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I never realised my hammy, 60's sci-fi over-acting could put my child at risk! 🤣"Khan!!!"
Nice. He can spend a lot of money backing the people who will divide the right wing vote 3 ways. Please nobody tell him how a FPTP election works.
Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values
My @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social funded paper with Miyoung Ahn @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social out now: survey in schs with high FSM eligibility showed career prospects & further study options main predictor of GCSE RS choice, along with parental perceptions of the same www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My article on cyber security and schools in the @tesmagazine.bsky.social today highlights three simple, quick steps to improve digital citizenship across the life of the school, drawing on @erpioe.bsky.social work at @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Has anyone written a history of the contribution of Britons who sought asylum overseas? I know there are histories of e.g. Protestant refugees under Mary, Catholics under Elizabeth, monarchists & republicans around the Civil War. Has this ever been framed around the common experience of refugees?
Historians may have words to say about this.
No surprise. The only people qualified to take these roles are either senior education leaders in England or the USA (which Govt doesn't want), senior education leaders in Europe (who don't want to come here), or middle leaders from inside our own system (who won't deliver the change Govt wants).
Wrote about making the various tech ecosystems in Scotland start talking to each other a bit more... open.substack.com/pub/digitalp...
I know, right. Everyone knows the real money is in advising autocracies like Kasakhstan and the Petro-states, then getting paid to lobby your own government on behalf of big tech.
Imagine, say, Harold Macmillan deciding that the best use of his post-Prime Minister career was slagging off his own country to foreigners in return for loose change.
There is a pattern to the migrant hotel protests. Far right groups funded by US/Russian dark money post times & locations on social media. Masked thugs show up. Net mums also fall for the propaganda, being mums they're more organised & show up earlier than the thugs, who are getting boozed up first.
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Exactly, he's a private philanthropy guy. Does the taxpayer subsidise any of these charities? Gotham city hall is corrupt, so are the police. He's a "drain the swamp" kind of guy. Adam West era Batman maybe votes for Harris.
Correction, Bruce Wayne voted for Trump, then found out about the Epstein files, then took justice into his own hands!
Bruce Wayne is a billionaire who thinks the streets are full of criminal scum who the corrupt police are too nice to, and who he has no moral qualms throwing off tall buildings. He's voting Trump.
Also, until fairly recently there were some men whose wealth/status allowed them to treat women as prizes, and men who exchanged success with women in high school & college for a chance to be in those positions - they are also in a way victims of an unhealthy obsession with work as gateway to sex
There are some social structures that have changed and left some men behind. A left analysis always needs to consider economic and material conditions. The lack of good, stable incomes on which one can raise a family in reasonable comfort shouldn't be something we leave to "tradwife" influencers.
Looks like buzzword soup.
Robotics are a good analogy: German car companies invested in good mono-tasking tools that just built cars, and it worked. Japanese zaibatsu were keen to develop general purpose robots - Yamaha wanted one that could build keyboards and motorbikes - but those never became more than inefficient toys.
Thats not to say there aren't good uses for AI, but the best AI tools are just that, tools, mono-taskers, and tool-combiners, that help humans do the meaning-making stuff *better*.
AGI is literally meaningless technology. Humans are meaning-makers, so taking the meaning-making task away from humans and giving it to machines that don't understand but just churn out slop is bad on all counts.
Unpopular opinion: promising research on artificial gestation in the 1960s was sidelined in favour of abortion-on-demand as as solution to all pregnancy complications in the 1970s, ignoring whether women wanted that or not.
🚨 1 in 4 vulnerable kids would rather talk to an AI chatbot than a person. New Internet Matters report shows kids are turning to AI for support but safeguards are lacking. 🎧 Our podcast w/ 5Rights Youth Amb. Ali & Mie Oehlenschläger explores why that’s a problem: https://loom.ly/EHT3E68
Conspiracy theorists used to believe themselves to be a small group possessed of secret knowledge. A little over a decade ago many started to see themselves as vox populi. In the age of social media it tilts in that direction because of majority illusion. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
This @suttontrust.bsky.social report corroborates our @erpioe.bsky.social findings. Further, it's not just strategy, but ownership of AI tools: Independent schs more likely to partner with tech, while state schs give away student data to train AI & still have to pay schoolsweek.co.uk/new-digital-...
