Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/05/2025If the genocidal famine in Gaza makes you feel helpless, follow @thecynicist.bsky.social who regularly posts gofundme's from people she can vouch for, and give what you can. If you ever wondered what you'd have chosen and done during historic genocides, it's what you're doing right now. 0156
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenRob Percival @rob-percival.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I spent the half-year working on this investigation. Extraordinary influence of UPF lobby behind the scenes. 'UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms' 👇 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...theguardian.comUK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firmsExclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms 1212573
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenJohnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...iccl.ieEU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisEU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ... 15558277
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Email trail: UPF firms pressured Sunak gov't to withdraw recommendation that food promotions prioritise minimally processed foods. And current gov't accepted it. Not surprising - yet so disappointing Bravo to Soil Association for securing these via FOI 072
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025For those of you without access to X, here's Grok being manipulated to deliver answers with a particular political spin by its operator. Doesn't exactly do much to make us trust the neutrality of these platforms. 513130
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 13/05/2025DSA - protection of minors "The draft guidelines are now open for public feedback until 10 June 2025. The Commission is seeking contributions from all stakeholders, including children, parents and guardians, national authorities, online platform providers, and experts." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...ec.europa.euDaily News 13 \/ 05 \/ 2025Commission publishes draft guidelines on protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act \nToday, the Commission launched a public consultation on draft guidelines for the protection of min... 010
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Ilkka Tuomi has done the digging on this terrible AI in education "evidence" reproduction again over on LinkedIn if you want receipts www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...linkedin.comThe effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning… | Lucas Wright"The meta-analysis results of this study confirm the positive impacts of ChatGPT on learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking, while highlighting some variations in eff... 2489
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Yet again a big "meta-analysis" of the effects of ChatGPT on "learning performance" - largely arguing there are big positive effects - is getting wildly and uncritically promoted by the usual big names and yet again it appears to be a review of seriously bad science... 717738
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenCharlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 10/05/2025So many different thoughts, ideas, feelings and art works pulled into a collage that gently reveals itself as a whole new thing entirely. Magic. 1134
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Was this my favourite episode of Podyssey? Probably. But all so far are all a beautiful meld of myth, music, movies, literature and piercing yet delicate insights about life - timeless and contemporary, personal and political. 4144
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd... 040981917
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenProf Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The problem we have about health is that it’s marketed as this personal thing & conceptualised as the result of what you do to yourself or what individually happens to you -your bad luck- But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action. 316257
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Strongly recommend this thoughtful paper - much of it applies beyond the discipline of law 110
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenTim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025the problem with “tech journalism” is that we had 2 decades of mainly white men regurgitating press releases about new cell phones and usb ports on laptops who now are their own publishing platforms while being unable to grasp how the future became automated high frequency feudalism 422669
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/05/2025This sums the whole situation up quite nicely. 1393193876
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Re: Kids+tech. @tpf.bsky.social is a pioneer in operationalizing risk assessment, w massively influential processes she invented for Google and Common Sense. Her recent work determined AI companions aren't safe for kids <18. So this news from Google is...interesting. techcrunch.com/2025/05/02/g...techcrunch.comGoogle will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbot | TechCrunchGoogle will soon begin allowing kids under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts to use its Gemini chatbot, per The New York Times. 34115
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 03/05/2025"AI literacy" is set to become part of the OECD's international testing and ranking exercise. The assessment's not due until 2029 but the OECD is already preparing resources for schools to teach to the test and perform on the ranking. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/p...codeactsineducation.wordpress.comPerforming AI literacyPhoto by Jess Bailey on Unsplash A new international test of young people’s “AI literacy” has been announced by the OECD. Providing a global measurement of the competencies to engage with AI, the t… 1126
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I know I’m harping on about this endlessly, but just imagine replacing the word ‘universities’ with any other, be it ‘businesses’ ‘schools’ ‘hospitals’ or ‘farms’. This is Labour’s very own “F$&# Business” 518963
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough. 34818230
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 01/05/2025It is such a deeply narcissistic way of defining friendship. Someone who knows you. Who tells you what you want or need to hear to feel better. Whose very existence revolves around you. Not somebody you find interesting, you want to know more about, help, support, learn from. Dictators will love it. 2420132
