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This blog was researched in Kjipuktuk and written in M’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw nation.  Dissertation by JC Gerrits Going Down the Drain Techno-political narratives a...

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"When court documents were unsealed last month it also emerged books were being destroyed in the process of training Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude. ... They insisted sourcing books for training was a widely used approach across the AI industry." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.

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Plato's Phaedrus 275a/b Over 2000 years old. Still Relevant. #Classics #PhilTech #PhilSky #EduSky

"So, while knowing these images are fake, their realism manipulates the victim’s emotions. They can feel alienated, dehumanised, humiliated and violated – as if they were real intimate images shared. This effect may worsen as AI-generated videos provide ever more realistic sexual content of users."

Alex Fisher@alex-fisher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote an article for @theconversation.com on how philosophy can help us understand the deep harms of AI-generated sexual images, e.g by Grok on X, as well as other digital misogyny like assault in virtual reality. #philsky #philtech theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

I often argue the relevance of the ancient world to today’s digital age challenges. As Nolan’s #Odyssey spurs interest in Bronze Age Greece, check out Eric Cline’s @digkabri.bsky.social fascinating lecture about the collapse of the first (local) ‘globalised’ world #Classics youtu.be/M4LRHJlijVU?...

1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline

YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation

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Useful Pointers dealing with social media ads: Start with the assumption its fake unless you can prove it isn’t Find a source you know is trusted Be especially wary of well-known faces Don’t go through the social media link There is a lack of regulation. You are not protected #Edusky #OnlineSafety

Martin Lewis@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 2mo ago

6th former: Martin, how do I know if an advert on my socials is real or fake? Part of the National Money Assembly filmed at St Charles 6th form college London and live streamed to over 300 schools and sixth forms by @youngenterprise.bsky.social

On the aims of digital civics pedagogy, from "A conceptual framework for digital civics pedagogy informed by the philosophy of information" doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... #EduSky #Civics #DigitalCivics #DigitalCitizenship #PhilTech

Relevant to #EduSky Has it's own section with Key Stage 3 school resource packs

History of Education Society UK@histedsocuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚌 Interested in a social history of secondary education in Britain? Historians Peter Mandler, Laura Carter, and Chris Jeppesen have an ongoing project exploring experiences and attitudes from 1944, and have made plenty of resources available on their website. Check it out 👇️

Exclusive: Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models reut.rs/4eZLIuO

EXCLUSIVE: China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that ​could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on ...

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If you're trying to understand how some of the major players (people & companies) fit together in what is unfolding in tech & politics right now, this is a really useful resource from FES Future of Work. #EduSky #AIEthics #TechEthics #DataPrivacy #Politics #TechPolitics www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Highly significant concerns for #TechEthics & #AIEthics ""“Basically he’s gotten to the point where he can do almost anything he wishes,” said Charles Elson, the founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...

Musk’s Next Move May Be a Megamerger of SpaceX and Tesla

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The online and offline worlds are conjoined. Protect and caretake them both. Recognise the value of the Natural World. This week: Bee and Ceanothus #ShareNature #Sustainability #EnviroSky #LoveYourWorld #Nature #DigitalCivics

What is Digital Civics? This paper in Philosophy & Technology looks at its key concepts, and provides a structured series of questions to help formulate digital civics initiatives. #AboutDigitalCivics #DigitalCivics #AcademicSky #DigitalCitizenship #TechEthics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exploring Digital Civics: a Framework of Key Concepts to Guide Digital Civics Initiatives - Philosophy & Technology

Presenting the challenges that face digital age citizens as philosophical, as opposed to technological, this paper explores the underpinning structure of digital civics through an overview of its four...

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What are the privacy implications of the UK Under 16 Social Media Ban? There will be significant challenges to successful implementation while the same surveillance capitalist entities at the centre of the issues can acquire yet more personal information like proof-of-age ID. #DataPrivacy #Ethics

The UK government says under-16s will be banned from social media by spring 2027. @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social gives her reaction to today's announcement, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions. More expert reactions 👉 bit.ly/3Qq453H

“According to an October 2025 survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology, nearly 1 in 5 high-school students have had, or have friends who have had, romantic relationships with AI.” www.wsj.com/opinion/...

This marvellous interactive tool tells you where any passport can take you. This is based on live data too. Really cool website. Make sure to check it out: buff.ly/sqE05WY

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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Don't forget that we can choose what technologies to use. Ask questions. Is it useful? Can it be? What are the benefits & consequences? Don't let compliance make decisions for you. Advertisers rely on you behaving as part of the group but peer pressure is seldom a guide to good conduct. #AIEthics

Can Religious concepts help us understand our digital age problems? Absolutely. Hyperlinked Virtual Reality is an ancient religious idea; The Bible is the first hypertext; The internet and the Bible share a narrative thread about ordinary humans being extraordinary. eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/ei...

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

It’s really frightening.

Recently came across this great series of environmental research talks hosted by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & @finnarne.me You can check out the @greenhouseuis.net archive housed at newnatures.org/greenhouse/ where they are growing some great ideas. #EnvironmentSky #BookSky #ClimateSky

Can't be the only one thinking this... “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

WIRED@wired.com · 5mo ago

If you have a recent Apple device, you can translate live conversations. It’s impressive, and the new AirPods Pro Max just joined the party. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, anyone can be misled by the right lie. Targeted analytics formed from your harvested data enable disinformation campaigns to get the best traction, ensuring the right lie contacts the most sympathetic ear. #DataPrivacy #Disinformation doi.org/10.33621/jds...

The commercialisation of digital spaces students access at school normalises to children the legitimacy of corporations’ roles to surveil their lives. - discussed on pg 38 in doi.org/10.21427/D7J... & pg 581 in doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... #DataPrivacy #DigitalCivics

'As AI-augmented research proliferates, the scope of scientific inquiry is contracting.' A vital point, and a nettle that universities everywhere must grasp firmly however painful that is, with respect both to research and to teaching/learning across all discipline (SHAPE+STEM)s. 1/2

Silence is not golden when it comes to science and AI

The scope of scientific inquiry is contracting as research focuses on data-rich problems

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In this 2024 paper we argued that the data privacy problems we face are communal as well as individual & failure to realise this inadvertently handed significant power to large corporations. We use Digital Civics & #APA Ethical Guidelines to help solve this publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article... #Privacy

There’s a long history of our technology shaping us as we develop it….

Science Magazine@science.org · 6mo ago

The spread of agriculture didn’t just change our diets—it altered our jaws as well, making it easy to pronounce "f"s and "v"s and opening a whole new world of words. Learn more on #WorldAnthropologyDay: https://scim.ag/4rHq0k1

Fascinating talk from Dr. Kat Fennelly @katfennelly.bsky.social (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) at today’s digital archaeology Lunch, hosted by @dah-lab.bsky.social that, for me, really drove home the value of the History pillar to digital civics research. #archeologysky #DigitalSociety