owning a fountain pen is a gateway drug to becoming really annoying about paper

Reading "properly".

Like, do I even need to make the argument against genAI writing when the people who use it are so ashamed of it that they put more work into hiding that they used AI than their story? Seems they already make my argument for me.

The reason I've gone more left in recent years is that I previously accepted that we simply couldn't afford decent cheap housing, heavily subsidised transport, a universal basic income, etc. Then in 20 years in politics I saw what we actually could afford. And it's a lot. It's just never for you.

Just as a matter of interest, *any* use of AI in scholarly writing is tantamount to plagiarism. You don’t know whose work the AI has trained on, so you can’t give them proper acknowledgment or make an appropriate citation.

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

The plan is to simply drop people off the NDIS with no other supports. And yes, people will die. The way this change has been structured, it is starting to look like deaths are the actual goal. #auspol

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

NDIS minister says government 'not contemplating' need to delay cuts

Had lunch with two friends, one British and the other American, last week. American’s child has severe ADHD, and the British guy was “does the medication *really* help” and she rather sharply bit his head off over it.

Behemoth & Leviathan, LP@harkov311.bsky.social · 5d ago

Do people just genuinely not understand that ADHD is a medical diagnosis with a medical cause? Is that what's going on here?

McCallister on her Insiders interview quickly goes to fraud and the excuse (took less than a minute). Fraud (big scary, organized crime implications) is not the issue - the set up of a system that privatized a public service is the issue. These cuts do nothing to change that

And Turnitin may have been forced to pause its latest effort to get away with monetizing all the students' work it collects, but we'll doubtless be back here again soon as it endlessly exploits its position as an obligatory passage point for the world's higher ed assignments bsky.app/profile/benp...

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · last yr.

Turnitin now intends to police academic writing by getting students to write directly on its platform and subjecting them to real-time text surveillance. Turnitin remains an engine of automated mistrust in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/a...

Thankfully Turnitin's planned change in terms to use all student content for AI development has been forced back. But the big Q remaining is: How did getting a degree from universities worldwide become conditional on students agreeing to the end user licence agreement of an *edtech company*?

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3d ago

My #DigitalFriday finds are 1. An alarming change in policy by Turnitin, who are apparently shifting to keeping all input as data for training their ML, no opt-out available (could be hugely problematic f.ex for PhD students putting in unpublished chapters...) bsky.app/profile/link...

I'm less concerned about plagiarism Jason Arday may have committed than I am about the fact that so much of higher education is going all in on integrating AI, a dedicated plagiarism machine that has never had an original thought of its own, into the classroom. That's the real plagiarism scandal.

This is SO GOOD. And this is also why genAI has no place in historical research. A genuine conversation and the traceable provenance of ideas are crucial to what we do. There is no such thing as “machine written history” because it can’t possibly be history.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. Science is a communal, human effort, which exists as an enormous conversation among scientists, sharing and challenging ideas and collectively building knowledge. >>

What's the message here. No honestly? Is plagiarism bad or not? Is plagiarism something so abhorrent that it justifies, in effect, a public lynching? Is it only bad if you're black? Is it only bad if it's the wrong sort of plagiarism? What *is* the messaging here from education and government?

Lest we forget a guy just got hounded to death by the national media for what should have been an internal employee conduct matter regarding plagiarism in the same week Andy Burnham announced it's unavoidable & vital that young people be trained up in how to use an industrialised plagiarism machine.

Lowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2d ago

ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d ago

Lowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars

With news that Google is making it more difficult for students to avoid Gemini with “a Gemini tab to transform their class materials into interactive experiences that help them study and learn” and “starter prompts”, I wanted to repost an earlier 🧵 with research on the Googlization of education.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm with Justin Reich, who said, "industry-sponsored professional development is, at its core, a 'customer acquisition' campaign." As Google attempts to strengthen its grip on teachers and students, here's a 🧵 with work that examines the Googlization of education...

whenever the press murder someone and they start getting criticised they always go for 'we should not politicise this death'. they did it with brianna ghey and now they're doing it with jason arday. the media makes the lives of minorities political and then insists that our deaths should not be.

One of the arguments about AI is ‘well, you’re already using it all the time’ and I think that argument only works if *people like the products and services they use* and, quite famously and inescapably, that’s not the case. “AI’s in everything you already use!” “No wonder it all fucking sucks.”

Cyboly@cyboly.bsky.social · 3d ago

That "Weed shop" game that was going around that has AI content disabler but mocks you for wanting an option in the first place

It feels ridiculous that it's taken me two Saturdays to finish this chicken but I kind of adore her #crossstitch #craftsky 🧶

I guess some people got pretty invested in the idea of Luigi Mangione getting off the hook and there are people upset about people getting really into that idea - probably at some point need to deal with the internet epistemology based on "what's the funniest possible thing that could happen"

Horrific news after this guy was hounded beyond all proportion, and to headline it “prof gone”—“prof gone”!—is simply ghoulish

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.

Tw: suicide. I can promise you that you live and work with people who might have suicidal ideation. you might not/will never know it, they might not show it to you; because why would they? But they too deserve to be a part of our world, even as they/we have our inner struggles.

Cannot love this post enough. People blast their convos or stupid TikTok shit on full volume on the train and wearing headphones is being respectful to others. It's not some act of defiance unless you think the only reason anyone wears headphones is so women don't have to hear your shit

Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron@wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wearing headphones is a sign that a person is listening to something and politely understands they don’t need to blast that for everyone around them to hear It’s the opposite of anti social gimme a break

This is where I keep falling with these policies that ban laptops or require handwriting. While I know the research shows that handwriting notes is generally better for knowledge retention, I also don't want to single out the kids with accommodations without feeling like I'm doing cop shit.

Natalya D@natalyad.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am horrified to see students just asking ChatGPT in class for response, that is not OK as they are outsourcing their thinking in a not useful way. I don't know what the answer is, but banning laptops means those who need them stand out which will make some legit users not use laptops cos stigma.

I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.

Ian Johnson@mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 3d ago

DEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Great little thread on LLMs in academic writing. Esp useful for journal editors and reviewers because the excerpts Jill shares here are *exactly* like the deluge of AI-assisted autotexts many of us are receiving as journal submissions.

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Take this one, published today. It starts by stating there is not much research on temporarity and digital life. If you had done a Google Scholar search instead of relying on ChatGPT you would have quickly found a lot of research on time and digitality. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Firstborn was on YouTube a while ago and saw some weird stuff. Husband and I tried to create a supervised YouTube account for him so he can watch age-appropriate content. We selected the ‘content suitable for up to 13 yrs’ option, but couldn’t apply it because of the social media ban.