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Prof Maz Hardey
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Professor ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 Durham University Business School:,Unravelling with Technology, Education & AI. Neurodiverse. Resident of The North. Books are the answer. Show me your bookshelves.
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · Dec 9
The Learner.

She is curious.

Diligent.

The one who asked if she could.

"Could I?..."

She would like to experiment.

Play.

But she got shamed.

Over and over again.

Stuck.

Using Gen AI in Education, by me. Image and Text.
A hand-drawn illustration of a student with speech bubbles around her head that are voicing concerns about using Gen AI in education.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13h
Pretty outrageous tbh
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d
These are just our first steps.

Let's keep going.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 5d
Michael Landy has unveiled a decade-in-the-making memorial in London to humanitarian aid workers, featuring 15 life-sized figures inscribed with their stories.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3d
Rather than unlocking UK community power, successive govts' digital policies have been focussed on Silicon Valley-style success.

By me for @powertochange.org.uk, on why digital social policy is a necessary building block for a stronger society

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The digital disconnect: taking digital social policy seriously - Power to Change
In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered communit ...
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d
ICE is the Sturmabteilung of Trumpian fascism, characterised by racial profiling, flagrant lawlessness, and sadistic violence. The fact that Badenoch wants that for us is a shocking illustration of just how extreme and sinister her politics are.

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Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 4d
Missing decent weekend reading and investigative reporting, start here 👇🏼📷
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Nov 17
Here’s my Bylines starter pack.

This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)

Please follow & share.

go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 4d
Super windy #caturday
Calico cat lying in her side snuggling on her Pokemon blanket. Paws together
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 7d
Funny how Wikipedia was "unreliable woke rhetoric" until techbros needed a free, massive dataset to train their AI models.

Now it's a "wealth of knowledge. 😇
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 7d
A new database will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.
New project makes Wikipedia data more accessible to AI | TechCrunch
A new database will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 8d
a woman with curly hair is making a funny face while holding a sign that says `` so '' .
ALT: a woman with curly hair is making a funny face while holding a sign that says `` so '' .
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 8d
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Oh, look, so Vibe-y.

"With such support functionality as 'comprehensive', 'powerful', 'sophisticated', 'robust'... stopping just short of 'synergistical'." (MatJazM commenter)

www.theverge.com/news/787076/...
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d
'The University of Liverpool has been awarded ‘University of Sanctuary’ status by City of Sanctuary UK, reflecting its efforts to make the institution a place of safety, solidarity and empowerment for people seeking sanctuary.

It has also officially launched its new Refugee Hub.'

Actions speak.
University awarded ‘Sanctuary’ status at launch event for new Refugee Hub - University of Liverpool News
University awarded ‘Sanctuary’ status at launch event for new Refugee Hub
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 9d
The political ad archive - now deleted?!! Hmmm, supremacy indeed.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 9d
YES! Bugs are the new exam threshold!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9d
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 9d
Add to this F-off-ness. It is not a 'tough' stance to deny people citizenship. This is the 'easy' and cruel road.

Along with 'a consultation' as shorthand for throwing this further down the road, making this someone else's problem, hoping this goes away and signalling action where there is none.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9d
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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WIRED @wired.com · 9d
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours. www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.
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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 10d
Digital competition law - EU rejects Apple demand to scrap landmark tech rules www.france24.com/en/live-news...
EU rejects Apple demand to scrap landmark tech rules
The European Union rejected a call by Apple to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday, dismissing the US giant's claims that the rules put users' security at risk.
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 10d
A dear colleague and union activist always signs off from their communications with ‘Bread and roses’.

The song of resistance.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10d
Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond.
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10d
Catch up on this weeks @boldpolitics.bsky.social with @graceblakeley.substack.com!

We talk power, wealth and community organising.

youtu.be/ojrrTf_SD0M?...
Why Rachel Reeves Is Obsessed With Growth At Any Cost | Grace Blakeley | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 11d
#caturday
Snuggle your Pokemon blanket.
🥐
Calico cat snuggled on a pikachu fleece blanket croissant style.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d
UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 12d
Whatever you think of his proposals, I cheer any candidate who talks about women’s health as a campaign issue. Who in UK politics would issue a video like this?
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d
UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 12d
Sorry, I’m busy today creating points of resistance to protest wealth hoarding.
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