Mary Rice
@digitalliterate.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Literacy; Digital Literacies Scholar; Academic Journal Editor
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Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages | The Verge share.google/tFiz2i2UJeJ7...
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages | The Verge share.google/tFiz2i2UJeJ7...
If there is no way to say “no” it is not a consent situation. There is no agency.
Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics
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Data Walks Reveal Residents' Mixed Feelings on Privacy
How do Long Beach residents feel about data collection in their city? Gwen Shaffer's data walks reveal surprising insights.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If there is no way to say “no” it is not a consent situation. There is no agency.
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This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning.
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ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning.
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The actual capacities matter less than management’s perception or hope that your job can be done artificially.
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The actual capacities matter less than management’s perception or hope that your job can be done artificially.
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EXPLOSIVE: The late President George H.W. Bush told a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrophysicist Eric Davis claimed Bush confirmed details of contact between the military and an alien creature.
President George HW Bush ‘knew’ of 1964 alien contact with humans in New Mexico: documentary
Watershed new UFO documentary "The Age of Disclosure" released to Amazon on Friday with dozens of former government officials detailing direct knowledge of alien bodies, crafts, and secret government ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
EXPLOSIVE: The late President George H.W. Bush told a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrophysicist Eric Davis claimed Bush confirmed details of contact between the military and an alien creature.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom
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Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles
A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom
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The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script
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November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
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Here is the video presentation I made for the University Council of Educational Administrators about "Going Virtual" for Snow Days. youtu.be/j2RY0iOCEls
Going Online: School Leadership During Asynchronous Learning Days
YouTube video by Mary F. Rice
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November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Here is the video presentation I made for the University Council of Educational Administrators about "Going Virtual" for Snow Days. youtu.be/j2RY0iOCEls
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Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising
David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.
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David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.
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Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising
Experts say the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising
David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.
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David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.
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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
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‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
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November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
He may not have realized that Mary Shelley was saying modern Prometheus’ were selfish greedy emotionally vacuous unhinged unethical grave robbing misanthropic nihilists. With god complexes.
Literally the subtitle to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
He may not have realized that Mary Shelley was saying modern Prometheus’ were selfish greedy emotionally vacuous unhinged unethical grave robbing misanthropic nihilists. With god complexes.
I have done academic job interviews in a hotel room with panels of folks while sitting near a bed. In 2017.
Yes!! I never experienced this, but friends did and women professors warned us— especially about the beds.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have done academic job interviews in a hotel room with panels of folks while sitting near a bed. In 2017.
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Ground Water Contamination of Pueblo Water by a lab facility. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ground Water Contamination of Pueblo Water by a lab facility. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
If children read books they might have thoughts…
there are too few arguments out there about why 10th graders ought to read literature at all
if no particular books matter, why bother?
if no particular books matter, why bother?
Many districts in my area are going AP seminar (for all) in place of English 10 and not one book will be read. I teach elective AP seminar and there is no time for books. Some I have talked to mentioned maybe one short novella. It’s depressing. I teach 5-7 books with my 10th graders.
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
If children read books they might have thoughts…
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According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.
According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.
According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.
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A BILLION CHILDREN have died past 75 years.
Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.
Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A BILLION CHILDREN have died past 75 years.
Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.
Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.
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“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“
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The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
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November 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“
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The Scarlet Letter was not written for children at all, but I support the idea being advanced here.
one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The Scarlet Letter was not written for children at all, but I support the idea being advanced here.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
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October 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS
Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS