Minoli (she/her)
@minoli.bsky.social
EdTech, majority world, and education. Doctoral student. Dog petter. Stress-cook. Recovering deliverer of rants.
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About half way through Katabasis and I’m pretty sure the only reason I’m loving this so far is because I’m in academia.
It’s so grating that I’ve laughed out loud several times - a rarity for a book labelled dark academia.
It’s so grating that I’ve laughed out loud several times - a rarity for a book labelled dark academia.
September 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
About half way through Katabasis and I’m pretty sure the only reason I’m loving this so far is because I’m in academia.
It’s so grating that I’ve laughed out loud several times - a rarity for a book labelled dark academia.
It’s so grating that I’ve laughed out loud several times - a rarity for a book labelled dark academia.
A few times a year I remember the Kingkiller trilogy. Realise that it will be TWENTY YEARS in 2027 to when I first read Name of the Wind. Try to convince myself that the third book is likely to never come out (The Wise Man’s Fear came out in 2011). Have my heart broken all over again. Still hope.
September 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A few times a year I remember the Kingkiller trilogy. Realise that it will be TWENTY YEARS in 2027 to when I first read Name of the Wind. Try to convince myself that the third book is likely to never come out (The Wise Man’s Fear came out in 2011). Have my heart broken all over again. Still hope.
My anxiety really can’t handle all this virtual queuing up and presales and whatnot with ticket purchases.
I very much prefer a physical queue with a human at the end tyvm.
I very much prefer a physical queue with a human at the end tyvm.
June 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My anxiety really can’t handle all this virtual queuing up and presales and whatnot with ticket purchases.
I very much prefer a physical queue with a human at the end tyvm.
I very much prefer a physical queue with a human at the end tyvm.
Irony.
Reading an interview from 1997 with Paul Gilster, the author of ‘Digital Literacy’ (1997) advocating against virtual instruction models, while Adobe - on which I’m reading the article - tells me to ‘save time with a document summary’ created by their ‘AI assistant’.
Reading an interview from 1997 with Paul Gilster, the author of ‘Digital Literacy’ (1997) advocating against virtual instruction models, while Adobe - on which I’m reading the article - tells me to ‘save time with a document summary’ created by their ‘AI assistant’.
May 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Irony.
Reading an interview from 1997 with Paul Gilster, the author of ‘Digital Literacy’ (1997) advocating against virtual instruction models, while Adobe - on which I’m reading the article - tells me to ‘save time with a document summary’ created by their ‘AI assistant’.
Reading an interview from 1997 with Paul Gilster, the author of ‘Digital Literacy’ (1997) advocating against virtual instruction models, while Adobe - on which I’m reading the article - tells me to ‘save time with a document summary’ created by their ‘AI assistant’.
Feeling so much better about the flu shot because I got a lollipop.
Normalise candy at all medical visits for all people!
Normalise candy at all medical visits for all people!
April 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Feeling so much better about the flu shot because I got a lollipop.
Normalise candy at all medical visits for all people!
Normalise candy at all medical visits for all people!
There’s a world of difference knowing that most of remaining records about precolonial Sri Lanka comes from the colonisers, and actually reading them.
“…monarch as head of State and Church” is an outsider reading of the island where they could only sense make through the European lens.
“…monarch as head of State and Church” is an outsider reading of the island where they could only sense make through the European lens.
April 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
There’s a world of difference knowing that most of remaining records about precolonial Sri Lanka comes from the colonisers, and actually reading them.
“…monarch as head of State and Church” is an outsider reading of the island where they could only sense make through the European lens.
“…monarch as head of State and Church” is an outsider reading of the island where they could only sense make through the European lens.
Wondering what sort of chaos I would unleash if I had chosen to check my emails as usual today, which is once a day. (There’s an assessment due in a few hours, and students have *questions*)
Instead, I’ve made sure to check my emails every 30 min or so just in case.
Instead, I’ve made sure to check my emails every 30 min or so just in case.
April 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Wondering what sort of chaos I would unleash if I had chosen to check my emails as usual today, which is once a day. (There’s an assessment due in a few hours, and students have *questions*)
Instead, I’ve made sure to check my emails every 30 min or so just in case.
Instead, I’ve made sure to check my emails every 30 min or so just in case.
Reading an article by Bates from over a decade ago (2012):
“Myth 4: Computers personalize learning
No, they don't. They allow students alternative routes through material and they allow automated feedback but they do not provide a sense of being treated as an individual.”
