Seizing the means of ontological production: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/seizing-the-means-of-ontological.html

Translate Inventaire using #Weblate at weblate.framasoft.org/engage/inven...!

Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care See gadgeteer.co.za/self-hosting... #selfhosting #technology

George Ingram www.brookings.edu/people/georg...

I also enjoyed living in that phase before AI video became ubiquitous - snapp.social/@alsutton/11...

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. 
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast. Credit to Jason at the good place. mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman...

Gorden Bennet: the big con is on…. bsky.app/profile/iipp...

Discover the University of Edinburgh's #CMALT programme & how to manage CMALT cohorts at our next CPD Webinar on 4 June 2025. The webinar will take you through their journey from Feb 24 to present day & will highlight key areas, successes & plans for the future. Learn more: buff.ly/oroLGfw #altc

The Classroom AI Doom Loop: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/05/14/the-classroom-ai-doom-loop.html

If I start and go on and on in a long thread, please remind me about this note to self. The socials are for socializing. For short conversations. Blogs are for a sustaining an idea. Thanks.

Consultancy firms ruin the planet; as shown in my work on special economic zones & incompetent consultancies spreading super-exploitation Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Woops. Chat GPT became a sycophant, a spiritual director and has solved the trolley problem. techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/o...

Happy World Book Day. youtu.be/_guKhYVr5vA?... Finding the fun in reading.

State corporation boundaries are getting more blurry. Interesting read about the "digital-military-industrial complex." A nasty convergence between the power of big corporations, the militarization of digital technologies. www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea... HT @the_syllabus

Family subscription to Microsoft jumped up in price by 25%. Gulp.

Keep on wondering whether I should be reading The Shock Doctrine instead of following the news. naomiklein.org/the-shock-do...

I’m going to be chatting about “spectacular vernacular” at the UNISA hosted event entitled Advancing African Digital Humanities ideation hub. Here is my presentation www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/flxhv...

Really looking forward to this convo tomorrow with my "Are you tripping?" coauthor @annamillsoer.bsky.social stewarded by @edufuturist.bsky.social. Join us to talk about #AI in #EDU and how we can build literacies by taking care how we talk and think about what I now call ✨sparkling intelligence✨

As a self appointed, under-employed COLO (chief online learning officer) (gawd). Who is amazed at the pickle VC's create. This looks like useful advice for campus leaders as before they outsource something else. upcea.edu/wp-content/u...

So we know that many universities have outsourced their online learning to private companies and their private equity LMS platforms. Some are now beginning to see how universities surrender their autonomy to a handful of private data companies. Seamlessly www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

A LLM receives a piece of text as input & generates probable text as output. It makes predictions about word sequences using auto regression. Don't ask if LLMs are intelligent. Instead ask - "What problems do LLM's solve"? Do pressures around us influence our responses to the in/out put? (^T McCoy)

Proud partner post: Well done to the talented scholar (perhaps I am a little biased) ….Jean Moore. For publishing Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre. Language Matters, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1022...

It is free entry this week to all #SouthAfrica National Gardens during National Garden Week 10-16 March 2025 See www.sanbi.org/news/nationa...

A post by @andytattersall.bsky.social about UK HEI activity on X that continues to drop. Still seems as if institutions are hedging their bets. Of the 141 universities, only 5 had announced they had quit X, with a further 8 not posting in 2025. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... (1/2)

Open Education Week (OE Week) from the 3 to 7 March 2025. Details here oeweek.oeglobal.orgopen. You can meet Ed’s from all over the world who use open education resources and follow open educational practices (Adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ed... under the CC AT SA 4.0 License).

Interested in ‘Problematising education & digital tech’. Look out for CSET (critical studies of education and technology). This is a series of academic meetings being held around world during the same week (Feb 17th and 21st, week 8 of 2025). #CSET2025 Details > criticaledtech.com/2024/11/18/f...

I do enjoy this community of educational bloggers. Don't always agree with them, but do find their perspectives interesting. You might want to follow them? go.bsky.app/NYhHQEk

We are really looking forward to joining in #OEWeek25 with a dedicated week of community activities around blogging on the open web #blogging4life - come and take a look around our new blogging community of practice 👍

The metaphor of "hallucinations" re-enforces the misconception that Ai is conscious. @annamillsoer.bsky.social & @xolotl.org. suggest that "Ai mirage" is a better metaphor. "Are We Tripping?" The Mirage of AI Hallucinations (February 06, 2025) dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.... Also updating Wikipedia.

