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Seizing the means of ontological production: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/seizing-the-means-of-ontological.html
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Seizing the means of ontological production: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/seizing-the-means-of-ontological.html
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Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care
See gadgeteer.co.za/self-hosting...
#selfhosting #technology
See gadgeteer.co.za/self-hosting...
#selfhosting #technology
Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care
“Let's face it, we use the internet for just about everything. We even use the internet for sensitive things, be that banking, sending sensitive data, or just
gadgeteer.co.za
June 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care
See gadgeteer.co.za/self-hosting...
#selfhosting #technology
See gadgeteer.co.za/self-hosting...
#selfhosting #technology
George Ingram www.brookings.edu/people/georg...
George Ingram
George Ingram’s professional career—in Congress, the executive branch, and the non-profit sector—has focused on international economic and development policy. He is a senior fellow in the Center for S...
www.brookings.edu
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
George Ingram www.brookings.edu/people/georg...
I also enjoyed living in that phase before AI video became ubiquitous - snapp.social/@alsutton/11...
Al Sutton (@alsutton@snapp.social)
Attached: 1 video
This should be on TV every day, possibly multiple times per day…. #AI
snapp.social
June 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I also enjoyed living in that phase before AI video became ubiquitous - snapp.social/@alsutton/11...
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
Credit to Jason at the good place. mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman...
Credit to Jason at the good place. mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman...
Jason Gorman (@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud)
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
mastodon.cloud
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
Credit to Jason at the good place. mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman...
Credit to Jason at the good place. mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman...
Gorden Bennet: the big con is on…. bsky.app/profile/iipp...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Gorden Bennet: the big con is on…. bsky.app/profile/iipp...
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Discover the University of Edinburgh's #CMALT programme & how to manage CMALT cohorts at our next CPD Webinar on 4 June 2025. The webinar will take you through their journey from Feb 24 to present day & will highlight key areas, successes & plans for the future. Learn more: buff.ly/oroLGfw #altc
May 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Discover the University of Edinburgh's #CMALT programme & how to manage CMALT cohorts at our next CPD Webinar on 4 June 2025. The webinar will take you through their journey from Feb 24 to present day & will highlight key areas, successes & plans for the future. Learn more: buff.ly/oroLGfw #altc
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The Classroom AI Doom Loop: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/05/14/the-classroom-ai-doom-loop.html
May 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Classroom AI Doom Loop: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/05/14/the-classroom-ai-doom-loop.html
If I start and go on and on in a long thread, please remind me about this note to self. The socials are for socializing. For short conversations. Blogs are for a sustaining an idea. Thanks.
May 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If I start and go on and on in a long thread, please remind me about this note to self. The socials are for socializing. For short conversations. Blogs are for a sustaining an idea. Thanks.
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Consultancy firms ruin the planet; as shown in my work on special economic zones & incompetent consultancies spreading super-exploitation
Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
How consultancy bleeds Britain dry
In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up enfeebling them.
www.newstatesman.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Consultancy firms ruin the planet; as shown in my work on special economic zones & incompetent consultancies spreading super-exploitation
Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Woops. Chat GPT became a sycophant, a spiritual director and has solved the trolley problem.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/o...
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT 'too sycophant-y' | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company would roll back an update that users complained made ChatGPT 'too sycophant-y.'
techcrunch.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Woops. Chat GPT became a sycophant, a spiritual director and has solved the trolley problem.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/o...
Happy World Book Day. youtu.be/_guKhYVr5vA?... Finding the fun in reading.
Monty Python - A Book At Bedtime
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April 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy World Book Day. youtu.be/_guKhYVr5vA?... Finding the fun in reading.
State corporation boundaries are getting more blurry. Interesting read about the "digital-military-industrial complex." A nasty convergence between the power of big corporations, the militarization of digital technologies. www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea... HT @the_syllabus
Big Tech and the US Digital-Military-Industrial Complex
Intereconomics is an academic journal that publishes articles by experts on current economic and social policy issues affecting Europe.
www.intereconomics.eu
April 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
State corporation boundaries are getting more blurry. Interesting read about the "digital-military-industrial complex." A nasty convergence between the power of big corporations, the militarization of digital technologies. www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea... HT @the_syllabus
Family subscription to Microsoft jumped up in price by 25%. Gulp.
April 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Family subscription to Microsoft jumped up in price by 25%. Gulp.
Keep on wondering whether I should be reading The Shock Doctrine instead of following the news. naomiklein.org/the-shock-do...
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
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April 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Keep on wondering whether I should be reading The Shock Doctrine instead of following the news. naomiklein.org/the-shock-do...
I’m going to be chatting about “spectacular vernacular” at the UNISA hosted event entitled Advancing African Digital Humanities ideation hub. Here is my presentation www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/flxhv...
