"as Penn pours endless money & energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. #AI cannot coexist with #education — it can only degrade it" #onted #cdned food for thought, unless you're off loading that now. www.thedp.com/article/2026...

The rise of quantum technologies necessitates integrating foundational quantum mechanics (QM) concepts into secondary education. However, inherently abstract phenomena like quantum entanglement pose significant pedagogical challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

“This is bad. They are way too easy to repurpose. I don’t think that can be contained anymore. So we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this.”

"grader gaming, where a model exploits a gap or misspecification in an evaluation’s automated scoring system to craft a solution that scores highly without fulfilling the “spirit” of the intended task" #AI #cybersecurity www.nist.gov/caisi/cheati...

"Unlike during previous oil shocks, renewable power is now competitive with fossil fuels in many places. More than 90% of new renewable power projects worldwide in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives"

"More than 97% of the water used by major data center operators is purchased from municipal drinking water systems—many of which are already under strain" www.bluefieldresearch.com/ns/u-s-water... Mainly to produce the cloud services (socmed, e-learning, online storage etc) you can't stop using.

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission www.livescience.com/technology/a...

"BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest EV seller this year." Because Elon set up shop in China and handed them the tech: wired.com/story/china-... Then paid to install a government that cut all EV supports. Brilliant strategy. Tesla investors baffle me.

@canadianshieldinstitute.ca's The National Interest well worth a read: app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-v... "no one really likes data centres. They’re noisy neighbours politically, visually ugly, water & power-hungry, low on jobs & increasingly met with deserving suspicion from citizens" #cdnpoli

Children are ‘borrowing’ comprehension rather than developing it — it’s like sending a robot to the gym on your behalf: the weight gets lifted, but no muscle growth occurs www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pa...

How we isolate ourselves from shock doctrine economics is also how we future proof ourselves. These dinosaurs aren't going to die quietly. Dependency gets you pulled into their death throes. If you can produce your own electricity for home and transport, even partially at first, do it!

"Pyroxene deployed data-wiping malware against multiple undisclosed organizations in Israel during June '25 Israel-Iran-US military conflict — demonstrating that kinetic escalation triggers offensive cyber operations concurrently, not sequentially."

From 2024: A new study reveals how #AI is empowering teachers and driving satisfaction www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... Is it? Teacher satisfaction data up to 2024...

"the outcome of the case could be a “defining moment” for a U.S. legal system grappling with whether the outputs of artificial intelligence-based hiring programs could be discriminatory." -they are. "It's not my fault, the #AI did it!" isn't a defence. www.hrdive.com/news/workday...

arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 "how AI assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise #AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process."

"the sycophantic machines are warping self-perception & inflating egos of their users, leading them to double down on their beliefs & think they’re better than their peers - it provides compelling evidence that #AI leads users directly into the Dunning-Kruger effect" futurism.com/future-socie...

A new polymer blend could boost capacitor efficiency, allowing for four times as much energy storage, even at high temperatures.

"modern technology can streamline day-to-day life, making everything from dating to food delivery more efficient" Streamlining and efficiency aren't the same thing. efficiency: achieving the same (or better) results with fewer resources The results are often not better, but arrive faster.

Ex-BND (German Foreign Intelligence Service) deputy chief Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven received a message from fake Signal “support” asking for his PIN. He typed it in. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3

Whenever I see uncredited cute/amusing/surprising images or videos of dubious provenance doing numbers on here I just reflexively instablock the account that shared them. Hopefully over time it means my feed is less filled with people trying to boost their own accounts using stolen content.

" #AgenticAI delivers context-specific recommendations that substitute for human effort. By contrast, a richer stock of general knowledge complements human effort by raising its marginal return." #AI #education www.nber.org/papers/w34910

They tell you wrong. I'm a (very) experienced technician & teacher. I use #AI efficiently to enhance my work. The problem isn't AI disrupting established expertise (it often enhances it), it's the damage it'll do to future generations' learning. They need protecting. www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03...

About a quarter of Ontarians have what is considered a legal disability. How many disabled teachers do you know? This is why... franklinlaw.ca/fightinginju...

