Ok I'll fess up - I'm too young to have ever lived in a time before email...how did people's workdays look back then? Did you have to walk over to someone to ask them for things?? Perhaps that was a necessary barrier to So. Many. Tasks 🙀
rip to ASU freshman composition (honors, but still) being the greatest writing class of my life. Just full yikes.
“…ASU plans to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing help to students in one of its largest classes, Freshman Composition.” 🫠
It comes as schools at all levels grapple with whether and how to embrace generative AI.
Thoughts during mandatory annual cybersecurity training: Ransomware would be super effective against PhD candidates. I'd probably do *anything* if someone ransomed my dissertation data... Then I remembered: oh wait we're poor. 💁♀️
(I want to make a joke about how this is great news for us budding scholars, to know we could just publish absolute fake data...but they're toppling Harvard presidents now so I'll [kind of] hold my tongue)
American Sociological Review had replication packages for 20% of quant papers in 2023.
Four complete replication packages for 20 quantitative data analysis articles. Ten of the 20 quantitative papers provide nothing.
My experience: "California, Oregon, Washington....oh no :o" My partner: "*looks at map* Nah, I don't know it." Me: "Look again." Partner: "*looks at map for a while* ...I am concerned that Ohio isn't touching Michigan...." 🤣 I'm guessing we Americans have some anchor points.
Unfortunately "complain on social media until someone high-up enough in the company listens" is basically the entirety of Google's customer support process
I'm messaging old coworkers to see if anyone knows anyone useful. I mean, it doesn't help all the people who *don't* have a platform/audience to call this shitty stuff out, but maybe it'll help 1 person....
Memories :) but to me the more important part was Right to be forgotten 👌