Teresa MacKinnon

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I just emailed my MP to ask him to attend the #osa debate www.openrightsgroup.org

You can fool some of the people, some of the time...https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/jacob-rees-mogg-house-brexiters-labour-brexit-benefits?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

AI as artificial ignorance First, we present a number of simple tests of AI, which document a profound gap between the hype and the reality of AI. Second, we explain the gap in …

"We find that AI and bullshit are similar in the sense that both prioritize rhetoric over truth. They mix true, false, and ambiguous statements in ways that make it difficult to distinguish which is which. AI sounds convincing even when it's wrong." (Flivbjerg)

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First steps at Teaching | Magdalena Marcinkowska | Substack My own reflections, experiences and challenges I have come across on my way to become an English teacher. Click to read First steps at Teaching, by Magdalena Marcinkowska, a Substack publication. Laun...

Added this substack stream to my follows, written by a Polish trainee teacher who is studying with my friend Marcin magdalenamarcinkowska.substack.com?r=h54yh&utm_...

Ensh*tification here we go...

"felt mislead on our behalf" says Chris #Mason on #bbcnews laughable! We can do our own thinking Chris, I wonder whose paying you to be so annoying??

#bbcnews still trying to make a story out of a successful #budget

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@bbclaurak.bsky.social your supporters would prefer to pay next to nothing to their workers and don't care about the impact on our children. They exploit people and as landlords they preside over unhealthy living conditions. #nasty

@bbclaurak.bsky.social talking over your guests is so rude. Didn't see you do that to #Boris despite his breaking every promise and the #spirit of British people

Fully coated, fully funded. Listen up @bbclaurak.bsky.social the right would love to make a story out of their spin, we need better journalists.

Britain’s wealthy must shoulder burden of rebuilding ‘creaky’ public services, Rachel Reeves says Exclusive: Chancellor says she made ‘fair and necessary choices’ in budget, and was unwilling to make cuts

I pay for a subscription to the #TheGuardian in order to get balanced and informative news like this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The #speaker is a supply teacher dressed as a sixth former. Useless. #budget

#speaker do your job! The howling and barracking must stop. #budget

Appalling behaviour from #tory party members when #Reeves stands to deliver her budget. Mysoginist rabble. #budget

So true, they swallow big tech hype, attracted to the promises and ignorant of the truth. Big money corrupting power.

And in the UK too!

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Future Teacher: Reflected We are re-running all our topics for a 3rd time under the banner of Future Teacher Reflected! Join us for our next session and/or view the previous recordings and resources.

Join the @ft30uk.bsky.social gang on Thursday to talk alternative #assessment xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?tem... #altc #edtech #LTHEchat

If...if...more speculation and scare mongering about the budget on the #bbcnews this morning*yawn*

More turnips anyone? #totp

Venn diagram in today's Guardian.

#Garage "plans"are all about his financial position and that of his mates.

Great suggestion Sue! So many great #LTHEchat folks too.

So important that we open our eyes to this.

If only the news media would boycott any mention of the #Garage man.

Don’t scrap the Windfall Tax

As families face rising bills, and extreme weather causes devastation around the world, oil and gas companies shouldn’t get a tax break. Tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves to not turn her back on climate and communities. Add your name >> act.gp/3LrcnFI

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... well done #Germany #CC copyright matters.

QR code to download my HEA report on telecollaboration

The Higher Education Academy published this report I wrote in 2013 and now it is getting a resurgence of interest so I am sharing it here with you all in case it is of interest. #virtualexchange #telecollaboration #CALL #languages tinyurl.com/yc8dbsmu