Misogynistic myths kicked out of classrooms to protect children | DfE
Just heard important BBCr4today discussion of this report with its authors. Addressing teenage interactions with AI chat bots, it has many intersections with our ongoing @uofgsocsci.bsky.social ESRC project on digital citizenship @lundieeducation.bsky.social www.internetmatters.org/wp-content/u...
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
"Who's a good boy?! 😀🦮" Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #dog #goodboy #twitterdogs #miraclesofmary #africanart
Yup! In terms of the economics, the way to think about UK universities is as an export sector where overseas students come and throw tons of money at the UK economy before heading home with links to the UK that will foster our trade abroad. Other countries would kill to have what we're letting die.
The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/
Basic structure of strategies that undermine democracy. 1) Micro-target 2) Enflame grievance 3) Entrench in belief systems 4) Monetize 5) Radicalize From my testimony to EU Parliament this week. Audio excerpt available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QK...
As usual, @shannonvallor.bsky.social dropping truth bombs at #SPT2025
Good to see Ofsted recognise that pedagogical and pastoral best interests of pupils should come first when inspecting schools' AI use. Also good to see recognition of emergent algorithm bias and pre-existing training dataset bias as safeguarding and equity issues. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
🇨🇦 Canada’s Privacy Commisioner just announced the development of a children’s privacy code. The new government must follow their lead and make the protection of #ChildRights and privacy online a national priority 📖 https://loom.ly/zxcHV5o #Canada
More about the postdigital classroom link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is seriously the snarkiest headline about AI and the tenuous uses to which it is put: "WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family" futurism.com/the-byte/wha...
We need to bring back "touch grass." This isn't some hellish clown world. Go outside! Touch grass! Talk to someone! Go to a store! Eat on a patio! It's quite nice, actually. And if we could get these people back to reality, we could maybe address some stuff to make it a little nicer for everyone.
Shh, nobody tell him Iran actually does push gay people into becoming trans, because of their interpretation of Sharia:
Sounds like some public school Empire Book for Boys Victorian Steampunk escapist fantasy.
The RE Council is calling for a National Plan for #RE to end the crisis of specialism in schools and ensure every student gets their entitlement to high-quality Religious Education that prepares them for life and work in modern Britain. shorturl.at/pcqNf #reteacher #TeamRE @sarahfcg.bsky.social
Computational Thinking Is Literacy: Expanding the Way We Support Young Learners #EdTech #edusky #TLSky #teachers #education #educators
Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”
Have you seen his account? Pathetic little incel who fetishises older Asian women. He's probably just upset because he knows his own bigotry means that nobody will ever indulge his little Onna-musha fantasy. Wouldn't let it spoil your day. #Solidarity #ScotlandWelcomesDiversity
A fair point, how should social media safety and censorship handle the realities of war? Do we really need to be saying X number of people were "unalived" in an "action" by Y state's air force?
In other words, Iran just voted to make it in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE's economic interests to join in the war against them.
"But come now, says the Sargent, if you will enlist, it's ten guineas in gold I will slip in your fist, And a crown to the bargain, for to kick up the dust, and drink the King's health in the morning." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You are right to point to the over-reach in Presidential power, but to be consistent, don't forget that Obama did the same thing when he ordered strikes against US citizen targets in Yemen, and against Taliban targets inside Pakistan.
Sorry, you break into a military base, that's terrorism. It's also bloody stupid, since you're likely to get shot, and with good reason, since it's where nuclear and other serious weaponry is stored.
