It's like they want to be the chaotic journalist-antihero Spider Jerusalem from the Warren Ellis comic book Transmetropolitan, but they missed the entire point of the book and only picked up on the violence.

Reading Magnifica Humanitas very slowly, because I find myself incapable of not hearing every word of it in Pope Leo's carefully measured tones.

Can someone explain to me how prediction markets make money? What is the value they derive from prediction? It's not the same as sports betting, where there are punters betting on both teams, and the bookmaker just needs to make sure the odds even out over time, plus a profit.

Petition from Meta workers: “We are calling for a clear commitment that employees (FTEs, CWs and Interns), must not have their "computer use data" - also referred to as human-computer interaction data - collected for the purposes of training AI models” mcipetition.com

"Against Optimized Efficiency: Why Foreign Language Learning Still Matters" by Kit Pribble in latest issue of Critical AI Free to read #OpenAccess #LanguageLearning #LangSky read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

You know that if Kier Starmer single-handedly solved the Iran-Israel War, the Tory press in the UK would lead with the headline "Starmer's Blow To UK Arms Industry Exports"

First Sloth born in Scotland named after Sir David Attenborough, after zoo rejects naming him Slothy McSlothface share.google/r41XhmP8i6MG...

Honestly, I don't need to use GenAI. Every day, I have fascinating conversations with real, intelligent human beings. In PhD supervisions & project meetings I am "prompt engineering" those intelligences, and they are going out into the world, gathering views of other experts in a real neural network

Major new publication with the first findings of my @templetonrelig.bsky.social project on empathy, pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours in Journal of Environmental Psychology @uofgdumfries.bsky.social Free to read at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"we are living through attacks on our science from both the outside & inside wherein non-theory & non-science produced by industry players is presented as computational modelling of the phenomena and capacities we study, and worse as theories thereof (van Rooij & Guest, 2026; van Rooij et al. 2024)"

Why is there so much fly-tipping in Birmingham? Because there aren't any cows in the city to tip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is good. Read it, especially but not only if you are a government minister. It comes from a reflective place of praxis. Unlike much of what has been said on this topic, this is not slop.

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought via @wired www.wired.com/story/deepfa... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #deepfakes

How does forgiveness transform the forgiver? 🤝💓 'Wrongdoing and Forgiveness' by Joanna North is available for free as part of our series, '100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking', celebrating our centenary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #forgiveness #philosophyoflife #philosophical

In #CriticalAI 3.2, Matthew Halm dives into the politics of “prompt engineering,” arguing that it reflects an ideology that sidelines human judgment in favor of optimization. The essay challenges how generative AI tools are framed—and taught—in writing education. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Over the years we've seen countries across the globe pull the plug on the internet to control narratives and crush resistance. EFF and @Amnesty.org / @AmnestyUK.bsky.social are explaining how you can fight back: www.eff.org/event/effec...

Is this proof Trump is the Antichrist? Quick, someone call Peter Thiel!

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

Coverage is not progress. Students struggle for 3 curricular reasons: lack of specificity, lack of systematicity, and lack of subject sensitivity. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

In Europe's post-Napoleonic Catholic revival, new vocations flocked to social reformers like Marcellin Champagnat & Don Bosco. People had come to hope for revolutionary change, but also realised it wouldn't come in their lifetimes. Sounds very much like our times. theconversation.com/there-may-no...

There's a definite paradox here. I like being on a network that just shows me what my mutuals and hashtags post, what's relevant, and doesn't try to addict me to doomscrolling for hours. But the flip side of that is that I only post when I have something worth saying, which can be weeks apart.

You asked AI to fix your comma, It fixed your entire personality. This paper proved that ChatGPT rewrites your opinions without permission. You told it to fix a comma. It erased what you believe. And the worst part? You liked the result better.

please do not feed all your thoughts into the jar of hungry ghosts.

