Cate Denial

Yikes!

Oh goodness. Fingers crossed for you!

Just got my utility bill for next month. I am on a budget plan, and it STILL went up 29%. Mercy.

. . . you can see exactly where you would have been on the first path. You can still see the landmarks. But as you keep walking on the new path, the distance between you now and where you might have been grows larger. The grief, though powerful, is not as acute.

This helped me. I hope it's useful

I hope this is helpful - someone once said to me that grief is a fork in the road, with the path you thought you were on stretching off toward the horizon in a straight line, and the path you're now on twisting off to who knows where. Grief is the gap between the paths. At first . . .

A good copy editor is such a gift!

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Eyes on AI Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.

This is a fascinating tool! I just went through the exercise, and the personalized report at the end was really thought provoking. eyeson-ai.org

It's especially surprising in my case because I grew up in a big city and nowhere near a farm.

I learned to drive a tractor before I learned to drive a car.

It's the most amazing fun!

• The History of Birth Control and Reproduction in the United States.
• The History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States.
• The History of Marriage in the United States.

• Seminar: Exploring Native and Indigenous History.
• Seminar: Museums, Monuments and Memory.
• Seminar: Reproductive Justice in the U.S. since 1973.
• Seminar: Women, Gender, and the American Revolution.
• Sleuthing, Sources, and Skills.

(more)

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach:

• History Pedagogy for Future Educators.
• Intro to Native and Indigenous History.
• The Historian's Workshop.
• Native and Indigenous History since 1871.
• Pirates in the Atlantic World.
• Power and Inequity in America to 1865.

more:

This is pathological

Totally. And yeah, the second book is always such a big lift!

And I did not enjoy it, to be honest! But it was foundational

Lots of things about my comps experience were very bad. But the fact that reading widely and analyzing texts is foundational to a PhD progam is something that AI cannot replace (which is the context here)

This is such an important point. My three fields were North American Women and Gender; The American West; and Latin American history. *hundreds* of books. And I had three eight-hour written exams and a two-hour oral exam.

"AI" is Yesterday's News I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored...

an algorithm controlled by some of the largest and richest corporations the world has ever seen, run by the wealthiest men the world has ever known."

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-is-yester...

-- a system, a technology that demands teachers work harder with less dignity and less authority; one that transfers knowledge from the lived experience and expertise of the classroom into a repository . . . (more)

From @audreywatters.bsky.social's newsletter today:

"There is no magic bullet, no magic technology that “saves” time; only a system that demands more and more from each of us, only a technology that further extracts and exploits and denigrates . . ." (more)

This is an amazing resource, showing the media capture of various AI/tech companies.

Flow chart showing OpenAI, Google Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Perplexity, ProRate.ai, IBM, Mistral, Anthropic, Nvidia, in that order with the biggest deals, with OpenAI having 21 deals, Google 17, Meta 8, Microsoft 4, Amazon 3.

Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere, showing BigTech and "AI" companies' media capture.

No wonder the public is getting misinformed.

They say it is inspired by @surveillancewatch.bsky.social, which ❤️

nananwachukwu.github.io

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And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!

A banner that reads "I'm Presenting! CLASS 2026: Conference on Learning and Student Success" Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18.

So excited to be presenting with @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social on "The Case against Using GenAI in Education: Meeting the Moment with Care and Courage" at AAC&U's CLASS conference! April 17, 11am. It's going to be so much fun!

Banner that reads "I'm presenting! CLASS 2026: the AAC&U conference on learning and student success. Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18."

And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!