Likely to take off once the rare earth metals needed for touch-screens become prohibitively expensive, and once hand tracking is good enough to let you use a holographic control panel with decent accuracy. Google Glass was like the Apple Newton, a flop, but containing the seeds of essential tech.
How old was his dad!
It looks so much like a Pokémon or something out of Studio Ghibli, but it is, amazingly, real.
It's the neoliberalism of death though, not a genuine liberalism. Make it easier to die, don't make it easier to access decent end-of-life-care. Make it easier to terminate a pregnancy, don't lift the 2 child benefit cap. 😥
Sorry, but gender-changing was quite well known in medieval culture. See, for example: www.bbc.com/news/world-e... Or: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A8509...
Great opportunity to give evidence about ways to secure high-quality #RE to the House of Commons Education Select Committee on behalf of the #RECouncil today. @deborahweston.bsky.social Good to catch up with @lundieeducation.bsky.social and hear his evidence about media literacy too. #TeamRE
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Kaleem Hussain, Assistant Vice President at @deutsche-bank.bsky.social, believes Religious Education is instrumental in uniting young people, encouraging teamwork and promoting acceptance. #Worldviews #TeamRE #RethinkRE ⬇️
We are also good at making things rise out of failure. Liverpool has a really vibrant arts scene after the disastrous 80s. Newcastle has some great digital businesses. Back in the 90s, "Cool Britannia" rose up in the cracks and abandoned spaces all over London and Manchester.
When my son was severely ill with sepsis, there was absolutely no delaying getting him the urgent specialist care he needed. No bills. No arguing. Just straight to Bristol Children's Hospital in an ambulance. The hospital even found a bed for us to sleep in the whole time he was there.
Both of them were about how amazing, fascinating, how dramatic peace can be. Previous decades' sci-fi was always about going out exploring, colonising, conquering. These were both about what happens when we realise all the alien races we will ever know are right here within easy reach.
Last speaker at the Conspiracy theories and storytelling is Marianna Ganapini who argues that conspiracy theories are not believed but have an epistemic role because they preserve identity beliefs and they are an instance of motivated reasoning through narratives. #philsky
Slightly different walk to work this morning, giving evidence on my @erpioe.bsky.social #DigitalCitizenship research to @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Education Select Committee #EdTech parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Oh, the ones in red white and blue with MAGA hats are PAID!
Our biggest, bestest national celebration. I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
Religious contributions to the assisted dying debate have, we are told, been “dishonest”. But this accusation fails to understand how a religious argument works or even what is it. Fresh off the press from @theosthinktank.bsky.social … www.theosthinktank.co.uk/research/202...
If there's anything Trump's victory shows, it's, don't win the middle, win both extremes. Trump brought into his tent the one person further out on the crazy wing than him (RFK Jr, who could've taken 8% of the vote, mostly from Trump), and embolden Jill Stein's Greens, who took about 2% from Harris
Another big milestone on our @erpioe.bsky.social project on Digital Citizenship, under @lundieeducation.bsky.social —as we move into our Impact Acceleration phase in partnership with our Community of Practice. Some of the best teachers, practitioners, technologists with whom I have ever worked
Ofsted rated inadequate
Open mic night
You've got to wonder how the vetting process goes for Reform UK candidates. They have suspended a bunch of councillors, & a whole branch in Northumbria. Must be hard to find candidates in the Goldilocks zone of anti-establishment right-wing but not neo-nazi far-right www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK to ban destructive bottom trawling. Meanwhile, in the US, Trump continues to plumb dangerous new depths, scraping the bottom of the barrel of depravity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On #Pentecost just going to leave these papal martyrs here as a meditation on the Church's apostles following their Lord even to death, victory through the Holy Spirit over the powers of this world. (St Peter: crucified, St Cornelius: beheaded, Boniface VIII: poisoned, Francis: met JD Vance)
Just going to leave the martyrdoms of various popes here to meditate on the Church suffering as it follows Christ to the cross:
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees
A far better angle, as Sweden and Estonia have done, is to say, we want citizens to have control over their data, not corporations. The only way to do that is for your democratically accountable government to have a format, with privacy protections, in which we hold that data on your behalf.
There's a fine line between wishful thinking and incitement. When you say "one of his constituents... could do us all a favour" you are suggesting that murder would be welcome, and I'm not ok with that. Agree that evil is evil. Would rather see Farage ignored & humiliated than become a martyr though
For clarity, the "he" was Farage, not you.
Me? I'm not encouraging him, my point is the opposite - that conspiracy theorists will call anything a conspiracy. Pretty shocked he replied saying he wants someone to finish the job. I would never encourage that.
The security risk of getting close to the proles, maybe getting a milkshake poured on him? Come off it. It's an excuse so he doesn't have to do his job. Security risk doesn't stop Black, Asian and Jewish MPs meeting constituents despite receiving open death threats from racists every day.
Far more likely he suffers a massive heart attack, lung cancer diagnosis or cirrhosis from poor diet and all the cigs & booze. Of course, when that happens, you'll probably say that's a cover-up.
As a practicing Catholic, who would love to live in a more socially just society that protects all life from conception to natural death - I would never vote Reform. Before we make abortion illegal, we have to make it unthinkable. That means making birth hopeful & safe. Reform would do the opposite.
This academic year we had 11 parent engagement webinars at @uofgeducation.bsky.social and you can re-watch all recordings on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and we'll now remind you about the 6 we had in 2025.
"We are concerned that Reddit don’t appear to be doing anything to prevent children under 13 getting access and keeping them safe if they do.” I spoke to the UK information commissioner about the power of social media giants, "creepy" uses of data & the dangers of agentic AI
There is certainly a need to look at this urgently. Reform's facile "we're not racist, we have black members" act is just the most egregious example. There is, both in the US and the UK, a post-racial nativist populism (55% of US Citizen Hispanic men voted for Trump). We ignore that at our peril.
My (won't post a pic for privacy, but very white) kid has one migrant parent, but his Irish-American mother might count as "British" on this very silly definition since her grandparents emigrated before Irish independence. What utter nonsense.
Can't quite make out, is the guy in the hat George Galloway?
Do you mean sportsmanlike, or do you mean not committing war crimes? Like, I want there to be stable peace, but not if that means levelling every building, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and killing every living thing on the land. At some point, we lose too much of ourselves in winning.
When do we get the first big corporate buy-out of a large research facility or an R1 University? That's the plan, right? That we end up with the Meta VLA, or Amazon Dartmouth University?
The plan is to reach a point that researchers don't bid at all & don't drive the process. Musk and Trump are both fans of the DARPA model, where the state as client drives the calls. That's how Silicon Valley corporate labs work. The success of Operation Warp Speed during COVID only emboldened him.
The plan is to reach a point that researchers don't bid at all & don't drive the process. Musk and Trump are both fans of the DARPA model, where the state as client drives the calls. That's how Silicon Valley corporate labs work. The success of Operation Warp Speed during COVID only emboldened him.
Parish councillor, a role that takes such important decisions as which flowers to plant on the village green, and whether to serve fairtrade tea at the Senior Citizens' cribbage night. A role that's only ever contested when the locals realise a nutjob like this got elected.
The research literature is an unsafe workplace... flagging papers with verifiable errors will improve the safety of everyone working in the research literature. 🧬 search.app?link=https%3...
"A literature that's ...polluted with junk is not only no good to anyone, it's a source of real harm, and it lends itself to ... bad-faith attacks on scientific research in general... We need to speak up more about this situation and we need to start cleaning house more vigorously" #Papermills 🧪
Things that remind you of Appalachia: 1) J D Vance 2) The Dover Oak Tree in the blue ridge valley 3) WWE legend Cody Rhodes (from North Carolina) 4) The John Denver song "Country Roads" Realising 1,2 & 3 also spell out 4 🤣
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