Ika Willis

Degenerate: Against Education at Scale Ed-Tech Criticism. AI Refusal.

We have had a century of “big data,” seventy years of “AI,” decades and decades of Bill Gates' bullshit and “computers in the classroom.” It's batshit to believe that this time this time, the ed-tech is going to be good 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-a...

Ooh, that’s smart

This is a thing I really miss about Wollongong: the university was deeply interwoven into the life of the city (it was the second biggest employer, and everywhere I went I met students and colleagues). I think it's maybe true of Melbourne too, but in a way I don't properly get yet

Beautiful! Loving the colours

Angel tube station is responsible for me knowing all the bus routes around North London

"beefcake aesthetic for the kindergarten set" lol

This is why I love Bluesky

I can’t do those! Have had to take an unplanned taxi or two when the route involved those escalators

Amazing! Congratulations! Just entered quinquenagarity myself, with great delight

How’s it going? I used to debate TERFs when bored but… anyway now I don’t do that any more

Oh no

Love this. Ice cream was all my dad ate in his last couple of weeks.

Me too! I took the first one at a gallery because I love it, and I had the second one because I wanted to do another Bluesky meme so I searched for that photo.

This is oddly convincing

Love this for you

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

(Depends whether Eden Menta is a celebrity; either way I am in good hands)

“To sum up, sensory spaces are important and in the words of one user, “cool as biscuits” and libraries should consider offering sensory spaces as an investment in the diverse needs of all users.” 😍

GOOD

Just read the alt text, glad you know already!

THAT DOLL IS CURSED

Literal spoons, or are you curating your spoonie-type spoons in order to have enough capacity to curate a museum?

Another terrific thing about Q is that when I have run out of puff and am spending a day in bed, I can say “Get me the Freddy one and the ventre-à-terre one” and she returns immediately with Cotillion and The Talisman Ring 🥰

Have you listened to any audiobooks lately? I would love to hear your thoughts on audiobook narration via the link above.

Hi everyone,

As part of my dissertation, I am researching audiobook narration.

If you have listened to an audiobook within the last two years, or have previously been a frequent audiobook user, I would really appreciate your thoughts!

You can find the survey here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Okay, I have to read non-Murderbot books when my reading times don’t align with Q’s, so I just read this and… has anyone else here read it? Because I will flat out give you a reward if you can explain the death of Tess to my satisfaction

🤯🤩

Was mildly nervous about sharing Murderbot with Q bc of her anti-robot stance but she was converted by about the fifth page so we are now officially a Murderbot household. She read the first two to catch up & now we are reading them together 🥰

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Beautiful! (I love the zig-zag gridding, I haven't seen it done that way before. I am experimenting with different ways of gridding just now.)

Love this!

(Sook is the most useful Australian word)