Shell
@risu.bsky.social
edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
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Shell
@risu.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I like to re-share this picture of me presenting at Google to an audience including the FBI, because yes, I will fight for digital rights and better privacy and security by design. And I will have great hair while I rip apart tech bro work and egos. Especially edtech egos.
Virtual parents’ evenings are one edtech that I love.
And I make them even better by awarding house points for any pets that make an unexpected appearance. Yesterday I had three dogs and one cat. Absolutely outstanding. To think we used to sit in a cold hall until 9:30 pm. Now I get to see dogs
And I make them even better by awarding house points for any pets that make an unexpected appearance. Yesterday I had three dogs and one cat. Absolutely outstanding. To think we used to sit in a cold hall until 9:30 pm. Now I get to see dogs
February 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Virtual parents’ evenings are one edtech that I love.
And I make them even better by awarding house points for any pets that make an unexpected appearance. Yesterday I had three dogs and one cat. Absolutely outstanding. To think we used to sit in a cold hall until 9:30 pm. Now I get to see dogs
And I make them even better by awarding house points for any pets that make an unexpected appearance. Yesterday I had three dogs and one cat. Absolutely outstanding. To think we used to sit in a cold hall until 9:30 pm. Now I get to see dogs
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Not all men: but way, way, WAY TOO FUCKING MANY MEN
One of the things making so many men uncomfortable with ✨guilt by association✨ around the Epstein files is the knowledge *they* have about men with whom *they're* associated who hurt women, and about whose behavior they've never, not once, considered doing anything.
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Not all men: but way, way, WAY TOO FUCKING MANY MEN
Me: why are the students acting strangely?
Also me: oh
Also me: oh
February 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Me: why are the students acting strangely?
Also me: oh
Also me: oh
Perhaps the real question is “why are more educators not refusing ai?”
Why is it left to students to challenge what the adults should be examining, questioning and refusing?
When teachers lose pay and promotion because they used ai so much, they will have themselves to blame
Why is it left to students to challenge what the adults should be examining, questioning and refusing?
When teachers lose pay and promotion because they used ai so much, they will have themselves to blame
Interesting conversation today touched on an example of a student given homework that *required* the use of AI (to generate something and then critique the generation) who refused on the basis of a deep moral objection to AI and said the homework was therefore inaccessible to them.
February 3, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Perhaps the real question is “why are more educators not refusing ai?”
Why is it left to students to challenge what the adults should be examining, questioning and refusing?
When teachers lose pay and promotion because they used ai so much, they will have themselves to blame
Why is it left to students to challenge what the adults should be examining, questioning and refusing?
When teachers lose pay and promotion because they used ai so much, they will have themselves to blame
I feel like not only should this be an Ofsted issue surely😎 but how can you promote your own app, using a minister for education, and not mark it as “paid ad”
Surely we have Nolan and professional standards?
Surely we have Nolan and professional standards?
So let me understand:
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM
I feel like not only should this be an Ofsted issue surely😎 but how can you promote your own app, using a minister for education, and not mark it as “paid ad”
Surely we have Nolan and professional standards?
Surely we have Nolan and professional standards?
So let me understand:
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
February 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
So let me understand:
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans.
You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech.
Seems sketchy to me but ok.
Counterpoint : this isn’t cute and no hate to this lovely lady
Accessible language is NOT this or we’d use it in schools
This is, sadly, an example of “employee influencer” marketing. Done to get likes and sales. No protection for the employee or their digital rights. Pls stop saying this is good
Accessible language is NOT this or we’d use it in schools
This is, sadly, an example of “employee influencer” marketing. Done to get likes and sales. No protection for the employee or their digital rights. Pls stop saying this is good
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
February 3, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Counterpoint : this isn’t cute and no hate to this lovely lady
Accessible language is NOT this or we’d use it in schools
This is, sadly, an example of “employee influencer” marketing. Done to get likes and sales. No protection for the employee or their digital rights. Pls stop saying this is good
Accessible language is NOT this or we’d use it in schools
This is, sadly, an example of “employee influencer” marketing. Done to get likes and sales. No protection for the employee or their digital rights. Pls stop saying this is good
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So the U.K. government KNEW about mandelson and Epstein , for years. Still made him ambassador etc.
All while making the online harms bill and implementing age verification to “protect children”
It was never about protecting children . Powerful men, yes.
So the U.K. government KNEW about mandelson and Epstein , for years. Still made him ambassador etc.
All while making the online harms bill and implementing age verification to “protect children”
It was never about protecting children . Powerful men, yes.
Police assess reports of alleged misconduct after Mandelson emails published
The peer is accused of passing sensitive information to the convicted sex offender while he was business secretary.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 5:41 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So the U.K. government KNEW about mandelson and Epstein , for years. Still made him ambassador etc.
All while making the online harms bill and implementing age verification to “protect children”
It was never about protecting children . Powerful men, yes.
So the U.K. government KNEW about mandelson and Epstein , for years. Still made him ambassador etc.
All while making the online harms bill and implementing age verification to “protect children”
It was never about protecting children . Powerful men, yes.
I hate Facebook for many reasons, one of the smallest being how it shuts non- account holders out of local info
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
February 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I hate Facebook for many reasons, one of the smallest being how it shuts non- account holders out of local info
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook.
Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure
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Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nva...
'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan | Critical AI Talks
YouTube video by McMaster Humanities
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nva...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wish reporting on this would discuss the surveillance capitalism of “lives” on social media- where people have normalised walking around with selfie sticks and filming streets and bars etc. Tiktok promotes this kind of material and it has always been an issue.
I wish reporting on this would discuss the surveillance capitalism of “lives” on social media- where people have normalised walking around with selfie sticks and filming streets and bars etc. Tiktok promotes this kind of material and it has always been an issue.
Men covertly filming women at night and profiting from footage, BBC finds
The BBC went undercover to investigate an industry where women are filmed at night without their knowledge.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wish reporting on this would discuss the surveillance capitalism of “lives” on social media- where people have normalised walking around with selfie sticks and filming streets and bars etc. Tiktok promotes this kind of material and it has always been an issue.
I wish reporting on this would discuss the surveillance capitalism of “lives” on social media- where people have normalised walking around with selfie sticks and filming streets and bars etc. Tiktok promotes this kind of material and it has always been an issue.
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Worth a listen because a lot of the shitty infrastructure that is being used against vulnerable communities and protestors is invisible and people choose to integrate them into their lives and their homes.
How to Apply the 'Tyrant Test' to Technology
George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is the author of the forthcoming book Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
www.techpolicy.press
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Worth a listen because a lot of the shitty infrastructure that is being used against vulnerable communities and protestors is invisible and people choose to integrate them into their lives and their homes.
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Triggered by claims the "AI in education debate" is caught in a deadlock and by some academics worried that "AI critics: are over-anxious about *possible* rather than empirically documented effects, here are what I think are some worthwhile critical projects about AI in education 🧵
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Triggered by claims the "AI in education debate" is caught in a deadlock and by some academics worried that "AI critics: are over-anxious about *possible* rather than empirically documented effects, here are what I think are some worthwhile critical projects about AI in education 🧵
www.itv.com/news/granada...
I find it odd how all these phone free campaigns get so much funding, but digital literacy and edtech governance work never gets any such support.
I find it odd how all these phone free campaigns get so much funding, but digital literacy and edtech governance work never gets any such support.
www.itv.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
www.itv.com/news/granada...
I find it odd how all these phone free campaigns get so much funding, but digital literacy and edtech governance work never gets any such support.
I find it odd how all these phone free campaigns get so much funding, but digital literacy and edtech governance work never gets any such support.
I will never not be angry that schools get inundated with detail about metacognition or retrieval or whatever the fad is this year
But no one gives schools- full of people who can retain and explain facts- any information on how to evaluate edtech products. We scrutinise skirt length more .
But no one gives schools- full of people who can retain and explain facts- any information on how to evaluate edtech products. We scrutinise skirt length more .
February 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I will never not be angry that schools get inundated with detail about metacognition or retrieval or whatever the fad is this year
But no one gives schools- full of people who can retain and explain facts- any information on how to evaluate edtech products. We scrutinise skirt length more .
But no one gives schools- full of people who can retain and explain facts- any information on how to evaluate edtech products. We scrutinise skirt length more .
