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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m definitely overdue a visit! Was looking at some photos of my old garden there and feeling very wistful. Growing some tomatoes in pots on a roof deck is not cutting it!

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Aug 10

4 years!! I still remember that day you moved in and posted the view from your balcony.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 19

I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · May 30

Also, I especially appreciate the open licensing. 😉

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · May 30

Great to see this @profjhangiani.bsky.social and I appreciate the format you chose to adopt for this - very simple and accessible.

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · May 17

You have more restraint than me. People who don’t put their phone on silent at night are not my problem. (You are probably just a better person than me. That is also possible).

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · May 1

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · Apr 30

this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Apr 29

I didn’t get to vote this time but I still dislike him. Can I be in the club? Can bring comedy Scottish swears.

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · Apr 23

“today’s Internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses, which are hostile to human flourishing”

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Apr 23

"The result is that today's internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy."

@jacobsilverman.com on the phenomenology of Slop World. Can't wait for his Musk book.

Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy

The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence

www.ft.com

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Apr 23

Lest I be hand-waved away for “emotional responses” to AI I feel pretty okay saying that now is not the moment to be wrapping up data collection and storage in the USA (including potentially sensitive health information) in some pretty culturally deaf marketing and calling it the future.

Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Apr 21

When the ed-tech imaginary turns deeply dystopian 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/matter-and-d...

Matter and Dystopia

I'm not sure if we can call it an official launch – there's no actual product yet – but a new education company Matter and Space unveiled its website last week. The company, co-founded by former SNHU ...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · Apr 22

it’s definitely dystopian. that Lakota video also strikes me as serious epistemological Pretendianism.

Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Apr 21

When the ed-tech imaginary turns deeply dystopian 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/matter-and-d...

Matter and Dystopia

I'm not sure if we can call it an official launch – there's no actual product yet – but a new education company Matter and Space unveiled its website last week. The company, co-founded by former SNHU ...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Apr 17

No no no. I think you have that wrong. You mean “when do we lose the right to work *for pay* and vote”. I’m pretty certain these new plans don’t involve us popping our slippers on and having a nap most days.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 16

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

The Supreme Court ignored trans voices. I’m ashamed of what our law has become | Good Law Project

The Supreme Court’s decision to exclude trans voices has harmed trans people – and harmed the fairness of their ruling.

goodlaw.social

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 13

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · Apr 11

Non-US educators need to be not just thinking about but planning for data sovereignty for ourselves and our learners, too.

Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Apr 11

how can you, in good conscience, compel any student to use any piece of education technology right now, knowing that there are no assurances that this information will not be shared with the US government and used against them?

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/breaking-the...

Breaking the Spell

The dire wolf is not back. The New Yorker tried to convince us otherwise this week, with an article that surely makes one wonder what happened to its famed fact-checking department. Extinct, I guess, ...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Apr 7

Taxes are good, actually. Big fan. Pay them in several countries. Get services in return, including healthcare! All round awesome-sauce.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · Apr 4

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Mar 12

I blogged a thing: ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

People and trust first, technology second

After a productive early morning call with my excellent OSI colleagues and a satisfying burst of administrivia deck-clearing, I made a second cup of coffee and settled down to read this morning&#82…

ammienoot.com

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 23

I am have some big epistemological questions about the book I have just started reading. It opened with positive emotions towards Motley Crue and has now described 80s hair metal as “hard rock”.

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 23

There’s (sadly) a reason that cliches don’t die.

Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 22

Of all the things I hate about this moment I hate these bits the most. The knowing cruelty of it.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · Feb 15

It’s flag day here, which normally isn’t something anyone celebrates, but this year is a bit different for some reason!

Anyways here are a few rejected Canadian flags from the Great Flag Debate in the 1960s in order of how much I love them. 🧵

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 16

This is unequivocally the best flag. Possibly that I have ever seen. It’s so chaotic. The sacred trinity of the geese! The asymmetry of the leaves / lys! The way the British flag is sidelined to the corner. Perfection!

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 5

I mean ideally what comes after is a delicious latte…

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 5

I ate a croissant with ham and cheese. I warmed it up so it was all melty too. Apparently I’m not supposed to have wheat and dairy but…

A cat with its paws on its belly, with the text “my tummy has a happy”

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Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social · Feb 3

As someone paying rent in Vancouver right now. Very yes.