Jon Mason

@CDUni exploring human-computer interactions, education & digital environment … cultivating insight when I can @CDU_FAS. #SOTL #AIED #standards

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

"Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to the world?"

According to the new Democracy Perceptions Index report, the US is named as the top threat by people in 65 out of 84 of surveyed countries. In fact, the US is the top named threat even within the US itself.

[Jon Mason @intercog]

Yes, Ego Must

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Man Who Bought a Social Network and Still Can’t Find a Bookshop

Elon Musk has just posted a tweet with the logical architecture of a drunk uncle at Christmas dinner, and 316,000 people liked it.

Hitler liked dogs. Therefore all dog owners are Hitler. Hitler had a moustache. Therefore all men with moustaches are Hitler. Hitler breathed air. Congratulations, you’re Hitler.

This is the quality of reasoning that 37 million people apparently found worth their time on a Friday morning.

The Nazis, for anyone who spent their school years being driven to a private campus in a limousine instead of sitting in a classroom, ran on a platform of rounding up and murdering actual socialists.

This was not a minor footnote. It was rather the point. The camps were not filled exclusively with Jewish people.

Communists and trade unionists arrived first, because the Nazis considered them the primary threat. This is not contested. This is not a matter of interpretation. It is in literally every book written about the Second World War, of which there are approximately four million.

The word “socialist” in National Socialist Party was a lie designed to attract working class voters. It worked about as well as a party called the “People’s Freedom Democracy” works today, which is to say it worked perfectly, because people are very willing to believe a label if the alternative is thinking.

Now. Musk owns a rocket company that lands boosters on floating platforms in the ocean, which is genuinely impressive.

He owns the very platform on which this spectacular nonsense was published. He employs thousands of engineers who can solve problems of staggering complexity.

Not one of them apparently felt able to say: “Elon, mate, you might want to read a book before posting this.”
It turns out there is no algorithm for basic education.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

OMG! Who did this? 🤣

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Good morning from the country
That refuses to fall🇺🇦
Still here

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

"While AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. These results have important implications of how generative AI tools should be integrated into higher education." https://t.co/Rsq9ugWvgc

[StandICT @Stand_ICT]

💡Did you know that building inventions on technical standards can significantly increase the value of patents?
A recent study revealed fascinating insights into how "standard linkage" fuels technological breakthroughs.

👉 Delve into the findings: https://t.co/yUWfhcLTP4

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

[Jon Mason @intercog]

Yes … but I think @RichardDawkins does not think deeply enough about what the mind is. He is just another “believer”

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

If only Richard Dawkins had seen this.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Sleepy is fine. It’s the constant waking up that’s difficult.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

CORRECTION: The image I posted earlier today — which has been viewed more than THREE MILLION times — turns out to have been AI.

Here is the ORIGINAL image. 😉

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Spread this photo far and wide - because the media isn't doing its job in telling the story about an increasingly unhinged president who is unfit to serve.

#25thAmendmentNOW

[Jon Mason @intercog]

@PJDunleavy @LSEPress Download link?

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

This is quite simply, a brilliant article written by a first rate journalist about the scourge of our times - journalists+editors+institutions normalising the totally abnormal

Every ABC #Insiders member should be forced to listen to it on rotation in a darkened room for 3 days
.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Lebanon is being destroyed.

1.2 million people, including 400,000 children, forced out of their homes by bombardment. Towns and villages flattened. Innocent civilians killed. Parents grieving over their lost children. There is no justification for this.

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

She will be remembered as the AG who saw photos and videos of powerful men raping kids & decided to protect the men.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

25th Amendment? Pretty please, USA. Your president just told the whole world that a civilisation will die tonight. That is not a campaign slogan. That is not locker room talk. That is a man who should not have the nuclear codes, the tariff lever, or unsupervised access to a social media account.

You have a constitutional off-ramp. Use it.

Regards the rest of civilisation.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Journalist in Iran confirms Trump and Israel have bombed:

• 30 universities
• 760 schools
• Hospitals

• Professors assassinated.
• University students killed in their own homes.

This isn’t “liberation.”

This is the systematic destruction of Iran’s scientific future.