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Moment of Zenner is by Christiana Zenner PhD, inviting you to join a monthly (sometimes more!) newsletter about what's landing in or alighting from my intersectional, anti-colonial, ecofeminist head and heart. I'm also a professor, parent, and tea-lover.
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Enter the Ouroboros (opens the original)
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College students are not a homogeneous group, but several in my class are deeply dismayed about AI. Some have been interviewed for jobs by avatar-bots and are unanimous that it was a deeply demoralizing, dehumanizing experience. Others are experiencing the jobs-elimination impact: their hoped-for post-college, entry-level research jobs are now outsourced to AI. They want to know why it’s not regulated, whether effective governance is happening elsewhere, and what it means to dis-invest in humans
NYC Public Schools and LA Unified School District, on a roll (opens the original)
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Good morning, folks. An addendum with new links after yesterday’s post on moral precision in our conversations about generative AI:NYC Public Schools one-year moratorium for students up to 8th grade (2 Sept 2026) Watch this short, useful CBS national morning news interview with Kelly Clancy (3 Sept 2026). “There’s a differe
Moral Precision is not moral panic (opens the original)
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I’ve been accused of some fascinating things. For example, in 2015, a Heartland Institute blogger accused me of co-authoring Laudato Si’ with Pope Francis. (False, but funny). More recently, I was accused of “raising the moral panic button” (a mixed metaphor, which I choose to envision as holding an old-fashioned shirt button high to the sky) after I posted on an education-oriented listserv.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xZNo!,f_auto,q_
Where in the world is Christiana Zenner? (opens the original)
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Good morning, lovely humans! On this Thursday in August, with the overcast sky and hovering humidity, I could be manywheres — a kaleidoscope of clouds and constellation of tactilities that constituted the past year. A year ago my teen went to college and I wrapped up the lease on my apartment outside of NYC, thus launching into a year of academic nomadism (most planned, some not).This led several dear friends to message — yes we are children of the 80s and 90s — Where in the world is Christiana
Here is how you share the good (opens the original)
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Good afternoon, lovely humans. It’s a beautiful July Sunday in NYC, and I’m on a friend’s couch, sipping green tea contentedly to the lambent laughter of kids bumping a volleyball (all arms, no net) on the sidewalk across the street.These moments are important and lovely because, in addition to the ongoing horrors that we all need to not-normalize, there are absurd cherries (not strawberries) on the bonkersville what-is-our-polity sundae:bike lanes — BIKE LANES!! — were <a href="https://www.npr.
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