Next #Identities event! 'Ceding Sovereignty to the More-Than-Human: A Maori Perspective' with Prof Carl Mika Chaired by Dr Ima Jackson, Glasgow Caledonian University In person, 23 Apr, 2-3.30pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

New guide from NIoT Centre for Digital Information Literacy on addressing Conspiracy Thinking in the Classroom. Young people suffer real world harm's from believing online conspiracies: niot.org.uk/news-events/...

A little Adam Smith for you. From Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Today I Learned That De Pauw University is it's own place and not just a Glaswegian colleague talking about De Paul University!

If Trump thinks he is in peace talks with Iran, but Iran has no knowledge of these happening, who is Trump really talking to? I have visions of some kebab shop in DC getting the call: "that crazy old man is on the phone again. Yeah, just promise him two lamb shawarma and no nuclear weapons!"

After watching the recent Louis Theroux Netflix documentary on the manosphere, I thought I should check in with my son's viewing habits,check he isn't consuming this kind of content. His response "Those guys are so total cringe!" - you heard it here first, misogyny is cringe!

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …” — @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2025) From: zenodo.org/records/1706...

Glasgow's "young teams" have a reputation for vandalism and antisocial behaviour, but they have nothing on this lot! DOGE lead: It was right for young team to deny grants for DEI | News | Independent TV share.google/KqM2ipje4CMg...

“If plagiarism is wrong & bad & theft is wrong & bad & schools are duty-bound to help instill these values in students, how can they justify adoption of a technology that is, at its core, built on stolen work & whose purpose is the extrusion of text to be passed off as one's own thinking & writing?”

Pitch an unnecessary sequel II Swear

Rome, a city with multiple Catholic universities staffed by learned Dominican friars who have spent decades studying Sacred Scripture. Thiel, a random tech bro: "hey, wanna come to a talk where I ramble for an hour about what I reckon about the Antichrist?"

Enjoy the audio overview version of my latest blog, Will Generative AI Kill the Open Educational Resources Movement? notebooklm.google.com/notebook/f80... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #OER

When two teen test accounts asked about carrying out violence, many AI chatbots didn’t refuse or discourage them, they helped via @CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/b... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai

"age verification undermines any effort to protect children by putting their privacy at risk. These systems fail in predictable ways... Scale that experience across millions of users, and you bake the privacy risk into how platforms work" www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/h...

Things don't occur in a vacuum. Threatening students with failure or expulsion is going to terrify them, particularly when the "AI detection" methods are flawed. This is a really good look at some of the unintended consequences of harsh AI penalties from @masnick.com #AcademicSky

What's the harm in identifying as a cat anyway? Cats never did me any harm. I'd be far more worried about children identifying as Reform supporters! Reform MS Laura Anne Jones's children identifying as cats speech labelled misinformation - BBC News share.google/qbqZ8WnIGixh...

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

“We just can't rely on the companies to voluntarily stand up,” says Dr. Alan Mackworth, UBC computer science prof. emeritus. “There needs to be some public accountability by having a regulatory agency with enforcement powers to check standards.” @cs.ubc.ca @alanmackworth.bsky.social bit.ly/3N2V3rH

#areiac + anyone interested in the changes that may be ahead for RE and how this can ensure diverse voices are included are welcome to join! #teamre 👇tinyurl.com/yx3zstsk

aeon.co/essays/what-... "The fragmentation [of attention] correlates not with screens in general but with specific design patterns... choices made by specific companies for specific economic reasons. They are not inherent properties of the medium."

"Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As Glasgow Film Festival opens with Everyone to Kenmure Street, Lucy Butters asks what Scotland’s protests say about our culture | Lucy Butters

How the private equity industry views education is really alien to how educators see it. Yet these investors probably have a bigger say in how the future of education will unfold. First, education is a *market* worth $trillions *in the future* making it a good speculative bet for investment...

A trend becoming visible in student recruitment in UK and other European universities