Also it feels important to say there is literally no possible way to know what an editor is like *as an editor* by reading published written work by that person, which often goes through… other editors!
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Just listening to abc radio news.
Apparently the algorithm determining disability support is not working. It’s denying high level support to people that can’t breathe without assistance.
Wot. A. Surprise.
#Robodebt
Yeah, you could write a 200-line prompt for Claude to gin up a cookie cutter pol science paper for you … but what you’re describing here is research misconduct
My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
#LunarEclipse FAQ:
Q: Is it safe to look at?
A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse.
Q: Do I need a telescope?
A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up!
Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom?
A: Not at all! The news has that covered.
Yep. Humanities are so cheap to teach. In Australia, we've been subsidising STEM ed for decades. That doesn't stop management from chiding our units CONSTANTLY because, eg, we didn't quite make the 60% return they insist on...
And turn off phones that you don't want people to know about the day before and don't turn them on until the day after.
Also check which regional tests are being done first.
If you work with ppl who are sensitive to noise or in situations where a scare might be dangerous: the National Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Commonwealth AusAlert emergency warning system on July 27th at 2pm.
Put it in your calendar now with a warning reminder ten minutes prior
I was literally teaching Sara Ahmed’s work on how the whiteness of institutions is a result of a series of decisions about the allocation of resources, who to recruit, what to prioritize.
The values of an institution are most clearly indicated in their budgets.
they essentially promised him needed accommodations (editing, no mic) for his condition, and not only didn't follow through, but instead did the opposite. BBC stole the dignity of so many people that night and turned what should have been a celebration for everyone into hurt, shame, and pain
This is hilarious and now I’m kind of glad I screen recorded the site yesterday. I especially love that they deleted the “Will my professor know?” question.
Einstein AI rebranding is a textbook example of EduWashing. They change how they market it using educational language but don’t change how the product educates.
Nice article on this practice with eduapps at link. Now it is AI apps.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you're a supervisor and are using AI to write performance reviews--perhaps the most important part of the job--it's time to find a new job.
It's crucial to get every word right and keep data confidential, and predictive algorithms in the cloud cannot do that.
Cover of POROI with network diagram
🚨The new Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) special issue on Method/ologies is now live at pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/. Check it out!
SAME
My last job was at a regional uni that is mostly online asynchronous -- they're staring down the barrel of making humanities students travel across the country to do holiday intensives like the science students come in for a week of labs. They have no classrooms and no staffing
They were told what
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
In small towns, institutions carry far more weight than in cities. You meet these insane stuck up weirdos who have cemented themselves into organisations and keep any change from happening
Living in a rural city, I came to understand some people see themselves as “Old Wangaratta”, and it doesn’t matter if they’re ignorant, racist, and lacking in culture, they see themselves as “high class” because of their oversized car, their house, their links to the local footy club. Pathetic
I’ve been reading Sarah for years because of this. This approach helped animate my own doctoral studies and my approach to research questions. And what I know is there is no joy in being right if there is no justice to accompany it
Notes from a presentation on faculty & student views in an interdisciplinary 1st-year science program. One, benefits of interdisc teaching are tied to instructors feeling affirmed in and valued for disciplinarity of their perspective, incl choices to teach differently than others in the program. 1/
I knew we were kindred spirits!!
Extremely anecdotal, but as someone who teaches digitally focused writing courses, which I design pretty painstakingly so students can get by even with very barebones hardware, I’ve watched students’ laptops and tablets (if they have them) get a little older & feebler this year.
This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆
Hey so Grammarly is now basically Search Party / Ring cameras for education, enabling large-scale surveillance of both users (students) and educators alike
