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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 2d

It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!

Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#historyteacher

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 3d

I am increasingly convinced that the only route to salvation lies in a nationwide Campaign For Better Epistemology.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 3d

Gawd. Just think much better off would the world be, if only we knew how to make Mary Beard out of BorisJohnsonsmittel.

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Ian Phillips @ian-phillips0324.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the subject content of a degree that is important but the ‘training’ to think analytically, to sift through competing/ conflicting arguments, summarise, suggest alternatives. Think more Mary Beard than Boris Johnson if you want to think about the value of Classics.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

It really should do our collective nut that a university which is seen in the UK as not especially prestigious - Leicester - is in the top 200 globally.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

And what's particularly funny about this is for so many of them, their radicalising event is that they haven't achieved what they think they 'deserve' now:

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 5d

The lack of training bursary for ALL #ITT beginning #teacher s is highly problematic. It is a significant barrier to entry into the profession. It creates geographical cold spots & prevents those without funds to self support from training. 1/2
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2024/07/19/i...

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 6d

I don't want an obsequious chatbot, I just want:
a) to be able to attach comments to endnotes/footnotes
b) to be able to convert PDFs with endnotes/footnotes to a Word doc

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 5d

or convert Pdfs to EPUB without the whole thing become spaghetti.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 7d

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, piss off new, infantile, horrible to use, read and even look at Outlook.

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Teachers Talk Radio @ttradioofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Teachers - The Unseen Scapegoats of Society's Problems? Liz Webb thinks so.

Watch todays Points of View in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDC...

#teachers #media #blame #scapegoat #schools #teaching #teachertok #society

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7d

Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes.

It's still there.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 7d

Come up with an acrostic of policies that spells ‘STEADY ON’ and you’ve got my vote.

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Pierre Martins @gatopaulistano.bsky.social · 7d

Spend a bit more on the NHS
Taxes have to go up a bit
EU membership, in due course
Aging population - fix social care
Defence spending proportionate to threat level
Young people to have apprenticeships or go to university
Once a week bin collection
Nuclear and renewables

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 7d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 7d

"The best leaders I’ve worked with don’t need to win. They ask the right questions. They listen without interrupting. They don’t flinch when someone sees things differently & they certainly don’t centre themselves in every conversation." Ian Watts @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

Is your ego holding back your school's progress?

The best school leaders can stop their pride from getting in the way of effective collaboration, says this international assistant head – but it's easier said than done

www.tes.com

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 8d

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving.

Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 8d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 8d

What do German folks call German measles?

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