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Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h

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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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 05/10/2026

This is the political economic trade-off in our space: politics (time devoted to critiquing AI, developing policies for handling it) vs. pleasure (reading and teaching literature). And that’s what AI, along with every other bureaucratic incursion, ends up taking away from us. eve.gd/2026/10/05/m...

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My View on AI and University-Level English Literature

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Work is ongoing to get University of Edinburgh to #StopTheCuts, save staff and programmes and get all the contributions and services the good workers of Edinburgh University make to their own institution and far beyond, back up and running. Until then, support the strikes ✊🏻

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're snugglin' / they're whittlin'

I am under a blanket on a sofa in a big cardigan with a cat on my lap and one under my arm

A man and a boy sitting on a patio beyond doors on the far side of a living room, facing away from the camera

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bemused by the Vinted seller who insists they put up the curtains they sold me direct from packaging, when they are much shorter than the label implies. How do you forget you had your curtains shortened? Or indeed not look at a pair of 1.3m curtains and think "huh, these don't look over 2m long..."

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Universe having a big laugh at me telling myself over the weekend that I would put my fingers in fewer pies

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 05/10/2026

Oh look, a direct impact of the strike at University of Edinburgh.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

at what point do elected officials in some country decide these people are Taking The Piss and show them what actual laws can do to their freedom of movement and finances

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what I want to see in a pub.

A chalkboard in an old fashioned pub advertising Henderson's Relish for sale behind the bar

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching a jay meticulously peck its way around the beech tree in my parents' garden. A skein of geese fly over. Squirrels running up and down the pergola. A pigeon flies directly into the window.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

infuriatingly, I just found this reference as a screenshot on my desktop and spent too long trying to find it in a library catalogue before I remembered that it's an AI hallucination

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ...

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay but I love the headline. You could write a great short story about the mysterious "someone or something" buying up all the information in the world

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again I find myself wondering if I should be 'that guy' when it comes to flagging that my title has been omitted from documentation when it has been included for the relevant men also mentioned 🫠

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish the media would interview university staff as well. The impacts on students are real (if they weren't then strike action would be pointless) but there's a reason for taking it.

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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'

The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The NO I noped when reading a paper about the importance of interdisciplinary writing to save the oceans when I got to a bit about how generative AI can help interdisciplinary teams understand each others' epistemological and ontological backgrounds more easily

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Garden birds update: there is a sparrowhawk having lunch on my lawn

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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with all edinburgh union members fighting to make universities and teaching be treated as the public good they are instead of yet another space for corporate debasement

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Imagine five-years-ago-you hearing that *this* company, the company that did this stuff below, is the one the Bodleian have **partnered with** in order to let it train its model on their materials. You’d think it like something from dystopian sci-fi (and it basically is).

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haven't got dressed today but have changed half a dozen light switches and plugs and churned some butter

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026

This nonsense has become a fucking cult. Collective AI psychosis intertwined with shameless grift. Two of the authors operate out of AI thinktanks opaquely funded by philanthropic donations (i.e. tech-bros), they used chatbots to help write it, & the paper hasn‘t been peer reviewed. Garbage.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the whole point of LLMs is to add another layer of separation between the people doing the social harms and the harms themselves like hiring a consultant, the point is for it to do what you always wanted while you go "haha that thing has a mind of its own"

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One student, reacting to this news about AI, echoed the same terms as a senior colleague: “either there’s an honor code or there isn’t.” Just as AI blurs the lines between fact & slop, for too many students it’s bringing unnecessary confusion to that critical question.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think there are a lot of teachers like me at every level exhausted by asking students to do the work themselves even as they see authority figures employing AI. But I know we’re not half as frustrated as the students coming of age, trying to figure out what’s right & what’s wrong.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The reason that the ‘what works’ reform toolkit is like maybe five things that both actually work and scale is that teaching kids is actually very hard. The solutions are also extremely unsexy, mostly help kids at the margins, and aren’t particularly flattering to anyone.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But if you’re in the field you’re in the ‘most effecient way to teach fractions business’, not the ‘fix all of society’ business. You gotta focus on the problem that’s actually tractable and within the scope of what you can a-dress.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I do sort of get why a lot of education PhDs go a little insane because one thing that working in a high need school will make extremely clear to you is that school is a permeable part of society and new way of teaching fractions won’t fix a kid not having a bed to sleep on.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 24/09/2026

Imagine if companies had to prove their tools had positive effects on student learning outcomes _before_ thousands of students were forced to be their unconsenting unpaid beta-testers.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026

Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is.

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm working on an extremely armchair hypothesis based on chats with some colleagues and students and it is roughly that students hate AI and don't want it in their lives but have been told by universities that they need to use it because employers told universities they need to use it

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 23/09/2026

Who spend hundreds of thousands of pounds annually on commercial software licensing rather than building in-house infrastructure and expertise? Is that a "strategic approach"?

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 23/09/2026

Are these the same UK Higher Education providers who have all uncritically subscribed to LLM platforms like ChatGPT Edu? Who continually recontract with the same proprietary software providers like Ex Libris Group for library systems?

The report findings reveal that on a scale of one to five, where one demonstrates institutions are at a reactive stage of digital maturity and five an integrated stage, the aggregated sector score was 2.84. This indicates that, on average, UK higher education providers have moved beyond reactive investment in digital infrastructure and are embedding more strategic approaches and proactive practices.

The results also show:

Reliable, safe and secure digital infrastructure is the highest-rated aspect of the assessment
Digital capability, including AI capability, has the lowest maturity ratings
Funding or investment is the most frequently cited single barrier to further progress, followed by staff capacity and time

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.

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As His Majesty said, the task before us "is not merely to advance technology, but to ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity."
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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One day I am going to turn that cat into mittens, I swear

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a cognitive phenomenon whereby the more you engage with chatbot outputs, the less you are likely to identify the errors, regardless of how expert you are. Whole thing's rotten www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

There is no market for a paper-reading chatbot embedded with every scholarly article, much less a paper-reading chatbot that needs a disclaimer about how it does not in fact always read the paper correctly

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you don't think the computer is alive you just haven't used it enough. you just haven't done it right. you just haven't done enough research and read enough posts by other people who think the computer is alive. if you just used it more you would agree that it's alive

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