Rosarita Bizzarita
@rbizzario.bsky.social
Applied linguistics; Teaching & Learning. Senior Lecturer. Forest dweller 🌳🌱
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿🇵🇭
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿🇵🇭
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
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Views are my own lol 😆
I’m trying to cheer myself up with the state of this world. I do have neighbours so I stop myself from screaming out my frustrations!!
I’m trying to cheer myself up with the state of this world. I do have neighbours so I stop myself from screaming out my frustrations!!
This is beyond awful. I don’t like this and I don’t want children growing up in a world where consent is trivialised and ignored.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is beyond awful. I don’t like this and I don’t want children growing up in a world where consent is trivialised and ignored.
It’s that time when Christmas cheers blur into (the kid’s) birthday celebrations.
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It’s that time when Christmas cheers blur into (the kid’s) birthday celebrations.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Korea moves to end overseas adoptions m.koreaherald.com/article/1064...
December 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Korea moves to end overseas adoptions m.koreaherald.com/article/1064...
The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
YouTube video by TheRaveonettesVEVO
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December 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Ah, fuck! Good point - good heads up!
PSA: Now is a good time to gather all your hammers and test them for maximum smashing capabilities in case you have any well-intentioned in-laws gifting your children a chatbot-integrated toy. You don’t want to be caught with a less-than-perfect hammer for smashing those abominations!
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Ah, fuck! Good point - good heads up!
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#kikorangi #nzpol
Can never be said *enough* IMO, at any time, let alone during *this* period.
The speed limit *is not a target*... our roads *are not your private race track*... which means no, you're definitely not Bruce McLaren or Hayden Paddon, no matter how many times you've "aced" that game.
Can never be said *enough* IMO, at any time, let alone during *this* period.
The speed limit *is not a target*... our roads *are not your private race track*... which means no, you're definitely not Bruce McLaren or Hayden Paddon, no matter how many times you've "aced" that game.
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
#kikorangi #nzpol
Can never be said *enough* IMO, at any time, let alone during *this* period.
The speed limit *is not a target*... our roads *are not your private race track*... which means no, you're definitely not Bruce McLaren or Hayden Paddon, no matter how many times you've "aced" that game.
Can never be said *enough* IMO, at any time, let alone during *this* period.
The speed limit *is not a target*... our roads *are not your private race track*... which means no, you're definitely not Bruce McLaren or Hayden Paddon, no matter how many times you've "aced" that game.
Y’all! I’m about to head out to the supermarket coz Ive been too grinch to do any xmas stuff til now. And I’m on my period.
Send zen vibes pls 🧘🏻♀️ And prayers for anyone who shall test me today 🥊
Send zen vibes pls 🧘🏻♀️ And prayers for anyone who shall test me today 🥊
I went into the supermarket today.
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Y’all! I’m about to head out to the supermarket coz Ive been too grinch to do any xmas stuff til now. And I’m on my period.
Send zen vibes pls 🧘🏻♀️ And prayers for anyone who shall test me today 🥊
Send zen vibes pls 🧘🏻♀️ And prayers for anyone who shall test me today 🥊
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I don’t need advice about what to read or not read unless it’s an affirmative recommendation, thanks. I am a whole ass adult who makes my own decisions for my own reasons.
December 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Thank you Prof @ginnybraun.bsky.social and all the researchers & academics taking a stand.
Now published…
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thank you Prof @ginnybraun.bsky.social and all the researchers & academics taking a stand.
Good read on predictive AI and gen AI
Was really challenging to participate in this, but I think I was able to pen something real, important, and personal to my experience in AI. Remember that GenAI is not *all* of AI nor all of what it should be.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Good read on predictive AI and gen AI
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Discovery in the Domain
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Discovery in the Domain
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If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know:
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
ALT: the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know:
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
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I don't need regurgitation. I don't need memorization.
I need application. I need integration.
Don't tell me what I told you. Or what AI told you.
Tell me how those things apply to the world around you.
Empower yourself to take on the world with these ideas, skills I am teaching you.
I need application. I need integration.
Don't tell me what I told you. Or what AI told you.
Tell me how those things apply to the world around you.
Empower yourself to take on the world with these ideas, skills I am teaching you.
