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Andy Liddell

@andyliddell.bsky.social

Principal, EdTech Law Center EdTech RTs, Jazz posts EdTech.law

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Not (A.) I.@aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 14h ago

"I asked a contact who is the president of a billion-dollar tech enterprise, what would you teach your sons? He said he wouldn’t teach his children to use AI, because it will prepare them for nothing. He would teach them the humanities." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

theguardian.com

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d ago

Peter Chapman of the Knight-Georgetown Institute writes that July may be remembered as a turning point for the EU's Digital Services Act, as the European Commission's enforcement actions began to clarify how the law's broad obligations apply to platform design.

Europe's Summer of Digital Services Act Enforcement Targets Platform Design

July may come to be seen as a turning point for the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), writes Knight-Georgetown Institute's Peter Chapman.

techpolicy.press

Wolfie Christl@wchr.bsky.social · 3d ago

"advertising SDKs don’t just allow developers to share location data–they often encourage it" Excellent investigation by Lena Cohen and @legind.bsky.social into mobile app SDK vendors that share data on millions with third parties, feat InMobi, BidMachine, Verve, Huawei: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy

An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location ...

eff.org

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/

A medieval siege engine, tended by gnome-sized purple figures. Around it are several human-like figures with robot heads, clad in medieval garb. Their legs are missing, tapering off into nothingness. The giant floating head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar overlooks the scene. Each of the robot people is being closely observed by a distorted, grotesque version of Zuckerberg's avatar head.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Blue Note to bring world-famous jazz club to London

Blue Note to bring world-famous jazz club to London

Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper will headline opening of club’s first UK venue in Covent Garden next month The world-famous New York jazz club Blue Note will open its first UK venue in London next month. Located in the basement of St Martins Lane hotel, Covent Garden, the club promises the best of British jazz alongside world-class international artists, with a programme featuring emerging and established talent. Continue reading...

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4d ago

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

No AI Gods, No AI Masters — Civics of Technology

More on their open letter, Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia  , and position piece, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia , by Guest et al.

civicsoftechnology.org

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d ago

"These 'AI' products are materially and psychologically detrimental to our students' ability to write and think for themselves, existing instead for the benefit of investors and multinational companies." If you want to support this open letter, you can still sign! 🖋️ bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5d ago

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

We call upon you to: • Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
Tony Roberts@phatcontroller.bsky.social · 6d ago

Unless you have informed consent all recording is a violation of human rights. That goes for doorbell surveillance, CCTV surveillance, creepy glasses surveillance, mobile phone and internet surveillance... Surveillance violates privacy rights. It should not be slightly modified it should be banned.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago

This feels similar to the discussions about ALPRs and networked doorbell cams, where people want some softened version of a thing that is corrosive to society by design. Glasses that can surreptitiously record people should not exist.