🤔I am not sure #HIAL (Highland and Islands' Airports) should be supporting Elon Musk's space colonisation (imo). If you agree, please contact [email protected], or by phone at 01667 462445, to voice your concerns. #SYY

Thank you RoroToko for this great Micro-Interview on 'Clouds' www.rorotoko.com/micro-interv...

A busy day at the Taipei international book exhibition yesterday. Here is co-director Will with a fabulous line up of panel members talking about publishing, translation, connection and so much more! #taiwan #taipei #books

👩‍💻How good are your MS Excel skills? Good enough for the Microsoft Excel World Championship broadcast on ESPN? youtu.be/zJXaPc-fBwk

"Show your work." 👏 Mark Carney

*hisses like a cat* BAD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'To be successful in school & in life, students need one skill - #SUSTAINED attention.' 🧐 ~Prof. Tooze, Columbia University, WEF, Davos www.instagram.com/reel/DT77kSU...

🤔For me, messaging will be the harder transition...

👏 Love this AI declaration by Author Amanda Gailey #UNebraskaLincoln

"A World without rules..." In today's Observer 📰

"He believed her because here in the shadowy light of the stronghold everything seemed possible." 🌳🖋️

🖋️ChimamandaNgoziAdichi - writer of women ♀️❤️ "I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name. Until a crack appears in the sky & reveals us to ourselves."

🍅Who knew there were _5_ sensory tastes? Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter & UMAMI! 👩‍🍳from chef & writer Samin Nosrat

🥘'Cooking together is reconciliation; whenever it happens, it has to start somewhere' 🖋️British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi in the Globe 📰today

🤔"Ask yourself, what happens when anyone has the power to create & broadcast material with incredible levels of realism?" 👉Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave (written more than 3 years ago!)

🎂Happy 250th to the writer who documented women🖋️

16 Dec: Happy 250th Birthday to author JANE AUSTEN - 1st chronicler of women's lives & author of "spongecake" 🎂 "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." ~Sense & Sensibility 🖋️

🌬️🌧️The world's gone topsy-turvy - only in the Western Isles do you see it raining UP! 😵‍💫

The latest release from The Scotland Channel is a fascinating story. Made famous by Charles Dickens as a Christmas miser in his novel "A Christmas Carol", the character of Ebenezer Scrooge is based on a real life resident of Edinburgh. Avail fm midnight tonight Wed 10th thescotlandchannel.tv

👩‍🔬🇨🇦 “As other countries constrain academic freedoms & undermine cutting-edge research, Canada is investing in & doubling down on science by attracting the top minds from around the world to work alongside exceptional Canadian researchers." 🌐 ~Mélanie Joly,

🇻🇪'Every human being has a right to individual sovereignty.' 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado

🛳Love this method of #representing research from France's FishOWF+ marine science team 👏 www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...

🖋️'The artist's job is not to succumb to despair; but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.' #WoodyAllen for #GertrudeStein

👇 AI: Here's where we are now (below). Beyond Siri, Alexa ChatGBT & multistep info tasks - we're now at #Agentic AI, 'agents', e.g. PerplexityComet, that can move your cursor, click decisions, type & complete autonomous tasks. Q: Where will we insert our humanity? [Image:educator Nick BakerUWindsor]

As governments &. teachers grapple w how to work w agentic AI, here are Nick Baker’s Principles forTrustworthy AI: 1. Keep humans in control. 2. Maintain transparency in agent behaviour. 3. Align agents w human values. 4. Protect privacy across extended interactions. 5. Secure agents’ interactions.

⚕️Some 2024 data from 🇨🇦 this week on MAID (Medical Assistance in Death) e.g., AVG age = 77.9. Cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition, affecting 63% of recipients (mainly lung, colorectal, pancreatic & hematologic).

'No amount of hustle will fix a place that thrives on chaos. No level of loyalty will shift a culture that protects poor leadership.' 🤔 🖋️LyndaLeads

In the 1980s and 90s, Microsoft, IBM & Apple's central marketing strategy was 'SELL to schools'; students are naïve 'customers for life'. Is Big AI is using the same strategy 40 years on? 🤔

🤯 Just watching 'why Rome fell' on BBC's 'Civilisations' - "less and less was going into the public good, and more and more into the coffers of the super rich" 🫰 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

🕵️‍♀️Now it's time to play: 'Which one of these vapid Christmas movies _wasn't_ written by AI 👾?'

♀️Tuesday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ✊🏿 #UN #EliminateAI-poweredAbuse www.unwomen.org/en/articles/...

From the Guardian🗞️ today: Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel 'robbed' after a course turned out to be taught in large part by AI. A recorded meeting shows a student saying, "I do not want to be taught by GPT". "We could have asked ChatGPT"' #studentsfightback

"AI represents an urgent catalyst for change. It does not just influence how student learning can be assessed, it also influences what is WORTH assessing and, consequently, what and how students learn." (Lodge et al, TEQSA, 2023, p.2.)

#RESIST - Just finished reading two of Nobelist László Krasznahorkai's works & the critical thinking running through both is pause; #resist (pp. 90-91) 🇭🇺

🎂a very happy 86th birthday to 🇨🇦author, Margaret Atwood 🥂

🖋️ Thammavongsa wins the Giller - again - w 'Pick a Colour', about retired boxer Ning who runs a nail salon where all the employees are called 'Susan'. Exploring Ning's keen observations of her privileged clients & the power dynamics of the service economy, true identities & anonymous roles played.

The #CloseScreensOpenMinds movement: youtu.be/0ET37A4Ifp0?...

'Hunt for the Oldest DNA follows scientist Eske Willerslev's 16yr search for DNA from ancient soil. What the Albert Einstein World Award of Science winner finds in the ground reveals a world from before the ice age. The film delivers the professor's inspiring story of pursuit and science.' 🔎🌏

"I think the danger is when one place becomes like another & everything becomes yours to possess- rather than admire. Land has to have a life of its own, which you can desire, but not claim. And if that's the way it is, it often opens the gate, and welcomes you in." 🖋️AngusPeterCampbell

'Masons are careful to test out the scaffolding; secure ladders, tighten joints. When the job's done - walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me, never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall. Confident that we have built our wall.'

🥃The #Hearach has arrived! 1st thing I saw walking through #GLA ✈️ #DutyFree this morning! Slàinte! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🇻🇪🕊️María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize: 'barred from running in presidential elections won by Nicolás Maduro, Machado was recognised for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" #BBC 👏☮️

"Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read." 🖋️László Krasznahorkai

✏️ Something worthwhile to pencil in into your diaries! 4 November 2025 at 7pm! Register by scanning the QR code!

'Colleges are driven by chasing colonial money, rather than producing robust & confident youth. Until we who HAVE serve our communities, we will never have youth who feel they #belong, are connected. & can contribute.' 🎙️RSA's Mo Isap on 'Breaking the #NEET Cycle'

🤷Farage: 40yrs behind: "Waiting For The Wave is not a new book, nor is it about Farage; it details the rise of the Reform party of Canada. Starting in Alberta in 1986, Preston Manning cultivated a growing dissatisfaction with the political classes." 📰AndyMaciver in TheHerald

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#RSA Leilani Farhan discusses SHELTER AS A HUMAN RIGHT: #housing reflects the interests of #Finance where national banks reward BigInvestors by offering lower interest rates to 🤑 who acquire buildings where rents are likely to be raised, resulting in tenants being displaced👉 lnkd.in/gkrE9fgB