Katie Freund

Thank YOU for the insightful prompts - I will definitely be reviewing them further once I've had my morning coffee!

I was a bit late to the party due to the early time here in Australia, but appreciate the discussion and prompts. #LTHEchat

Brilliant questions this week from @lthechat.bsky.social on how algorithms are influencing university education- be sure to check it out on #LTHEchat. Thanks @oliviakellyou.bsky.social !

#LTHEchat A2 I am a great believer in revealing the hidden curriculum in education - whatever the form. We need to make transparent all the forms & processes with which we engage to resist enslavement - so - revealing this bias - alongside general bias & manipulation - is very important for agency.

A5 We've had students set up personas on tiktok or instagram and examine how easy it is to manipulate the algorithm to serve particular content or topics without explicitly searching for them - interacting with posts they think will eventually lead to where they want to go #LTHEChat

This is a really interesting activity! Thanks for sharing.

Q5: What practical activities, assessments, or discussions have you (or could you) use to help students critically evaluate algorithm-curated content?

Q5: What practical activities, assessments, or discussions have you (or could you) use to help students critically evaluate algorithm-curated content?
Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

This is my experience also. Harder to find users across different servers. I still use both but more BlueSky than Mastodon.

International students accuse Australia of treating them like ATMs after fees for one visa double without warning Union says students blindsided after non-refundable visa fee rose from $2,300 to $4,600

“International students say they feel like “ATMs” after the federal government quietly doubled application fees for temporary graduate visas, making Australia’s the most expensive in the world for graduates hoping to stay onshore after completing their studies”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster Why then did you take down the “Einstein” chatbot? 1:22 AM · Feb 26, 2026 · 67 Views Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 16h Cease and desist Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster · 15h Really? Presumably from Canvas/Instructure, right? Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 7h Due to the name Einstein

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

Nicole Tersigni, a comedy writer who created funny images based on 'mansplaining' and patronising comments using classical art, which went viral #WomensArt

Painting of a large bunch of different flowers in various colours grouped on a table in a a dark interior

The still life artworks of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), painter from the Netherlands who worked in the Dutch Golden Age, when art, science, nature and the domestic all merged, creating the popularity of the flower painting genre #WomensArt

Ryan Coogler's 'X-Files' Reboot Has Found Its Star Danielle Deadwyler will star in the Hulu pilot, which will be written and directed by Coogler and showrun by Jennifer Yale.

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This is non-fiction but lands as visceral (as per author's point) social horror. Only it's entirely real. And that some, even many, won't understand, intuit, or feel any sense of the horror at all, will only see cause to celebrate and wonder what the big deal is, is part of the horror itself.

Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...

Vancouver School Board are planning to deploy Microsoft Copilot in classrooms.

We are collecting signatures to show VSB how many parents and residents are against this.

If you are concerned about AI being used in classrooms, please sign and share this petition.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

I fell into a bottomless pit and it was a total ripoff, literally everyone was wearing pants

as soon as I stop falling I'm gonna demand a refund

oh shit wait

This is pure poetry. The best of the best from McSweeney's.

@nteuact.bsky.social I feel like this will give you a laugh. I feel like a cross between Abby and Ernie.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

WHY IS YOUR TOILET CONNECTED TO ANYTHING EXCEPT THE SEWER I SWEAR TO GOD

LISTEN👏🏽TO👏🏽TIMNIT👏🏽

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move

A giant sphere of flesh in Central Park towering over the city like a big gross meatball. This was made by redditor kiwi2703 to show what it would look like if you combined every human on Earth into a ball, and it’s clearly a bad idea

Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park

STOP EVERYTHING! THIS IS IMPORTANT!

I love this kind of episode

Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events

I'll take the haunted house. I think I'd make an excellent final girl.

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

Twelve years at ANU in total. My last day is 20 March.