📖 WHAT NIJ RESEARCH TELLS US ABOUT DOMESTIC TERRORISM "NIJ-funded research projects have led to a better understanding of the processes that result in violent action, factors that increase the risk of radicalizing to violence, and how best to prevent and respond to violent extremism." […]

Empower young people to make BETTER decisions than we've made: support critical thinking skills! 1️⃣ Be curious. 2️⃣ Be questioning. 3️⃣ Be OPEN to what you find. #criticalthinking #media #education #politics #reasoning #information #knowledge #data #lifeskills #research

Beware of articles extolling the use of AI to support critical thinking. Especially, if written by folks who appear to uncritically embrace AI. 🧐 Critical thinkers will _question the use of AI and be _open to the truths of what they learn. ▪️Who decides which articles are written & how they're […]

UK rejoining Erasmus is unambiguously good news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4ng7ee9vwo

JD Vance is such a tool, so clueless. #australia #bondi #uspol #trumpregime

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

Finally, here's the evidence: #people feed on #tv! #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Empower young people to make BETTER decisions than we've made: support critical thinking skills! 1️⃣ Be curious. 2️⃣ Be questioning. 3️⃣ Be OPEN to what you find. #criticalthinking #media #education #politics #reasoning #information #knowledge #data #lifeskills #research

Tactics used by extremists to weaponize words: ▪️"Us" vs "Them" language to dehumanize others ▪️Mention famous places / events to falsely elevate status ▪️Religious texts used out of context to justify violence ▪️Framing violence as duty to coerce followers 🌐 […]

Wow... I was just pointed to this paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 and its retraction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 Want to read the first sentence of the introduction together with me? "Certainly, here is a possible […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

📰'There’s a reason electricity prices are rising. And it’s not data centers.' 🫢 WaPo claims that it is NOT the datacenters raising costs! Instead: "... a new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle suggests that, counterintuitively, more […]

Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced […]

Because no one else has the political guts to say it, we will: #Brexit was an utter unmitigated disaster, foisted upon us by charlatans and conmen and we are demonstrably worse off now than if we had stayed in by every conceivable measure. #RejoinEU www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

Can you pass the new U.S. citizenship test? The federal government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. Test your knowledge... These are multiple choice questions here, unlike the actual test, in which applicants must speak their answers. (The correct answers are […]

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

A boycott of Spotify for running ICE recruitment ads is gaining momentum. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spotify-ice-recruitment-ads/ Not the only streaming service that is, but boycotts work best if focused. #NoSpotify

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads/ “I’m about to just toss the whole thing…” Oddly, the big tech companies don't seem to understand that […]

🎃 For #Halloween and #DVAM we offer a short quiz: 🧛🏽 "What kind of monster is your boyfriend?" 🌐https://jagga.me/monster/index_en.html #quiz #game #domesticviolence #prevention #information #abuse @gamingagainstv @stopTDV

International organisations estimate that across Southeast Asia, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to work in so-called scam centers. The situation has reached the level of a humanitarian crisis. @Reuters just published a new piece on the subject: "Scammed into scamming" is […]

💬 "Critical thinking need(ed) ... to spot disinformation & misinformation during the 2026 Scottish Parliament election." ▪️Politicians, social media, and bots are promoting false info. ⭐ Educators want critical thinking to be taught at school from the age of 5. 🌐 […]

Is anyone doing any #youth outreach for the #fediverse ? Because I think we should try to break out of our core demographic of 40-somethings. And we do want them to spend time here, rather than on Instagram and TikTok - right?

Back in 2023, this was intended more as tongue-in-cheek than prescient. 😬 #ai #clippy #tech

@thetnholler.bsky.social We need folks to learn #criticalthinking from an early age.* *This will apply to most posts I will see today.

"Imagine a world where scientific experiments yielded different results every time you ran them, even with identical setups. (...) In most fields, such inconsistencies would be unacceptable. Yet, in the (.) world of large language models (LLMs), we’ve often accepted a curious paradox: the same […]

PRESS RELEASE with details about the winning #videogames from nonprofit's game design challenge about #communication. 🎮 Five games from four countries! 🗞️We will send the press release to any #media folk on here. We will begin sharing the news broadly on social media tomorrow. 🧡 Winners […]

🎮 Five winning games about communication announced: ▫️Non violent video games ▫️Games that teach young people about the importance of communication: conflict resolution; fact-sharing; healthy relationships ▫️Winning teams represent Argentina, Canada, France, and USA From our nonprofit's 18th […]

If you use #linkedin (I still do, but only for boosting my web posts), then you need to deny AI in your settings. https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement "When this setting is on, LinkedIn and its affiliates can use your data and content to train […]

This is amazing.

