Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied society This paper explores what literacies people need to challenge big tech companies. We selected key digital rights practitioners, who mediate between policy and public awareness and have diverse exper...

Couldn't agree more! That's what I've been working on for the past few years, for example: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

abilities & we also don't know which other companies are using this data, for what purposes & for how long.

So these tools that are meant to empower citizens to claim their data rights are essentially only for experts who have the appropriate literacies to understand what all this data mean.

There is no oversight on the quality of the answers AND whether they are answered at all.

HOWEVER - I keep on coming back to @markandrejevic.bsky.social's amazing article from 2014! about the big data divide which argues that even if we did get all the data we don't have the processing ->

Part of data and AI governance debates are around access to the data social media and AI companies have + transparency.

As @noyb.eu show - these requests are not propely answered. This points to the fact that EU regulation often is clinging on transparency and access as governance tools while ->

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”

For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

Accelerate building an independent European social web This week Bluesky went down. This is why our vision for a fully independent European social web matters. You are the first users of Eurosky. You are the community making this vision a reality. We are ...

Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app.

Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users.

Let's do this

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Radical Anto Smartphone Front in London

Radical Anto Smartphone Front in London

Just seen in Bricklane East London.

Anyone knows this group? The Radical Anti Smartphone Front (RASF?)

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...

Spaceballs: The New One YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

I have been waiting for this film so long! Hopefully not Mell Brooks final film 🥲

youtu.be/efpL1E_fI3E?...

A guideline for the use of genAI in research for our Scool's PhDs if you want I am happy to share it 😊

I am not sure what you mean by 'refine your experiments' here. I was referring to collecting synthetic data and treating/presenting it as if it was created by humans. If you mean analysis of the data, then there are accuracy, ethical and data protection issues with that as well. I just created ->

This is an important reason to refuse the integration of chatbots in education. Legitimizing this tech in classrooms will encourage recreational use, including abusive use.

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts.

Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends.

£1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses

Health service “taken for a ride”.

Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity

Terrible! I was talking about it in the thread about the Yougov fiasco. If researchers are want to save time & money on research and buy synthetic polls and/or focus groups (e.g. in my post Qualtrics), why bother doing the research to begin with if humans don't interest you?
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It's easy to speculate or guess but context matters and what young people care about or unhappy about can be different from place to place and depend on multiple factors.

Polling can be good for that first step of highlighting there is a problem but to find out why it's happening qual is better.

When I was talking about the Yougov poll data fiasco I was saying that qualitative data can give us better understanding of society but because polling is cheaper & faster many don't opt for that.

To know why young people are unhappy and not speculate/guess -> interviews/focus groups are the way->

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Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after.

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I will ping you when the articles are out! 🤓

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Hi there, yes I have 2 papers under review about this, focusing on university students. But I am sure there are more, the issue is the majority of papers around this come from HCI or computer science who have no background in education or literacies.

Haha maybe, but it is optional to skip, whereas here if yoi skip it you just won't learn what you want to do! 😉

While the research examined persistence for a short amount of time (10 minutes) this has huge consequences on long-term learning skills that involve time, repetition, exercising, confidence, and remembering.

(I have issues with the methods but that's for another time)

I see that with my students all the time. When you skip that by getting the AI tool shortcut then the learning experience is not happening and you don't know or remember how to do the task you wanted to do.

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The persistence aspect is also about multiple aspects around learning - repetition and practice of something in order to understand and master it, and then to remember how to tackle it in the future. It also involves people lose the confidence to experiment and make mistakes (which takes time) ->

Abstract of paper arguing AI assistance reduces persistence

I've been saying for a long time that AI tools promote shortcuts and by doing so skip the learning experience which involves persistence (like the article linked here suggests), but also making mistakes and learning how to solve a problem in a way that makes sense to you
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arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04721

Great idea! Thank you 🤓🙏

That's what I'm trying to find out because I don't have access to the article 😅 Though I have immense respect for Farrow's investigative journalism work.

Please don't dm me because of age verification restrictions in the UK and me refusing to give my id details I can't access my dms... 🥲

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Seeing a lot of buzz around the Ronan Farrow article on Sam Altman/OpenAI. Does anyone have access to the article?

And also, how much of the article adds to Karem Hao's book Empire of AI. I saw several clips about this article and it sounds like stuff she covered

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...