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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3h

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

¡Las ranas unidas jamás serán vencidas!

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us were slow to the party…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

HS teacher here: we’re pretty damn busy! Parents could really help out…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Ms Rachel 🔥 ✊

DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 1d

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

HS teacher in 🇦🇺 with a hard agree.

Your last point is a particularly low bar in my case, though. I had such a sheltered childhood! 😅

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline refresh: this is so freaking cool! 🦋 💻 🗺

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 4d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

We *can* work to improve things. Rather than individual consumption choices we need to organise, punish governments who won’t take action and elect one who will.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure that I currently posses the menta capacity to be able to process this.

But what a fascinating video!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

In theory the kitchen should be the easiest space on the planet to clean and it's not because it's designed by men who don't use kitchens. That's it.

Don't get me started on how if I'm not careful my fish slips into a corner of my freezer that requires me to remove the freezer basket to reach

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic thread (and pre-print) on Critical AI Literacy in Psychology.

The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

TL;DR - Hi, I’m new here; punctuation is, like: hard. Please, take time out of your busy day - to explain my job to me; and how you fit into it. Responses are mandatory; will be: fed into ChatGPT - and may result in lay-offs

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 1d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 1d

Just sayin

Chart comparing the number of camera, the number of giant squid footages and the number of bigfoot footages.

Number of giant squids rises as the number of camera increase, but not the number of bigfoot.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece on a genuinely interesting manager. As an amateur manager in regional New South Wales it’s great to see a compatriot having done well in leagues that haven’t always gotten great coverage over here.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 1d

Love the fact that he’s bringing them in to disrepute by *commenting* on the gambling sponsorship and it’s not the club bringing itself into disrepute by *having* the gambling sponsorship. 🙄

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 3d

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love…

The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people. Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet. | Sarah Schwartz

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 3d

I know it’s mainly because it uses a diminutive when referring to you, but it’s so dystopian that I keep waiting for it to call you “choom” or reference the Arasaka Corporation…

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 4d

Ah yes. In no way is this repeated usage of the image of arguably one one of the most famous disabled people in history symptomatic of a eugencist society running on meta-eugenic structures. Nor is is it indicative of the way gen AI enhances the fash aesthetics. In. No. Way. AT ALL. (!) /sarcasm

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 4d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5d

The "AI" research community:

1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 4d

So, the Coalition does Robodebt and Labor’s response is to implement (checks notes), er, “AI Robodebt”?

We really do live in the stupidest timeline…

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said on Monday.”

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI

Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

www.ft.com

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