I was on campus this evening (teaching the first session of my 4-week mindfulness class) and the sunset behind Rush Rhees (the library where my office is) was STUNNING. (This is straight out of camera, no editing at all, and it really did look just like this!)
I was on campus this evening (teaching the first session of my 4-week mindfulness class) and the sunset behind Rush Rhees (the library where my office is) was STUNNING. (This is straight out of camera, no editing at all, and it really did look just like this!)
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
Professors at some colleges have been straight up racist, and/ or sexual harassed students and kept their jobs.
âI wasnât fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.â
Pennsylvaniaâs Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
Not that this is surprising, but teaching 3 classes and then doing an invited talk + discussion from 4:30-7:30pm has turned me into a puddle of exhaustion. I think the talk went well?
and in the process, only big tech and AI vendors profit
'In some cases, âinstitutional plagiarism checkers seem to be playing both sides of the marketâ, with some large edtech firms providing both a âpremium AIâŚto rephrase AI generated or normally plagiarised work so that it can avoid detectionâ and a plagiarism detector.' The squalor that is Edtech.
Essay mills pivoting to offering low-cost services to avoid plagiarism checks
The lesson of Y2K, which badly failed with COVID, is that successfully anticipating and heading off a serious crisis means people insisting it was never a problem and stupid/wasteful to worry about. It's frustrating, and undermines efforts to preempt crises, but that's what success looks like.
I genuinely wonder if these people ever imagine what it's like to live in a failed state. They always want to overthrow governments with zero regard to the actual consequences.
A neo-Nazi Telegram channel with 13,000+ subscribers posted a lengthy screed about the arrest of the purported Terrorgram Collective leaders, using coded language to suggest that white supremacists should forcefully overthrow the U.S. government.
An analysis by ProPublica and FRONTLINE shows a surge in activity on Telegram channels aligned with the Terrorgram Collective, as allies tried to rally support for their comrades in custody and sought...
The latest issue of @criticalai-journal.bsky.socialread.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
I'm thinking about Marcellus Williams and how this system prioritizes the finality of its edicts above all else. The murder the state of Missouri plans to commit today is happening in defense of the state's right to kill without answering to the people or to reality itself.