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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 1h

Makes me wonder what happens to teachers’ expertise as they follow encouragement to rely on this stuff to plan, grade, etc

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2h

Our kids, 9 and 13, are radicalized against AI. This isn’t something we’ve made any conscious attempt to do and in fact we barely talk about it in the house. No idea if this is typical but my sense is that the AI vibes are really bad among the adolescence set.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h

"Over its 14 years in power, the Modi government has been rigidly intolerant of dissent. However, few protests have prompted such a draconian nationwide crackdown, signalling the government’s concern that this unrest could present a serious political challenge." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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‘Cockroach’ leader among thousands detained in Delhi protest crackdown

Authorities impose strict lockdown in capital to try to stop rally against removal of 130m names from electoral roll

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4h

When all these tradwife influencers start pivoting away from their alt-right branding in the next few years, never forget they were on this fascist bandwagon to line their pockets at the expense of every other woman in this country.

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maud @peloriemate.net · 3h

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3h

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

For 12 years I've developed our Year 7 curriculum. The course is well sequenced, interesting and challenging. Yet, over the years, when teachers have come down to teach a Y7 class alongside me, it's immediately apparent how many aren't able to teach without slide decks and worksheets to deliver.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6h

absent shared norms, facts, standards of evidence or methods of reasoning, “public debate” is just broadcasting talking points performing “public debate” in that context means tacitly agreeing that whatever’s being debated, however fundamental, is just a matter of opinion even if you win, you lose

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9h

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 14h

I was scared of the black aida at first but I actually find it easier for these projects, it's not as hard to work with as I thought it would be! I think the fact you don't use any black thread and it uses silhouettes (which I actually love as an effect) helps

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 14h

I finished my seasons cross stitch project with Spring! I am so happy with how they turned out and can't wait to get them framed as a gift for my Dad for Christmas. Now to find a new project! #CraftSky #crosstitch 🧶 Patterns by Max Pigeon from Cross-stitch in the Forest

Embroidery hoop with a completed cross stitch project showing a tree in silhouette with a spring sky in light pinks and yellows with trees and blue water

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21h

I've had MANY conversations with students who see this in themselves and friends: "persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own." Arguments re: how could be used ≠ how it is being used.

We posit that persistence is reduced because
AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, thereby denying them the experience
of working through challenges on their own. These results add to the growing literature
on cognitive offloading and AI-induced deskilling, and suggest the need for AI model
development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task
completion.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 09/10/2026

This is exactly the problem with our overwhelmingly banking model derived educational system. You do work for "credit" not for "learning" and this is the result.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I definitely worry about the way it will start to seep into what students think and feel about their learning experience... It sets up a combative power dynamic which can only be detrimental to their learning (but clearly any company pushing AI doesn't actually care about learning)

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Jon Beeson @jontybeeswax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Doctors are "overdiagnosing" ADHD and autism in the same way that Christopher Columbus "discovered" America. Pretty sure it was always there. Someone just decided to look for it.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's so obvious they've got no one with any educational experience or expertise involved in these products and the marketing of them because their idea of what education looks like it's genuinely bizarre

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What strikes me about these marketing examples is the way they portray such a negative and antagonistic picture of the student/teacher relationship that just fundamentally misunderstands and misrepresents what education is about. Teachers are partners in learning not the enemy! It's not war!

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Screams *schools, teachers, parents stop sharing photos of your children online*. It's just not safe!

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every art and craft

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Francis Fukuyama please end history sooner, hurry up

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The paperwork" can be silly at times but is often "vital work." If you hear "we won't cut the frontline staff though" be afraid. It means stuff like "an RN will now spend most of her shift trying to get a lightbulb replaced and a medical gas tap fixed so the bed is open."

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

in retrospect, letting people who hate society and social life run society and dictate the shape of social life was a stupid thing to do

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh good, an entire cohort of children are having "wire mother" experiments done on them

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

So, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also weird how pretty much every woman with depression manages to not strangle anyone either. Almost like having depression has nothing to do with physical violence in any way. Be nice if the media pointed that out!

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The entitlement is disgusting. Poor guy, how dare he suffer consequences for his actions. That might feel hard for him, we can't have that. Never mind his family and the physical and emotional trauma he's inflicted on them and what that has likely done to *their" mental health

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can't wait for him to become a cancel culture warrior claiming victim status and the woke system 😡

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The kids and I downloaded the Bubbly Basin DLC for Pokopia today after months of being completely in love with the base game and somehow it's made us love it even more!! I never saw myself becoming a Pokemon girly coming but I don't hate it!

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Let's get this place humid!

Alt: Let's get this place humid!

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This shit makes me so angry. They always find a way to make themselves the victim.

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Anthony Zougras @anthonyzougras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was wondering if any NSW historians (or historians of NSW) could help me. I'm currently working with electoral rolls from 1930-1934 which divide electors up by 'Subdivisions'. I'm trying to figure out if these are the same as the Local Government Areas used in the 1933 Census. Thanks! 🗃️ #history

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know some people don't like these stories but is it really too much to ask whether it would be prudent for Greens Senators not to make money from Airbnb and rentals (Faruqi) given their party's anti landlord stance? #auspol share.google/cHypJkSH7cI4...

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Greens deputy leader’s family trust hides Airbnb income

Luckily for Steph Hodgins-May, her party’s push to have Airbnb stays capped at 90 days a year in Victoria did not succeed.

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Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Major political parties plan to cut university funding" should be the headline for recent party announcements on student visas. The international students subsidise the teaching of local students - the visa cuts (and delays) have local impacts. www.theage.com.au/national/int...

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International student cuts risk ‘very significant hole’, universities warn

Universities were already seeing the impact of rejected international students visas, but recent announcements to further curb migration have anxiety in the sector.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 08/10/2026

The first research snapshot from the inaugural Feminist Researcher in Residence program at the Victorian Women's Trust has just been released, and it's a landmark work mapping the gendered harms of AI at a systems level in Australia: www.vwt.org.au/resources/ou...

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Gender and AI: Where’s the Harm? - Vic Womens Trust

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