Happy Europe Day to all who celebrate! 🙋🏾‍♀️

#EuropeDay
#AlwaysEuropean
#NoToBrexit

EU AI Act, approved today despite opposition from states, bans emotion-recognition systems in edu institutions, and destroys startups and companies, including mine.

It’s a massive fail on part of European educators and technologists, that affective learning agents are lumped with AIs scraping CCTV to build facial recog databases.

It destroys so much value, and denies benefits particularly to learners with special needs.

#AffectiveComputing
#EmotionAI
#EdTech
#AIinEducation
#AlwaysEuropean

Favorite accounts on #Mastodon -

(I'm not going to number these any more, just post them as I feel inspired)

@sadgrove

Lots of links to articles from the Guardian, helping me wade through the overwhelming barrage of news to some of the most interesting, informative or hopeful stories.

Hashtags: 
#arts #photography #music #books #architecture #religion #spirituality #politics #society #alwayseuropean #lgbtally #climatecrisis #NorthEastEngland #railways

Correction I was a Labour MEP 👇#AlwaysEuropean https://n.respublicae.eu/ukrainesol/status/1678747080515354624
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign: @CFTUU @pcs_union @paulwfleming @EquityUK @MariaExall @The_TUC @CWUnews @julie4north @cwuha @LGSMpride @mikeinpride @unisontheunion @RMTunion Oksana and Pavlo of @CFTUU and miners' union NGPU at #DurhamMinersGala with Alan Mardghum, general secretary of @DurhamMiners, and @julie4north, prominent local left activist, former Labour MP and member of our committee! https://t.co/NC7rBPX0Wi
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/julie4north/status/1678789775803707395