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· Oct 18
I like to re-share this picture of me presenting at Google to an audience including the FBI, because yes, I will fight for digital rights and better privacy and security by design. And I will have great hair while I rip apart tech bro work and egos. Especially edtech egos.
Thousands of women have been pushed out of the workplace in the last three years, many of them marginalised women, highly qualified women. And the NYT is writing headlines about did women ruin work.
So forgive me if I don’t care that two male BBC execs got the push. They will be fine.
So forgive me if I don’t care that two male BBC execs got the push. They will be fine.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Thousands of women have been pushed out of the workplace in the last three years, many of them marginalised women, highly qualified women. And the NYT is writing headlines about did women ruin work.
So forgive me if I don’t care that two male BBC execs got the push. They will be fine.
So forgive me if I don’t care that two male BBC execs got the push. They will be fine.
Oh by the way, Mercury is retrograde now so, expect your past to return in some way. This is a period to show what you have learned from the past.
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Oh by the way, Mercury is retrograde now so, expect your past to return in some way. This is a period to show what you have learned from the past.
Finally someone is saying that more impacts youth wellbeing than phones
I always say that young people will rebel very soon when they discover the phone bans and age verification didn’t stop their data being taken
I always say that young people will rebel very soon when they discover the phone bans and age verification didn’t stop their data being taken
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Finally someone is saying that more impacts youth wellbeing than phones
I always say that young people will rebel very soon when they discover the phone bans and age verification didn’t stop their data being taken
I always say that young people will rebel very soon when they discover the phone bans and age verification didn’t stop their data being taken
I mean this rubbish.
Targeting young people
Which seems somewhat desperate to me. And also predatory. But what do I know.
Targeting young people
Which seems somewhat desperate to me. And also predatory. But what do I know.
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I mean this rubbish.
Targeting young people
Which seems somewhat desperate to me. And also predatory. But what do I know.
Targeting young people
Which seems somewhat desperate to me. And also predatory. But what do I know.
www.thecommoner.org.uk/big-trees-sm...
I am re sharing this as I think there are common threads between what this article talks about with racism, and the way many people feel they have to “say the right things and not criticise power” to get ahead. Education is mentioned more than once too..
I am re sharing this as I think there are common threads between what this article talks about with racism, and the way many people feel they have to “say the right things and not criticise power” to get ahead. Education is mentioned more than once too..
Big Trees, Small Acts: Does the UK Honours System Divide and Rule Black British Media?
Problematising the acceptance of colonial honorifics amongst Black media figures and anti-racists working in Britain.
www.thecommoner.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
www.thecommoner.org.uk/big-trees-sm...
I am re sharing this as I think there are common threads between what this article talks about with racism, and the way many people feel they have to “say the right things and not criticise power” to get ahead. Education is mentioned more than once too..
I am re sharing this as I think there are common threads between what this article talks about with racism, and the way many people feel they have to “say the right things and not criticise power” to get ahead. Education is mentioned more than once too..
If I see one more chat gpt advert targeting young people .. omg
Designing revision plans or travel itineraries.. all stuff a trusted adult or a book or real website could help you with
Time to regulate this stuff like we do sugary foods or gambling ads
Designing revision plans or travel itineraries.. all stuff a trusted adult or a book or real website could help you with
Time to regulate this stuff like we do sugary foods or gambling ads
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If I see one more chat gpt advert targeting young people .. omg
Designing revision plans or travel itineraries.. all stuff a trusted adult or a book or real website could help you with
Time to regulate this stuff like we do sugary foods or gambling ads
Designing revision plans or travel itineraries.. all stuff a trusted adult or a book or real website could help you with
Time to regulate this stuff like we do sugary foods or gambling ads
I wish education staff would ask why so many tech companies want into education
Show me a teacher who doesn’t have to buy their own classroom supplies etc. But we somehow believe tech is so altruistic it will give us nice things? I’d rather have a year’s supply of glue sticks than ai
Show me a teacher who doesn’t have to buy their own classroom supplies etc. But we somehow believe tech is so altruistic it will give us nice things? I’d rather have a year’s supply of glue sticks than ai
This whole recent @cdt.org report on the risks of AI in schools is worth a read, but this is the bit that surprised me most (maybe partly because I've reported on AI in schools but not on ICE in schools). cdt.org/insights/han...