I've thought about this a lot and I've thought about making lists of good people to support. But, I keep rejecting this idea because the power of this kind of support is that it can be real, real grassroots organic. Support the people you actually spend time listening to. Help them reject […]

"Sorry, I can't. Under the current administration I don't feel safe and comfortable with traveling to the US so I need to pass. Thanks for asking."

"We're making some changes to our legal agreements that will apply to you." A new email from #paypal and I just. do. not. 👉🏼Anybody out there who has looked into the new PayPal policies and could tell me how to opt out, or it's time for an alternative, etc? 🤷Used by our small nonprofit to […]

🔬 **We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it** 🔗 https://theconversation.com/we-risk-a-deluge-of-ai-written-science-pushing-corporate-interests-heres-what-to-do-about-it-264606. #ai #artificialintelligence #technology #tech #peerreview […]

Other clues, struggle with English, cameras off, mostly interested in how the reimbursement would be paid, and contact details all very similar. Researchers asked for proof of professional credentials which they couldn't provide. Study gives many recommendations on how to detect and avoid fraud […]

Here are some low-hanging fruit answers which should be shown without opening a web page. ▪️What time is it now in __? ▪️What temp is __°C in °F? ▪️How many yards in a meter? ▪️What's the character code for §? If traffic is dropping for websites built around this […] [Original post on games.ngo]

Empower young people to make better decisions than we've made: encourage critical thinking. 🤔 Critical Thinking Tips #2 Be Questioning. Don't accept everything you hear or read: ▪️ What is the source? ▪️ Who is sharing this? ▪️ Why are they sharing this? ▪️ How […] [Original post on games.ngo]

YouTube edited user's videos without their consent. Disclosing AI use reduces trust but lack of disclosure harms trust even more. ❓ What possible harms from non-disclosed manipulation? 🌐 […]

Is there a better algorithm than an LLM to generate code? I bet there is. Is there a better algorithm to do fuzzy search? You bet. Pattern matching? Machine vision? Even natural language processing. I'm absolutely sure there are better algorithms and 500 billion $ are more than enough money to […]

💬 "Critical thinking need(ed) ... to spot disinformation & misinformation during the 2026 Scottish Parliament election." ▪️Politicians, social media, and bots are promoting false info. ⭐ Educators want critical thinking to be taught at school from the age of 5. 🌐 […]

Let's empower young people to make better decisions than we've made. 🤔 Critical Thinking Tips #1 Be Curious. Encourage intellectual curiosity: ▪️ How does this work? ▪️ Where can I learn more? ▪️ What are the alternatives? ▪️ Why don't we do it differently? ▪️ […] [Original post on games.ngo]

Let's empower young people to make better decisions than we've made. 🤔 Critical Thinking Tips #1 Be Curious. Encourage intellectual curiosity: ▪️ How does this work? ▪️ Where can I learn more? ▪️ What are the alternatives? ▪️ Why don't we do it differently? ▪️ […] [Original post on games.ngo]

For all the 21 reasons above, we should see AI in education as a public problem not a fait accompli codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...

Weekly #nih funding update (none) - - - #government #funding #publichealth #science #research #health #politics #winning #idiocracy @publichealth

We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It’s impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I’m an AI skeptic because I don’t understand them, think again.

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram. 2. What Instagram put over her post.

AI used in schools can act as "invisible influencers" in students' learning, introducing them to biases and inaccuracies, undermine research-based curricula, and outsource teachers' thinking, says new risk assessment of AI teaching assistants www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/a...

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/ You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI <- by me on @theregister

We wanted to share the EDU version of MushWhom? with you. We've added educator-developed resources to make this game more useful for classroom use: ▪️ standards-aligned lesson plan ▪️ slide deck ▪️ intro & afterword about the game explaining the connection to […] [Original post on games.ngo]