Violet Cassandra

Small donations here and there, long live Wiki

This World Book Day, half a million children in the UK don’t own a single book - World Book Day As reading attainment rises in schools, reading for pleasure continues its sharp decline To mark World Book Day 2023, the charity is calling on teachers,

www.worldbookday.com/2023/03/this...

I've experienced first hand poverty-related lack of access to books and educational materials, it enrages me to see that the gap is expanding rather than closing.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

#AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."

House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia for Alleged “Anti-Israel” Bias Wikipedia is being pressed to release names of specific editors, a tactic seemingly pushed by the Heritage Foundation.

Wikipedia is being pressed to release names of specific editors, a tactic seemingly pushed by the Heritage Foundation.

Kids as young as four sent home for 'racist' school behaviour in record numbers Suspensions for racism rose from 7,403 in 2021 to 15,191 last year. Figures are “unacceptable”, say Government officials, who are working to tackle the problem with teachers

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Once you're there also teach them how long it took YOU to save up for your mortgage and how many coffees they'd have to save to get to your same starting point 🥱

SR: Honestly, boring.
LR: That sentence is completely irrelevant to the narrative, the article has nothing to do with "household budgeting" and old farts are all convinced that the reason people can't get a mortgage is because they buy too much coffee out + Netflix subscription, coincidences? 🥱

LLM use is just a symptom. Scientific journals are massively profiting from scientific work, expertise, and funding without giving anything back to either authors and reviewers. Yet, all the comments in this app are about PR's "destruction" or "death". Maybe we deserve this system.

"Lucy drinks coffee at home every day, but buys a barista-made cup for when she wants a treat."

Sad times we're in, when even buying coffee must be contextualised within conservative narratives. Enjoy the small and the big things people, life is already miserable with Farage on TV.

Talks for “Trump Riviera” in Gaza Persist as Israel Pushes Deeper Into Gaza City Former State Department official Josh Paul, who resigned over increased arms to Israel, discusses the new developments.

Trump met to discuss plans for a postwar Gaza with Jared Kushner and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. This comes as Israeli business leaders are reportedly involved in developing a postwar Gaza plan that includes the creation of a “Trump Riviera.”

Remember when we used to believe that killing, starving and dismembering people in mass because of their ethnicity were crimes against humanity?

#Gaza #FreePalestine

We've been saying this for a while now, long before LLMs actually, but it never seems to actually happen.

Guess I'll wait for its funeral to catch a feeling

This whole tread is quite tragic, I wonder what impact this not-so-subtle lack of trust has on socialised-female new drivers and their autonomy.

In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

C'est un scandale.

L'arrestation des participants de la #FreedomFlotilla par l'armée israélienne viole le droit international, maritime et humanitaire.

Monsieur Emmanuel Macron, pour eux, pour l'aide humanitaire : agissez.

Mobilisons-nous partout en France.

#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

Pointing to the coloniality of current social relations invites an understanding that logics of colonial violence were dispatched but never recalled. These logics include the idea that survival of the colonial state requires the annihilation of the other... wherever they are.

Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030

There is an 80% chance that global temperatures will break at least one annual heat record in the next five years, raising the risk of extreme droughts, floods and forest fires, a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has shown.

Just a few days ago UAE broke its May heat record with a scorching temperatures registered in two consecutive days. They reached 51.6C on Saturday.

I can't fully function in this broken system, how are people coping?

Most likely the incidence, frequency and length of brushing/washing so they can sell it to private insurer and cut dental protection 🪄

I always find Pride events, incl. Pride marches, to be quite cathartic. Our queer family is so dispersed and seeing so many of us, moving and occupying space collectively is extremely powerful and healing.

I think you've clearly missed the point. It's not about being interrupted but about how such interventions play out: men are more likely to have "more than a question, just a statement", women engage in questioning, thus opening conversations.

At this point it's all about personal preferences for closeups LOL

I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis:

"Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

#AcademicSky

#AcWri #Academia #phd

Who "we"?