Nathalie Tasler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

New by-law to stop people roaming at first Scottish Center Parcs Restrictions at the site of its first Scottish holiday village will come into force in April.

Scottish Centre Parcs just axed right to roam!

New by-law to stop people roaming at first Scottish Center Parcs - BBC News share.google/IT2dqQS0ZwQE...

As AI adoption grows, how should research record it?

Article published today in @researchinfo.bsky.social

www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

That is not what happened to horses.

Me: earth’s tilted orbit around the sun is entirely predictable and the resulting gradual shift of day length through the year should be the cause neither of surprise nor wonderment.

Also me: IT’S STILL LIGHT AT SIX O’CLOCK PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS WONDROUS MIRACLE

You are not alone 😁

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."

AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

I love reading pieces about the ethics and poetics of “attention” from senior male Ivy academics who, my women colleagues tell me, have conveniently and consistently avoided institutional service and all the other pesky things that tend to distract others 💅

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

“Content delivery” is a sign you misunderstand teaching.

Submitted a humongous ethics application today. And I have this niggling feeling in the back of my head that I forgot something gha... Well that's what the review process is for!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search AI search tools aren't "agreeing" with users—they are retrieval systems. Confusing the two is a category error that obscures the real risks.

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search aarontay.substack.com/p/the-sycophan… #AI #libraries #searcg #RAG

Is there platform all journalists have access to, where citizen observers can log activities in their neighbourhood? So local journalists can get alerts?

An individual with short hair and glasses stands outdoors wearing a dark grey sweatshirt with an illustration of a tiger wearing a headband that reads "FIGHT ON." They have a neutral expression and hands clasped. Tall, dried grass is in the background. A headline reads: "She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again." Photo by Nick Oxford for The New York Times.

Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

That is a lovely photo

Light in the snow ❄️

#SundaySilence

Done

Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to U.S. Homeland Security United States procurement records show that Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite is providing social media services to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to U.S. Homeland Security" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Tapping the sign

In the 1990s, German courts ruled that the "duty to shoot" at the Wall was "statutory lawlessness." Even though it was the law of the GDR at the time, individuals were held responsible because they should have recognized that the orders violated fundamental human rights.

Big Tech is taking on more debt than ever to fund its AI aspirations Technology companies issued a record $108.7 billion in bonds in the fourth quarter, a proliferation that some analysts say puts the broader economy at risk.

Technology companies issued a record $108.7 billion in corporate bonds in the last three months of 2025, according to Moody’s Analytics.

That’s the largest total for any quarter and roughly double that of the previous three months.

i heard we needed more whimsy so i’m here to get the job done

What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI? In What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?, Leon Furze shares findings from a survey of approximately 3,000 educators across K-12, early childhood, universities, TAFEs, and related industries spanning multiple countries.

In What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?, Leon Furze shares findings from a survey of approximately 3,000 educators across K-12, early childhood, universities, TAFEs, and related industries spanning multiple countries. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Podcast