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Writer, editor and presenter. QTS via Roehampton PGCE (2022), but older trainee history teachers just aren't hot right now. Ask me to write about business, finance, MR, PM, AI, VC & PE, HR, IT... It's not the platform, it's us; RSS FTW! #1,569,801
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When I talk to people who design AI or work with it in practice, the vibe is "be extremely prescriptive, assign tasks that are foolproof, check the outputs, HitL obvs, and for god's sake watch out because unless we're careful it's gonna blow a hole in everything we hold dear." Politicians? "Yay AI!"

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I'm not a pacifist or a trot, so I don't go full Stop the War at every bit of Western military action. However, I do utterly resent actions that make ridding the world of the monstrosity that is the present regime in Iran harder, and that basically is what the latest Trump infantile act has done.

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People are calling this misogyny, and I can't speak to that, but it reminded me much more of accidentally calling your teacher "mum" that an attack on her status or a slip revealing his secret hatred of women.

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a point I have tried to make about these algorithms, which most people still don't seem to understand, is that the existence of the algorithm makes the content essentially algorithmically-generated, even when humans are technically making the content bsky.app/profile/did:...

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(What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?) 50% of podcasts have fewer than 50 regular listeners. More than 2000 weekly downloads puts you in the top 5%. The tail is very long. And there is only real funding money in the top slice of the top slice of the top slice, at 20,000+

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I would like these edited and presented as a little booklet/blog, please-and-thank-you.

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All this stuff about Britain is broken, all is terrible, there is no recourse, society is falling apart, if there was a war nobody would go, etc is beginning to irritate me. There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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THIIIS. School history *intends* to equip young people with these skills, it's all there in the teacher training (and in the best classrooms, it's true). But I do worry the opportunity is squandered with a curriculum designed to appease "the glorious history of our island race" types and exam focus.

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To Uruguay, where journalists still imagine Marcelo Bielsa will change, if they can only ask him just the right question. 🔗 www.leedsista.com/ma...

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This is really good. Catches the sweet spot of enough ground-game for people like me who are finance adjacent but not pros and love the clarity (and clarification); and (I reckon) the pros who'd get where he's coming from at a career or philosophical level.

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Good cause. Nutters.

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TIL: Charles, II, James VII and Mary (of the William and...) were directly descended, within four generations, from the de Medici, Habsburg, Bourbon and Stuart families. (Plus the Danish royal family, of course. Who can forget the Oldenburgs!)

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I still love the Apple ecosystem, but it hasn't "just works" for some time, and as functionality has exploded, bugs seem to be everywhere. I suspect I'm like many Apple users: I don't want a super-AI Siri. I want Siri to understand the 10 things that make up 99% of requests to be processed instantly

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The state of this. And don't get me started on the colon.

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Comforting thought this morning that in 10 years' time, the last generation of human thinkers and writers will be dragged out of retirement to fix AI-generated 'knowledge', like ageing COBOL programmers being drafted in to fix the millennium bug.

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We worry about how we deal with students' use of AI to improve grades or meet requirements in education. But is the real question: what's wrong with the function of education (and the way we pitch it) such that people think it's worth using AI shortcuts? www.readtrung.com/p/ai-killed-...

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🧵 The BBC has long played a vital role in creating epistemic stability, a sense that facts are verifiable, disagreement has boundaries, and news has standards. That’s not trivial. It’s one reason the UK hasn’t yet experienced full epistemic collapse.

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Alioski, take a bow son…

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The defining concept of Trump 1.0 was @therickwilson.bsky.social popularising "everything trump touches dies" and #ETTD remains the number on rule.

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Featuring myself as a Bluesky Timeline Juxtaposition of the Day seems cheeky, but what do you know?

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Weird. Treasury won't use big-gun revenue-raisers when the country desperately needs investment (schools' budgets are a mess that's going to become MASSIVELY apparent at the end of the Academy Trusts' FY in the autumn). The MoD spends on... big-gun attack subs in an age of cyber and drone warfare?

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TIL Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was doubly descended from John of Gaunt.

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I’d love to help but I’m unfortunately swamped, calendar is booked up completely tomorrow

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Calling all educators, governors, and SE England SEND folks: a great opportunity to hear from great SEND Mainstream speakers and take part in some terrific workshops. It's at Ricards Lodge in Wimbledon (about 10 minutes walk from the station) on 18th June www.ticketsource.co.uk/ricardslodge...

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You get a lot of so-so takes on one of the best films ever made. This was some good takes. Recommend (and ht @yoz.bsky.social for flagging the podcast it's from) overcast.fm/+AA4WRdkBthM

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Cassandra calling

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