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Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at qmul.ac.uk; Visiting Research Fellow at bnu.ac.uk; SpongeBob fan; I also like coffee gimme coffee 😬 Higher Education | Degree Apprenticeships | Software Engineering | AI Ethics | LLMs linkedin.com/in/iamjonjackson

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 7d

Come on Copilot, I've got slop to generate! #GenAI

Graph showing Microsoft Copilot outages reported in the last 24 hours. A spike in 200+ reports in the last hour (4-5pm)

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D. Brett Richardson @berkeleybrett.bsky.social · 9d

For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." 🤓 NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Quick sound check on this slide please.

Is it loud enough?

#academicSky

PowerPoint slide with “Capture. The. Outputs.” in huge 100pt+ font

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 14d

Can confirm I wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 18d

ha!

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 19d

Society has peaked with this

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 19d

Absolute pure chef's kiss. A company called Ugmonk have invented pieces of paper to make notes on as a way to stay offline. One of them is a ring-binder notebook ugmonk.com/en-gb/collec...

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 19d

It has solid brass discs and analog task signals

a cartoon of spongebob holding a stick in his right hand

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob holding a stick in his right hand

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 19d

I think… the paper must do the tasks for you too, right? … right?

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 19d

This interchange made me smile 😊

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 24d

Feeling spicy over on LinkedIn 👀

Gotta love the pseudo-educator AI hypester grift

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

LinkedIn comment by Jon Jackson:

By opening with deliberate, fallacious engagement bait like "there's no assignment, paper, or project that Al can't do better, faster, and with zero effort", you got me to engage. Congratulations 👍

You have also tanked your own reputation in front of those that actually know what they're talking about. Congratulations 👍

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 24d

I’d hope so… 😝

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 25d

Passive aggressive possibly-human-maybe-a-bot support agent.

Air quotes… “your query” 😝

John has joined the chat

Hello, I hope you are doing splendid today, I am here to assist you with "your query".

End this chat

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 25d

It wasn’t me 👍

Hope that helps narrow it down 👌

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, I was wondering that

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Oct 1

Oof thanks, missed that.

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 29

Can confirm. It is an absolute mess.

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 28

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

Yes, indeed. Some prominent individuals position “AI” as the great leveller, beneficial for all, etc etc. Of course, it’s not. Pros and cons, as always.

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

Do you mean in the follow up posts? Accessibility

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

#academicSky

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

Spice up your Entity Relationship Diagrams with GenAI 👌

The bizarre typos are delicious and I particularly like the psychopathic relationship cardinalities.

Also, customers aren’t people, ok? #GenAI says so.

I’m going to have so much fun with this and my students 🤓

#SoftwareEngineering #AI

I don’t know what to say other than it’s a really messed up entity relationship diagram that’s wrong wrong wrong

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

What a time to be alive

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

I think they conflated self-checkout with normal checkout in that sentence.

Self-checkout automates away jobs entirely. One attendant now looking after 10+ self-checkout machines.

Normal checkout is assisted by barcode scanning + automated calculations so a cashier doesn’t need to know basic math.

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · Sep 27

Sounds like a thoroughly committed anarchist to me

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