Pretty lucky that the tech men and their friends flooded the world with tech that fakes text, voice and image in time to cover up mass global sex trafficking and other crimes
Now no one knows who or what to believe. All done by design. And anyone who warned of it was called scared and stupid
Now no one knows who or what to believe. All done by design. And anyone who warned of it was called scared and stupid
February 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Pretty lucky that the tech men and their friends flooded the world with tech that fakes text, voice and image in time to cover up mass global sex trafficking and other crimes
Now no one knows who or what to believe. All done by design. And anyone who warned of it was called scared and stupid
Now no one knows who or what to believe. All done by design. And anyone who warned of it was called scared and stupid
When we say that the ego of tech men has always been the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, this is what we mean
So many rich powerful men who lack any common sense
Also one dose of antibiotics wouldn’t help any more than one Teams update does
So many rich powerful men who lack any common sense
Also one dose of antibiotics wouldn’t help any more than one Teams update does
Epstein Emails on Bill Gates
“TO add insult to injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you with antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis.”
“TO add insult to injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you with antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis.”
Epstein emails on Bill Gates released by Justice Department
Files contain new revelations on Microsoft founder, Elon Musk, the former Prince Andrew and other powerful men
www.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:46 PM
When we say that the ego of tech men has always been the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, this is what we mean
So many rich powerful men who lack any common sense
Also one dose of antibiotics wouldn’t help any more than one Teams update does
So many rich powerful men who lack any common sense
Also one dose of antibiotics wouldn’t help any more than one Teams update does
I want the screen free and phone free parent groups, school leaders and MPs to be a little louder about the fact that almost every tech ceo and powerful man since 2000 was involved with Epstein.
If it were really about child safety, they’d be louder
If it were really about child safety, they’d be louder
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I want the screen free and phone free parent groups, school leaders and MPs to be a little louder about the fact that almost every tech ceo and powerful man since 2000 was involved with Epstein.
If it were really about child safety, they’d be louder
If it were really about child safety, they’d be louder
Is a school phone free if staff film on their phones to record the minster for education visiting their school and post it on tiktok?
January 31, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Is a school phone free if staff film on their phones to record the minster for education visiting their school and post it on tiktok?
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🌙 Our Ramadan Guide is designed to support Muslims in Britain throughout the holy month, while also helping workplaces, schools, colleagues and communities better understand Ramadan and Eid.
It offers practical guidance, resources and tips inclusive Ramadan🤍
📖 Read & share https://loom.ly/nP-rgKo
It offers practical guidance, resources and tips inclusive Ramadan🤍
📖 Read & share https://loom.ly/nP-rgKo
January 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
🌙 Our Ramadan Guide is designed to support Muslims in Britain throughout the holy month, while also helping workplaces, schools, colleagues and communities better understand Ramadan and Eid.
It offers practical guidance, resources and tips inclusive Ramadan🤍
📖 Read & share https://loom.ly/nP-rgKo
It offers practical guidance, resources and tips inclusive Ramadan🤍
📖 Read & share https://loom.ly/nP-rgKo
Remember that this is EXACTLY the experience that poorer young people have for all work experience too
Same model
Data mining
Sign up to multiple platforms to do useless stuff the government tells you to. All it does is give ATS and adtech more data.
Same model
Data mining
Sign up to multiple platforms to do useless stuff the government tells you to. All it does is give ATS and adtech more data.
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Remember that this is EXACTLY the experience that poorer young people have for all work experience too
Same model
Data mining
Sign up to multiple platforms to do useless stuff the government tells you to. All it does is give ATS and adtech more data.
Same model
Data mining
Sign up to multiple platforms to do useless stuff the government tells you to. All it does is give ATS and adtech more data.
Testing ai products on the most marginalised is ableism and discrimination and perhaps more people in education should say that openly
January 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Testing ai products on the most marginalised is ableism and discrimination and perhaps more people in education should say that openly
I tutor low attaining/disadvantaged students and there is no way an ai tutor is even safe, let alone adequate
All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess
Watch who profits
All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess
Watch who profits
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I tutor low attaining/disadvantaged students and there is no way an ai tutor is even safe, let alone adequate
All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess
Watch who profits
All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess
Watch who profits
www.gov.uk/government/n...
I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use
The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.
I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use
The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.
450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools
Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.
www.gov.uk
January 28, 2026 at 3:53 PM
www.gov.uk/government/n...
I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use
The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.
I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use
The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.
The ai hype bubble can be summed up by this week’s Twitter post about how “everyone in SF is using multi agentic Claudeswarms to automate their lives “ and even tech journalists have jumped on to say “yes, we see this”
Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real
Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The ai hype bubble can be summed up by this week’s Twitter post about how “everyone in SF is using multi agentic Claudeswarms to automate their lives “ and even tech journalists have jumped on to say “yes, we see this”
Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real
Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real