL’s founder, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, has been listed for the second year based off her critical work on the biases present in AI!

“By recognizing and acknowledging the existence of the coded gaze,” Buolamwini says,…

So excited to share that the Digital Discourse Project received the 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Implementation of Literacy in a Digital Age by Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age! Thank you to everyone and yay team! James S. McDonnell Foundation Penn GSE Writing Project

Being a vet is no easy job..🐕🐾😏

We’re proud to share that Father Greg will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor. 👏

The ceremony will be TODAY, May 3rd at 1:30 PM PT. Watch the event at whitehouse.gov/live/.

Congrats, Father G. You deserve it. 💙

Next: Writing With, For & Against the Algorithm: TikTokers’ Relationships w/AI as Audience, Co-author & Censor by Sarah Jerasa & Sarah K. Burriss who argues that in spaces like TikTok, human composers must attend to how they write for, with & against the AI-powered algorithm.

Next: “I Can Almost Recognize its Voice”: AI and its Impact on Ethical Teacher-Centaur Labor by William Joseph Fassbender In considering AI & its potential for creating “teacher-centaurs,” this paper explores the division of labor that arise from outsourcing teaching tasks to AI.

Next: Digital Writing with AI Platforms: The Role of Fun with/in Generative AI by Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo, Jenni Higgs, Opal Jawale & Rhianne Mae Martin who center the experiences & perspectives of young people who encounter & experiment w/ generative AI in their daily writing practices.

Next: Speculative Frictions: Writing Civic Futures after AI by Allie Thrall, Phil Nichols & Kevin R. Magill on ways young ppl imagine civic futures in writing speculative abt AI, making visible frictions btwn social impacts of emerging tech & possibilities for collective action.

Next: “Weaving Tales of Resilience”: Cyborg Composing with AI by Ruth Li offering an approach to cyborg composing w/ AI, the author posits the hybridity of the cyborg, which amalgamates human and artificial elements, invites a cascade of creative and emancipatory possibilities.

Next: “We’re Changing the System with This One”: Black Students using Critical Race Algorithmic Literacies to Subvert and Survive AI-mediated Racism in School by Dr. Tiera Chantè Tanksley - centering voices, experiences & tech innovations of Black students in a critical race technology course.

English Teaching: Practice & Critique Jenni Higgs Dr. ThemBot Vaughn W. M. Watson Dr. Grace Enriquez Tracey Flores Kevin Leander Lucinda McKnight Detra Price-Dennis NCRLL Next: “Just a tool”? Troubling Language & Power in Generative AI Writing by Lucinda McKnight & Cara Shipp who take up First Nations & feminist understandings of “tools” & “objects” to demonstrate risks to the pursuit of social & planetary justice through treating AI as a “tool.”

English Teaching: Practice & Critique Jenni Higgs Dr. ThemBot Vaughn W. M. Watson First up, Generative AI and Composing: An Intergenerational Conversation among Literacy Scholars with Dr. Grace Enriquez, Victoria Gill, Gerald Campano, Tracey Flores, Stephanie Jones, Kevin Leander, Lucinda McKnight & Detra Price-Dennis. Video via @ncrllorg: ncrll.org/AIandWriting

Please share/repost! Our Writing with AI writing contest with and for young people is live.
write4change.org/writing-with-ai

It's out!!!! Share widely.

Whose safety, whose peace are university officials protecting? dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

Now is the time to demonstrate our moral conscience. #UCLA students need support from the traumatic brutalization. Witnesses saw students shot w/rubber bullets & beat upon arrest. They need jail support. They need us to condemn the atrocities enacted against peaceful protests ♥️

Professor Benjamin, the GOAT.