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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1h

The list of terrible things genAI has either caused or exacerbated is 10 miles long and yet every day more and more educators and administrators are deciding none of it matters because genAI is mildly convenient for them personally. Retconing learning objectives to find an excuse to use genAI.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 19h

Relevant today, as always.

Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?

Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 2h

Without hesitation, my number one pick. I've never laughed so hard while reading

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 6h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, you're still doing agentic? Get out of the way, grandpa. Innovators are switching to fusion computing.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5h

And to some extent gets the causal direction exactly backwards - I say dumb things on the Internet to fill the hole in my soul left because I can't just talk to the other autodidactic strangers on the bus up 82nd anymore

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 16h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 8h

Standards-based "college and career readiness" and STEM seem to be the only policy frameworks schools/teachers are allowed to work within. The takeover is so thorough, Ohio has even rebranded their Department of Education *and the Workforce*.

Who needs literature at work, anyway?

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 6h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 7h

This is bizarre. What do folks think research is? Exploring a new idea, by reading ~100 articles in chronological order and discovering the holes in their reasoning, is actually really fun IF you like the subject and doing research. (And if you don't, that's ok, it's just not your career path.)

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8h

People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.

It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

This is, of course, only the beginning.
Neither OpenAI nor Meta care what kind of damage their tech will do as long as they get clicks and shares.

David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6h

Every Discourse on this site is evidence of how it's not good to treat K-12 history education the way this country has.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7h

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 9h

I was already depressed that Business is the top major in the US and this….does not help.

School as work in miniature is just so….impoverished.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 9h

Even more annoying is that the original poster is using the LLM to “wade through a mountain of papers for a systemic review”. Which means feeding a lot of academic material into the plagiarism machine that always lies, without the consent of the authors.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

It makes everyone an idiot

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Anytime someone tells me they learned something using an LLM, I want to yell "THAT'S NOT LEARNING" and then run around flapping my arms

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 9h

his company has said if people had property rights to the textual and visual work they created his company would cease to exist

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9h

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 9h

the college board's not a progressive organization

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 10h

I've proctored dozens of AP and SAT tests at my school and never earned a single dime for any of it.

They profit off an army of teachers providing them free labor.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Learning about "prompt engineering" by asking the bot how to prompt

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

Prepping for Halloween. We never get any kids at the house (because we live out of town at the end of a long driveway) but kids show up at the church for trick or treat, so we'll be ready. And indeed we are the Full-Sized Candy Bar People because we can be, and if you can, why wouldn't you.

Boxes of candy bars, M&Ms, Skittles, and Starbursts

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15h

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Even more crazy when you look at the OP's feed and learn they added this to their prompts because they asked the LLM how to get better results and this is what it said

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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