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only looks good in memory | makes weird collage-composite images from various sources on my phone | art/photo/video-games/film/leftist/comedy | listen to https://www.transmissionsfromjonestown.com

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Dale Baker@dalbak.bsky.social · 5d ago

Write well enough to know what's good writing without actually doing the writing themselves to develop the knowledge to assess good writing. Right. That's fucked up. Just like "have students assess whether AI gave them accurate info" about something when students don't know the topic. Also....

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.

Jenny Maxwell, general manager for education at Superhuman, the A.I. company that makes the popular writing app Grammarly, told me that we are living through a “burn it down” moment for teaching and learning. Educators who try to withhold A.I. writing tools are essentially announcing to their students — “consumers,” she called them — that their coursework is irrelevant to the job market. She did acknowledge that some basic, human writing skills remain valuable. Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject, she said. Ms. Maxwell also insisted that creativity in writing would persist, because people would still want to express their personal voice and style. To that end, companies like Grammarly, Google and OpenAI are creating so-called Socratic versions of their chatbots, sold to schools as writing helpers that will guide students through assignments without doing the work for them.
Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 6d ago

another Black person was lynched this time in Raleigh amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Police investigating man’s death in downtown Raleigh as a suicide

A Black man was found hanging from a tree in downtown. Raleigh police, addressing online rumors, say they do not suspect foul play.

amp.newsobserver.com

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2w ago

a young Black woman was found dead hanging from a tree in Mississippi www.mississippifreepress.org/tasia-fortun...

Gary Alexander@garyalexander.bsky.social · last wk.

The utility of Luigi Mangione isn't that he put a stop to anything it's that he exposed that almost the entire country, regardless of politics, understands the concept of social murder. With three key exceptions of course: politicians, columnists, and posters who think they're on The West Wing.

mara@maraganger.bsky.social · last wk.

there's no feasible way to control how someone understands ; there will and always will be people who come out of my vids and go "wow niche hidden gem aesthetics" but i wish there was a way to understand what causes that disconnect between heart and brain in some

jimprov@jimprov.sendusyourmoney.com · last wk.

kid working the putt-putt had to be half my age and said, with zero irony upon seeing my shirt, "woah, that's awesome! the worst part of Disney buying The Simpsons was that Homer isn't allowed to strangle Bart any more."

@roryblank.bsky.social shirt with Bart Simpson doing a skateboard trick while decapitated and saying important information about commodification
Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · last wk.

Learning that Chuck Schumer's daughter is a lobbyist for Amazon is a good reminder that as annoying as nepo babies becoming artists can be they can always do worse things with their wild and precious lives

Playboy@playboy.com · last wk.

“If we can get a girl whose face reads passive, chill, feminine… and then we hit them with the fucking horseshit,” a course leader says (referring to sexual content), “that’s great because [the customer] is getting psychologically confused.” Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

An AI model mock up from the course that shows a woman in pigtails.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 2w ago

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

aiddata.org

Luigi, Waluigi, Troisluigi@sirilyan.com · 2w ago

"You have made a grave mistake tangling with people whose hobby consists entirely of challenges that are engineered to be winnable. For, you see, every time we have taken on these challenges that are engineered to be winnable... we have won. Think about it."