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I wish education staff would ask why so many tech companies want into education
Show me a teacher who doesn’t have to buy their own classroom supplies etc. But we somehow believe tech is so altruistic it will give us nice things? I’d rather have a year’s supply of glue sticks than ai
Show me a teacher who doesn’t have to buy their own classroom supplies etc. But we somehow believe tech is so altruistic it will give us nice things? I’d rather have a year’s supply of glue sticks than ai
Also schools lack tech governance. They assume that edtech is safe and that regulators wouldn’t allow tech to be sold if it wasn’t. School IT and GDPR consultants are unregulated too. So it is easier to sell tech into schools than it would be to sell in food or playground equipment for example.
I ended up learning that both big tech companies and well-funded startups are putting a ton of resources into getting AI into schools — and that persuading teachers is an important part of the playbook, for an interesting reason. (3/x)
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Also schools lack tech governance. They assume that edtech is safe and that regulators wouldn’t allow tech to be sold if it wasn’t. School IT and GDPR consultants are unregulated too. So it is easier to sell tech into schools than it would be to sell in food or playground equipment for example.
U.K. education has a lot of edtech people like this who refuse to engage with questions on risk or harm. Which you absolutely would if you had ethics.
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
U.K. education has a lot of edtech people like this who refuse to engage with questions on risk or harm. Which you absolutely would if you had ethics.
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
How can we be feeding student work into a plagiarism machine, how can we say that teachers are so flawed in judgement that they need ai help?
Does anyone in education or with a child in education have any evidence that safeguarding teams are aware of these risks and issuing advice accordingly?
Because I haven’t seen a thing
Because I haven’t seen a thing
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Does anyone in education or with a child in education have any evidence that safeguarding teams are aware of these risks and issuing advice accordingly?
Because I haven’t seen a thing
Because I haven’t seen a thing
In the most respectful way, I love Justin and this message is so important: how about we work with young people. And help them. Laugh with them - and too many adults need to put the damn phones down and just talk
'AI things' are bad for young people and their mental health discourse 💯. However that discourse also produces 'yp are in constant crisis', 'yp have no resources', 'all online things are bad for yp'. Like 'hello'. If you're not interested in resourcing yp at least point them in the right direction
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In the most respectful way, I love Justin and this message is so important: how about we work with young people. And help them. Laugh with them - and too many adults need to put the damn phones down and just talk
Reposted by Shell
Talking to teachers who enthusiastically use ai reminds me of talking to people who join Facebook pyramid schemes like selling weight loss juice or make up. “It is so amazing I use it every day, I’m an entrepreneur”…
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Talking to teachers who enthusiastically use ai reminds me of talking to people who join Facebook pyramid schemes like selling weight loss juice or make up. “It is so amazing I use it every day, I’m an entrepreneur”…
Whilst is sad that students have to do this work, I find that educators will listen to students of any age more than external adults who seek the same outcome. Possibly because educators fear uprising, know dissent breaks trust and makes teaching impossible. It will be students who stop ai in edu
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Whilst is sad that students have to do this work, I find that educators will listen to students of any age more than external adults who seek the same outcome. Possibly because educators fear uprising, know dissent breaks trust and makes teaching impossible. It will be students who stop ai in edu
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
The tech bros have their children in nice little private school set ups away from state control and I doubt there is much if any edtech or ai
But they want your children in their little tech ai programmes
I bet this is why CZ closed their public school in Palo Alto
The tech bros have their children in nice little private school set ups away from state control and I doubt there is much if any edtech or ai
But they want your children in their little tech ai programmes
I bet this is why CZ closed their public school in Palo Alto
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
The tech bros have their children in nice little private school set ups away from state control and I doubt there is much if any edtech or ai
But they want your children in their little tech ai programmes
I bet this is why CZ closed their public school in Palo Alto
The tech bros have their children in nice little private school set ups away from state control and I doubt there is much if any edtech or ai
But they want your children in their little tech ai programmes
I bet this is why CZ closed their public school in Palo Alto
Reposted by Shell
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Reposted by Shell
How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education https://thever.ge/Q8fJ #Podcasts #Decoder #Tech #AI
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education https://thever.ge/Q8fJ #Podcasts #Decoder #Tech #AI
All this “ai in schools” and yet I have yet to work in a single school where everyone can use teams or google meet, mute, share a screen.
