When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to
This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/
"Love after the algorithm"
My contribution to this collective piece - "The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections" by Liz Jackson et al (2025)
https://medium.com/@eam0/love-after-the-algorithm-a0cb80752133
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Enjoyed writing this piece just published in our national media in Ireland on EdTech in schools.
In a nutshell:
The harms of datafication and platformisation of schools are not abstract because sooner or later your school is going to be hacked and your child's data put up for sale on the dark web...
"Who owns my child's data?"
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0507/1510053-data-privacy-education-technology-gdpr/
Open letter from Mike Nason to #PKP re: collaboration with a university in Israel:
PKP is in existential contradiction when it avoids politics. Open Access is political. The anti-capitalist and anti-corporatist fundamentals of the movement are political. Open source is political.
Neutrality is a political position.
Compliance is a political position.
Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a significant portion of my career to PKP. I’ve worked either in community with the organization – or actively for it – for, very nearly, my entire professional career. Just short of twenty years, which, it turns out, amounts to being just short of half my life. PKP has been supportive and open. And, they pushed for things I really cared about; things like open access to research, global equity in academic publishing, open source, the principles of open scholarly infrastructure, and ethical approaches to fulfilling the goals of movements outlined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
77
years
That's how long the #Nakba - erasure of Palestine - has been going on.
It continues, intensified in full view, with support of the craven UK government.
Demand and end to trade with settlements on Palestinian land.
War on Want | Fighting Global Poverty
https://secure.waronwant.org/page/171098/action/1
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