Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

There’s like seven different dudes in that pic. Dude is the Mad Libs of dudes.

"Generate an image of a person unsure of whether they're Kid Rock, Ron Weasley, or Sherlock Holmes. It doesn't matter whether or not it looks real."

The authors look to be electrical engineers.

Ben Shapiro is coming to Canada (soon!) as part of a conference “against antizionism.” The depth of human cruelty required to put on this kind of conference is pretty incredible. Particularly when you contrast it against the eyewitness accounts of those living through Israel's genocide in Gaza:

either way it matches expectations

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thats AI surely

submitted my grades for my last class today and I might have cried a little bit This is not sustainable, at all.

9/16 and 13mm interchangeable in a pinch

per square inch, thats at least a ten thousand grrrrrr per unit. Very impressive.

James Cameron’s Avatar: shallow plot, uninteresting characters, ableist and racist, and it ushered in a 3D movement that’s ruined many a movie for me. Re the racism: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

If you want to know whether 'AI' (or indeed, your mate down the pub) is giving you the right answer, you need to know the right answer yourself. Once you rely on trust, you cede control to unaccountable algorithms run by corporations uninterested in your wellbeing but keen to sell you product.

The goal of those at the helm of large AI corporations is a kind of inversion where the machine becomes indispensable while we humans are the mere tools.

If it worked properly they'd not have to invest so much money trying to sell it...

Everything else aside (and that’s a big everything) isn’t one of the selling points of this shit that it’s easy to use? We don’t spend years teaching children how to operate cell phones, so why do it with AI? Why can’t they just pick it up on the job later?

the way I knew who this was

“infinitely patient and scalable low-level tutor” these kinds of people seem to have no idea what learning and teaching actually entail.

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

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Socket wrench literacy > (and more legit than) “AI literacy”

Reading this now!

I sometimes wonder if I should be alarmed that all the things that I’m working on with students seem to be doing with pain and death and then I look back at the past five years and yes it’s my way of processing things I guess

if AI is eliminating all the entry-level professional jobs why do kids need it? they're just gonna be ditch diggers in our brave new world.

Also the best/worst example of how the meaning and use of "literacy" has completely broken containment. Some "literacies"-in-a-broader-sense are useful concepts (e.g., media literacy), but "AI literacy" is more WTF nonsense the longer you stare at it.

how do you ever justify excluding that?

See this article on Israeli Defense Forces and their targeted assassinations of journalists: cpj.org/special-repo...

AI is "just a tool" but also "every child on the planet must be forced to learn to prompt (train) the machines and edit its output and that is the future of education" do not make sense. If it is "just a tool," we do not have to repurpose the entire architecture, goals, of education.

oh but it gets better. that guy? will probably be this Thiel protégée blog.ucs.org/julian-reyes...

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

Students need to learn critical thinking, full stop. Not just to "critically interpret outputs." We are narrowing and tailoring what an education means to the asinine greedy demands of the tech industry, who just want us to keep using their products, ffs.

Come on now, give us a trigger warning

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"I never imagined at my age I would be choosing between paying rent, buying food and getting my medication. I cut back everything I can, but these rent hikes are more than I can bear." A heartbreaking and enraging story:

If at all you feel you’ve been bitten by a snake.... – go to the hospital. The longer you delay, the riskier it is. And in Kerala, there is no antivenom shortage...In Kerala, the biggest problem is the fear" www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/sensa...

Extra telling because he apparently “named” his version of Claude as Claudia. “Oh this object that exists to agree with and flatter me is also feminine in my mind, what a coincidence.” Hmm, okay, sure.

Indians are worried about surviving this fascist regime bro

I remember so many conversations with American academics, random people irl and on social media, telling them this since around 2015? And every time they reassured me that akshually what happened in India would never happen in the US. Too many institutional protections in the US, apparently.

Reminder to Americans that many knowledgeable about both point to Modi's India as the model Trump's America could follow more than some of the other comparisons thrown around

You can help the Jamil family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless, right now by sharing & donating. The father needs urgent surgery for a shrapnel injury, the mother has a heart valve condition. They have 5 children they're struggling to feed:

Om Jameel:"I need £200 to buy injections to treat my shoulder inflammation&I have a heart valve prolapse.At the same time, my5 kids are hungry&crying. I can't cook for them,&my husband was injured in the Gaza war. My kids& I are dying. Please donate, even if it's just £25" chuffed.org/project/lobnah

I’m so scared for India. Where will all this hate and religious fundamentalism and violence end?

Amazing how you can do that if you just disenfranchise voters

The BJP's getting an early start on the mob violence, of course, after promising a 'violence free' Bengal if they come to power.

The BJP's leading margins in Bengal are quite narrow, which tells you handy that 10% of the electorate that the Election Commission deleted for them is.

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No, I did not forget to do the dishes; I was opening up a space for new forms of life within the panopticon of the kitchen counter

WIFE: remember the time you talked shit about that restaurant that has now become one of our favorite, most reliable dinner options? ME: oh you mean the time that we dialectically overcame a past era of contradictions through protracted struggle?