I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

Linnea Sterte@decassette.bsky.social · last yr.

this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer

“today’s Internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses, which are hostile to human flourishing”

Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · last yr.

"The result is that today's internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy." @jacobsilverman.com on the phenomenology of Slop World. Can't wait for his Musk book.

Lest I be hand-waved away for “emotional responses” to AI I feel pretty okay saying that now is not the moment to be wrapping up data collection and storage in the USA (including potentially sensitive health information) in some pretty culturally deaf marketing and calling it the future.

Audrey Watters@audreywatters.bsky.social · last yr.

When the ed-tech imaginary turns deeply dystopian 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/matter-and-d...

it’s definitely dystopian. that Lakota video also strikes me as serious epistemological Pretendianism.

Audrey Watters@audreywatters.bsky.social · last yr.

When the ed-tech imaginary turns deeply dystopian 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/matter-and-d...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Non-US educators need to be not just thinking about but planning for data sovereignty for ourselves and our learners, too.

Audrey Watters@audreywatters.bsky.social · last yr.

how can you, in good conscience, compel any student to use any piece of education technology right now, knowing that there are no assurances that this information will not be shared with the US government and used against them? 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/breaking-the...

Taxes are good, actually. Big fan. Pay them in several countries. Get services in return, including healthcare! All round awesome-sauce.

Brenna Clarke Gray@brennacgray.bsky.social · last yr.

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

I blogged a thing: ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

People and trust first, technology second

After a productive early morning call with my excellent OSI colleagues and a satisfying burst of administrivia deck-clearing, I made a second cup of coffee and settled down to read this morning&#82…

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I am have some big epistemological questions about the book I have just started reading. It opened with positive emotions towards Motley Crue and has now described 80s hair metal as “hard rock”.

It’s flag day here, which normally isn’t something anyone celebrates, but this year is a bit different for some reason! Anyways here are a few rejected Canadian flags from the Great Flag Debate in the 1960s in order of how much I love them. 🧵

Spending a little more time every day trying to make or write or listen or all of these at once. ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

Intersections with Pirate Care

A few years ago I was introduced to the Pirate Care Syllabus via a chat group with some edtech pals and whilst I was putting a good few rows on hat number 3 this morning I stumbled across an interv…

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This made a casual doom scroll worth the effort.

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · 2y ago

A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

Writing with @brennacgray.bsky.social and being part of the bigger #HE4Good cohort was an amazing experience. Thanks to @czernie.bsky.social and @catherinecronin.bsky.social for all you do.

Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Together with @czernie.bsky.social we are happy to share this Starter Pack of Higher Education for Good authors & artists. Like the book, this #HE4Good Starter Pack represents a diversity of Global North & Global South scholars, all of whom gave their consent to be included here. go.bsky.app/2ZQo34B

Honoured to be at the 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress here in Dubai and to learn from all here. Looking forward to our panel session exploring the open policy landscape and introducing the recent @opensource.bsky.social work on defining Open Source AI. #OSS #OER #opensourceAI #openeducation

Am I wrong to hope that this might mean a little more collaboration, jointly taught programming, student mobility? Probably not as it would mean overhauling funding.but I can dream of a return to public education as a societal good and away from market logics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Three in four England universities expected to be in the red next year

Higher education regulator says sector needs to take ‘take bold action’ and consider mergers or cost sharing

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here’s my latest bit of fiction - I asked an LLM trained on my work to predict the next ten years of art (it’s not really written by an AI, I am not a scab) www.noemamag.com/not-my-problem

Not My Problem | NOEMA

I asked an AI to predict the near future of art and creative work. This is the story it told me.

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darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2y ago

always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this

And here’s my new piece for Noema magazine: www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMA

The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

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Two of my online essays came out today, on the same day as I got my first physical copy of The AI Mirror. Lots to celebrate! Here’s one piece I wrote for the How The Light Gets In Festival, in advance of my Monday solo talk and panel iai.tv/articles/the...

The dangerous illusion of AI consciousness

<p><em>AI expert and DeepMind contributor Shannon Vallor explores OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model, based on the ideas of her new book, ‘</em><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ai-mirror...

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AI tutorbots are simplified, synthetic models of the very complex, situated work of pedagogy. We shouldn’t expect too much from these "oblong teachers". New post on "oblongification of education" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/o...

Oblongification of education

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash According to Microsoft and Google, artificial intelligence is going to be fully integrated into teaching and learning in the very near future. In the space of just a...

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June 5th: WHERE ARE AI’S PUBLICS? What role should the public have in shaping Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Should the public have a voice in how AI is being developed and used, and how it’s governed and regulated? efi.ed.ac.uk/event/where-...

Where are AI’s publics? - Edinburgh Futures Institute

What role should the public have in shaping Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Should the public have a voice in how AI is being developed and used, and how it’s governed and regulated? And how might a div...

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New blog post: "Welcome to the Kingdom of Fife" Many thanks to the DLINQ team at Middlebury for their excellent annual detox series. ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

Hi, Bluesky! You won't know this, but every year at Thompson Rivers University the Learning Technology team hosts a Digital Detox. This year's theme is the 10 Most Toxic Tools in Educational Technology. Curious? Come along to learn more, read a preview, and register: digitaldetox.trubox.ca

Please join me and @eddiged.bsky.social for an online talk on 15 November, 2:30UK time. Immersive media for reinterpreting heritage, from artist and educator Agnes Michalczyk, who explores the urban space and narratives of Cairo. www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/immers...

Hot off the presses 📖📚 Very excited to have a copy of @zararah.bsky.social’s new book! www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...

It's only digital transformation if it comes from the UCD region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling Finance and HR system replacement.

So @ammienoot.bsky.social and I have been musing about procurement all over Al Gore's internet, but today we have a forreals book chapter out (in an excellent collection, very worth your time, called Higher Education for Good).

27. Who cares about procurement?

Good and bad tech make their way into HE classrooms via procurement processes, so understanding how those processes work – and how to hack them for the better – is key to any possible “goodness�...

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My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social

The recordings from #ALTC23 are up including my “5 things you need to know before you buy edtech” talk. Could have been titled “Things about edtech that keep me up at night” https://youtu.be/rqvBb6yqW20?feature=shared

ALTC23 31 5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Edtech

5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy EdtechAnne-Marie Scott

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