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Derek Bruff

@derekbruff.bsky.social

Educator, author, consultant. Associate director at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-author of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast. Birder.

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Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

dame@dame.is · 5d ago

jesus this hank green ai drama is so sad and bleak, the dude is using AI in extremely sane and safe and reasonable ways, and so many of his fans are just on a purity crusade over it here’s a recent reddit post and hank’s reply

Reddit post from r/nerdfighters by u/Zuraxi posted 4 hours ago. Title: "Hank's use of AI for his new book" with a tag "Hank response in comments". The post reads: "Something that Hank has omitted from his response to the critique of his AI use, and that many others do not seem to be aware of, is that on the initial upload of last week's Delete This podcast he admitted to using an LLM to merge two chapters of his book together. Regardless of his use of it to "research," using it in a way that directly affects his writing is extremely concerning to me and makes me much less likely to read his book. It is very difficult to use LLMs for editing and it not affecting the writing, as the outputs and suggestions will be in "AI voice." It is even more concerning to me that he chose to cut this detail out of the final upload." Post has 99 upvotes, 98 comments, and share/award buttons below.Reddit post by ecogeek, posted 4 hours ago in r/Hank - President of Space. The post reads: "Trust me, this book is 100% human typing. I have been typing for so long. I asked an LLM for advice on the merge and talked through some various options before deciding how I wanted to do it. Maybe I shouldn't've done that, but I didn't say, like "Please turn these two chapters into one chapter." I cut it out of the final episode (if I remember correctly) because Katherine and I ended up having a somewhat tense conversation about me working so much on Smush and 4x3. Or maybe I cut it out because I thought it sounded bad and was afraid people would clip it." Post has 461 upvotes.
dame@dame.is · 5d ago

it’s worse than i thought… Hank’s audience merely heard him use a phrase in a video they thought *sounded* like AI, but it was just him adlibbing after viewers pointed it out, he clarified it wasn’t an AI line, but explained that he does use AI in the research process! then the pile on begin bleak

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 7d ago

A year ago, I wrote about the court case that decided AI companies were off the hook for copyright vios for any books they legally bought, scanned and set on fire. Not defending Anthropic, but let’s be real: copyright law is to blame for this weirdness. www.techpolicy.press/in-copyright...

In Copyright ‘Wins’ for Anthropic and Meta, Judges Leave Ample Room for Future Defeats

Given the case-by-case nature of fair use findings, a legal consensus in the short term is unlikely, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

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Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d ago

AI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky

Derek Bruff@derekbruff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thanks to an afternoon playing in the creek and the 12yo’s keen eye, we can add Green Heron to our yard list! That puts us at 49 species of bird spotted (or heard) in our yard—or the creek behind it.

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250 to 250@250to250.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jessica Knurick is a science communicator and nutrition scientist, specializing in chronic disease prevention. Here, Knurick details the inspiring life of Betty Carnes, an Arizona ornithologist who fought for smoking bans in public places after losing her friend to lung cancer. #WeAreAmerica250

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 4w ago

A huge amount of our conversation is: What should individual faculty do to patch assessment? In many cases that is legit a no-win game. Not enough of it is: how should departments and colleges be responding to revise curricula?

Derek Bruff@derekbruff.bsky.social · 4w ago

My wife’s grandparents were owners of several businesses in rural Kentucky. They’ve passed, and my wife now has some of their ledgers from the 50s. I know there are humanities scholars who study older ledgers like this, but would these from the 50s be of any scholarly interest?

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jryoung.bsky.social@jryoung.bsky.social · 4w ago

Will AI unleash a wave of creativity, or will this tech actually stifle it? On the latest Learning Curve podcast I talked with science fiction author Ted Chiang and experimental AI artist Angela Ferraiolo, who share different takes on the issue. learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...

Is AI Boosting Creativity, or Stifling It? | Learning Curve

Proponents of new AI tools say they will unleash human creativity. But some artists worry that the tools will flatten creative output. For this episode, Jeff interviews two prominent artists with diff...

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Amy Landers@amylanders.bsky.social · 4w ago

Univ of Chicago law's AI policy: "Across all 1L sections, we will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, and phones in the classroom." Hey, I heard that gasp. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era | University of Chicago Law School

OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to...

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Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · last mo.

Listening to a panel of HS students talking about various ed policy issues. On AI, one student said that sometimes he doesn't fully understand something and there's no teacher around, so he is able to prompt ChatGPT to simplify concepts in ways that are very helpful to him.