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Shakespearean writing on postsecondary education, academic freedom, and anything else I find important. Feel free to claim opinions expressed here as your own.
Edmonton, Canada
Joined January 2012
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2 in 3 Harvard Professors Say AI Has a Negative Impact on Class bit.ly/4y7WEiw
ALT A photo of the Harvard campus with a graduate walking by.
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Huge turnout in Vancouver tonite for the 2026 Rosenbluth Lecture, hosted by @CCPA_National. Speakers are Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks speaking from their blockbuster new book, ‘Cancelling Billionaires.’ Inspiring and pragmatic. #cdnpoli #canlab
So if a Lime Bird knocks down a pedestrian on a sidewalk in Edmonton, who is liable? The person riding the Lime, who is breaking their user agreement? Lime, for renting out these menaces? Or the City of Edmonton, for allowing these companies to operate?
@AndrewKnack
@limebike
Nice one.
#ualberta
We should be asking, how are we teaching *to* these crises, so that our students are equipped to help humanity deal with them. I regularly teach to two of the three. And given what the #UAlberta senior administration has done I am contemplating teaching to the first here.
The world faces three existential threats:
Runaway artificial intelligence.
The climate crisis.
And the intolerable deepening of inequalities.
Next week, world leaders are coming together at #UNGA.
My message to them:
International cooperation is more important than ever.
The #ualberta senior administration should be halting its #LearnWise pilot project. It needs to follow procedure. And everyone needs to read @MIT’s report, “AI and Education.”
@TheAASUA
@The_Gateway
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Canadian airports are public infrastructure. So why is Mark Carney promising to hand over our public airports to private foreign investors?
Instead, let's build better airports, support Canadian workers, improve service and safety, and keep the benefits public.
Still not a word that I know of from the #ualberta senior administration about why they want students here learning from AI bots instead.
#abpse
#cdnpse
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The myth Alberta 'subsidizes' the rest of Canada is the most powerful meme in the separatist armoury. But it's utterly false. I show that most Albertans get more back from federal programs than they personally pay in federal taxes, for @TheTyee: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/09/1… #abpoli /2
From today’s Times: ‘Researchers at the University of Cambridge said that regardless of “what or how we read”, sitting down with a book is linked to improved health and problem solving. Benefits include lowering stress and reducing the risk of dementia, and span all types of reading, from comic books to classic novels or hefty non-fiction tomes.’
Let this be the beginning of the end for the creepy, racist, authoritarian UCP government led by @ABDanielleSmith.
#ableg
NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/n…… #abeg #abpoli
No aspect of university teaching should be outsourced to AI bots:
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#ualberta
@CBCEdmonton
@edmontonjournal
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“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.”
Absolutely fucking demonic.
No university should outsource any aspect of its teaching to AI bots.
#ualberta
The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education
Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. bit.ly/4rdV4cf
ALT A robot teaching math at the front of a classroom.
Watch this, please.
@geoffreyhinton and @hilbertspaess have raised the alarm in powerful ways, but here is Connor Leahy @NPCollapse speaking in an expansive, supremely eloquent way about what we are on the brink of confronting with superintelligence.
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The last in a 3-part blogpost on the #UAlberta senior administration’s decision to proceed w/ a LearnWise pilot project.
This part asks 20 questions I hope community members will join me in asking.
It also offers some big-picture perspective re #MIT.
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Part 2 of three-part post on the #ualberta senior administration’s adoption of #LearnWise. This part contrasts what they are doing w/ the recommendations in MIT’s August report “AI and Education.”
In the @MIT report we see concerns for student wellbeing.
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Fantastic piece from @TheBreachMedia. Lots of great information here and connecting of dots.
The first of a 3-part blog post on the #ualberta senior administration’s unilateral adoption of a #LearnWise pilot project.
This part focuses on the administration’s failure to consult with @TheAASUA and its circumvention of collegial governance (GFC).
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