How to protect democracies from falsehoods?

By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this new piece
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Check out Bellingcat's tech series on YouTube for some useful tips and tricks on using tech to advance your research skills. From the basics of using the command line to scraping social media sites, our team walks you through it with applicable examples: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCM...

Join us Thursday at 10am EST/4pm CET as we speak to the @cornelluniversity.bsky.social team behind @caucasushw.bsky.social . With @godin.bsky.social we'll be unpacking how you might use open source tools to monitor and assess damage to cultural heritage during conflict.
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

The government has been warned it needs to alleviate child poverty to get poor children back into school.

Official figures show those from deprived families are far more likely to be persistently missing lessons.

Read and watch @c4ciaran.bsky.social's analysis here
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Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

@freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social Sir, I, a constituent in your area, have written to you several times regarding the terrible situation in Palestine. Can I expect to hear back?

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation just launched micro:bit #CreateAI 🎉! microbit.org/ai/. I love it for playful, physical & creative learning about ML. Use movement data to train/test a model, then use that model in #MakeCode to make an AI thing! Mad excited to see what people make! #microbit

My first day here on BlueSky & I’m thrilled to share something really exciting we’ve been working on!

✨ CreateAI ✨
A hands-on tool to explore and create AI with #microbit. Train ML models with movement data & bring them to life with code!

👉 Learn more: microbit.org/news/2024-11...
#AI #ML #EdTech

www.youtube.com/watch?v=asji... This is such a beautiful and clever solution by @loretod.bsky.social, Bill Siever and PrintLab. I love that the micro:bit gets to go inside and play a part. For others that still love text see Loreto's blog www.zeroday.camp/empowering-a... #accessibility #microbit