Eamon Costello

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

Here's a late introduction to help find my people: I'm a grad student exploring AI's role in adult education and democracy at Athabasca University. I'm also a former political party Board Co-President, drum major, estate manager, and a big-picture thinker. #GovGeek #canpoli #academicsky

REMINDER for anyone interested in how critical edtech research can inform design and practice

After a big European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies in Zurich last year, we're running a "Futuring Studio" this September in Hamburg

Pls share and submit here www.hsu-hh.de/sozgov/europ...

Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.

“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”

Λούση Αβρααμίδου: Οι μεγάλες εταιρείες ΑΙ αποτελούν ένα σύγχρονο παράδειγμα τεχνοφασισμού και συγκεντρωτισμού Πώς τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης «σαπίζουν» τον ανθρώπινο εγκέφαλο; Ποιες είναι οι επιπτώσεις στην ψυχική υγεία; Τι μπορεί να προσφέρει η τεχνητή

Great interview of @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social in Greek Cypriot newspaper titled:

Οι μεγάλες εταιρείες ΑΙ αποτελούν ένα σύγχρονο παράδειγμα τεχνοφασισμού και συγκεντρωτισμού

The big AI companies are a modern example of technofascism and centralisation

www.philenews.com/politismos/p...

link.springer.com: Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism



https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9

Thank you for articulating and acting on your values and principles so clearly.

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.

In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

I also keep copies of achievements, recommendations, 'thank you' emails, etc during all my jobs. Once you've left, you can't access the email for the one crowning statement of working with you that you wanted for your CV. #LTHEChat

YouTube video by Buffalo Nichols - Topic In the Name of God

Welles is the slightly more kempt, musical version of Slavoj Zizek. See "In the Name of God" by Buffalo Nichols for contrast, which has more soul in a note than Welles can find in an oeuvre www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXX...

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

"Sure that factory has been making an industrial quantity of child sex abuse images, but the Government also gets some leaflets printed there."

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

A great read by

@tupped.bsky.social

Rape Crisis Ireland is no longer active on X.

Stay connected with us on these platforms:

Bluesky >> @rapecrisisireland.bsky.social
LinkedIn >> @Rape Crisis Ireland
Facebook >> @RapeCrisisIreland
Instagram >> @rape_crisis_ireland

Thank you for your support!

#FactsNotMyths #SupportingSurvivors

If your academic institution or library is still using X, now is the time to push them to leave. There is no excuse to stay.

Trump must not be allowed to annex Greenland.

I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball.

(Plz boost!)

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Covid triggered emergency remote teaching, a “temporary” mode that soon solidified baseline expectations of flexibility, scalability, and platform dependence. But it is the uncertainty of when the crisis will end which it has most in common with GenAI.

"Scottish GP Gavin Francis, in hisbook Recovery: The Lost Art Of Convalescence, urges us not to feel guilty about taking time to properly get over things, whether it's illness, grief or disappointment. 'Self-compassion,' he writes, is 'a much-underrated virtue.' He argues that medicine has become too focused on crisis since the advent of antibiotics, and has lost sight of the more holistic approaches to mental and physical suffering that existed before the profusion of modern drugs"

Education under Covid and GenAI is polycrisis pedagogy, fixated upon fixes. Today in FT:

"medicine has become too focused on crisis since the advent of antibiotics and has lost sight of the more holistic approaches to mental and physical suffering that existed before the profusion of modern drugs"

11/ Your computer sending screenshots to microsoft so they can train AIs on it is not inevitable.

10/ "Copilot PCs" are not inevitable. Tiktok is not inevitable.

9/ Ads are not inevitable. Being on a platform owned by Meta is not inevitable. The Apple Vision pro was not inevitable.

8/ Juicero was not inevitable.

7/ Websites that require your ID are not inevitable. Garbage companies using refurbished plane engines to power their data centers is not inevitable.

6/ Your computer changing where things are on every update is not inevitable.

5/ "AI-enhanced" vacation pictures are not inevitable. NFTs were not inevitable. The Metaverse was not inevitable.

4/ Unrepairable devices are not inevitable.

3/ Requiring a smartphone to exist in society is not inevitable.

2/ Talking to chatbots instead of public servants is not inevitable.

🧵 Those things that were or are not inevitable:

A list by by mathieui.net

Internet-connected beds are not inevitable. AI browsers are not inevitable.

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"