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Teacher of Lit, multiracial matters, bred on sci-fi and Greek myths. Innovation Lead & Head of English
•asking loads of questions
•will not be quiet
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MC @mchampagnie.bsky.social · Dec 9
What would Roland Barthes say about LLMs?
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#EduSkyAI #AI #EdUSky #LLMs #LitTheory
What does ‘genesis’ mean in the new AI age? A live streamed Barthesian chat about LLMs. .pdf
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This gets exponentially more threatening if the author is known for a specific style/world building that could easily repeated/extended with LLMs. "Discworld", "Harry Potter", "Game of Thrones" as prominent examples.

Those authors need the fiction of originality, that is what sells.

Related ->
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 21d
📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can be the product of a system.

In BIG FICTION, Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues books are shaped by a larger system: agents, editors, marketers & others whose decisions shape the page.

🎧Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big...
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August 30, 2026 at 3:32 AM
mchampagnie.bsky.social
🥱Stop howling about AI.

Adapt. Or don’t.

Whatever: make a choice.

If you don’t want to use it, don’t. All cool, well done you.👏

If you are using it, great. You can stop bragging now. We get it. 👍

Moving on…
August 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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In our demand for human authorial purity is Pangram the one drop adjudicator now?
AI monitoring: a mirror of ethnic monitoring?
Towards a post-AI medium.
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July 26, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
I thought it might be an idea to introduce a little historical context into the Iran conversation. Thanks to Yasi for this series of which I will feature all three parts. This is part one. 🎥 TikTok ...
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March 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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I try to avoid politics on social media but this - clear and calm - deserves to be amplified:

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Trump sharing racist image of Obamas shows something has changed
The dehumanisation of black people in this way is a trope dating back hundreds of years. It's something which had, for many years, been confined to the dustbin of history, while still very much a part...
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February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Towards a Technocritical Literary Theory open.substack.com/pub/madelein...
We need a new literary theory to deploy in the reading of text which is written either about, or by and with, technology.
December 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Ongoing exploration of the intersection between #AI, #multiraciality and #sci-fi at bit.ly/4qFVO9e Is it weird? What isn’t? 👽👾🧜🏼‍♀️
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
mchampagnie.bsky.social
Ongoing exploration of the intersection of #sci-fi, #multiraciality and #AI at madeleinechampagnie.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... Weird? Yep. But what isn't? 👽 👾 🧜
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Pips #74 Hard 🔴
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Total brag tbh.
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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How to be a Hybrid and Rule the AI-lien Earth
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How to be a Hybrid and Rule the AI-lien Earth
Part 1. How it Began
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October 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
mchampagnie.bsky.social
Knowledge archaeology could be a useful skill in the future. #AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI

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A student in silhouette holds a spade above ground. Below the earth we can see code, books and the word “knowledge”. Sepia tones
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
mchampagnie.bsky.social
Convinced that the latest release of #covid, Stratus XFG with its upgrade version XFG.3 comes from Silicon Valley as it’s giving everyone vocal frrryyyyy. I like the branding, but the free version does have some latency issues: takes a while to shut down ☣️ #Stratus #bug #virus
July 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A rant, but come ON! #AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI
Move fast and break education
Around 2013 it became apparent to me that state education in the UK was broken: the ship was sinking.
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May 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Contemplating paying for either Claude or Chat. Anyone have any thoughts on which one?! #AI #ClaudeAI #ChatGPT @mikekentz.bsky.social @emollick.bsky.social @the-it-girl.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @timohannay.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI
AI: the culture terminator?
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” so the saying goes.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God. #PopeFrancis
I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God.
April 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Love this
Morten Moorland’s Times Cartoon 22 April 25, depicting the entrance of Pope Francis by the shining gates of heaven with angels blasting trumpets for his arrival. We see his back as he sidesteps the ostentation of the main entrance to enter by a side door, marked, oppositely, “Service Entrance”.
April 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Exam essays: only the semblance of truth.
Is it time to deprioritise written output?
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April 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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@anarchistmom.bsky.social very interesting convo between you & ChatGPT on Substackz. Multimodal assessment is surely the way forward now…
April 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Socratic dialogue in secondary schools open.substack.com/pub/madelein...
#EduSky #AI #SocraticDialogue #EduSkyAI
Socratic dialogue in secondary school
As an antidote & mitigation for AI, tech, screens and the like we have been running Socratic dialogue lessons in my 11-18 school.
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March 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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GOOD GRIEF. The plot of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ by Sinclair Lewis, NY, 1935, is basically describing USA 2025. Someone, please, get Netflix onto this! #dystopia #MAGA 😳😳😳 @netflix.com @drnjwaddell.bsky.social @orwellfdn.bsky.social
In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year. Portraying himself as a champion of "the forgotten man" and "traditional" American values, Windrip defeats incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, and then beats his Republican opponent, Senator Walt Trowbridge, in the November election. Having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures to reorganize the government, Windrip outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the "Minute Men" (named after the Revolutionary War militias of the same name), who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of a corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of Congress, which draws the ire of many citizens as well as the legislators themselves. The Minute Men respond to protests harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets. In addition to these actions, Windrip's administration, known as the Corpo government, curtails women's and minority rights, and eliminates individual states by subdividing the country into administrative sectors. The government of these sectors is managed by Corpo authorities, usually prominent businessmen or Minute Men officers. Those accused of crimes against the government appear before kangaroo courts presided over by military judges. A majority of Americans approve of these dictatorial measures, seeing them as painful but necessary steps to restore American power.
March 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
mchampagnie.bsky.social
Move from debate to dialogue. Binaries in AI pedagogy ignore a deeper proposition. #Edusky #EduSkyAI #AI
Unexplainably transparent AI discussing with a teacher in a classroom
February 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Some sobering stats and facts here arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17980
February 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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@the-it-girl.bsky.social hey hi! I’m on here too! Great to meet you (and be filmed !) geeking out over Brisk and sci-fi at BETT😬👽👾
January 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM