Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
Back to the grind today and the teachers are outside!
udm14.com: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!)
udm14.com
I haven’t had one for my ENTIRE career - but I’ve heard from a lot of people that now that I’m finishing my degree, I need to rethink that. I like your tip about not having it on my phone!
Hey hey! Enough people have been after me to get a LinkedIn, so I’m doing it! Any professional social networking tips I should know about?
It's Christmas shopping time and people are looking for books for kids and teens, so let me do a little station ID and talk about what I do. Quotes and RS appreciated
I am Jeremy Whitley, a queer writer of comics and books from Durham, NC.
Here are books of mine you can support now!
HEY YOU
wanna hear me talk The Matrix and all its transy goodness with these exceptionally kind, thoughtful, curious, wonderful people?
for two hours?
YOU’RE IN LUCK
was truly such a delight to be on and get to talk about how important this film is to the trans community, and why 🩷
… it’s a “feastival” sir. I feel like that’s important.
We are sorry, this week's episode is running late due to...look, there's a lot of reasons but mostly we're sick and everything is on fire.
Look, we're talking about Final Destination so let's just say death didn't want the podcast to come out on time so it hit us with logs. Germ logs.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I just finished season 1 of Deadloch and I love it! Where… uh… where’s season 2
I’m also in NC. I guess maybe they figure he’s traveling north??
Same.
I’m so sorry to hear that.
Agreed. My immediate thought was “ummm do they mean Torvald?!” It must be the English teacher in me.
lol. I feel old.
The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country.
Funny how that works.
I've seen several people refer to AI-resisters as having their heads in the sand over the last few days. But resisting doesn't mean the same thing as ignoring something. On the contrary, resisting means engaging with research, parsing information, offering critique, and making informed choices.
But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in
with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
Some guy with an AI icon tried to tell me that horror films aren’t political, further proof that AI rots your brain.
A park bench at a bus stop, next to a mostly full bottle of sriracha and a bottle of almond malk.
Um. @jeremywhitley.bsky.social and I found these abandoned bottles of sriracha and malk… and I have a few questions - the primary one being “is this how Boise gets down?”
Had an amazing first day of #BCAF with all the @proghorrorpod.bsky.social crew in the same place for the first time! It's me, @aliciawhitley.bsky.social @benkahncomics.bsky.social @megamoth.bsky.social and our (table) Neighbor Totoro!
I enjoy yelling “Skyrizi” like Jay Z shouting out a collaborator.
Best of luck! Our flight was cancelled out of DFW yesterday and we are currently sat here, desperately hoping that we make it out today! 🥹
I actually really love this visual.
Thank you!
It feels like it! I have been glad to have your company, though, as I edit from a gate at DFW!
Hey there Horribles,
This week's episode featuring our discussion of The Matrix with the amazing @tillybridges.bsky.social is running a little behind because Alicia and Jeremy have been moving into their new home in the DFW airport, where they may live forever now!
We'll try to get it up soon!
I don’t care about Taylor cosplaying as an English teacher. It’s the best job in the world!
What I do care about is the silence of multi-millionaires & billionaires as actual teachers consider how to pay for groceries while praying we’re not gunned down at work or arrested for teaching books.
