Hi! Please be advised TODAY is the deadline for #oer26 submissions.
We're looking forward to reviewing your proposals and putting together a stellar programme!
www.alt.ac.uk/OER26-Propos...
Get. your submissions in for #OER26 - deadline is coming up soon! Great themes once again this year, and chaired by the wonderful @beckpitt.bsky.social and @rfarrow.bsky.social #altc #GOGN www.alt.ac.uk/OER26-Propos...
If you like that you might also like this #ai #metaphors jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10....
‘My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’
Nancy Fraser on the philosopher, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Even as they claim the right to train their models on work belonging to other people, the AI companies have rejected a similar premise when it comes to their own products, Alex Reisner reports:
Exciting news! @rfarrow.bsky.social & @beckpitt.bsky.social will serve as co-chairs for #OER26, hosted this June at @openuniversity.bsky.social in Milton Keynes. For more information check conference website : www.alt.ac.uk/OER26
Evolutionary psychologists at it again, but now nobody is telling them to at least try at some basic scholarly virtues and norms of decency so the mask is fully off.
Academic staff at Coventry University are being TUPEd into subsidiary People’s Futures Ltd, listed on Companies House as an “employment agency”. This move onto inferior terms & conditions breaches the post-92 National Agreement and raises serious questions about the future of academics in HE.
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
"Publishers aren't evil but they are desperate. Caught in this programmatic ad-tech death spiral, they are trading long-term reader retention for short-term CPM pennies. The modern ad industry is slowly de-coupling the creator from the advertiser. They weaponize the UI bc they think they have to."
"Habermas understood that the job of a left-wing philosopher is to do what little he can to give the voiceless back their voice so we can create a shared world together."
Nice tribute from @mattpolprof.bsky.social:
jacobin.com/2026/03/habe...
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
OER26: Openness Reimagined: Continuity, Change and Shared Vision
Call for papers now open! www.alt.ac.uk/OER26-Propos...
#oer26
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One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript.
How do we know?
Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth.
Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.
Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.
From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!
#WomensHistoryMonth #Philosophy #PhilSky
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Well this made for interesting reading...
Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you - Owen Jones
Ethics is a field of contestation and debate for philosophers... you could never encode this satisfactorily. An ethics of AI is another matter.
Also, philosophical ethics is highly analytic for the most part. It's not the anything-goes-blue-sky of speculative philosophy.
They chose who to hire...
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Donald J. Trump → @realDonaldTrump X.com
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Time to move on from #chapgpt
📆Call for papers for a special issue in @jimejournal.bsky.social
AI, Curriculum Futures and Human-Centred Student Support
account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up...
#AIED
Easily one of the top charts of all time
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A Latin document displaying continuous script.
As many of you may know, the word 'intelligence' comes from the Latin 'intelligentia'. Something that is not so well known is that the word is a transformation of 'inter' (between) and 'legere' (choose, pick out, read). There were no spaces in old texts (scriptio continua);
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Drikanis @drikanis@mstdn.ca @ludicity For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers. Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance. After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension. It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
mstdn.ca/@drikanis/11...
Interesting initiative!
