Post-16 Educator

By & for post-16 educators & activists. Ed.: Colin Waugh. New contributors welcome. Contact: [email protected].

[Sam @SamCKx]

It seems the entire Reform Rob Kenyon election campaign is based on this carefully sculpted "working-class local lad" narrative.

Beyond the numerous red flags surrounding his past conduct, the real state of British politics is reflected in the fact that thousands of people will fall for this and simply vote for him.

No discussion of policies. No relevant experience. No meaningful credentials. Just someone who started a plumbing business on Checkatrade six months ago and now has the financial resources and propaganda machine of Reform behind him.

People are literally going to go out and vote for a stooge, and I think many secretly know it and simply don't care.

People are so desperate to find a scapegoat for the problems they face in life that they're delighted to blame the person delivering their Uber Eats or serving them coffee at Starbucks, rather than the tiny number of individuals who control a staggering share of the nation's wealth, leaving less resources for everyone.

It's far easier to look down on those with the least and blame them for your problems while wealthy elites and political grifters bankroll campaigns that will leave you poorer and even more desperate.

And by the time you realise what's happened, you'll already have handed them all the power.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Interesting exercise for #Post16 #citizenship and enrichment sessions. Lots of real-world maths and fruitful discussions about #wealth, need, power, greed, #inequality, and just getting by. Maybe map against the backers of the main political parties?

[#MadeInGermany2035 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇪 @42tw1tter1sd3ad]

Die gleichen Bürger aus dem Video, die in UK die Trümmertruppe Reform von Nigel Farage wählen, wählen bei uns AfD. Die haben überhaupt keine Ahnung was Überreich bedeutet. Schön, dass jemand ihnen das mal vor Augen hält.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@m0w4q45 What is it about our public culture - and our public and political #education - that enables an opportunist like @RobertJenrick to re-present himself as an insurgent?

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@dailybritainonx On #Reform’s Gt. Repeal Bill to overturn Lab.’s Emp. Rights Act, ending fire-n-rehire rules, zero hours contract bans, sick pay day one & real living wage protections,
said, “I’d have to have a real deep look into that.”
Is Reform really on the side of #workers? Is #Kenyon?

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@nw_nicholas What else would you recommend?

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@bbcquestiontime Architect or Bee. Remembering Mike Cooley and the struggle for socially useful technology at Lucas Aerospace

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@bbcquestiontime Another great read @emilymbender @alexhanna

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@bbcquestiontime Great read @VersoBooks @gavinmuellerphd #AI #technology

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@bbcquestiontime Great read. @jathansadowski

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@bbcquestiontime We talk about #technology as if it's a given that magically appears, not something created by people, in particular relations, with particular priorities and interests. It's as old as ... what drives the tech. bros and their fast finance bakers is profit and control.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity @RebeccaWinthrop https://t.co/PwZJ2FftLS
#AI #HigherEducation #Post16Education

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity @RebeccaWinthrop https://t.co/PwZJ2FftLS

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Post-16 educators are at forefront of the AI argument as researchers, tech developers, critics of corporate power, people simply trying to hold the line against the erasure of our democratic capacities for critical thinking.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"Everything that Tony Blair says about AI is not true!"

The former PM has said everyone needs to embrace AI, but @_KarenHao says it's a political project trying to strip agency from everyone, everywhere.

@lewis_goodall

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@Pontifex Interesting to read #Anthropic's emollient response. #PopeLeo should go full 15th century and grow some Papal Balls: condemn the AI corporates as heretics for trying to emulate God, and excommunicate the lot of them.
#technologyforpeople

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

It was a great day today. Packed Picket lines followed by a rally at Trent Courtyard. The media was there, here are some of the pics I had time to take. West Entrance @UoNUCU

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Colleges (#FE/#adulteducation) used to be part of their communities - community resources; places to meet, mix & learn. Now, far less so. Has the loss of community-based ed. contributed to the sense of lost community, and helped fuel #Reform's toxic interpretation of community?

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@BTnewsroom Against the myth of tech. neutrality, ask who designs & benefits in whose interests, & who's excluded? Can we 'rescue the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan from the enormous condescension of posterity'? E.P.Thompson
https://t.co/6BJa4B4kxt

[Tea enthusiast @LovesZeester]

@Emem_snz @kirawontmiss Peak luddite is exactly what we need! The young are rebelling against technology threatening to replace their jobs and their purpose in life. They've been raised on tech from birth and see, first hand, how tech enslaves us, capturing our attention and monetizing our creativity.