December 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I don't need regurgitation. I don't need memorization.
I need application. I need integration.
Don't tell me what I told you. Or what AI told you.
Tell me how those things apply to the world around you.
Empower yourself to take on the world with these ideas, skills I am teaching you.
I need application. I need integration.
Don't tell me what I told you. Or what AI told you.
Tell me how those things apply to the world around you.
Empower yourself to take on the world with these ideas, skills I am teaching you.
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It removes one of the best realities about academia. That it’s a Conversation among reality explorers. No one person understands it all or has all the monopoly on Truth. That’s a good thing.
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It removes one of the best realities about academia. That it’s a Conversation among reality explorers. No one person understands it all or has all the monopoly on Truth. That’s a good thing.
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FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!
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my little spiel to early-on graduate students who are anxious how to get a good idea is that first, something has to bother you. and nothing is more bothersome than an absence or a vacancy
I'm preaching to the choir here, but I read articles to find what's not being said and where I need to keep digging. And that's something a generated summary cannot provide.
FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!
December 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
my little spiel to early-on graduate students who are anxious how to get a good idea is that first, something has to bother you. and nothing is more bothersome than an absence or a vacancy
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similar for me - my mom has an enormous library of books, many of them fiction, because her degree was in Latin American Lit, but also criticism and theory. And she didn't continue in research, so she didn't stay up on new work in the field, but she did that PhD BECAUSE SHE LOVED READING THOSE BOOKS
A formative experience for me as a child was seeing the personal library my mom (a Ph.D) kept in her study and asking how many of those hundreds of books she had actually read all the way through, and her very matter-of-fact-my explaining how and why she had read *all* of them, *multiple times*
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
similar for me - my mom has an enormous library of books, many of them fiction, because her degree was in Latin American Lit, but also criticism and theory. And she didn't continue in research, so she didn't stay up on new work in the field, but she did that PhD BECAUSE SHE LOVED READING THOSE BOOKS
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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The last six years here and worldwide has taught me that some people waste way too much time focused on hate. Hating groups. Hating individuals. Hating themselves.
Imagine how much more productive and less violent society would be if that energy was put into something good.
Imagine how much more productive and less violent society would be if that energy was put into something good.
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The last six years here and worldwide has taught me that some people waste way too much time focused on hate. Hating groups. Hating individuals. Hating themselves.
Imagine how much more productive and less violent society would be if that energy was put into something good.
Imagine how much more productive and less violent society would be if that energy was put into something good.
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And i’ve said before, guilt is useless and can easily curdle into resentment. A sense of moral obligation and solidarity on the other hand, can be productive.
December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
And i’ve said before, guilt is useless and can easily curdle into resentment. A sense of moral obligation and solidarity on the other hand, can be productive.
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Put together my Christmas wishlist. Remember that it's a political choice to allow AI and social media spaces to go unregulated and instead erode children's rights. Cool. #nzpol
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Put together my Christmas wishlist. Remember that it's a political choice to allow AI and social media spaces to go unregulated and instead erode children's rights. Cool. #nzpol
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
I do this too. I also delete work apps during annual leave & long weekends. I have my phone on do not disturb most of the time so I don’t get any notifications or even phone calls except for the few people who can bypass them. In saying that I still think about work+study & read related stuff lol
One thing I’ve been doing for some time now, is while I have outlook & teams installed on my iPhone & iPad, I NEVER allow notifications, not even badges, for them. I can access them if I need to, but they don’t get to notify me of anything.
On my work Mac, notifications are allowed, but only if …
On my work Mac, notifications are allowed, but only if …
One thing I am doing as I head toward 2026 is turning off notifications in apps.
No one needs instant access to me and my energy in that way.
We have been conditioned to be on and accessible 24/7 and it's bullshit.
No one needs instant access to me and my energy in that way.
We have been conditioned to be on and accessible 24/7 and it's bullshit.
December 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I do this too. I also delete work apps during annual leave & long weekends. I have my phone on do not disturb most of the time so I don’t get any notifications or even phone calls except for the few people who can bypass them. In saying that I still think about work+study & read related stuff lol
If there’s a BlackSky, is there a BrownSky too?
December 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
If there’s a BlackSky, is there a BrownSky too?