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Colin Madland 🇨🇦
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studying technology-integrated assessment | rider of bikes | smoker of meats | #RStats | #OpenResearch | #luddite | #ElbowsUp | he/him
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cultmtl.com
“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath.

“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”

An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.

#December6
Gender-based violence is an everyday reality, and it starts with minimizing misogyny
As we highlight 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and the upcoming anniversary of the Montreal massacre, can we take a moment to reflect on all the different forms this violence takes?
cultmtl.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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smurph.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
cmad.land
Who would have thunk it: 1. #AISlop is profoundly manipulative and 2. Humans don't like to be manipulated by #AISlop
emollick.bsky.social Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 4h
AI created visual ads got 20% more clicks than ads created by human experts as part of their jobs... unless people knew the ads are AI-created, which lowers click-throughs to 31% less than human-made ads.

Importantly, the AI ads were selected by human experts from many AI options.
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
cmad.land
file this under #BetterThanTheOriginal ... @brassagainst.bsky.social music.apple.com/ca/music-vid... #ozzy #NoMoreTears
No More Tears by Brass Against on Apple Music
Music Video · 2025 · Duration 7:11
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December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Mira of Kyiv = @reshetz •5h Trump fifa peace prizes exploding over my house rn 6
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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norwayinusa.norway.no
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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vortexegg.com
Chatting with PDF or making a podcast with NotebookLM is the intellectual equivalent of AI-generated nonconsensual sexual images derived from pictures of real people both of which rely on a fundamental rejection of the right to one’s own representational image and reputation through public depiction
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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coatless.bsky.social
Released a #Quarto extension for collapsible content blocks.

Why? The {details} are inside.

📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/details/
💻 github.com/coatless-qua...
Screenshot of the details extension quickstart documentation showing three methods to create collapsible blocks in Quarto: using the summary attribute, using a heading, and using a summary div. Each method shows the code syntax and its rendered output as expandable disclosure widgets. Hexagonal sticker logo for the details Quarto extension. Orange background with a stylized illustration of three accordion-style collapsible content panels in cream and brown, with the word "details" in white text at the bottom.
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
cmad.land
you know when you get a marketing email from an #EdTech vendor and their only social links are Xitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Insta and then you trash the email in a nanosecond? Me too. #HigherEd
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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troytassier.bsky.social
After you read the Prasad memo, read this.
Covid-19 vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence
“Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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cmad.land
I know there are lots of individual faculty who use @quarto.org to build their own course sites, but I'm looking for folks who are using it at scale to manage a larger portfolio of courses, either in a department or a whole institution. #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
chat are we cooked
r/Teachers 37m ago TheOne4Figures Being in College for Education right now is Horrifying Another AI / ChatGPT Post 🤖 I am a student observer (I student teach next fall) for high school history ed. Right now in college, we have a full class dedicated to using technology in the classroom. However the entire semester was almost fully dedicated to using ai in the classroom. Using ai to make lessons, being told it’s ok to write research papers with them, being told ChatGPT IS a valid source TO CITE, being told to create our college lesson plans using ai, basically being told to use ai for everything. On top of this, our professor has told us she uses ai all the time, including for writing research papers and making our assignments. Every time we pointed out the mistakes ai makes, she would tell us how ai isn’t perfect so just double check it. Oh yea, our professor? She’s our DEAN OF EDUCATION AT OUR COLLEGE. It’s just so infuriating to see. For those asking, SIUC, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
cmad.land
I've worked in online/tech-integrated learning for a decade and a half at the higher ed level and have some thoughts about course production media. On the whole, learning management systems (moodle, canvas, brightspace, blackboard, etc) are uninspiring at best. #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
University of Kentucky among nation’s 1st institutions to partner with Microsoft on responsible AI innovation
The University of Kentucky and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Comm...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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alexandragallant.com
Tapping the sign again
Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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olivia.science
Also it's time to keep pushing.

Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

6/n

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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physgal.bsky.social
This is mind-boggling:

"“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus."

How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions?

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November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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rincewind.run
evergreen
Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ringtales.bsky.social
for the visual learners
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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justinbrake.bsky.social
This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.

First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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enginvir.bsky.social
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM