Rain receding … Rain returning

There’s history on the beach This place has been around Throughout and inside time The cosmos and grains of sand Bear witness

today's completely unsurprising news. this ban was never about child safety anyway. it was about getting australians to face scan for internet access so tech corps could harvest the data - which then by used for facial recognition in surveillance systems. same reason the uk wants to do it.

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race www.kluweoc.com

Morning beach colours

The beach this evening

Cockatoos in Aldinga, South Australia

Low tide

#aied #education #edusky #academicsky humanstatement.org

Clouds

Another 4Cs … still about #curriculum but not 21st century skills #teaching

#aied #metaphor The illusion of thinking … & Large Reasoning Models ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

beach moments giving some daily solace

The beach today moments now blown away

Albanese's silence in response to Trump's actions is understandable. In the short term, it may even feel prudent and arguably in Australia’s immediate interest, but caution can easily be interpreted as indulgence and, over time, can harden into habit. satpa.pe/cHOrzxT

Lines in the sand …

New OpenScholar LLM outperforms on lit reviews www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)”

The beach today

#TheWeekinData: Chatbot chat *Barnsley becomes first UK “tech town” *Social media for chatbots *Marginal gains. Ouch! Silicon Valley. Shenzhen. Barnsley. Previously famous for coal mining, a lamb chop and Kes, Barnsley is to be catapulted into the tech firmament. buff.ly/dph2PUB

“AI is moving at the speed of light. No country can see the full picture alone.” 40 experts will lead a fully independent scientific panel to build shared evidence on AI’s real-world impacts, while informing guardrails, cooperation, and innovation for the common good. https://ow.ly/Iyo150Y9lVx

Once were homes …

liking the reframing of "human skills" relevant for now - am finding the "21st C skills" agenda needing a rethink

#research #opendata

Casuarina beach before the rain

A call for research participants - current doctoral students and doctoral research supervisors #PhD #EdD #DPhil etc., in the #UK and #Finland. A UK-Finland collaboration to improve our understanding of the doctoral journey. Follow @drlindae.bsky.social - and DM if you need more information.

#data #consent #aied #research & assumptions … those “productivity tools” are tooling us www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The beach today - Lee Point

Clouds at Casuarina

In between the showers at Casuarina Beach

Fun fact. In 1916, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the USA, with the colony becoming the US Virgin Islands. The USA was worried Germany could take control of the islands, though they had no plans to do so. In exchange, the USA acknowledged Denmark's complete sovereignty over Greenland.

How AI Is Exploding Our Illusions of Rigor via @insidehighered www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #rigor #highered

Practical classroom suggestions from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social over at @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social. If you want students' authentic voices, ask them to record it! #EduSky #AIEdu

The Trouble With Harvard newrepublic.com/article/1193... via @newrepublic.com … an old essay by Steven Pinker … plus new commentary

"The ACTU and Microsoft Australia have also agreed to jointly develop and deploy resources to support workers’ access to training and new skills development for working with artificial intelligence systems and products." www.actu.org.au/media-releas...

Blue Soldier crabs on the march

Germany has unveiled a revolutionary salt-air battery that could transform global energy storage. Instead of relying on lithium — a costly, finite, and environmentally challenging resource — this technology uses salt, air, and carbon to create a long-lasting, stable battery with a lifespan measur...

Obama actually won his Nobel Peace Prize.

As research impact gains global importance, the need for shared language, practical tools, and confident practice grows. Our upcoming workshop and new initiative are here to support that. Check them out in our first newsletter of the year. www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact...

The warm and fuzzy emotion of kama muta underlies vital feel-good experiences like social connection and feeling part of something bigger. But are you getting enough of it?

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Sick & Apalling

#aied AI “not just a general purpose tool” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“We are seeing the rise of an AI Blakface that is utilised with ease thanks to the availability and prevalence of AI. Non-Indigenous people and entities are able to create Indigenous personas through AI, often grounded in stereotypical representations that both amalgamate and appropriate cultures.”

“I just find it astonishing that people who were arguing this was absolutely urgent – it was on the front page of papers day after day after day – and now they’re saying: ‘Oh no, well, actually, it’s not that urgent’” - Prime Minister Albanese. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Bob Weir and John Mayer play acoustic version of Brown-Eyed Women in Montana in 2020. Don't miss. RIP Bob. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGQ...

This is Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social at her most brilliant best. Jo is a former Adelaide Writers' Week director, and this article beautifully sums up her fury at the needless destruction of one of Australia's most world famous arts events. @theshot.net.au theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Strong data privacy protections are critical to protecting communities from ICE. The MA Senate passed a data privacy bill in the fall. The House needs to take action. #mapoli

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the market within five years