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On the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Nations of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)
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two types of mass-market "artificial intelligence":
1. can't actually do the thing
2. can do the thing, but only because it's secretly remote workers in Malaysia
1. can't actually do the thing
2. can do the thing, but only because it's secretly remote workers in Malaysia
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
two types of mass-market "artificial intelligence":
1. can't actually do the thing
2. can do the thing, but only because it's secretly remote workers in Malaysia
1. can't actually do the thing
2. can do the thing, but only because it's secretly remote workers in Malaysia
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'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
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Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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AI offers huge potential for tackling global crises, but its rapid growth also carries major environmental costs.
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI offers huge potential for tackling global crises, but its rapid growth also carries major environmental costs.
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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As Canada marks National Child Day, privacy authorities across the country have issued a joint resolution to help ensure that privacy rights and the best interests of children are paramount in the development, procurement, and deployment of educational technologies. www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As Canada marks National Child Day, privacy authorities across the country have issued a joint resolution to help ensure that privacy rights and the best interests of children are paramount in the development, procurement, and deployment of educational technologies. www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
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National Child Day is tomorrow, making this a great time to think about children’s privacy rights. Here are some practical tips for talking to your kids about their online privacy. #nationalchildday
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
National Child Day is tomorrow, making this a great time to think about children’s privacy rights. Here are some practical tips for talking to your kids about their online privacy. #nationalchildday
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NEWS RELEASE: Canada’s privacy regulators call for strong protection of children’s privacy in the development and use of educational technologies.
Read the full news release: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne...
Read the full news release: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne...
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NEWS RELEASE: Canada’s privacy regulators call for strong protection of children’s privacy in the development and use of educational technologies.
Read the full news release: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne...
Read the full news release: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne...
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CARL is excited to celebrate International Open Access Week!🔓
This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites reflection on how communities can reclaim control over the knowledge they create and share.
#OAWeek #OpenAccessOpenMinds
This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites reflection on how communities can reclaim control over the knowledge they create and share.
#OAWeek #OpenAccessOpenMinds
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CARL is excited to celebrate International Open Access Week!🔓
This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites reflection on how communities can reclaim control over the knowledge they create and share.
#OAWeek #OpenAccessOpenMinds
This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites reflection on how communities can reclaim control over the knowledge they create and share.
#OAWeek #OpenAccessOpenMinds
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“The Etobicoke data centre, dubbed YTO 40, was approved to use up to 39.75 litres of water per second for cooling purposes, according to planning documents submitted to the city. That would be the equivalent of around 1.2 billion litres a year, or 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
October 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“The Etobicoke data centre, dubbed YTO 40, was approved to use up to 39.75 litres of water per second for cooling purposes, according to planning documents submitted to the city. That would be the equivalent of around 1.2 billion litres a year, or 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Doing your own research? Fact-checkers use lateral reading because it is faster, more efficient, and less biased than vertical reading. It’s called the SIFT method.
👉https://scienceupfirst.com/misinformation-101/how-to-read-laterally-sift/
#ScienceUpFirst #SciLit
👉https://scienceupfirst.com/misinformation-101/how-to-read-laterally-sift/
#ScienceUpFirst #SciLit
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Doing your own research? Fact-checkers use lateral reading because it is faster, more efficient, and less biased than vertical reading. It’s called the SIFT method.
👉https://scienceupfirst.com/misinformation-101/how-to-read-laterally-sift/
#ScienceUpFirst #SciLit
👉https://scienceupfirst.com/misinformation-101/how-to-read-laterally-sift/
#ScienceUpFirst #SciLit
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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds.
The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds.
The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
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If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.
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They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.
The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.
The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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October 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.
The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.
The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.
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Join us: we'll be presenting on Digitizing the Circumpolar North as part of the Archives Association of BC and Yukon Council of Archives virtual conference from October 7-9, 2025. Still time to register: aabcycaconference2025.wordpress.com/registration/
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October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Join us: we'll be presenting on Digitizing the Circumpolar North as part of the Archives Association of BC and Yukon Council of Archives virtual conference from October 7-9, 2025. Still time to register: aabcycaconference2025.wordpress.com/registration/
#AABCYCA2025
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Honouring Orange Shirt Day; National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30
Read our resource to find resources to help you learn, reflect, and take action, and learn how the BCMA plans to recognize the date. museum.bc.ca/national-day...
Read our resource to find resources to help you learn, reflect, and take action, and learn how the BCMA plans to recognize the date. museum.bc.ca/national-day...
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Honouring Orange Shirt Day; National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30
Read our resource to find resources to help you learn, reflect, and take action, and learn how the BCMA plans to recognize the date. museum.bc.ca/national-day...
Read our resource to find resources to help you learn, reflect, and take action, and learn how the BCMA plans to recognize the date. museum.bc.ca/national-day...
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events and resources - September 30th and beyond
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Vancouver Events 2025
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Orange Shirt Day events around Vancouver on September 30, 2025 and beyond
miss604.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events and resources - September 30th and beyond
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events, this week and next, around Metro Vancouver:
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Vancouver Events 2025
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Orange Shirt Day events around Vancouver on September 30, 2025 and beyond
miss604.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events, this week and next, around Metro Vancouver:
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In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
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Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL
Column | Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.
Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy.
wapo.st
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL
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"Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong." Needed encouragement from St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast day is celebrated today
September 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong." Needed encouragement from St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast day is celebrated today
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Listen to students.
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Listen to students.