Dave Dun

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$11.5 billion. That's how much Australia's teachers contribute in unpaid labour every year.

Our teachers are overworked, undervalued and facing increasingly difficult and unsafe classroom conditions.

It's no wonder they're abandoning the profession in droves. #WorldTeachersDay

get in losers, we're doing 2008 again but with graphics cards instead of houses

Man, I’d love to be good enough with money to have something there for little present…

So you’re doing better than me! 😅

In order to reduce inequality, education systems seem to want to do anything except actually fund schools and teachers.

It’s just so depressing.

Alt Spice?

So much of my life has consisted of learning how to do the exact opposite of this.

And it’s *so* freaking hard to unlearn. 😞

Weird Al’s parody of this - I Want a New Duck - also slaps.

One that won’t:
- try to bite
- chew a hole in my socks
- quack all night

“Experimenting with frugality” is not how you spell “suffering in poverty”

Generative AI is a societal disaster Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

Genie is definitely outta the bottle & and regulation is overdue.

I just want the tech grifters who completely misread their favourite sci-fi then whip each other into delusional GenAI ketamine fuelled fantasies as they wet themselves at the thought of Roko’s basilisk to be launched into the sun.

…that they want to keep others out.

Maybe it comes from having lived, and enjoyed living, in different countries but never truly fitting in. Not sure.

Thoroughly bored by mainstream “immigration debates” though - nothing you’ve said, mind!

No idea how long my Scottish & British ancestors have been here (4 generations, maybe?) My wife is Spanish. We have 2 kids born in Beijing and 2 born in Barcelona, we currently live in NSW. Connections all over the place.

I only vaguely understand how people can feel so connected to a small place

No sé en qué siglo está España, pero el derecho al aborto no tiene ningún sentido sin médicos con voluntad de hacer el procedimiento.

Y otra vez son las mujeres que sufren.

Yeah, that was out of line.

@tseikkis.bsky.social here is a much better explanation about why I don’t use AI.

Built using stolen data, insane energy requirements and predatory marketing. Tech in schools needs to be adopted *very* carefully to avoid damaging teaching and learning and to avoid exacerbating exisiting inequalities

Fair enough. I might push gently back on “no connection” for immigrants - at least for first generation.

I also knew a number of Brits & Aussies in E and SE Asia with no intention of returning who referred to themselves as expats.

We just don’t like to refer to ourselves as migrants/immigrants.

It won’t disappoint. My fave of all time.

They really do bring out the worst in us.

The most profoundly dehumanising piece of tech that I can remember encountering.

I’ll never use them. As yet, no one has understood how serious I am about this.

Given how much I *love* The Expanse am now seriously considering watching Veep.

I realise I’d be somewhat late to the party. Worth starting in late 2025?

AI fascism…

Doesn’t look like the cesspool of vice and violent crime as described by Orange Man… 😉

Actually, it’s worse. It’s only mandatory for a year in Stage 4 (Years 7/8) and very few choose it as an elective after that (if it’s available - we also lack teachers).

Same here

Yes. At least I think so. I first came across it in Hong Kong when I was living in China in the 90’s. It’s also used to refer to retired British folk in Europe.

I’ve also heard Aussies living in the UK use it to refer to themselves.

Always white, though…

If I can manage to not use the synthetic text extenders to screw up my humble teaching job, surely the (checks notes) Supreme Court can manage to do the bloody same!

I mean, they’ve already got a gajillion *human* ways to make stupid decisions. It’s not like they need the help…

It’s not immigration for us whites. We go somewhere and become “expats”, not migrants. 🤷‍♂️

Almost like someone who creates threads of images might do…. 🤔

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