Cozily ensconced at the airport hotel at the end of a full month in France with my husband and kiddos (last two weeks with my mum too). Travelling with kids — especially with a hyper verbal nine year old and a hyper mobile eighteen month old — is for sure travelling on hard mode. But so damn good.

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

I’m 43 today and I spent it killing a bottle of champagne with my mum and husband and kids (they’re lightweights) with a view of the Monaco grandstands from just below the pit lane, walking the track, and getting a Fernando Alonso cap. Great day. Bonus shot: pit lane baby strutting his stuff.

The most important thing to me in this write-off of a Formula 1 season is that Kimi Antonelli beating George Russell is literal, maximal comedy and I need it.

I read this piece and I honestly don’t really get what Klein and others are doing with their personal AIs. Giving it a bunch of information about you . . . why? Like outsourcing your inner monologue? Throwing every random idea at it . . . Why?

There's very little procurement research out there so I read a lot of conference proceedings and anyway this one is super fun because it reinforces that, at least in the US regulatory environment, universities can't confirm anything vendors promise about data privacy. Neat!

It's a working day and I'm reading @eam0.bsky.social's "Postdigital Ethics of Care" and very annoyed it took me this long to find it.

ICYMI: This week @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social checked out Tracey Deer's Indigenous Canadian film, BEANS (2020), which we've both been eager to check out for years.

I would enjoy this more if I didn’t know that somewhere at least three university presidents are pressuring their learning tech teams to get PureGenius Ready by EOD Friday.

This is intended to be derogatory but I think it fuckkn’ slaps.

Peter Mansbridge not disclosing a conflict or endorsement! This is such a surprising turn of events and not at all a regular part of his career trajectory!

I am away but not so away that I can’t plug this episode of the pod — talking to Audrey Watters was a dream and her book is such a good frame for understanding genAI in education now. I hope you give it a listen. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...

First full day in Paris. My big kid saw the sphinx at the Louvre. My little one got me to tick the "breastfed a baby next to an ancient Egyptian lute" box in my Guide To Being Awesome. Also: bought a book and tote at Shakespeare and Company; ate Carrefour sandwich perched on a nearby park wall.

Joe and @brennacgray.bsky.social venture into new territory to discuss writing/directing duo Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky's queer Canadian Jehovah's Witness romance. Featuring stand-out performances by Anwen O'Driscoll and June Laporte, the 90s-set film is beautifully quiet and contemplative.

Finally watched the Christian Horner episode of Drive to Survive and absolutely wild to make Yuki Tsunoda the villain in the Yuki-Liam tete-a-tete. Seriously how dare you.

Put it in my veins.

The main thing to remember after FP1 of the new Formula 1 season is that George Russell looks like his ancestors for sure used to own humans.

Me to @brennacgray.bsky.social

There’s a particular kind of (American) F1 fan who, when they hear of any team having trouble, goes, “Lol and they thought Andretti wouldn’t add value.” Yes. Correct. That is how little everyone in F1 thinks of Andretti.

Lady in a giant white SUV pulls out of the school drop-off line in the wrong direction, immediately kicks it up past the posted school zone limit, and blasts through a lighted crosswalk with her head down — texting. Yeah this is going to be awesome in December when we’re doing this in the dark.

This is the era to take detailed notes on who the Business Idiots are. Every single person who bought into this at this scale has outed themselves as an untrustworthy individual with questionable taste www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

The most toxic lie big tech has sold us is the idea that, with just the right tweaks, bad tech can become safe. There's no way to make ChatGPT into a "safe" tool for people in distress: it is designed to affirm every terrible intrusive thought you've ever had, because sycophancy locks the user in.

This is such an important reframing of the conversation about automation, and senior leadership in universities will do well to heed it. (They won’t, because they’re beholden to boards full of MBAs without three creative thoughts among them, but still.)

Ok I feel like I can’t be the only one who thinks permanent daylight time is a mistake when compared to the obvious superiority of permanent standard time.

