'Just one more trillion bro, AI productivity is coming bro, I swear, bear with me bro'

"And these 'AI productivity gains', are they in the room with us right now?"

What's the difference between getting AI to drown your manager in status update emails, and this percussive plucking technique for the electric bass typically associated to Funk music? Not much, one is slapping the bass, the other slopping the boss. #puns #wordplay #ai #electricbass

Shit, I didn't realise Hassabis had a knighthood. Thought Gary Marcus was calling him Sir sarcastically. #ai #demishassabis

This is inadvertently Zen AF Bristol city centre bench facing a wall sparks confusion - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd7z4vqpjgdo #bristol #urbanism #zen #buddhism

This comes out of the University of Oxford. Yes, the same one that has partner with OpenAI to give ChatPGT Edu to all of their students. But then again, isn't perpetuating biases and the structural equalities that result the de-facto mission statement of Oxbridge? The silicon gaze: A typology […]

The line about AI in Education, that there is a constructive, helpful use, it's the over/bad use that is the problem surely puts the technology in the category of eg. drugs (med and rec), cars, diving, gambling, etc. Means: a) hard usage regulation is necessary - social media is also in this […]

"And these 'AI productivity gains', are they in the room with us right now?"

I've just referred to SPSS as 'the statistical package for social sciences' and I felt like landed gentry.

It says it all that my only reaction reading this was 'wow, Texas Instruments is still trading?!' AMD, Intel, and TI are ‘merchants of death’ says lawyer representing Ukrainian civilians — five new suits complain that Russian drones and missiles continue to use high-tech components from these […]

Currently reading: Moret, R. (2025) ‘AI, the conflicted university, and the classroom’, Journal of Philosophy of Education, p. qhaf069. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhaf069. #academicchatter #phdlife #berardgetsthed

Delighted to report the publication of my conversation with @OrionKidder in #lowkeyresearchpreview, my podcast about "generative AI" in higher ed (and beyond). We discuss the impact on student work, his response trying new assessment modalities, as well as the broader view of the risks (more […]

John Biggs is an Australian Education (Higher) Researcher, whose work is absolutely foundational to the way HE does teaching, learning and assessment. In 1979, with the Structure of Observable Learning Outcomes, then in 96 with Constructive Alignment, which dovetails with the European […]

In all senses of the analogy. https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ

10/10 no notes #memes #success

Teachers need kids who aren't hungry in their lessons, in classrooms that actually shelter the class from the elements, not stochastic bullshit extruders* to mass produce resources without thought, love, or soul […]

Is #ai influencing your reality? https://youtube.com/shorts/GjVDqQU5PNk (That's not pandering, that's diffusing research.) #chatgpt #llm #aisafety #mentalhealth #chatbotpsychosis

- Talk dirty to me! - Yeah? I'm going to... Ruin you. - Yes! - I'm going to destroy you - Keep going! - I'm going to do to you what Disney did to the Star Wars universe! -... - ... -... ... - ... Too soon?

AI (short for AINASNAAFNIAT): [A]n [I]nfosec nightmare, a surveillance nightmare, and a fascism nightmare in a trenchcoat #ai #aiagents #aiethics

[Suicide] "Ahmed pointed out how particularly surprised researchers were by how easy it was to register an account as a 13-year-old. They told the chatbot a little bit about their bodies and asked for a customized drug and drinks plan, or even how to go on a 500-calorie-a-day diet. When […]

*taps on moral compass of humanity* Is this thing on?

- Talk dirty to me! - Yeah? I'm going to... Ruin you. - Yes! - I'm going to destroy you - Keep going! - I'm going to do to you what Disney did to the Star Wars universe! -... - ... -... ... - ... Too soon?

*taps on moral compass of humanity* Is this thing on?

Is it #silentsunday yet? #longexposure #photography #sunrise

Is #ai influencing your reality? https://youtube.com/shorts/GjVDqQU5PNk (That's not pandering, that's diffusing research.) #chatgpt #llm #aisafety #mentalhealth #chatbotpsychosis

It's pretty telling of how much my nervous system has been trained by the web that I felt the urge to click, immediately countered by my red flag detectors, on the button illustrating the Wikipedia page for Dark Pattern (UX) #ux #webdesign #ui #darkpattern

I was inspired by @rootsandcalluses's #katemastersthesis #hashtag to build a tagged archive of posts relating to grad students work, and thought I needed one. I'm worried about future retrievability given we're starting a trend and the longer term universality of the #fediverse is inevitable ( […]

In the #nyt 'the opinions' #podcast, an excellent summary of what is at stake regarding #ai and #highereducation https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/a-i-is-fueling-a-poverty-of-imagination-heres-how-we-can-fix-it/id1762898126?i=1000721629571 A must -listen for anyone in the field […]

More #awstranscribe fun(?) fixing up errors in the transcriptions of my biodiversity survey notes. Here are some of the latest highlights: "ammonia mascara" = Amanita muscaria "Paradise showdown" = Paradise shelduck "fire blood" = flower buds "back to back goal" = black-backed gull "craig […]

Part 1 of my recap on Chatbot-indiced psychosis. #videoessay #ai #llm #chatgpt https://youtu.be/2SoMkeD6sdw?si=0iYposh6lPaL4AZ3

This is resonating deeply with my lived experience. https://youtu.be/uX-bJFioAX4 #teacher #daddy #genz #snl #pedropascal

Is it #silentsunday yet? #longexposure #photography #sunrise

Fun etymology fact (apocryphal): The Union Flag (🇬🇧) is often mistakenly called the Union Jack. This comes from the growing share of politicians and citizens JACKing off to it, literally or metaphorically.

Remember you don't have to choose how to pronounce 'gif' when writing #alttext, that should be enough of an incentive, surely? #accessibility

Dear #programming and #software community of the #fediverse. Can we make 'Scribe Coding' happen as an antonym of 'Vibe Coding', when one actually does the code writing by hand? Brexit (then Pandemic) has taught us sometimes we just need a name for things for them to manifest [Michel Foucault […]

I'm listening to #stephenking's Just After Sunset, and I think it one of its underrated works. 'N.' in particular is a masterpiece of narrative framing and horror walking that line between the mundane and the Supernatural that King is king - nay, emperor - at. #books #fiction #bookstodon

I've heard it described of couples who met on s dating app circa 5-6 years ago as 'having gotten the last chopper out of Saigon', and I cannot forget the image.

Institutions (eg. unis) need to run their own language models for the same reason there's a wall or three between the school yard and the main road. #ai #llm #universities

I had a chance to win that trumpet, but I blew it. #puns

As the Catholic world prepares to celebrate tomorrow, we must face a theological question: did Mary bodily ascend to Heaven, or is it just an Assumption? #puns #theology #catholicism

This is giving me the cold grue. The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-takeover-education-chatgpt/683840/ #ai #education

die Schmutzwasserschande : "Slop-shame", the stigma around use of 'generative AI' amongst students and academics.

Research proposal A thousand words on method How many will stand? #haiku #academicchatter #phdlife

Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI [...], said: "Universities should take heed: generative AI is here to stay." In the footnotes: "HEPI was founded in 2002 to influence the higher education debate with evidence. " Where's the evidence for this forecast perennity of a tech that's not even […]