Hey remember this day where we weren't going to buy _anything_ online, to send a message? No? Kinds says it all. But what if we decided on #thriftthursday. A day of the week where we do not participate in non-circular economies. Doesn't matter how slowly it takes off, it's every week, it will […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

yay, awesome future we've built for ourselves, great job everyone

ZOMG, the best part of working for home is spreading prep time for a proper dinner recipe, right? 👨‍🍳 A Day in the Life of @Mer__edith , the President of Signal - Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/day-in-the-life-meredith-whittaker-president-signal-2025-10

@MrBerard @parismarx "Twitter’s emphasis on free speech—which long predated Musk’s vulgarized version—­invited its Saudi users to break local laws, yet the company was unable to protect the identities of its users in these sensitive jurisdictions. "

Someone needs to hear this: things weren't better. You were just younger.

Hey remember this day where we weren't going to buy _anything_ online, to send a message? No? Kinds says it all. But what if we decided on #thriftthursday. A day of the week where we do not participate in non-circular economies. Doesn't matter how slowly it takes off, it's every week, it will […]

Jacob Silverman is @parismarx 's latest guest in Tech Won't Save Us; everyone should listen to what he's saying.... Elon Musk’s AI Grift | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-ai-saudi-funding/# #musk #saudi #tech #x #tesla

On the Pedagogy of #Freedom: I live by this and try to adapt the requirements of university education to this outlook on what it truly means to learn and to educate. I think it is possible to do so even in times of increasing market competition, decreasing funding & time constraints #highereducation

Continental Breakfast implies the existence of Analytical Breakfast. #philosophy

Continental Philosophy implies the existence of Full English Philosophy #philosophy

Look, @grant_h, they're playing your song! (though without your USP, I gotta say :D) In Hello World magazine: https://downloads.ctfassets.net/oshmmv7kdjgm/ijKab4KJzyZJge5I21bU4/6a2314272039e00261021415b7ec5cf4/HW_12_Digital_Edition3.pdf#page=62.00 #helloworldmagazine #csed #education

Latest episode of the Roehampton Grad School podcast, where I speak to Natalie Cairns-Ratter, Education PhD, who does Autistic-led research in music education https://open.spotify.com/episode/17RU0pbelPFc1kivikSUkC #phdlife #podcast #academicchatter #autism @actuallyautistic

#chatgpt is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay: https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ #ChatGPT #ai #llm #generativeai #aichatbot #aiethics #aisafety #openai #anthropic #scot #sociology #bijker #bigtech #constructionism #socialconstruct #videoessay

#introduction Hashtags, so I can pin this post and take them out of my profile: #education #research #phd, #bcs #computing #teacher #cct #csed #programming #BCS #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd I live with #multiplesclerosis #zen / #nonduality #buddhist, weirdly into #jung #Research topics: - […]

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 […]

Man, it's such a shame paranomastic subeditors have been waiting for a younger, hawkish Def/State secretary so they can run the headline 'Millenial Falcon', but it's Pete fucking Hegset that shows up.

I'm in the countryside for a week to write a dissertation, and after days of crunch I:m chilling with Stephen King audiobook*, and within five minutes of putting it on the phrase "like a manic grad student who has studied herself to the edge of a nervous breakdown" comes up and like, woah […]