A friend asked me about the harms of Whatsapp, leading me to this four -part reply! Starting with avoidance as a political act, then what’s wrong with Meta, on to why and how metadata really matters and finally some practical suggestions czernie.weebly.com/blog/avoidin...

Oh...its gone up! Wohoo: blueskyscore.com/weblearning....

This looks like an interesting special issue. "How edtech is made: Researching an evolving industry-education complex" See think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

The bifurcation is hardening (says @edufuturist.bsky.social at aiandacademia.substack.com/p/ai-and-hig... and the resistance is firming up. A lovely provocation from @helenbeetham.bsky.social - youtu.be/KXXI30SihOg?.... Two substacks that I enjoy. Thanks for all the efforts!

Been doing some Spookwerk (ghostwork.info) on af.wikipedia.org today. Always good to be challenged to write about "opvoedkundige tegnologie" in another language.

Education after the Algorithm: Symposium at City University Dublin. Looks like an interesting event (although the lineup of speakers is from the minority world). www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/

Score. I’m covered. Old Glory is an Insurance company that will cover anyone over the age of 50 from robot attacks. Remember “Persons denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves.” youtu.be/g4Gh_IcK8UM?...

For those who do indicators (who doesn’t) you can check out my quantified BlueSky-Score. blueskyscore.com/weblearning....

@stephenmarquard.bsky.social Hello Stephen. Good to see you here. Hope you had a happy holiday?

Boost your reflection skills with the University of Edinburgh's Reflector's Toolkit! Elevate your CMALT portfolios by following this guidance on the language of academic reflections - https://buff.ly/41CJZGE #altc

Tonight, I shall be doing a 2hr set on the first Thursday Night Show of 2025 by dipppng back into the first two decades of this century to pick up on some of the music that I missed out on first time around. Join me in the chatroom? Live from 22:00 on ttns.uk…

If you are still interested in Ai and education (groan), I’d appreciate some assistance on improving this Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_in_e.... Pen Lister was very kind in helping me, but I still don’t think that I’ve nailed it?

Imagine a policymaker came to you (a normal ed techie) with significant resources at their disposal. Would you, the normal ed techie, nobly redirect the policymakers to the mavericks and rebels who have been systematically driven out, or to the fringes, of their disciplines? (1/2)

Hello all. Two years ago I made a leap away from Twitter into what felt like an abyss . If you have just recently done the same thing, then welcome. Hope you find your feet and your voice. Bsky is good. But I think that Mastodon is better. Why? No algorithm.

.."from late neolithic times.., right down to our own day, 2 techs have recurrently existed side by side: one authoritarian, the other democratic, the first system-centered, immensely powerful, but inherently unstable, the other man-centered, relatively weak, but resourceful and durable" L Mumford

Governing Silicon Valley and Shenzhen compares the #AI governance in the US and China. @[email protected] explores each country's AI trajectory and potential for international cooperation or for a clash. doi.org/10.1007/s442...

Going to the WikiIndaba 2024 Conference from 4-6 Oct in Sandton? Can’t make it in person. You needn’t miss out. The organizers have also arranged for “Hybrid Participation”https://app.eventyay.com/tickets/wiorg/wikiindaba/ There is also a YouTube Live Stream: 👉 www.youtube.com/@wikiindaba

“Organisations need to consider preparing their lifeboat now and being ready to leave X before it sinks any further”. Good post. Academic X’ has almost sunk. Where are you going. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... I recommend Mastodon. Absence of algorithms is bliss!

I contributed my 2c worth about Ai in education on Wikipedia. Please feel free to chip in! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_in_e...

"Is the post-digital framework an inappropriate attempt to create a neo-colonialistic rather than global way of looking at necessarily diverse and different communities and cultures, each with their own way of understanding their worlds and the impact of the digital upon them." (1/3)

I find writing about GenAI quite a struggle but something triggered me earlier this week so here are a few thoughts howsheilaseesit.net/ai/writing-g...