Remember when you used to just buy computers and they were useful little gadgets rather than hateful spy machines?
Neither do I, but they can be better
04.03.2026 03:24
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Remember when you used to just buy computers and they were useful little gadgets rather than hateful spy machines?
Neither do I, but they can be better
They recommend that primary school children have their own working phones??
They seem extra fun this month!
Because they're more focused on making sure they kill people than making sure they don't kill people.
The collection of productivity software that a person uses.
"We'll keep control, but we'll keep it here at the top, where it belongs."
Hugh Thompson Jr. and Stanislav Petrov have no place in the computational war machine.
Every time they say "distraction," they mean, "not my priority," but they know how horrible it sounds to say that about attacking people. It's cover for not caring about other people as much as they know they should.
But do they use brain science???
Being married to the president should not be a job.
Good news! The Ontario Science Center can now serve as a habitat for giant hamsters.
Interviewing for my current job, they mentioned the importance of "teaching students to use [LLM chatbots] ethically." I said, "If it's even possible to use them ethically." A beat of silence, and the conversation moved on. To all the "pragmatists", critical refusal is a very practical strategy.
Years ago, I sat in a classroom and listened to this "AI researcher" justify the position that girls aren't as good as math as boys are. When I argued back, he blustered and changed the subject. If you'd asked me to guess which one of my professors was in the Epstein Files, it'd have been him.
I had women at the university warn me about him when I was there. Not everyone thought it was just an entertaining shtick.
Are you attending this year?
cant.stop.laughing
What does this mean??? What are Layman's behavioral expectations of children who have gone through massive trauma?
I now think I want to teach "computer humanities." Unfortunately, I'm probably not qualified, but it does sound like a lot of fun.
He was really awful in person. And women at the university (professors, TA's) would warn us about him. Looking back, it's so awful we have to have a secret red flag network, but no one felt like they could do anything about it. We just kind of accepted it as the way it had to be.
CSTA will be interesting this summer, for sure.
14% of staff laid off, complete pivot to "AI", key staff leaving. Comments on the CS Educators Facebook page very critical of the organization.
This does not come as a surprise to me. The main conference is an ed tech trade show designed to showcase corporate products to educators. This feels very on brand for the ISTE I've known for years.
I have a wild idea that maybe it's a big publicity stunt, doesn't work at all, but is intended to get lots of attention so its creator can build up a base for getting investor funding for whatever. This is amazing free publicity for this person.
It's so beautiful! I wish I were in the UK to come see it. We're still looking at wearable computing this year, but I think we have to hold off on the embroidery machine until next year.
Awesome! Where can teachers sign up to participate in this interactive, long-form advertisement for Google's new product line? And is there a badge we can use as a Google ad in our email signatures, or are we just expected to promote the products to our students?
“Every few years, the tech industry introduces a new kind of product, then prods schools to teach millions of students how to use it.“
And we fall for it every time.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
The entire premise is that it's better to have machines process and generate text than it is to create a society in which people can communicate with and support each other. It's a vision of the future that eschews and obviates human connection.
Women can't be brilliant because we're too focused on how we look. Meanwhile, men are smashing themselves in the face with hammers as DIY plastic surgery. I guess that's just creative problem solving to big brains like Roger Schank and Jeffrey Epstein.
That graphic really 🎯
I hope that one day I will love something or someone as passionately and intensely as Slashdot's theodp hates Code(dot)org.
