When talking to @howardhliu.bsky.social about his new project, I remembered this great graphic made by the Stasi showing the social connections of a poet they were spying on projects.propublica.org/graphics/sta...

But most of all, 3️⃣Catholic-affiliated journals gained disproportionately, embedding a conservative-nationalist agenda and rewarding pro-government institutions.

The Anthropic Education Report (www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...) offers a great insight into how students use Claude. The (relatively) good: half of the conversations are collaborative (dialogue with AI to achieve goals). The bad: students mostly outsource higher-order cognitive functions (see ⬇️)

1️⃣ Learning requires thinking deeply (exerting effort), over extended periods, and at regular intervals.
2️⃣ GenAI can support this by boosting motivation to exert effort (e.g., through gamification) or by adjusting difficulty to an appropriate level (e.g., customised explanations).

Yesterday's session during the @aiatkings.bsky.social conference attracted a wonderfully engaged audience.

In the slides, you’ll find the GPTs and exercises demonstrating applications of point 2 (below).

Key points ⬇️

In the US, in an information-poor environment (such as local elections), endorsement by various interest groups acts as a partisan cue.

A pretty striking graph from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... by Jennifer Gaudette.

ChatGPT created this Median Voter Theorem GIF for me, and I'm pretty pleased with it. Its original suggestions didn't do a good job conveying the MVT, but after I laid out the pictures I wanted, it was very helpful in generating this:
#genAI #EduSky

3️⃣ Rhymes
Started ok, got progressively worse.

2️⃣ alliterations
This surprisingly did not work. Made me check if I hadn’t switched the modem to 3.5 by accident. I had not.

I got cocky and thought that asking for a set of pictures corresponding to these images might work. It didn’t, but tbh I didn’t expect it to.

1️⃣ Evocative mental imagery
The examples are actually quite… evocative. This worked ✔️

Eurostat migration data that I found embarrassingly surprising. In each case, the sample is top EU countries in terms of permits awarded in 2022.

Bear with me, while I’m pinching myself and working on a summary thread.

This viz shows well the complexity of the task ahead of the PL coalition in working out its programme. Many of the election candidates are political alliances or outright coalitions of partiesthe opposition coalition would in fact be composed of 10, rather than just 3 parties.

Have a look at these stunning graphics from a zine explaining the elections to young people: 100cznia.pl/zine.pdf