Colin Simpson

This is a relief

thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

I don't have an answer but might we harness the power of emotions to design AI resistant assessments? (This thought spun off from pondering whether sketch notes might do a similar job)

If you can’t be bothered to write and analyze your own research, step aside for folks who actually want to do your damned job.

no their not

If you dislike AI please stop saying AI can code now. Just because it can generate code that works for some loose definition of the word works doesn't mean it can code because coding is so much more than that. Please, I'm begging you, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

Unrealistic timeline. The AI would first have to learn to accept a certificate it doesn't trust, from a network it can see but can't join, in a building where the signal is strongest in the car park.

There is no ethical use of AI in the creative industries

Rewatching West Wing and seeing Richie Aprile from Sopranos pop up as a rabbi is unexpected

Is everything ok Google Scholar?

Going on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1).

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

Every single person who spruiks AI and the glory of data centres is either a sociopath or the most gullible POS.

Happy Birthday, @zotero.org, strong and steady at 20!

The letters N, S, E and W have been the compass points for long enough. Here are the changes I would make to freshen things up

Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

I'm putting this here for the starred suggestion in the last panel... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

Everybody understands the challenges involved in working in the tertiary education third space but what can we do to make this better? Our expert panel explores some possible options in our most recent TELedvisors Network webinar - making the third space a great space youtu.be/uUUwo2s5MAU

shame, just as they record an enormous bonce in the polls

Morning. ☕️

I never signed a release

This is wild. Cyber leopards ate my face though?

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A6 Sometimes we underestimate the importance of role models in the local HE institution. There should be a lessons learned journal that can be shared when working in a similar context, maybe sharing these in different formats like podcasts, videos, blogs, etc #LTHEChat

It’s Christopher Walken, isn’t it?

I interviewed my air fryer and asked if he ever got tired of chicken wings

Late to the party but this really is the Raygun of documentaries

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

Once again, people are grappling with whether it's OK to like Harry Potter in 2026. It isn't. www.emilywrites.co.nz/yes-its-time...

If they will "today unveil plan" they haven't revealed anything yet @news.abc.net.au

Make a band edible: New Hors D’oeuvre

Sigh. Jerks.

The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”

Frickin WOT?!

how is this real

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

Learning is not just knowledge acquisition, but also learning about learning & yourself. The portfolio makes that learning visible & encourages you to document & reflect on it. @profcathyelliott.bsky.social has that baked into her classes & assessment criteria. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...