Irish Gov is hosting its "International AI Summit" next week Even I was surprised by how industry heavy is it 83% of speakers are corporates, 0 independent experts, 1 union rep I'm not explicit about this in the piece -but- surely this is, at best, tone deaf? www.techpolicy.press/at-irelands-...

At Ireland’s AI Summit, Tech Industry Dominates as Civil Society Sits Out

The invitation-only summit comes as Ireland leads Digital Omnibus negotiations, raising questions about whose interests are represented, writes Liz Carolan.

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In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social post, David Stroupe, Niral Shah, and Aman Yadav reflect on our recent co-authored article and the problem of "A critical optimist position [that's] clear-eyed about the harm technology can cause while maintaining the belief that technology can improve education."

New Research - Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Library Community: We’re building a CoT community for those involved with or interested in libraries. Andrea Baer is leading this effort and if you’re interest...

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A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

It's lunch time here - you should take a little break and immerse yourself in a little snippet as Gaeilge that inspired our editorial for Volume 9!

Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning@ijtel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 And that's a wrap! Volume 9 of @ijtel.bsky.social is now complete with our new editorial. Thanks to all our authors, reviewers, editors & readers who made this possible. We hope you enjoy the reflections on the journey & what's ahead. journal.ilta.ie/index.php/te... #EduSky #genAI #HigherEd

Such a pleasure to work with co-editors @gravesle.bsky.social, Orna Farrell and Laura Costelloe and with the support of @iltasky.bsky.social and all who support this #openaccess publication. 🙏

Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning@ijtel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 And that's a wrap! Volume 9 of @ijtel.bsky.social is now complete with our new editorial. Thanks to all our authors, reviewers, editors & readers who made this possible. We hope you enjoy the reflections on the journey & what's ahead. journal.ilta.ie/index.php/te... #EduSky #genAI #HigherEd

Banned Comics at the NLI 📖 Were comics really banned in Ireland? Join comic scholar James Bacon as he explores the history of comic censorship in Ireland using material from the National Library's collections. 📅 Thursday 6 Aug at 6pm (for ages 16+): https://ow.ly/fipx50Znh9q

Banned Comics at the NLI

A history of Censorship of Comics in Ireland

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Nice overview of our open-access book, Auditing AI in @the-renovator.bsky.social www.democracyrenovator.com/p/july-13-te... mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The space between a question and an answer has value, and that value should not be engineered away,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist and former Google engineer, writes about AI's instantaneous search results.

Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.

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For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

How to talk about

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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In today’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog, thought leaders @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and @eam0.bsky.social share a resource for facilitating a workshop using speculative co-design methods to reimagine educational technology that'll supercharge your critical edtech sensemaking skills x 1000!

The Future of Creative Workshops is Brighter than Ever!Announcing the Next Steps in the Click Here if You Agree Project — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Annual Conference : We are holding our 5th Annual Conference on August 6th-7th, 2026! Our keynotes this year are Dr. Meredith Broussard (data journalist & aut...

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You are invited to attend a workshop on Climate Emotions and Environmental Activism. Everyone interested in the philosophy of the climate crisis is welcome! 17 June 2026, D520 UCD Newman Building. Please register for the workshop here: forms.gle/XaxiPpiN4M1z...

Just read this absolute banger from @eam0.bsky.social and @steviegow.bsky.social. I am writing about the urgent need for the open education movement to loudly condemn authoritarianism and this was good fuel for the fire. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Today! See you there!

Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning@ijtel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Don’t miss our session tomorrow at #edtech26 - A joyful collaborative writing workshop with the @ijtel.bsky.social editorial team led by @gravesle.bsky.social Learn more on: www.conftool.net/edtech-annua...

Yes to burning it down! The hard work of building new is very fulfilling and nice also. It won't always work but it's good. Write for independent media, or subscribe to it. Build community on a good social network. Actually make a good website

Paul Gowder@gowder.io · 5mo ago

My 1999 self would weep at how totally broken the internet has become. AI slop, social media walled gardens that rot the brain, surveillance pricing and advertising, every single goddamn website has an endless cloudflare captcha loop before you get to read anything. Burn it all down.

I wrote the paper below for an ACLA panel on re-theorizing the university, delivered in Montreal in late February. Afterward, I shared it with a... (New post from kfitz.info: "After the End" https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/)

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Existentialists Wanted: Philosophy of AI Beyond Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Existentialists Wanted: Philosophy of AI Beyond Ethics - Philosophy & Technology

The philosophy of AI currently centers around moral themes and ethical concerns. Despite the fact that AI is an interesting and consequential topic for many subdomains of philosophy, it seems that phi...

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We are thrilled to have officially opened No. 11 Parnell Square, Ireland's Home for Poetry and Heritage, along with @irishheritagetrust.bsky.social 🎉🍾 We look forward to welcoming you to our home for events over the coming months, and to The Seamus Heaney Poetry Library in the Autumn.

I tried out the government’s AIReady.ie courses you don’t have to! And, really, I don’t recommend you do!!! Here’s a rundown of the experience 🧵👇 (1/30)

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.

Q: How will this new technology benefit overworked faculty? A: By allowing Skynet to relieve you of tasks tedious enough to merit paid employment, you can free up time for unremunerated pursuits.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration

“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

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A photograph captures light on a sensor or film. It is a record of a physical moment. www.theverge.com/gadgets/9180...

Prestigious photo contest answers ‘what is a photo?’

Hint: it doesn’t use AI.

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“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

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after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

"'AI' marks one of the most pressing labor issues that everyone in every profession is facing, particularly since the technology – or certainly those funding and forcing its adoption – is resoundingly anti-worker," writes Audrey Watters.

"AI" is Yesterday's News

I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored...

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Come do your PhD with me! I am offering a fully-funded, four-year PhD position in the School of Education @ucddublin.bsky.social. If you want to do critical research on technology and education, especially combining philosophical and qualitative methods, please apply! www.ucd.ie/education/re...

The modern brain is no different than that of our distant Stone Age ancestors, but our environments have changed dramatically. With so many demands on our attention, we are simply overwhelmed. Author Richard Cytowic explains how our Stone Age brains can cope in the age of screens:

The biological necessity of boredom in the age of screens

"I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to…

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