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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 2h

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The return of Kokpar as Kazakhstan’s modern national sport

Since independence, kokpar has made a comeback as part of a broader revival of nomadic traditions. The World Nomad Games, launched in 2014, showcase sports such as archery, wrestling, and kokpar.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 2h

How data gaps deepen climate injustice in the Himalayas

To prepare for and build resilience against GLOFS, regional collaboration must go beyond diplomatic gestures. It must involve shared infrastructure, multilingual data portals, joint simulations, and s...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

On the one hand, yes, demand answers as to why this happened. But release him now independent of the answer — there is no justification for this. No society that hasn’t hopelessly devolved past the point of return does this to kids. I don’t care whatever they can possibly cook up as an excuse.

Boston judge orders release of 13-year-old from ICE custody

The federal court ruled the boy must be freed unless immigration officials can justify detaining a juvenile with adult detainees at the Burlington facility.

www.masslive.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 4h

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 8h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 5h

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Protests in Georgia amid municipal elections met with arrests, heavy police intervention

Opposition and rights groups raised concerns that in the lead up to local election on October 4, changes to electoral laws, favored incumbents.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 5h

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On World Migratory Bird Day, the Caribbean focuses on shared spaces

The occasion unites people across the Americas in a shared commitment to securing a bright and sustainable future for these marvellous migrants: healthier habitats for birds and, by extension, people.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Constructions of AI by Academia, Industry, and Policy Groups journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Constructions of AI by Academia, Industry, and Policy Groups for Lifelong Learning - Rebecca Eynon, Erin Young, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) is again attracting significant attention across all areas of social life. One important sphere of focus is education; many policy ...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies

In this article, we examine the sociopolitical implications of AI technologies as they are integrated into writing instruction and assessment. Drawing from new materialist and Black feminist though...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15h

Once again, there is a good history of critical research on AI in education which both pre-dates chatgpt and provides insights to inform how we should respond to AI in education now bsky.app/profile/benp...

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

I understand and appreciate efforts to work with AI in teaching and research for well-specified reasons and purposes but only so long as it's acknowledged AI in education is also and mainly a public problem for the sector that still needs addressing
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...

AI in education is a public problem

Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education is unaccountable, opaque, and increasingly impervious to critique - you can't challenge it, you can't know what it does, you can't say it's wrong because it responsibilizes the user for its faults.

AI in education is something to avoid as much as you can.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education is a policy discourse without substance except economic speculation about "jobs for the future"

AI in education policy talks about "AI literacy" or "responsible AI" but doesn't consider the irresponsibilities of those promoting AI in education

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education is an investors' dream as education is a huge sector to get locked in for big returns while little is being returned on their investments elsewhere

AI in education is speculative capitalism at full throttle

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education amplifies student surveillance

AI in education makes surveillance companies into trusted educational providers

AI in education surveillance techniques always threaten to creep beyond their original scope of operations

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education amplifies and intensifies educational systems of product-centredness

AI in education reproduces the idea of de-skilled, casualized pedagogy where the computer is the primary reader of the curriculum/syllabus and the tutor plays a subsidiary role

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

AI in education amplifies existing biases against marginalized or vulnerable groups

AI in education is not evidence-based but based on speculation and proof of concept claims

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6h

CRW Nevinson’s Welsh Hills
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._R._W...

landscape painting, fields and scattered trees leading to hils in the distance

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6h

How lovely to find out that Saturn gets 'ring rain'.

Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 2d

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings

Saturn's rings have been a mystery for a long time.

We now know they're under 200 million years old, and an idea from 2022 just might explain their origin, and a whole lot more.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#saturn #space #astro

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn's rings

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn's rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 6h

Greta Moll, 1908
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15745

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 6h

let me know if you do!

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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 1d

Incidentally, one of my favorite books to recommend these days is Malka Older's "Infomocracy." It's part one of a series!

I'd love to teach it one day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6h

The use of AI generated content in political messaging has become a feature in today’s communication ecosystem.

How often is it used in the 🇳🇱 election campaign, and by whom?

Check out colleague @favstats.eu and @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social’s AI campaign tracker #tk2025

www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

Dashboard -

www.campaigntracker.nl

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