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Education Troublemaker, Instructional Designer, EdTechie, Video gamer, Linguist, Geek and Trekkie. I am a perpetual student. views my own. 19477448.

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Attended Eastern Sociological Society this weekend and was shocked to see a @soc-forum.bsky.social panel dedicated to using AI in publishing and pedagogy.

One panelist: "if you refuse to use AI, drop my course now".

The panelists failed to engage critically with how the tools work in any way

10.03.2026 14:30 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 4
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Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web opinion: Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things

Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

10.03.2026 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Explore AI Literacy - A Visual Navigator for AI Literacy Frameworks Commentary on Explore AI Literacy - A Visual Navigator for AI Literacy Frameworks by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

Explore AI Literacy - A Visual Navigator for AI Literacy Frameworks

10.03.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MenuetOS 1.59.20 released – OSnews MenuetOS, the operating system written in x86-64 assembly, has released two new versions since we last talked about it roughly two months ago. In fact, I’m not actually sure it’s just two, or more,...

MenuetOS 1.59.20 released

10.03.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Satellite images that are AI fakes To everyone’s surprise, that people definitely did not see coming, fake satellite images are sprinkling over social media to disperse fiction. For Financial Times, Dan Clark and Chris Campbel…

Satellite images that are AI fakes

10.03.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts - Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task -- are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-rai...

How AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts

10.03.2026 15:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Paramount's Takeover of Warner Bros Is Turning Into an International Crisis Going to war with Iran has suddenly brought China back into the mix on the sale.

Paramount’s Takeover of Warner Bros Is Turning Into an International Crisis

10.03.2026 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside 40 million users later

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

10.03.2026 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Terrifying’: Family says Evanston-born U.S. citizen detained for hours after returning to O’Hare Sunny Naqvi, a U.S. citizen, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at O’Hare International Airport for nearly 30 hours with no cause, leading to a protest outside the ICE facility in…

‘Terrifying’: Family says Evanston-born U.S. citizen detained for hours after returning to O’Hare

10.03.2026 13:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either” – OSnews Every modifier key starts simple and humble, with a specific task and a nice matching name.

“I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either”

10.03.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - Slashdot Electronic Arts has laid off staff across multiple Battlefield studios despite Battlefield 6 being the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025 and the "biggest launch in franchise history." According…

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch games.slashdot.org/story/26/03/...

10.03.2026 10:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Marathon Players Are Quickly Solving The Cryo Archive ARG Puzzle Puzzle solvers, streamers, and data miners are making progress on the Cryo Archive ARG puzzle in Marathon

Marathon Players Are Working Together To Unlock The Shooter’s Final Level

10.03.2026 00:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change? Transformation is no longer optional.

Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change?

10.03.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE arrests US Spanish-language news outlet reporter without warrant Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested during traffic stop

ICE arrests US Spanish-language news outlet reporter without warrant; Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested during traffic stop

09.03.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Why the Sega Saturn is so difficult to emulate compared to other consoles www.generationamiga....

09.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop

09.03.2026 20:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The option to just spend less?" But, but, but, are you suggesting we ... what are you suggesting again? [harumpf!]

09.03.2026 14:34 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Six years ago today, they shut down the stock market 'cause Covid.

Saudis & Russia were feuding over oil prices

Trump was playing golf, attending fundraisers and tweeting out lies

Some things never change.

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The cute and cursed story of Furby On Version History: your favorite, most annoying furry friend.

The cute and cursed story of Furby

09.03.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Cassandra Paradox: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato’s Cave, and the Cost of Seeing Clearly An Essay on Awareness, Isolation, and the Noble Burden of Truth The Seeress and the Slave In the mythological traditions of ancient Greec...

The Cassandra Paradox: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato’s Cave, and the Cost of Seeing Clearly

09.03.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs - Slashdot Cornell University makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like 'synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals." Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, r...

😂Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs

09.03.2026 17:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Fact check σε πέντε μύθους για το Ιράν - INFO-WAR Ο Αλέξης Λεκάκης-Κερκυραίος, Καταρρίπτει του μύθους που μας προωθούν για τη θέση της γυναίκας, του μουλάδες και τις σχέσεις με την Τουρκία .

Fact check σε πέντε μύθους για το Ιράν

09.03.2026 15:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is how I access the web these days... www.colino.net/wordpress/ma...

09.03.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce - Slashdot When Block cut 4,000 jobs — nearly half its workforce — co-founder Jack Dorsey "pointed to AI as the culprit," writes Entrepreneur magazine. "Dorsey claimed that AI tools now allow fewer employees to accomplish the same work." "But analysts see a different explanation: poor manageme...

Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce

09.03.2026 13:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

08.03.2026 18:00 👍 2619 🔁 345 💬 18 📌 12

By Jake Lang and his crowd. Lang is the shitty little racist ghoul who recently went to Minneapolis with his little Nazi buddies to try to incite more violence and got water balloons thrown at him until he ran away crying and peeing himself

08.03.2026 18:52 👍 324 🔁 97 💬 12 📌 3

Videos games? Martial arts? Painting with Bob Ross? Improv comedy?

09.03.2026 01:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of children attending a meeting of the Education K-12 subcommittee in the Tennessee legislature on March 11, 2025, in Nashville. A bill to restrict undocumented kids' access to education was tabled last year — and is now up for consideration again, overlaid with the headline, "Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It.”"

A photo of children attending a meeting of the Education K-12 subcommittee in the Tennessee legislature on March 11, 2025, in Nashville. A bill to restrict undocumented kids' access to education was tabled last year — and is now up for consideration again, overlaid with the headline, "Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It.”"

This is the Heritage Foundation's latest play. interc.pt/4uiIGss

09.03.2026 00:24 👍 177 🔁 109 💬 19 📌 8

Abolish DHS, prosecute everyone involved.

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United will permaban passengers who don't use headphones United Airlines updated its contract of carriage to ban passengers who play audio or video without headphones.

United will permaban passengers who don't use headphones

08.03.2026 23:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0