Dropbox
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March 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I’m going to be chatting about “spectacular vernacular” at the UNISA hosted event entitled Advancing African Digital Humanities ideation hub. Here is my presentation www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/flxhv...
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Really looking forward to this convo tomorrow with my "Are you tripping?" coauthor @annamillsoer.bsky.social stewarded by @edufuturist.bsky.social. Join us to talk about #AI in #EDU and how we can build literacies by taking care how we talk and think about what I now call ✨sparkling intelligence✨
How do we talk about AI, and how does it influence how we use the tech in higher education?
Join Anna Mills and Nate Angell, authors of a fascinating new paper, on the Future Trends Forum tomorrow at 2 pm ET:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#FTTE
Join Anna Mills and Nate Angell, authors of a fascinating new paper, on the Future Trends Forum tomorrow at 2 pm ET:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#FTTE
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Really looking forward to this convo tomorrow with my "Are you tripping?" coauthor @annamillsoer.bsky.social stewarded by @edufuturist.bsky.social. Join us to talk about #AI in #EDU and how we can build literacies by taking care how we talk and think about what I now call ✨sparkling intelligence✨
As a self appointed, under-employed COLO (chief online learning officer) (gawd). Who is amazed at the pickle VC's create. This looks like useful advice for campus leaders as before they outsource something else. upcea.edu/wp-content/u...
upcea.edu
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
As a self appointed, under-employed COLO (chief online learning officer) (gawd). Who is amazed at the pickle VC's create. This looks like useful advice for campus leaders as before they outsource something else. upcea.edu/wp-content/u...
So we know that many universities have outsourced their online learning to private companies and their private equity LMS platforms. Some are now beginning to see how universities surrender their autonomy to a handful of private data companies. Seamlessly www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Rise of data empires signals the end of academic autonomy
When companies like Times Higher Education simultaneously control university ranking systems, provide strategic consulting and convene education minis...
www.universityworldnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
So we know that many universities have outsourced their online learning to private companies and their private equity LMS platforms. Some are now beginning to see how universities surrender their autonomy to a handful of private data companies. Seamlessly www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
A LLM receives a piece of text as input & generates probable text as output. It makes predictions about word sequences using auto regression. Don't ask if LLMs are intelligent. Instead ask - "What problems do LLM's solve"? Do pressures around us influence our responses to the in/out put? (^T McCoy)
March 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A LLM receives a piece of text as input & generates probable text as output. It makes predictions about word sequences using auto regression. Don't ask if LLMs are intelligent. Instead ask - "What problems do LLM's solve"? Do pressures around us influence our responses to the in/out put? (^T McCoy)
Proud partner post: Well done to the talented scholar (perhaps I am a little biased) ….Jean Moore. For publishing Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre. Language Matters, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1022...
Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre
Although language rights are constitutionally protected in South Africa, this does not translate into language equity in educational contexts. The hegemony of English remains entrenched, negatively...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Proud partner post: Well done to the talented scholar (perhaps I am a little biased) ….Jean Moore. For publishing Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre. Language Matters, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1022...
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It is free entry this week to all #SouthAfrica National Gardens during National Garden Week 10-16 March 2025
See www.sanbi.org/news/nationa...
See www.sanbi.org/news/nationa...
National Gardens Week 2025 - SANBI
Grow your joy: Celebrate, embrace, protect and enjoy biodiversity wealth Introducing National Gardens Week 2025, a celebration of the beauty and significance of South Africa’s botanical and zoological...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It is free entry this week to all #SouthAfrica National Gardens during National Garden Week 10-16 March 2025
See www.sanbi.org/news/nationa...
See www.sanbi.org/news/nationa...
A post by @andytattersall.bsky.social about UK HEI activity on X that continues to drop. Still seems as if institutions are hedging their bets. Of the 141 universities, only 5 had announced they had quit X, with a further 8 not posting in 2025. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... (1/2)
Activity on X falling, yet are universities exiting it?
To what extent are universities in the United Kingdom continuing to engage with X or shifting their activities to alternative social media platforms? ...
www.universityworldnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A post by @andytattersall.bsky.social about UK HEI activity on X that continues to drop. Still seems as if institutions are hedging their bets. Of the 141 universities, only 5 had announced they had quit X, with a further 8 not posting in 2025. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... (1/2)
Open Education Week (OE Week) from the 3 to 7 March 2025. Details here oeweek.oeglobal.orgopen. You can meet Ed’s from all over the world who use open education resources and follow open educational practices (Adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ed... under the CC AT SA 4.0 License).
Open education - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Open Education Week (OE Week) from the 3 to 7 March 2025. Details here oeweek.oeglobal.orgopen. You can meet Ed’s from all over the world who use open education resources and follow open educational practices (Adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ed... under the CC AT SA 4.0 License).