Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

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France Inter : les personnels de Radio France demandent le retrait de la chronique de Charles Sapin et votent la grève

France Inter : les personnels de Radio France demandent le retrait de la chronique de Charles Sapin et votent la grève

Dans une motion adoptée à l’unanimité, les personnels expriment leur « refus catégorique » de l’arrivée du directeur adjoint de la rédaction de « Valeurs actuelles » à l’antenne de France Inter, dont le magazine porte des valeurs non « compatibles » avec celles du groupe public.

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On Air Radio Broadcast

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Leicester Media & Communication@deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 3d ago

At 14:35 we will have the second parallel session, including panels and roundtables on Identity Construction, Negotiation, and Contestation (Room 2.02), Sonic publics: How Radio and Podcasts Organise Voice, Attention, And Participation (2.03), (1/2)

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

Sarah has a suggestion@goatsarah.org · 6d ago

Encountered my first one of these in the UK And I can’t say this clearly enough “No. Fuck off”

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

Bon panorama de l'entreprise de destruction du monde universitaire aux États-Unis, avec un constat valable pour tout le monde occidental et des leviers identiques : une extrême droite qui hait le savoir, l'esprit critique et qui a patiemment construit son ennemi. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Aux Etats-Unis, les universités traversent une crise sans précédent, entre des études jugées trop chères et une défiance alimentée par le discours de Donald Trump

Endettés, une quinzaine d’établissements d’enseignement supérieur ont fermé en 2025, une quarantaine en 2024. Outre les coupes dans les subventions, le monde académique est confronté à une baisse des ...

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"I just care about academic freedom and plagiarism" is the new "it's about ethics in gaming journalism"

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wish more academic folks on the left with strong anti-racist views would sign this too.

OK, but since I kinda didn't answer the question... my fav American comic book movie that isn't DC or Marvel? Come on down, Anung Un Rama! Like the first film a lot, but HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is where Mike Mignola's high gothic and Guillermo del Toro's swooning romantic sensibilities click.

Prince Nuada Accepts The Challenge

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name your fav comic film that isn’t DC or Marvel.

This isn't a "surprising message of support for trans adults". This is a bigot whose arm is being twisted into doing public relations damage control by the media network that invested billions into a franchise she's been poisoning with hate for the last decade.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 2w ago

JK Rowling issues surprising message of support for trans adults www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week. www.youtube.com/@studioheart...

These posters just went up all over every courthouse in New York State, and, man, what an excellent policy.

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Cultural Studies thinker: The cup contains a beverage known as "English breakfast tea", made with sugar and tea. Neither can be grown in England; their centrality attests to England's many colonial histories. In this essay, I will

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

I must not fear Being Cringe. I must kill that which Cringes inside myself. Only then will the shackles of Cringe, which I myself have forged, loosen their hold upon my heart.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Communication Professor : Look how the cup became a meme on Bluesky.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

it's that time of year again!

"Les préservatifs identifiés sont dépourvus d'un marquage CE ou de toute évaluation de conformité européenne" Voilà à quoi servent les normes. J'utilise d'ailleurs régulièrement l'exemple des préservatifs pour expliquer l'intérêt des normes européennes.

franceinfo@franceinfo.fr · 2w ago

🔴⚡ ALERTE INFO - Des dizaines de milliers de préservatifs "non conformes" vendus en France ces derniers mois, les autorités recommandent des dépistages et tests de grossesse ➡️ https://l.franceinfo.fr/DR1

This meeting could have been a long, harrowing glare into the void.

Harassment is fundamentally about power and domination. The ultimate assertion of that power is that the target doesn’t get to decide when it ends. The harassers do. Apparently, they even get to decide whether his death is enough to make them stop.

The funny thing about tech bros being into Tolkien is that he like "the steam engine was a mistake probably"

caramida (he/they)@caramida.bsky.social · 4w ago

Um. Wow, yeah

"Arday a perdu la vie non seulement du fait des facteurs les plus évidents -racisme systémique virulent qui s’est acharné sur une victime vulnérable & imparfaite- mais aussi d’un facteur moins visible : une foule d’universitaires friands de ragots, alimentant avec désinvolture le lynchage collectif"

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 3w ago

Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...

L'affaire Cofnas-Arday, en Grande-Bretagne, pose la question du maintien de standards de rigueur à l'université, sans armer ceux à l'extrême-droite qui veulent la détruire. Il faut donc comprendre l'origine de l'attaque (Cofnas est un neonazi) sans relativiser le plagiat ou les pb de recrutements :

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

I’m not trying to hear about plagiarism from people who can’t get anything done without AI. You’re disqualified on this one. That plagiarism is bad is supposed to be a settled social belief. AI use muddies the whole thing.

Je propose donc qu'on fasse des "tests de masculinité" aux joueurs et ceux qui ont des taux de testostérone trop bas seront harcelés sur les réseaux sociaux et on fera des images en I.A Gen pour dire qu'ils ont des toutes petites bites. Ou alors on fout la paix à tout le monde.

Mediapart@mediapart.fr · 4w ago

Le principal circuit international professionnel de la discipline impose désormais un test de féminité aux joueuses. « Une nouvelle façon de contrôler le corps des femmes », estime Cassandre Puel, responsable des questions sportives au sein d’une association. Par @inesbncr.bsky.social

"Glasses for people who don’t do consent" 👌 hyperallergic.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jeffrey Epstein Dons Meta AI Glasses in Damning Guerrilla Ad

The notorious glasses are for “people who don’t do consent,” reads a mock ad mounted outside the Ray-Ban store by the activist group Everyone Hates Elon.

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this isn't true. the first ever trans member of a US national team in any sport was a trans man. it didn't suit the transphobic media to let you know about it though.

Donaldson Stone@donaldsonstone.bsky.social · 4w ago

If there are roughly equal numbers of trans men and women, how come there are virtually no known instances of trans men impacting high-level sports?

Here's the thing. If I know/notice genAI used in any part of your project, no matter how small, I will assume you used it for all of it, and I won't be interested at all. Why should I care if you don't?

dr. hazel 🕯️@hazelmonforton.com · 4w ago

Seeing writers use AI to make “book covers” is so disappointing. Where is the professional respect?

"Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism."

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...