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A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

"I'll protect Christians. No, I'm going to shake things up with this weird guy who does straight arm salutes. No, I'm going to back the establishment. No, I'm going to use the army. No, I'm not sick, look, distractions." It's like Trump is speed-running Franco's 40 year reign in the first 10 months!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Suspect lots of people here don't realise how big a deal Kirk was on TikTok in the UK. Twins have seen loads of videos about him (mostly him being "owned" by progressive students). Lots of chat about it already on their WhatsApps. Much more so than anything in UK politics.

I suppose the VP thinks shootings of right wing influencers are just a "fact of life". I'm sure Charlie Kirk would have been the first to tell us this is the price Americans pay for freedom. I'm not going to say that though-every shooting is a tragedy. Every. Single. One. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

'Personalised tutoring' amounts to codifying and automating historical norms, societal stereotypes & harmful trends found in training data

Sen. Bennet to RFK Jr.: “This is not a podcast; this is the American people’s health at issue here.”

How did we become so terrified of one another, so incapable of basic civility that people's response to someone banging on their front door is to open fire? The suspect in the fatal ‘ding dong ditch’ shooting of an 11-year-old Houston boy is a US Army vet. | CNN share.google/Vg1fQg0WGkEP...

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Today we went along to interview Scottish Government Education Secretary, @jennygilruth.bsky.social when she attended the formal launch of the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Glasgow, with staff and teachers on secondment. We were the only Scottish broadcaster at the event.

How does Linehan get arrested for saying some things about trans issues, while Musk boosts literal Nazi Twitter accounts throwing the p-word around and calling for remigration. Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting - BBC News share.google/g8TIBwQHsun3...

ChatGPT & Turing-test-passing AGI is the Benz Motorwagon of the AI age. We thought we wanted a horseless carriage/ human language imitator, but it turns out what would be really useful is not quite that, but something different that uses the same mechanism to do something genuinely useful for us.

Are you watching, world? Treat AI as you would a very bright and fast but dishonest intern with a ridiculously inflated ego and sense of entitlement.

The face you make when you realise you started a war to reclaim your global superpower status, and ended up as much Xi's puppet vassal state as Kim Jong Un

Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values

My @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social funded paper with Miyoung Ahn @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social out now: survey in schs with high FSM eligibility showed career prospects & further study options main predictor of GCSE RS choice, along with parental perceptions of the same www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My article on cyber security and schools in the @tesmagazine.bsky.social today highlights three simple, quick steps to improve digital citizenship across the life of the school, drawing on @erpioe.bsky.social work at @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Has anyone written a history of the contribution of Britons who sought asylum overseas? I know there are histories of e.g. Protestant refugees under Mary, Catholics under Elizabeth, monarchists & republicans around the Civil War. Has this ever been framed around the common experience of refugees?

Historians may have words to say about this.

Wrote about making the various tech ecosystems in Scotland start talking to each other a bit more... open.substack.com/pub/digitalp...

Imagine, say, Harold Macmillan deciding that the best use of his post-Prime Minister career was slagging off his own country to foreigners in return for loose change.

There is a pattern to the migrant hotel protests. Far right groups funded by US/Russian dark money post times & locations on social media. Masked thugs show up. Net mums also fall for the propaganda, being mums they're more organised & show up earlier than the thugs, who are getting boozed up first.

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AGI is literally meaningless technology. Humans are meaning-makers, so taking the meaning-making task away from humans and giving it to machines that don't understand but just churn out slop is bad on all counts.

🚨 1 in 4 vulnerable kids would rather talk to an AI chatbot than a person. New Internet Matters report shows kids are turning to AI for support but safeguards are lacking. 🎧 Our podcast w/ 5Rights Youth Amb. Ali & Mie Oehlenschläger explores why that’s a problem: https://loom.ly/EHT3E68

Conspiracy theorists used to believe themselves to be a small group possessed of secret knowledge. A little over a decade ago many started to see themselves as vox populi. In the age of social media it tilts in that direction because of majority illusion. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

This @suttontrust.bsky.social report corroborates our @erpioe.bsky.social findings. Further, it's not just strategy, but ownership of AI tools: Independent schs more likely to partner with tech, while state schs give away student data to train AI & still have to pay schoolsweek.co.uk/new-digital-...

Misogynistic myths kicked out of classrooms to protect children | DfE

Just heard important BBCr4today discussion of this report with its authors. Addressing teenage interactions with AI chat bots, it has many intersections with our ongoing @uofgsocsci.bsky.social ESRC project on digital citizenship @lundieeducation.bsky.social www.internetmatters.org/wp-content/u...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

"Who's a good boy?! 😀🦮" Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #dog #goodboy #twitterdogs #miraclesofmary #africanart

Yup! In terms of the economics, the way to think about UK universities is as an export sector where overseas students come and throw tons of money at the UK economy before heading home with links to the UK that will foster our trade abroad. Other countries would kill to have what we're letting die.

The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

Basic structure of strategies that undermine democracy. 1) Micro-target 2) Enflame grievance 3) Entrench in belief systems 4) Monetize 5) Radicalize From my testimony to EU Parliament this week. Audio excerpt available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QK...

As usual, @shannonvallor.bsky.social dropping truth bombs at #SPT2025

Good to see Ofsted recognise that pedagogical and pastoral best interests of pupils should come first when inspecting schools' AI use. Also good to see recognition of emergent algorithm bias and pre-existing training dataset bias as safeguarding and equity issues. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

🇨🇦 Canada’s Privacy Commisioner just announced the development of a children’s privacy code. The new government must follow their lead and make the protection of #ChildRights and privacy online a national priority 📖 https://loom.ly/zxcHV5o #Canada

More about the postdigital classroom link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is seriously the snarkiest headline about AI and the tenuous uses to which it is put: "WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family" futurism.com/the-byte/wha...

We need to bring back "touch grass." This isn't some hellish clown world. Go outside! Touch grass! Talk to someone! Go to a store! Eat on a patio! It's quite nice, actually. And if we could get these people back to reality, we could maybe address some stuff to make it a little nicer for everyone.

The RE Council is calling for a National Plan for #RE to end the crisis of specialism in schools and ensure every student gets their entitlement to high-quality Religious Education that prepares them for life and work in modern Britain. shorturl.at/pcqNf #reteacher #TeamRE @sarahfcg.bsky.social

Computational Thinking Is Literacy: Expanding the Way We Support Young Learners #EdTech #edusky #TLSky #teachers #education #educators

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

A fair point, how should social media safety and censorship handle the realities of war? Do we really need to be saying X number of people were "unalived" in an "action" by Y state's air force?

"But come now, says the Sargent, if you will enlist, it's ten guineas in gold I will slip in your fist, And a crown to the bargain, for to kick up the dust, and drink the King's health in the morning." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great opportunity to give evidence about ways to secure high-quality #RE to the House of Commons Education Select Committee on behalf of the #RECouncil today. @deborahweston.bsky.social Good to catch up with @lundieeducation.bsky.social and hear his evidence about media literacy too. #TeamRE