seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

Singing down on us Listen to Singing down on us by Eamon Costello #np on #SoundCloud

"Singing down on us" by Eamon Costello on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/9DmVHCvC1Yeq...

I song I made without thinking too much about it and just because I thought it might sound good rather than anything I wanted it to say.

But then it came out well.

Demystifying AI: The urgency of a critical stance on the use of AI systems in education Dagmar Mercedes Heeg1  · Lucy Avraamidou2 Received: 25 November 2025 / Accepted: 8 February 2026 © The Author(s) 2026 Abstract The education field has generally embraced artificial intelligence (AI) systems for their (undocumented) potential to reduce teacher workload, address inequalities, and enhance learning through personalization. However, issues such as algorithmic bias, mono- culturalism, discrimination, use of private data, and access to AI systems raise concerns about exacerbating learning inequalities, especially for minority students. We argue that researchers in education have largely failed to critically address the limitations of AI sys- tems, and that a critical stance framed within critical AI literacies is urgently needed to ensure responsible use, if any, of AI systems in the classroom. We first examine how AI systems have been conceptualized for educational purposes. Through engagement with related literature, we discuss what has been overlooked by the mystifying of AI and the failure to engage more thoroughly and critically with existing literature on the social nature of learning. Following that, we provide an overview of contemporary AI literacy frame- works through a comparative approach and discuss their potential and limitations. We con- clude with a set of recommendations for future research, teacher education, and curriculum design, framed within a critical stance to foster fair, ethical, and responsible use, where appropriate, of AI systems in education. Keywords AI · Education · Critical AI literacies

Demystifying AI: The urgency of a critical stance on the use of AI systems in education

Dagmar H & @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social

> The education field has [embraced AI for the] (undocumented) potential to reduce teacher workload, address inequalities, and enhance learning

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

guest post: the sociologist as bystander The following is a guest post by Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author. They called them “aid distribution centers.” Orwell himself would not have thought of a better term. Every day, shortly after …

"The petitioners are asking ASA members to gawp at human misery, death, and destruction as dispassionate experts, blink, and proclaim that they shall not speak on the issue, as it is very complex and contested." Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author respond to the recent petition on scatterplot

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender YouTube video by Simpson Center

It's time to #TalkAboutHumanities so here is a contribution:

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of 'AI': The View from the Humanities

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc...

Call for papers! A new special issue of our @ijtel.bsky.social celebrating 25 years of the @iltasky.bsky.social EdTech conference and community has now launched. How has edtech evolved & who or what has been missing from the conversation?
🔗 journal.ilta.ie/index.php/te... #edchatie #edusky #SoTL

Dr Ben Williamson is a keynote speaker at the Irish Learning Technology Association's 25th annual EdTech Conference in the DCU Institute of Education, Dublin City University, on the following timely topic: “Fabricating EdTech Futures: projecting, prototyping, pilot testing and product trialling”

We are also delighted to welcome Dr Ben Williamson as a keynote speaker to our 25th annual #EdTech26 Conference in Dublin City University, to talk about “Fabricating EdTech Futures: projecting, prototyping, pilot testing and product trialling” ilta.ie/edtech-2026/...

Dr Brihane is the founder and principal investigator of the AI Accountability Lab, which studies AI technologies and their downstream societal impact, so as to foster a greater ecology of AI accountability. She is a member of the ADAPT Centre, an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, has featured in TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, served on the UN's AI Advisory Body and Ireland's AI Advisory Council. We greatly look forward to hearing her give a keynote address at EdTech 26 at Dublin City University on the 3rd and 4th of June 2026

We are delighted to welcome @abeba.bsky.social of @aial.ie to @dcuioe.bsky.social for the Irish Learning Technology Association's 25th annual EdTech conference, June 3- 4, 2026. #Edtech26 #edusky We greatly look forward to her keynote talk examining #genAI tools in education! ilta.ie/edtech-2026/...

Fascinating to hear these AI-boosting educators also communicate their fears about student use:
"As professionals, we use AI to save time and enhance our work—but we’re still doing the thinking and using a mix of resources. Too many students are using AI to think and do their work for them. "

"Their accounts, he says, align with years of research he conducted with Prof. Gadi Zerach of Ariel University"

A university built in the West Bank shunned in rest of the world e.g. Ariel banned from particiaption in EU research programmes as a Settlement University. Now normalised in Israeli HE

Professor sues Texas university that terminated contract after Palestine talk Idris Robinson says Texas State violated his constitutional rights over off-campus talk seized on by pro-Israel activists

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Screen dynamite. He is de biz

Have you noticed who Western media chooses to platform when it comes to Iran? It's mainly diaspora Iranians who are content creators, poets, artists, filmmakers. Rarely do they platform Iranian academics, professors, intellectuals, scholars, experts. All by design.

👐 think jazz hands :)

Can anyone point me towards reviews, studies, critiques, etc. on #CriticalRealism & its relevance to the #Philosophy & realism of Thomas Nagel (cf. View from nowhere; what it's like to be a bat, etc.)

Have found some articles in Journal of @crnetwork.bsky.social & @philosophynow.bsky.social

Thanx🙏🏼

2. And, despite what we are constantly assured in the fake news of the AI digital permacrisis and its promise of endless novelty, there is actually nothing new under the sun: Love is nothing new.

Should we be paying less attention to our outputs and more to what our deepest inputs might be?

If so, we would do well to remember at least two things:

1. AI does not kill people; racism does.

Chatbots in this sense engender manic outputting, which can only happen when we are not paying careful attention to our inputs.

Secluing with a chatbot for a weekend, working on a pet project, assumes that hyperpersonalisation is happening to the outputs of this activity, but makes no claims or cautions about depersonalisation as a result of our inputs.

Does disposable EdTech, operating under a regime of AI as product placement pedagogy, magic up flashcards for spaced-retrieval practice that can be disposed of as easily as the children in schools bombed by drones that are spirited through the sky on the vapours of prompt technologies?

But is this also a form of fast fashion for EdTech? And if so, would such throwaway tools ultimately drive us further into the stability of our addictions to fat corporate AI EdTech Pipes that are privately owned and controlled?

Claude Code is being heralded as a meta-tool with which we can vibe code novel EdTech tools with our “own hands”, hyperpersonalised by our preferences, background, knowledge, hobbies and interests, all expressed via prompts.

Enforce is hiring: AI Expert How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors

Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring.

Full-time role. Remote in the EU.

Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026.

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

#AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy
@abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social

So horrible. Sorry this happened to you 😔

"Breaking European collaborations with Israel sound impossible, whereas we have insisted that those agreements and contracts are not different from any other agreements and contracts, if you can enter them, vou can exit them."

Ghent University ends collaboration with Israeli partner after approval European Commission Ghent University has officially terminated its participation in the European research project OSTEONET, which involved collaboration with an...

Ghent University ends collaboration with Israeli partner after approval European Commission

Thanks @folukeifejola.bsky.social for this fun quiz and I super way to learn about something that is uplifting

I love the way you put this

The master’s tools You can only do The best you can With what you have

I had not heard of this great qoute from Artur Ashe:

"Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can."

Before I wrote this song which says many of the same things:

"The Master’s Tools"

on.soundcloud.com/OfWKKxJCzx83...

#SoundCloud

Postdigital Ethics of Care This entry introduces ethics of care as it relates to postdigital education. It starts with a concise overview of care within feminist thought introducing the argument that to be in human relation is ...

It's a working day and I'm reading @eam0.bsky.social's "Postdigital Ethics of Care" and very annoyed it took me this long to find it.