And I am not being unkind. These aren’t things that are taught to staff. So perhaps we could do the basics before we embark on ai ( pls don’t embark on ai )
And I am not being unkind. These aren’t things that are taught to staff. So perhaps we could do the basics before we embark on ai ( pls don’t embark on ai )
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
All this “ai in schools” and yet I have yet to work in a single school where everyone can use teams or google meet, mute, share a screen.
And I am not being unkind. These aren’t things that are taught to staff. So perhaps we could do the basics before we embark on ai ( pls don’t embark on ai )
And I am not being unkind. These aren’t things that are taught to staff. So perhaps we could do the basics before we embark on ai ( pls don’t embark on ai )
Ironically we were in a seminar this week on increasing vocabulary that students can use and understand. And the facilitator suggested using copilot to look up etymology. So slop on top of slop instead of showing children the richness of language. But what do I know etc etc
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ironically we were in a seminar this week on increasing vocabulary that students can use and understand. And the facilitator suggested using copilot to look up etymology. So slop on top of slop instead of showing children the richness of language. But what do I know etc etc
Because they have Twitter
It is fascinating to go and have a look at the Twitter relics, all ardently discussing policy with each other and never admitting it is a bubble. And that is a bubble that sadly has outsized influence. And they are in a cult of schools as carceral / drone worker pipelines
It is fascinating to go and have a look at the Twitter relics, all ardently discussing policy with each other and never admitting it is a bubble. And that is a bubble that sadly has outsized influence. And they are in a cult of schools as carceral / drone worker pipelines
Reading the curriculum and assessment review. Very interesting, and will offer longer thoughts when through. But reflecting on lack of mention, at least at the start, for the copious concerning evidence we have on pupil wellbeing/engagement,+lack of a parent or pupil representation on review panel.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Because they have Twitter
It is fascinating to go and have a look at the Twitter relics, all ardently discussing policy with each other and never admitting it is a bubble. And that is a bubble that sadly has outsized influence. And they are in a cult of schools as carceral / drone worker pipelines
It is fascinating to go and have a look at the Twitter relics, all ardently discussing policy with each other and never admitting it is a bubble. And that is a bubble that sadly has outsized influence. And they are in a cult of schools as carceral / drone worker pipelines
The U.K. government has been talking about disinformation education for years but I have yet to see it meaningfully happen. And I mean we need to begin with staff who are wildly swept away by ai hype and EEF and research Ed propaganda. Let alone the news or online sources.
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The U.K. government has been talking about disinformation education for years but I have yet to see it meaningfully happen. And I mean we need to begin with staff who are wildly swept away by ai hype and EEF and research Ed propaganda. Let alone the news or online sources.
Said this yesterday in a meeting. It is time to go beyond the hype because real innovation is not using gen ai for everything. It is pointing out the harms, and the self de professionalisation that comes with its use.
If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Said this yesterday in a meeting. It is time to go beyond the hype because real innovation is not using gen ai for everything. It is pointing out the harms, and the self de professionalisation that comes with its use.
Reposted by Shell
If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.
I hope you will all enjoy that today in a large meeting , someone said that they use copilot in teaching and I said “oh lord,NO” out loud, before I could stop myself.
And I’m also not sorry.
And I’m also not sorry.
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I hope you will all enjoy that today in a large meeting , someone said that they use copilot in teaching and I said “oh lord,NO” out loud, before I could stop myself.
And I’m also not sorry.
And I’m also not sorry.
Anytime a list of experts comes out in the U.K. :
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Anytime a list of experts comes out in the U.K. :