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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Happy Democrats @happydemocrats.bsky.social · 16h

Just curi, what's your beef w JL? Is he MAGA or something?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

Point is it's not some once in a lifetime unicorn thing, although he's very talented, it just makes you realize how few democrats ever do this. They don't tell us what they believe they wait to hear what the polls tell them 50.1% of us believe and go from there.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 2d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 1d

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! :)

Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

And I'm going to do a pilot run with a colleague that won't be a participant in the research first as well, to hopefully get out some of the surface nerves

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

It's so exciting and scary at the same time, I feel equal parts too old to be feeling all of this and too young/not grown up enough to be doing it at all 😅

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

I do! I thought booking one in with someone that will go gentle on me if I'm nervous would be a good plan so I'm relieved I did that.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

I just booked in my first interview for my PhD research and I am *terrified*. I am a highly qualified and competent 40 year old woman that has been successful in lots of professional realms - why does this feel so scary!? #PhDSky #PhDchat

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

Appendix 2: on tools

A tool is *for* something. If the things generative AI tools are *for* are not conducive to learning a given subject, generative AI is not a tool for learning that subject. Establishing that and then talking about how to integrate it into courses on that subject is incoherent.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 3d

AI is just the latest in a long line of 'innovations' that have progressively degraded relationships between students and teachers. Huge classes. Assessment done by others. Online everything. Just spend a few minutes in any university Reddit to observe the obvious disconnection.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 3d

Kelly on the money here!

"As it bangs on about conservatism, reinforced by media backers, it doesn’t get that conservatism doesn’t enjoy majority support in Aus. It never has and it never will. Since Federation, Australia has never been governed by a party that calls itself Conservative."

#AusPol

www.theaustralian.com.au

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats: We follow the science.

Republicans: The science follows us.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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