I think she is already enjoying lots of little monster belly rubs 😅😍

The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be Artificial-intelligence models will supposedly take over the world, but AI innovator Luc Julia tells Nature that they’re little more than glorified pocket calculators.

The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be www.nature.com/articles/d41...

KONG Extreme The KONG Extreme dog toy represents the most durable strength of KONG natural rubber.

Try a Kong with peanut butter smeared inside - its great for mental stimulation www.kongcompany.com/kong-extreme/

We need more collegiality in academia Many academics seem to think that the most intelligent person in the room is the one who can inflict the most damage on a hypothesis or the person proposing it.

We need more collegiality in academia
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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.

End the year with some great reading — take a look at our team's favorite pieces of 2025.

www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Delighted to see this published; in the time between the writing & publication, it’s become more relevant & urgent (looking at you, Meta)!

‘Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop’ shows how an ethically grounded cybernetics of ML can help us resist AI slop & discourse of replacement

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

A little town in Sweden - Tomelilla - is pioneering what it means to put Doughnut Economics into practice. This could well become inspiration to many towns and villages seeking to create a different kind of future... @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've just heard a middle-aged academic non-ironically talk about how they 'love bouncing ideas with ChattyG' ... THIS MUST STOP! (... along with keynotes starting with 'I asked Chat GPT to write an introduction to this talk' and/or academics ramming their PPTs full of sloppy AI-generated images).

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CSET 2025 – Critical studies of education and technology Dublin & Ireland: an invitation to connect Researchers from around the world hosting local academic meetings in February 2025 around the theme: ‘Problematising education and digital technology’ You are warmly invited to come to a meeting fro...

Where: F215 St Pats campus DCU

When: Feb 20th 11:30-13:30

What: Meeting of Dublin chapter of Critical Studies of Education and Technology initiative

Why: To interrogate Edtech as it manifests in our local context

How: fill in this form forms.gle/Qh2vHrrx7svT...

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Fintan O’Toole: American Caesar Donald Trump does not reward those who bend the knee – he despises them The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?

If you read nothing else today read this. @fotoole.bsky.social in full flight

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

(PDF) The commodification of education and the (generative) AI-induced scam-like culture PDF | Learning is hard, mastery takes time, and time ripens all things. This may seem appalling in an age where instant gratification offers quick ways... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

"Learning is hard, mastery takes time, and time ripens all things. This may seem appalling in an age where instant gratification offers quick ways to write a thesis and get a degree without bothering to master a topic. "

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Education after the Algorithm: Co-designing Critical and Creative Futures Please come and help us think together and think otherwise to craft critical and creative post-AI futures. Anina Takeff for Artists ForClimate.org (CC-BY-NC-SA) POWER PLANTS Feb 20-21 2025 Online & in Dublin City University Keynote speakers: Prof Martin Weller Dr Helen Beetham – Prof Punya Mishra

Submissions already coming in for this symposium that seeks to bring people to think together and to think otherwise so as to plot critical and creative post-AI educational futures.

Please spread the word and come join us:

www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/#/

We have now reached 45 CSET local meetings scheduled to take place in the same week of February to provide a international stock-take of the state of ed-tech & the critical issues that we are now facing around the world. Check out your nearest meeting! criticaledtech.com/2024/11/18/f...