“Myth 4: Computers personalize learning
No, they don't. They allow students alternative routes through material and they allow automated feedback but they do not provide a sense of being treated as an individual.”
April 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reading an article by Bates from over a decade ago (2012):
“Myth 4: Computers personalize learning
No, they don't. They allow students alternative routes through material and they allow automated feedback but they do not provide a sense of being treated as an individual.”
“Myth 4: Computers personalize learning
No, they don't. They allow students alternative routes through material and they allow automated feedback but they do not provide a sense of being treated as an individual.”
New favourite thread
G'day! Today we're going to take a look at the very fascinating vaginas of Thylarctos plummetus - commonly called drop bears. These rare Australian animals are very fascinating down under...
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New favourite thread
“The artist is the person who makes, not who has made.”
Brilliant article -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brilliant article -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“The artist is the person who makes, not who has made.”
Brilliant article -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brilliant article -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Talking with first years today on using GenAI to create art was beautiful. We had everything from “it is still a form of expression, which is art” to “that’s called commissioning an artwork; not creating it” to “what *is* an artist though”. Even had I,Robot cited and what it means to be human. 💛
March 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Talking with first years today on using GenAI to create art was beautiful. We had everything from “it is still a form of expression, which is art” to “that’s called commissioning an artwork; not creating it” to “what *is* an artist though”. Even had I,Robot cited and what it means to be human. 💛
I really hope schools teach The Hunger Games; combined with Sunrise on the Reaping, they are strong narratives of the power and possibilities of propaganda.
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I really hope schools teach The Hunger Games; combined with Sunrise on the Reaping, they are strong narratives of the power and possibilities of propaganda.
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A reminder that the greater danger of AI to teachers is less that the technology will replace us and more that it will deprofessionalize and disempower us.
Anyway, they’re all playing in your face about AI. As soon as it deprofessionalizes everybody that the market hates because their credentials give them wage power, you’ll be able to buy a LLM tamagotchi at the Family Dollar and we will all vaguely remember when these toys were a fix for everything
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A reminder that the greater danger of AI to teachers is less that the technology will replace us and more that it will deprofessionalize and disempower us.
Sunrise on the Reaping.
a woman in a black jacket is giving a peace sign
ALT: a woman in a black jacket is giving a peace sign
media.tenor.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Sunrise on the Reaping.
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I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Guardian’s Stephanie Convery takes home the award for Reporting on Disability Issues at the #MPCQuills. Her exclusive report shed light on the fact people with a disability working in supported employment were legally being paid less superannuation. Sponsored by Victorian Government.
March 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Guardian’s Stephanie Convery takes home the award for Reporting on Disability Issues at the #MPCQuills. Her exclusive report shed light on the fact people with a disability working in supported employment were legally being paid less superannuation. Sponsored by Victorian Government.
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Here's an article arguing that using ChatGPT in educational settings can enhance social justice, and what they're actually saying is that in the context of austerity, ChatGPT might plug some of the gaps left by chronic defunding. This is coping, not social justice.
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Here's an article arguing that using ChatGPT in educational settings can enhance social justice, and what they're actually saying is that in the context of austerity, ChatGPT might plug some of the gaps left by chronic defunding. This is coping, not social justice.
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Rereading @danmcquillan.bsky.social and: "What's at stake with AI is not merely bias and unfairness but assimilation into far-right political projects. For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI's tendencies towards epistemic, structural and administrative violence are not flaws but features."
March 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Rereading @danmcquillan.bsky.social and: "What's at stake with AI is not merely bias and unfairness but assimilation into far-right political projects. For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI's tendencies towards epistemic, structural and administrative violence are not flaws but features."
When did we condition our students to base their (intellectual) pursuits on fear and not curiosity? How have we created a young people who stifle their curiosity and intellectual risk taking because they are too afraid of something even they can’t explain?
March 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
When did we condition our students to base their (intellectual) pursuits on fear and not curiosity? How have we created a young people who stifle their curiosity and intellectual risk taking because they are too afraid of something even they can’t explain?
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society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room
March 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room
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The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party has sent my university and several others a strongly worded letter asking, in twenty different ways, why we have allowed so many Chinese people to work here.
Letter to Dr. Darryll J Pines (President of the University of Maryland) On Transparency from Universities on National Security Risks Posed by Chinese Nationals in STEM Programs
Dr. Darryll J. PinesPresidentUniversity of Maryland 1101 Main Administration BuildingCollege Park, MD 20740Dear Dr. Pines,
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party has sent my university and several others a strongly worded letter asking, in twenty different ways, why we have allowed so many Chinese people to work here.