Chris Bigum
@cj13.bsky.social
Unretired academic living on the Gold Coast. Generative AI in education, material semiotics, alt thinkers, too many interests. Swimmer, body surfer when the body allows. Posts human-made unless otherwise indicated. https://chrisbigum.blogspot.com/
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Bibs & bobs #25
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August 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Tired of collaborating with a GenAI assistant without proper etiquette, emotional validation, or metaphors about aviation? chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #24
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August 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Tired of collaborating with a GenAI assistant without proper etiquette, emotional validation, or metaphors about aviation? chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
How many of your colleagues are going through or have gone through intellectual menopause? www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/i...
Intellectual Menopause
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May 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
How many of your colleagues are going through or have gone through intellectual menopause? www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/i...
Another more than useful post by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social on getting AI and assessment wrong again and again and again: markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/h...
How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction
The common thread running through these debates is a fixation on outputs. GAI captured attention because of the ease with which eerily human outputs could be produced in response to natural languag…
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April 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Another more than useful post by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social on getting AI and assessment wrong again and again and again: markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/h...
chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/04/bibs... If AI literacy is a map, human sensibility for AI is a compass
Bibs and bobs #22
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April 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/04/bibs... If AI literacy is a map, human sensibility for AI is a compass
Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press. For a well argued framing of AI. Beyond so much of the lame commentary found re "AI literacy".
March 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press. For a well argued framing of AI. Beyond so much of the lame commentary found re "AI literacy".
farsight.cifs.dk/governing-th... "stuck in old ways of thinking about new problems" a quote from a Farsight essay by Casper Skovgaard Petersen.
Governing the Megastructure - Farsight
To tackle planetary challenges, governance must become more embedded in technological systems of sensing and automation, argues philosopher of technology Benjamin Bratton.
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March 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
farsight.cifs.dk/governing-th... "stuck in old ways of thinking about new problems" a quote from a Farsight essay by Casper Skovgaard Petersen.
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Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Bibs & bobs #21
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March 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Generative AI has been here for a while, it’s just not evenly distributed. chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/02/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #20
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February 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Generative AI has been here for a while, it’s just not evenly distributed. chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/02/bibs...
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social I can't add to your interesting post and question except to say it may mesh a little with Geroge Friedman's framing of Trump's meta agenda or I have a bad case of mental fog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ok...
Trump's Master Plan: How Russia Lost Everything | George Friedman
YouTube video by Mauldin Economics
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February 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social I can't add to your interesting post and question except to say it may mesh a little with Geroge Friedman's framing of Trump's meta agenda or I have a bad case of mental fog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ok...
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What strikes me as missing from talks about AI in education & replacing teachers is, that kind of "learning" absolutely matches corporate job expectations.....
On the century-long fantasy of replacing teachers with machines, and the utter contempt for people it demonstrates to be touting this vision right now 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/automated-co...
Automated Contempt
The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel ...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What strikes me as missing from talks about AI in education & replacing teachers is, that kind of "learning" absolutely matches corporate job expectations.....
@carloiacono.bsky.social Most of the reactions fit previous patterns when new digital stuff popped up...all the way back to the late 70s. I think it is more fun to play with AI-related commentary. chrisbigum.blogspot.com
cj's serendipitous bibs, bobs and the odd musing
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February 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social Most of the reactions fit previous patterns when new digital stuff popped up...all the way back to the late 70s. I think it is more fun to play with AI-related commentary. chrisbigum.blogspot.com
@carloiacono.bsky.social all of the current noise around AI and ed will barely warrant a footnote in years to come. These transitions are always messy, threatening to existing ways of doing things/thinking about things.
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social all of the current noise around AI and ed will barely warrant a footnote in years to come. These transitions are always messy, threatening to existing ways of doing things/thinking about things.
@carloiacono.bsky.social does a fine job describing the game we are playing with AI: hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/in-the-twi... well worth a read.
In the Twilight of Certainty
A Reflection
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February 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social does a fine job describing the game we are playing with AI: hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/in-the-twi... well worth a read.
Hey Inger @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, here is a case for not one but a very large number of "work husbands" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
Your Doctor Is Like Shakespeare (And That's A Problem) - 3 Quarks Daily
by Kyle Munkittrick
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February 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hey Inger @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, here is a case for not one but a very large number of "work husbands" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
Absolutely fab post from @zephoria.bsky.social on the Kayfabe politics in the US: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
What Game Are We Playing? | danah boyd | apophenia
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February 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Absolutely fab post from @zephoria.bsky.social on the Kayfabe politics in the US: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
Derrida on being called "unreadable" or "too complicated" halfthoughts.blog/2025/01/31/d...
Derrida on being called “unreadable” or “too complicated”
‘It is also necessary to read the texts that my texts read! It would be absurd to say that they are all “easy,” but their difficulty is not of the type that people often object to…
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February 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Derrida on being called "unreadable" or "too complicated" halfthoughts.blog/2025/01/31/d...
A good, thoughtful post that gets you thinking about your digital habits. A @downes.bsky.social post on AI drift. halfanhour.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-d...
AI Drift
I've set up a Cloudron installation - it's currently costing me about $25 per month ($15 for the Cloudron pro license and another $10 fo...
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February 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A good, thoughtful post that gets you thinking about your digital habits. A @downes.bsky.social post on AI drift. halfanhour.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-d...
Excellent analysis/commentary on DeepSeek by Trung Phan www.readtrung.com/p/deepseek-l...
DeepSeek: Links and Memes (So Many Memes)
How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
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February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Excellent analysis/commentary on DeepSeek by Trung Phan www.readtrung.com/p/deepseek-l...
AI is running a version of the academic publishers scam: publishers take academic papers without payment and then charge universities to access them. For AI: Humans do unpaid product development by using AI apps and the AI provider charges users for access.
February 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
AI is running a version of the academic publishers scam: publishers take academic papers without payment and then charge universities to access them. For AI: Humans do unpaid product development by using AI apps and the AI provider charges users for access.
Revisiting When two somewhat faulty language models meet using DeepSeek
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Bibs & bobs #19
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January 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Revisiting When two somewhat faulty language models meet using DeepSeek
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Playing with DeepSeek: www.deepseek.com The DeepThink option is mind blowing. Just when you thought the game had stalled.... it's free atm and well worth a try and compare it to what your current bLLM can do.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Playing with DeepSeek: www.deepseek.com The DeepThink option is mind blowing. Just when you thought the game had stalled.... it's free atm and well worth a try and compare it to what your current bLLM can do.