“I used to love my job. Now I’m just trying to survive it… Teaching happens in the gaps between emergencies…” 😢 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Identify the key factors that support #Canadiansovereignty, and helping to ensure that each decision strengthens Canada’s long-term national resilience" canadianshieldinstitute.ca/sovereignty-... #cdnpoli #Canada

If the goal was to prevent nuclear proliferation or to simply behead an enemy state, this war looks like it is being wildly mismanaged. If the goal was something else, it may well be unfolding exactly as planned.

Working through Cisco's "Beyond the CLI: Supercharging IT with AI". Disappointed with the language from the off. Using words like 'comprehend' & 'understand' at a 'conceptual level' is how we're fumbling #AI. What it can do is statistically impressive, no need to anthropomorphize or embellish it.

ICTC has helped reduce costs! Now it's only $25 for the full day including full year membership with ECOO + lunch + snacks + prizes + a chance to share best practices with other #onted teachers at a time when #AI is turning #edtech upside down. If you're free, join us! ecoo.org/dream-forwar...

interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/... Like watching Darth Vader buy HAL9000...

"the risk that students will outsource too much of the cognitive work that is crucial to establishing the knowledge, skill & thinking infrastructure that enables schooling success & lifelong capacity for learning, reflection, creativity & achievement." #AI #education www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03...

Shohini does a good job of describing just how much of a shift probabilistic #quantumcomputing is when compared to deterministic digital technology in this piece: www.wlu.ca/features/202... If you're at all interested in computing, this brings a new perspective. #onted #cdned

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

"We introduce Metriq, an open-source collaborative platform for reproducible cross-platform quantum benchmarking" scirate.com/arxiv/2603.0...

"the risk that students will outsource too much of the cognitive work that is crucial to establishing the knowledge, skill & thinking infrastructure that enables schooling success & lifelong capacity for learning, reflection, creativity & achievement." #AI #education www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03...

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

"AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average" arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

"a lot of solar power simply gets wasted, or “curtailed,” to make way for dirty forms of energy that are harder to turn off." www.wired.com/story/china-... Well worth a read - we have the technology to generate energy but not store it to meet our uneven demands. Economics highlight the issue.

"Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use" arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

By teachers for teachers: #onted sharing best practices in a rapidly changing #edtech landscape. ecoo.org/dream-forwar...

"All it takes to be a Canadian supplier is that you maintain an address with employees in Canada and pay taxes here." Tiering this makes sense. Top tier? Canadian owned, Canadian based (majority of employees in Canada). LM doesn't meet either criteria, so tier 3? (Operations in Canada). #cdnpoli

“China's cyber forces are impressive, and growing” lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre... "disruptive cyber operations have an important place in Chinese strategic thinking. At the highest and most destructive level, China would use cyber-attacks to “paralyze the social information network"

"Are you curious about how #AI really works — and how you can help shape its future? Join us for an interactive, youth focused introduction to the ethics of #artificialintelligence" #cdned us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Oh #Canada, why do you have to be like this? "Promising skills interventions often remain confined to a single organization, creating a landscape of siloed programs competing for the same resources. This forces communities to reinvent the wheel..." fsc-ccf.ca/blog-replica... #cdnpoli

Can Canada regain digital sovereignty? At a TVO Today Live at CIGI, @spaikin.bsky.social asks @vassb.bsky.social (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), Craig McLellan (ThinkOn), and Mark Surman (@mozilla.org) what Canada must do to secure its online independence.

Finding funding in Canada to develop education programs is difficult. Thank goodness Unitary Foundation helped get this started: unitary.foundation/posts/2025_q...

"Traditional transistors, the workhorses of modern electronics, are struggling to switch faster without guzzling power. A rival design, the tunnel field-effect transistor, sidesteps the problem by exploiting quantum tunnelling rather than heat-driven electron flow" www.azom.com/article.aspx...

"more than a quarter of the energy cost of owning a brain is to facilitate ongoing learning" Which is why you shouldn't off load that process to wildly inefficient artificial processes. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... The efficiency of the human brain is staggering. The original #greentech

"It's off-putting to make these direct comparisons between humans and the blind statistical machines that LLMs are. However, reports on the energy expenditure of these models do not consider how hugely inefficient humans can be when using energy in a developed society' cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...

Love a good visualization - this walk through of LLMs is well worth a go: bbycroft.net/llm