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#techbacklash — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techbacklash, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Associated Press: America’s tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices. “After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning. Classrooms have become saturated with screens, and a growing number of parents, teachers and school districts are saying it is time to scale back.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/26/associated-press-americas-tech-filled-classrooms-are-facing-a-backlash-against-school-assigned-devices/
  2. Gizmodo: Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming. “The fact that San Francisco University bothered to call out the way these videos were recorded (citing the specific name of Meta’s smart glasses and everything) says a lot, and in a lot of ways, that specificity is absolutely fair. As ascendant as smart glasses (or AI glasses, as Meta calls them) have been, there’s a chance that a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/gizmodo-buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming/

  3. New York Times: A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls. This link goes to a gift article. “Across the city, the ads have been defaced with graffiti ranging from hostile (‘A.I. is burning the world around you’) to pleading (‘make a real friend’). The company was accused of profiting off the loneliness epidemic and of playing a part in capitalist surveillance. Some posters were ripped […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/new-york-times-a-debate-about-a-i-plays-out-on-the-subway-walls/

  4. Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/

  5. Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/