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Sebastian Waack
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I co-founded and run @edkimo.bsky.social to help teachers and students make learning a two-way conversation.
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jmwiarda.bsky.social
"Man kann nicht alle drei Jahre neu anfangen"

Der SWK-Kovorsitzende Olaf Köller über verbrannte Fördergelder, nicht umgesetzte Empfehlungen zur digitalen Bildung – und die Verantwortung der Länder in der Bildungspolitik.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
sebastianwaack.bsky.social
Good read about the arms race of AI in education: "Universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating. It’s surveillance capitalism meets institutional malpractice."
katjathieme.bsky.social Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 18h
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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gizmodo.com
As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.
Amazon Quietly Rolls Back Its AI Anime Dubs After Massive Backlash
As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.
gizmodo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
sebastianwaack.bsky.social
AI vs AI to prove you are human. 🤔Trying to spin my head around the surreal bot-vs-bot feedback loops that will result from this approach.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
I asked the machine if you had joy 💀
The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for “authenticity” in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said. Students upload their research to an AI chatbot that interviews them about it on video, which is then reviewed by Caltech faculty. “It’s a gauge of authenticity. Can you claim this research intellectually? Is there a level of joy around your project? That passion is important to us,” Pallie said.
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
sebastianwaack.bsky.social
About AI textbooks: “when they hit the classroom, the books turned out to be full of embarrassing errors, demanding much more time and energy from students and teachers alike."
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
sebastianwaack.bsky.social
LLM-vergiftete Online-Umfragen: „Wir können nicht mehr darauf vertrauen, dass Umfrageantworten von echten Menschen stammen”, sagt Sean Westwood, Dartmouth Professor.

Bericht: t3n.de/news/wie-ki-...

Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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geographyquiz.app
Saw this masterpiece on Mastodon. I guess it describes the current state of the internet.

Source: shitpost.trade/@xyla/115593...
State of the internet diorama?
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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der-postillon.com
Hinweis: Wegen Fehlern bei Cloudflare ist unsere Seite heute wiederholt nicht erreichbar.
Ein weiteres hervorragendes Argument, ein Print-Abo zu holen, sobald unsere Seite wieder erreichbar ist: www.der-postillon.com/p/postillon-...
www.der-postillon.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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tepid.meme
Oh look this is relevant again
tepid.meme Andrej @tepid.meme · Oct 20
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network

It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Oct 20
there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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carissaveliz.bsky.social
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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erikahall.bsky.social
My favorite comment on the FT story
Personally I'd be impressed if they could make something as smart as an ant. Ants only have 250,000 neurons, which is pretty small compared with GPT-5's reputed more than one trillion parameters. And yet ants are able to survive all by themselves in this complex world of ours, without endless infusions of investor capital or government subsidies. I don't think GPT-5 could do that.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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edunowlab.bsky.social
Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."

Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile picture of Audrey Waters and the text: The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice November 12, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CT AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education with Audrey Watters Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab An Initiative of the Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship from the Office of Research at Illinois State University
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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csmfht.bsky.social
How every history and science textbook should start
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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tante.cc
Nicht ganz korrekt: "KI" "erfindet" _alle_ Antworten, manche sind nur zufällig korrekt (und du weißt nie, welche).
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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drewharwell.com
Congrats workers on your new hell zone
Congratulations @jpmorgan on the opening of your new headquarters! 🎉🇺🇸🙏
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Startup: our annualized revenue is 24 cows.

AI startup: We have signed a deal to purchase 2.4 billion cows from OpenAI, financed with a $10 billion investment from OpenAI.

Hyperscaler: Imagine a future where AI can revolutionize dairy. In anticipation, we have illegally laid off all but two cows
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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fraukreis.bsky.social
Verschiedene junge Frauen gefragt: Sie haben Angst vor Klimawandel, schlechteren Lebensverhältnissen, wenn sie erwachsen sind, Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht, einem Näherrücken des Krieges in Europa, vor Rechtsextremismus und zunehmendem Rassismus. Vielleicht hat das Sauerland andere Töchter?
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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kateconger.com
Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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carissaveliz.bsky.social
Incredible work by @lighthousereports.com (@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social and colleagues). Grateful to the investigative journalists who inform us. First Wap, a #surveillance company has "built a globe-spanning phone tracking empire, operating in the shadows"

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
www.lighthousereports.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes."

Gute Nacht mit Hannah Arendt

Man sieht eine Frau von hinten in einem schwarzen Mantel, sie hat blonde Haare, die zum Zopf geflochten sind. Sie steht am Wasser und schaut auf das Meer. Man sieht das blaue Wasser und darüber den blauen Himmel.
October 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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parismarx.com
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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:
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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carissaveliz.bsky.social
Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...
How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM