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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Also you were not so great, Not so very great nor small When as oozy muck you lay Or you stood as still, clear water On the highest ridge of the swamp land, On the crown of the barren fell Where you turned to soggy soil, Then to rusty soil transmuted."
A photo of a copy of the 2021 Penguin Classics edition of Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. The cover art is "The Poem" by Paavo Halonen.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ce soir, Saturne est à l'opposition. J'ai fait une petite vidéo expliquant cela. Profitez-en pour lever les yeux au ciel, c'est assez apaisant !
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
left wing politics feels like Bob Dylan, all the best songs but fucked if they can sing them
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shonawhyte.bsky.social @shonawhyte.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Some bangers in Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brooks: "The French would never get to China by canoeing across Canada" 🇨🇦🎎🛶
Quote from Timothy Brook's Vermeer's Hat: Champlain's great venture did not succeed, of course. The French would never get to China by canoeing across Canada
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/08/2026
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
We call upon you to:

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
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shonawhyte.bsky.social @shonawhyte.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Very clear presentation on the many downsides of whatever we mean by AI from Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Here is my open letter regarding Flock Safety technology abridged for general reference and more casual reading. More targeted and region specific versions are being sent and proposed to individual civic leaders and hearings. figshare.com/articles/onl...
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Flock Safety, the Economy of AI, and Your Community
A version of an open letter abridged for formal presentation to law enforcement agencies, civic councils, and legislative bodies regarding the civic leasing of Flock Safety AI surveillance equipment a...
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shonawhyte.bsky.social @shonawhyte.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Synchronous and asynchronous learning activities for young beginners EuroCALL 2025 conference presentation in Milan on 29 August 2025 with colleagues Ciara Wigham who works in teacher education at Clermont-Ferrand and Euline Cutrim Schmid who is also involved in language teacher education in…
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Synchronous and asynchronous learning activities for young beginners
EuroCALL 2025 conference presentation in Milan on 29 August 2025 with colleagues Ciara Wigham who works in teacher education at Clermont-Ferrand and Euline Cutrim Schmid who is also involved in language teacher education in Germany
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shonawhyte.bsky.social @shonawhyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Learning about @realitea.bsky.social project on research in language teacher education at @eurocall2025.bsky.social Teachers and teacher educators can sign up!
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