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Could the UK-EU Summit reset post-Brexit politics? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. If framed as a major strategic announcement, the Summit could challenge the Farage insurgency far more effectively than Labour's 'make Brexit boring' approach: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/coul... 79352
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 02/05/2025The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social) has released a crucial new guide on risky research—essential for anyone studying digital harms, disinfo, extremism, gender, race and sexuality, etc ... A must read as it's full of practical and actionable advice. aoir.org/wp-content/u...aoir.org 11310
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The average American has 3 eggs, but has demand for 15. So here are 12 photographs of eggs. I am a business man. 33755146
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 01/05/2025With new junk food ad restrictions coming into force this October, adland is already finding ways to dodge them, borrowing tactics from Big Tobacco with sports sponsorships, social media stunts, and cryptic campaigns. Full story in Ad Nauseam in the new Private Eye, out now. 312823
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/04/2025Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/wheresyoured.atReality CheckI'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open... 9241731048
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025[including disappearing Signal, WhatsApp msgs] anything you send may not disappear into the chat archive on a phone, but may be analyzed, indexed and stored by AI in an easily searchable database on a device you do not control www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...forbes.comMicrosoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal MessagesBe very careful what you send — here’s why. 000
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenTrevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP! 161521499
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenParis Marx @parismarx.com · 30/04/2025Europe will continue to struggle until it challenges the foundational assumptions the US tech industry is built on and stops trying to replicate it in Europe. Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.politico.euEU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech raceA draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance. 941496
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training. 11610189
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025"We are, in effect, guinea pigs in an information experiment in which the resilience of our societies is being put to the test. It now costs next to nothing to quickly and easily create a flood of convincing lies and hate, with minor human intervention." medium.com/we-the-peopl...medium.comInformation Integrity in the AI AgeAI technologies have had an undeniable impact on the information landscape. 0327
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 21/04/2025"If this judgment of the UK Supreme Court did nothing else, the complaint that there should be a set of criteria to measure women's behaviour against, to assess if they are sufficiently womanly, would make it an historically bad example of British Imperial thought" 042
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Important implications I haven't seen discussed elsewhere: clash between CJEU and UK Supreme Court gender identity definitions, and why this matters for UK/GB (because of GDPR and the "adequacy" status the UK needs to retain) 000
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenProf. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · 03/12/2024📢 New paper This analysis of youth influencers’ YouTube accounts found that 2/3 of food cues presented were not permitted for marketing to children. @evawinzer.bksy.social @mimitgolden.bsky.social @magdalenamuc.bsky.social bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.comInfluencing children: food cues in YouTube content from child and youth influencers - BMC Public HealthDigital marketing of unhealthy foods is linked to childhood obesity. This study evaluated nutrient quality and creative strategies of food cues on social media, focusing on child/youth influencers, to... 02319
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024This looks like a really interesting conference to consider submitting to... and/or attending for fun alongside learning :) Submissions portal opens in January 2025 Early bird for attendance £295 until 1 May 011
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenNic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Exciting read arrived yesterday. The growth of play in universities is inspiring 😀 0284
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/08/2024reading is the most important and valuable (i’d argue even more than writing, running experiments etc) aspect of doing research and now we have gen ai “read” and “summarise” scientific work… we are sleepwalking into mediocrity 318237
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 02/02/2024interesting to watch evidence grow for food marketing exposure effects - this one in adults 052
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 20/10/2023Please Share! This is a FREE creative writing resource using stories and cartoons to teach writing on the theme of #ClimateChange. Based on years of school residencies in primary and secondary, the aim is emotional engagement rather than delivering facts. antaisceeeu.sharepoint.com/sites/CAPTea... 22123
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenFrancois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 17/10/2023Interesting to know that people in seventeenth-century France (well, the Cardinal de Richelieu at any rate) were already complaining about too many people, especially the lower classes, going to university and studying the ‘wrong’ kind of subjects. Source: R J Knecht, Richelieu (1991), p. 154. 16630
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenNo Context Cats @nocontextcats.bsky.social · 13/10/2023Emotional support 0428
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenGiovanni Gruni @giovannigruni.bsky.social · 12/10/2023So Twitter is the Empire. We are the Resistance. 87611
Mimi Tatlow-Golden @mimitgolden.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Looking forward to calmer knowledge sharing here! Workwise I'm interested in childhood/youth wellbeing relating to health, food, digital media, schooling - and fun :) Also here for politics, int relations, law, cyber and more 041
Reposted by Mimi Tatlow-GoldenNicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Dito. More important to me is that many of the highly insightful people I used to read on eX are now together again at a sane place. 1508