Paul Prinsloo 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦🇵🇸

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

every large public institution (esp, universities & schools) reliant on big tech infrastructure should take note as the "bursting of the AI bubble" will bring these sectors down with it

do you now see how the likes of Oxford signing contracts with OpenAI was a grave mistake

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member.

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness

apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

New book in the PDSE series - take a look, and email / PM me for your free pdf :)
Link in first comment.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

Blogpost (ENG/ESP) Autorretrato académico de 2025 – una reflexión sobre quién soy en términos académicos, mientras preparo una estancia www.lindacastaneda.com/mushware/aut...

US revokes visa for Wole Soyinka
www.france24.com/en/live-news...

this is a warm and hopeful piece i wish would become a reality but I fear it undermines a few factors:
1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model

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On-Demand Learning in a Changing World: Philosophical, Technological, and Practical Perspectives on Workforce and Vocational Education #Springer #OpenAccess Closing date for submissions of proposals is 29 October 2025.

iasle.net/call-for-cha...

we need accountable spaces in education #altc25 @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social

What's at stake? Young people's take on AI and education This zine represents the messages young people wanted to share with decision-makers and educators, to help you make responsible AI a reality in education.

'What's At Stake? Young People's Take on AI and Education' - brilliant looking zine produced by young people in the UK telling education leaders & teachers what they want 'responsible AI' to look like in their classrooms.

ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...

Transcending the digital and physical at #altc22 – the #femedtechquilt It’s always tricky to try and summarize a conference experience in one post, so this post like so many other of my past conference posts is not going to try to do that. Instead I want to take…

So lovely to see images of the #femedtech quilt peppered through @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social keynote this morning - here's a post about it from a previous conference howsheilaseesit.net/oer/transcen.... #altc25 - @lornamcampbell.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social

Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason' There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...

Weekend read?

In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.

Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social

Submissions welcome until 29 October - please consider submitting? This is an exciting opportunity of mapping the different dimensions of the notion of "on-demand learning" iasle.net/concept-note/

Making education manageable: school management systems and the discursive construction of data-driven classrooms This study investigates the growing influence of school management systems in U.K. schools, focusing on how these tools discursively conceptualise core aspects of classroom education. Through a dis...

"At stake [...] is not simply the use of new tools, but the redefinition of education through a datafied epistemology that prioritises visibility and calculability over dialogue and experience." Insightful new paper on data-driven classrooms by @lulushi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1743...

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

Is it good when your product is reviewed by everyone but they all say it sucks.

curious about the current state of AI companions, how they are used, various problems that arise w developing intimate r\ship w these bots & how we are approaching evaluation of companions at @aial.ie.. then this indepth conversation w @mbrauh.bsky.social is for you

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAaY...

News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

“AI continues to be the aesthetic of fascism: fast, easy, ugly. When we lose the ability to say what it is, we’re losing a lot more than the chance to pun on poop.”

New article, link in first comment

Two days to go for submissions (closing 22 October) - please consider submitting a proposal - #Springer #OpenAccess

On-Demand Learning in a Changing World: Philosophical, Technological, and Practical Perspectives on Workforce and Vocational Education

iasle.net/call-for-cha...

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

Beyond the story: a three-lens analysis of education fiction By Iosif Gidiotis and Stefan Hrastinski ABSTRACT Education fiction offers unique opportunities to creatively explore education futures, yet approaches for analysing such works remain limited. This paper proposes three interpretive lenses for analysing education fiction: alternative educational imaginaries, narrative and rhetorical mechanics, and critical value for educational scholarship and practice. Each lens is posed alongside guiding questions to support deeper and reflective reading. Applying the lenses to a worked example about artificial intelligence in education shows how literary form, persuasion, and implicit value claims generate practice-relevant insights, without prescribing a single final reading. The lenses aim to bridge speculative storytelling with educational scholarship, demonstrating education fiction’s potential not merely to imagine but to actively shape the future of educational research and practice.

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

By offering three interpretive lenses for education fiction, this paper by Gidiotis & Hrastinski shows how creative narratives and creative methods can enrich social science research
and discourse, with particular focus on education.

Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2p9vwhnc

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Portrait of a very good boy.

#art #illustration