It's OK for educational explanations of LLMs to strive for things other than technical precision, because technical precision is not the only (or even primary) aim of educational explanations. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/do-student...

Quand l'un des meilleurs spécialistes du mouvement évangélique est interviewé sur le trumpisme, on tend l'oreille et on ajuste les lunettes. Je vous invite à aller lire séance tenante l'ami @phlppgnzlz.bsky.social :

Un rapport de Deloitte pour le ministère de l'Emploi australien, probablement généré par IA, contenait au moins une demi-douzaine de références à des travaux universitaires qui n'existent pas.

This is going to be such a profoundly destructive bit of quack theatre. It will give struggling people false hope. It will undermine confidence in research. Shameless propaganda from an utter bullshit artist that a lot of people are going to have to work very, very hard to contextualize or refute.

Uusi Faktabaarin kooste tarjoaa ohjeita tekoälyn eettiseen käyttöön koulukontekstissa. Oppaassa käydään läpi seitsemän keskeistä periaatetta koulutuksen järjestäjän, opettajan ja oppijan näkökulmista. Lue koko opas: faktabaari.fi/edu/tekoaly-...

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... "De Gloria Watkins à bell hooks, itinéraire d'une penseuse qui nous fait reconsidérer nos compromis avec les dominations de genre, de race et de classe."

Premier tournoi d’échecs de chatbots : échec et mat à l'intelligence artificielle générale ?

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea... The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, misinformation and missteps aided its comeback

"Le président Trump devrait signer un décret obligeant les universités à transmettre des données sur les admissions afin de prouver qu'elles ne pratiquent pas de discrimination positive, a déclaré la porte-parole de la Maison-Blanche dans une publication sur X." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

« Voici comment l’administration Trump prévoit de mettre en œuvre son interdiction des politiques de diversité, d’équité et d’inclusion (DEI). Une nouvelle note de 9 pages fournit des directives à tous les bénéficiaires de fonds fédéraux… » www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

The fun they had

datadetoxkit.org/en/ai/voice/ Whose Voice is it Anyway? Navigating the highs and lows of voice AI

‘There is no use in trying,’ said Alice; ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ (L. Carroll, AiW)

A very illuminating piece by Joseph Smith, lead engineer on newsroom AI at @theguardian.com, that provides a deeper understanding of how #LLMs work beyond the basics. medium.com/@joelochlann...

"The question we should be asking is not if ChatGPT is useful or not (it is), but if OpenAI’s unaccountable power, linked to Microsoft’s monopoly and the business model of the tech economy, is good for society." ainowinstitute.org/publications...

"Ruha Benjamin recently stated: imagination is “[not] an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss or romanticize, but a resource, a battleground”. And, she continues: “most people are forced to live inside someone else’s imagination.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.ipm.org/news/2025-07... Indiana cuts only public university ASL interpretation program.

Today marks the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act - a landmark piece of legislation that Judy Heumann was instrumental in the passage of. In her memoir Being Heumann, Judy describes this day 35 years ago… (via www.facebook.com/TheHeumannPe...)

Education is fundamentally about relationships before it's about information. You'll never get someone to open their mind to new and challenging ideas if you don't have a trusting relationship with them as a baseline. But then all they care about is installing relations of domination & subordination

Hey @archive.org, we think you are pretty cool

palindromic vibe

Free Talk "V for Viking: TikTok, Viking Archaeology & the Far Right" - Tomorrow 17.30 British Summer Time - sign up here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/

i check in with ChatGPT sometimes to see where it's at as a research tool. I asked it some questions about a current project. i was at first dishearteningly impressed. It found the main stuff i found (in minutes as opposed to weeks). But, within 6 prompts it was hallucinating. I have thoughts...

« Ce sont des démarches plurielles, qui partent du terrain en engageant un travail à la fois social et culturel avec les personnes et les milieux concernés, plutôt que d’appliquer une méthode unique. » reporterre.net/Anna-Tsing-a...

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

For switching to EU/European alternatives for WeTransfer, see: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-...

"PANORAMA #9 – L’éducation inclusive : perspectives et enjeux démocratiques" www.ofaj.org/ressources/p...

"The truth is that very often we were seen, our challenges were noticed, but most people didn’t know how to understand what they were seeing, and thus substituted other explanations." @thinkingautism.com thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/auti...

EU-funded ChatEurope news chatbot delivers outdated and incorrect answers

ChatEurope : une #IA européenne pour décrypter l'🇪🇺. L'initiative est portée par l’@afp.com et un consortium de quinze médias. Son ambition : contrer la #désinformation en rendant l’ #UE plus lisible. www.influencia.net/chateurope-u...

"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/c... "ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true"

Face Privacy. Un outil libre et gratuit conçu pour flouter vos photos en toute simplicité. 📷✨ #Confidentialité #Photos #Sécurité #école vist.ly/3n76rru

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

L’invasion silencieuse des faux médias générés par IA www.zataz.com/linvasion-si...

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Semaine de l’Histoire : Enfances savoirs.ens.fr/focus_detail...

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

« L’école idéale », l’expo qui réinvente le futur de la salle de classe usbeketrica.com/fr/article/l...