I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

'The question is no longer simply what generative AI can do. It’s identifying where it genuinely helps teachers, how it fits into their working lives and whether it solves the problems they have' schoolsweek.co.uk/the-lesson-f...

AI needs to fit around how teachers work

The question is no longer simply what generative AI can do. It’s identifying where it genuinely helps teachers

schoolsweek.co.uk

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics edition.cnn.com/2026... < nothing to worry about at all, I'm sure... 😮

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

edition.cnn.com

Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo | Party funding | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/... < seems predictable - more crypto-currency support for crypto-fascists. Dodgy finance for dodgier politicians.

Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo

Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires

theguardian.com

Remember the good old days, when the right were arguing vociferously against the right of folk to wear face-coverings and all-over black outfits, like the niqab and the burka?

The hypocrisy of Reform is never more evident than in the area of free speech, which they bang on in favour of re utterances from some of their racist members, but which they deny when one of their own, Tim Montgomerie, makes constructively critical comments about Reform itself

Who says the BBC is full of fake news? Definitely one for #BBCVerify!

So Trump, hearing that Iran may be planning to shoot down his current plane, switches to another plane - BUT leaves his own staff and the Presidential Press Pack as decoys on the original flight! Those bone spurs are clearly still doing their thing!

Help RITA put the BIN back in BRITAIN. #Clacton - Vote #Binface on Thursday!

Clacton Residents: Vote Count Binface to save taxpayers over a quarter of a million £££! That's what this bye-election is costing, and what the next one will also cost when Farage is found to have transgressed parliamentary rules. SAVE YOUR CASH - VOTE BINFACE

#GOC

Cracking night at the Eel Pie Club with the Forty Fours. A young band who really get what the 60's Mersey Sound was all about. If you get a chance to see them - don't miss it.

Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell has been appointed as education secretary in a reshuffle by new prime minister Andy Burnham schoolsweek.co.uk/lucy-powell-...

Lucy Powell appointed as education secretary

Labour's deputy leader replaces Bridget Phillipson at the Department for Education

schoolsweek.co.uk

The US needs to realise that soccer isn't like their Superbowl and the NFL. Our football is actually exciting and entertaining in its own right, and it doesn't need musicians and razzmatazz to make a game worthwhile and watchable.

Never seen so many muppets at a half-time break in a match. Sadly only four of them were actual Muppets. #worldcup2026

What trite, sentimental, turgid stuff those poor teams are having to put up with before getting to play their final. Only in the US - never knowingly undersold. Coming soon no doubt - a half-hour half-time with more of the same #worldcup2026

Read all about the Winners of the 2026 BESA Awards | BESA buff.ly/8y6gwS9 < with lists of the runners and riders....

It's annoying that the NY Times, in keeping with the general ethos of Trump's America, now rigs the Connections categories so that only folk in the US can win

Things that would improve social media enormously #14: Ban people who ask "Does anyone remember...?" or "Who remembers... ?"

So the Clacton bye-election will be fought between a third-rate comedian with more money than sense, and Count Binface. The people of Clacton deserve better....

So at least one of the candidates has actually been to Clacton...

It has just been said that Nigel Farage intends to spend the summer campaigning in Clacton. So he'll be spending more time there now than he did while their MP! They deserve better...

How does #BBCNN News night have the good sense to book the well-informed and thoughtful Mohamed El+Erian and Gillian Tett, but the same team then books the disaster area that is Baroness Therese Coffey, side-kick of Liz Truss?

JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack | Bleeping Computer buff.ly/OmXCkHA < We aren't hearing enough about this. Researchers identified the first documented case of a ransomware operation conducted entirely by a large language model (LLM) agent.

The pardon of Ruth Ellis is long overdue in more enlightened times, despite her clear & stated intent to kill her coercive, controlling lover. But a 'conditional pardon'? What are the conditions? And can you meaningfully reverse a capital punishment after death?

Crapita manage to screw up yet another stage of their handling of the Civil Service Pension Scheme. The incompetence of the organisations that win public sector contracts, such as Crapita, Pearsons and Group 4 show why Thatcherite-style outsourcing is such a total failure