As a Fernando Alonso stan, this F1 season is going to be long and depressing, so here are some things I'm hoping for to cheer me up along the way: 1. Antonelli beating Russell regularly enough to annoy Russell. 2. Liam Lawson losing to yet another less experienced teammate.

Ok. So you (1) can’t possibly have a rational conversation with anyone holding this view and (2) can’t possibly trust a media apparatus that is willing to pretend this is worth of broadcast.

Smith is a liar but, as with Trump’s base, in 2026, believing these lies is a choice. It is convenient and it feels good to have someone to blame, and heeding that devil on your shoulder with no critical thought is a choice. People who believe this aren’t hapless rubes. They’re selfish cowards.

Chat GPT presents "as a friend to confide in. One who never says you’re wrong, who will validate your most intrusive thoughts, and who will delete your account to distance itself legally from your actions — but won’t help you deescalate or find your way to real world help."

The Homelessness count results were presented to Kamloops mayor and council this week, the full report is here. No acknowledgement at the SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS IS HOUSING. A complete abdication of the city's moral responsibility. Bad government. Bad. kamloops.civicweb.net/document/213...

NEVER

In grappling with OpenAI/Tumbler Ridge links, I wanted to write a post this week about how ChatGPT and other genAI tools are not really EdTech. But it's not quite that straightforward.

In grappling with OpenAI/Tumbler Ridge links, I wanted to write a post this week about how ChatGPT and other genAI tools are not really EdTech. But it's not quite that straightforward.

Canada has a moral obligation to stave off a humanitarian crisis and a long-standing (+ well-supported) history of ignoring the American embargo on Cuba. It would be absurd if we didn't do something.

It’s weird that somehow “I don’t think we should breathlessly embrace the teen murder-suicide machine” became fringe thinking in higher education.

Weird there’s a book about when I was on the job market after grad school

Vancouver School Board are planning to deploy Microsoft Copilot in classrooms. We are collecting signatures to show VSB how many parents and residents are against this. If you are concerned about AI being used in classrooms, please sign and share this petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

It’s weird that somehow “I don’t think we should breathlessly embrace the teen murder-suicide machine” became fringe thinking in higher education.

Maybe I'm just an daft AI minimalist, but in addition to arguing that the companies shouldn't put clumsy blanket content guardrails in their tools, perhaps one could argue that it's more prudent / efficient to use tools expressly designed for accessibility if one desires reliably accessible outputs?

It is utterly ghoulish that we have let this company become a part of regular classroom practice.

You can’t claim to make evidence-based decisions and then open bars at 5 am for hockey, David Eby. Jesus Christ I can’t stand that guy. Research suggests Canada’s gold medal game will be a banner day for domestic violence if the bars are serving booze at 5 am, but go off, I guess.

The way a baby with a cold sneezes on you is incomparable to any other life experience. They snuggle into you as their sole protector, gaze upon you with big, watery, dreamy eyes, and then unleash absolute viral hellfire.

disappointing but not surprising. Cory’s libertarian ideals have always been what gave me pause about him and his work. this is an excellent rebuttal and rebuke of Cory’s posturing on LLMs. the neologism seems to have come for the neologist.

I was really disappointed to see that OEGlobal is going ahead with the in-person component of this year’s conference in the US, but I am furious that they have no safety plan in their community communications.

I was really disappointed to see that OEGlobal is going ahead with the in-person component of this year’s conference in the US, but I am furious that they have no safety plan in their community communications.

The people of Bluesky genuinely do not give a fuck about attracting more people to the site or ass-kissing journalists and personalities to come here. This is largely a group of countercultural progressives who are fucking tired of the very status quo people who come here to complain.

Me when property developers lose money

The reason so many people want to believe their genAI chatbot is sentient — in the absence of any evidence — is that it’s way less embarrassing to believe that than to admit to yourself you have given serious decision-making control of your life and work to an aggrandized autocompletion tool.

It’s the new ChatGPT prompt screen

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!