2025-10-27
W/ my collaborator Martha Kenney, spoke to Natasha Singer for this piece out today about Cal State's sweeping, costly, and non-transparent “AI-empowered university” initiative. [image]
New York Times
A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... Benjamin Riley / @benjaminjriley : Everything in this story is infuriating apart from (a) the quotes from students who analogize AI efforts to sitti...
2025-03-30
Glad to see someone standing up for Öztürk. But FIRE shills for for technocratic libertarianism, “viewpoint neutrality,” and other center-right issues that have been used as a wedge against the left on university campuses—anti-DEI initiatives, e.g. At best, a poor ally
@hamishmckenzie
Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to support “writers residing lawfully” in the US targeted by the government for their writing
https://x.com/... X: Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani : I'm glad Hamish is doing this at a time when many people who claimed to support free speech are nowhere to be found. Kelsey Piper /...