Chris Bigum

Whispers from the Latent Space chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/03/bibs...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Metrics
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This one hits hard.

a wee post: The Epistemically Uninsured . chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/02/bibs...

vgr: The Twitter Years (2007–22) A curated collection of tweets and threads by Venkatesh Rao (@vgr), 2007–22.

How to turn your twitter feed into a book: venkateshrao.com/twitter-book

There is some history about macho energy. When the first autos were developed there were three competing energy types: gasoline, electric and steam. It has been argued that having to crank the petrol powered auto appelaed to the "men" and is partly to explain the adoption. Partial explanation.

Assessment After AI: A Playful Field Guide for the Perplexed

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OMG, OMG, OMG ... chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...

Tired of collaborating with a GenAI assistant without proper etiquette, emotional validation, or metaphors about aviation? chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...

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How many of your colleagues are going through or have gone through intellectual menopause? www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/i...

How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction The common thread running through these debates is a fixation on outputs. GAI captured attention because of the ease with which eerily human outputs could be produced in response to natural languag…

Another more than useful post by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social on getting AI and assessment wrong again and again and again: markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/h...

chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/04/bibs... If AI literacy is a map, human sensibility for AI is a compass

They don't believe in any of the existing rules... ANY

Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press. For a well argued framing of AI. Beyond so much of the lame commentary found re "AI literacy".

Governing the Megastructure - Farsight To tackle planetary challenges, governance must become more embedded in technological systems of sensing and automation, argues philosopher of technology Benjamin Bratton.

farsight.cifs.dk/governing-th... "stuck in old ways of thinking about new problems" a quote from a Farsight essay by Casper Skovgaard Petersen.

I drew of Schrage's notion of design sensibilities: Schrage, M. (1998) Technology, Silver Bullets and Big Lies: Musings on the Information Age with
author Michael Schrage. Online. Available HTTP: www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/
reviewArticles/33132.html (26 January 2000).

I wrote about digital sensibility back in 2002: Bigum, C. (2002). Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies. In I. Snyder (Ed.), Silicon literacies: Communication, innovation and education in the electronic era (pp. 130-140). Routledge. and a few after

Bibs & bobs #21

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Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility

Generative AI has been here for a while, it’s just not evenly distributed. chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/02/bibs...

Trump's Master Plan: How Russia Lost Everything | George Friedman YouTube video by Mauldin Economics

@hannahforsyth.bsky.social I can't add to your interesting post and question except to say it may mesh a little with Geroge Friedman's framing of Trump's meta agenda or I have a bad case of mental fog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ok...

Yep. All about asking questions, better questions and working with students to make sense of the current beast.

What strikes me as missing from talks about AI in education & replacing teachers is, that kind of "learning" absolutely matches corporate job expectations.....

@carloiacono.bsky.social Most of the reactions fit previous patterns when new digital stuff popped up...all the way back to the late 70s. I think it is more fun to play with AI-related commentary. chrisbigum.blogspot.com

@carloiacono.bsky.social all of the current noise around AI and ed will barely warrant a footnote in years to come. These transitions are always messy, threatening to existing ways of doing things/thinking about things.

In the Twilight of Certainty A Reflection

@carloiacono.bsky.social does a fine job describing the game we are playing with AI: hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/in-the-twi... well worth a read.

Palestinian Man Generously Offers To Take Over and Redevelop Fire-Ravaged, Hellscape of LA’s Malibu District — The Shovel "Los Angeles is a soulless, vacuous hell hole. It's just a big pile of rubble and collagen right now. We will turn it into the Riviera of North America"

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Your Doctor Is Like Shakespeare (And That's A Problem) - 3 Quarks Daily by Kyle Munkittrick

Hey Inger @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, here is a case for not one but a very large number of "work husbands" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Absolutely fab post from @zephoria.bsky.social on the Kayfabe politics in the US: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...

Rules? What rules?