[plays fanfare exactly as before] "There, you see? That's what good conducting can do." #frasier #frasiersky #music #musicsky

If you all want to practice @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's Three Steps for AI-Enhanced Research, and the #SIFTMethod, there are two resources that I can recommend: 1. Search Research blog by Dan Russell 2. The Bellingcat challenge site

Hello all! Do you remember the Pedagogical Promptbook? Well, now I am looking for learners of all ages and types to test out the Project-Based Learning custom bot OR the actual prompt in whatever AI tool they wish.

Climb to the sun. Your frozen boughs Shimmer across the sky. Your work is done. Decades digging roots Deep In unforgiving soil. Shine on, wild one. Your legacy: A forest Of grit and grace. #ImageAndVerse #Stunday #EastCoastKin #nature #poetry #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #photo

#Messiaen is like the #Faulkner or the Wes Anderson of #organ music.

..live for now.. —for creative. artistic. thinking. philosophical minds—anyone 'alive' seeking.. ©️dww #thenow #quotes #thoughts #zen #philosophy #spirituality #writesky #nature #art #substack #music #micro #bluesky #humansofbluesky #blogger #life #writingcommunity #photography #artist #mystical

Thrilled to be SHORTLISTED for @walklistencreate.org's WALKING IN THE DARK competition supporting the great 'Women Walking, the City, at Night' cause. My thanks to judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West. Shortlist below. My poem Devon Gothic in the thread #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

I had an absolutely enlightening experience at the Online Learning Consortium Accelerate 2025 Conference! It paired perfectly with the Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) 2025 International Convention that I went to in October. oercommons.org/courseware/l...

Come see me in half an hour as I keynote the #AISummit at the @onlinelearningconsortium.org Accelerate 2025 Conference! Southern Hemisphere 2!

Educators/Librarians: We are responsible to teach students/the public to be critical, literate, and prepared to question and propose, to love and be loved, to BRING THE HUMAN to Human-AI Interactions. Are you earnestly prepared? reedhepler.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

#vss365 #transport The medium of transport will be immediate; a wish upon a star fully outfitted without your bike or car.

C5 F#4 F4 E4 D#4 D4 [Six Se-e-ve-e-en] Incidentally, that is SIX tones ;)

Welcome to the Poetry Feed

Right after I graduated (May 2022) IU started doing crazy stuff like this... I have never set foot on campus (I was completely online), and yet I am embarrassed by this.

BDG feature: Why Tangut Studies Matters: Thoughts About a Newly Thriving Field from Tangutologist Zhouyang Ma 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/ebzsx5bd #Buddhism #Vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistHistory #BuddhistStudies #ChineseHistory #TangutHistory #Tibetology

Some coverage of our recent work in Remote touch in humans …….✋ www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-n...

What emotion has been the hardest for you to sit with lately — and what happens when you stop fighting it? Share below. Your answer might help someone else breathe easier today. #TheModernTaoist #DaoAnanda #Mindfulness #Taoism

Can you get there reading only recent YA fiction? I don’t know. I don’t think that’ll help you get better at Brontë or Shakespeare or Paul Muldoon. I think a teacher’s job is at least in part to put challenges in the students’ paths. It helps if the teacher enjoys (and gets) the hard stuff too. (/7)

One of the things I wind up telling college students (bear with me) is that although they are fluent readers of English, their reading skills have not stopped improving. If they keep reading things that challenge them, they will be better readers from year to year. Part of what improves is … (1/7)

A quite energetic conversation going on LI about copyright, AI, #stablediffusion, etc. Is it the responsibility of the tool or the user? www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ma...

Which of the following is the most concerning? I have 70 hours of Gregorian Chant and the vast majority of FRASIER on my phone. I start listening to Christmas music on August 31st at 10 a.m. I have an antisocial comm style, too many !s and ...s I am not warm at all, but I am competent (mean?).

If they can do it to Shakespeare... I remember reading about a production of Zauberfloete in which QotN was Harriet Tubman, Sarastro was a slave owner, etc., to subvert the original (sexist, racist) messages of the opera. But people didn't quite get it and got mad, understandably.

I think I'm a moderate opera lover. But then again, I CHOSE to turn on the Met when I got back from a conference in my hotel room and watched Barber of Seville for 3 hours, so maybe not This ticks off all my boxes: music, history, public interpretation, religion (I would bet) My bday is Monday ;)

You know this, but I just want to say as a straight white man that the most terrifyingly competent people I have ever met have been overwhelmingly women. They are all over the place, feeling like imposters while having amassed tremendous expertise. I see it over and over.

GREAT post by @elissamalespina.bsky.social on new AI tools that supercharge censorship. The question is not, "What CAN AI make a mess of?" It's, "What CAN'T AI make a mess of?" #AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

No, but they have analogous attributes and relationships that are just as complex (if not more!).

Go Abby! 🎉

Crick and Watston’s work was incredible Watson was an utter prick Rosalind Franklin’s work was fundamental to theirs Franklin was treated poorly They didn’t steal her work Is that so complex it has to be reduced to ‘they nicked her work’?

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I rely on it for work across the state (just how things are here) and whenever I post something that is just a normal "here's this event" or "I liked this conference session" or "we all need to focus more on X instead of vanity metrics" it blows people's minds.

“And people did this, just like you, you and me... it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race...” Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

This is the specialized (for AI training) model/process for Project-Based Learning that Cathy Leavitt and I designed for use in the NATO-AECT D&D Competition. This can be generalizable if one replaces the header with "Project-Based Learning' and replaces "LLM" with "technology," or just removes it.

*75 years and computers are barely more "intelligent" than they were in 1950.

Some thoughts: A lot of people are in a dither about "artificial intelligence (genAI AND predictive) was meant for researchers, particularly in the field of medicine to model the mind, it was not meant for education/tutoring, etc.!" www.linkedin.com/posts/reed-h...

The Buddha gave a wealth of profound teachings. But underlying them all were the four noble truths: 1. There is suffering. 2. There is a cause of suffering. 3. There is an end to suffering. 4. The way out is the eightfold path. Learn more at the link below.

Right now, Arcayürek and Martineau perform two #Schumanns in #Madrid www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch

Meanwhile at my institution in the US, I have been told it's a firm "no" in quest to get a basic course on info lit going. It used to be required. Now it's not even an option.

This seems silly. As far as I can ascertain the Italian company has no claim to the copyright as they never acquired it, and any claim of abandonment is spurious at best, as it was never surrendered. There’s a clear lineage and they are not part of it.

The UK High Court has just upheld Stability AI's claims by acknowledging a UK version of "fair use" (which is a US construct) by using the idea of "transformativeness," though not by that name, to say that training a model using copyrighted works (Getty Images) is not making a duplicate copy.

Wrapping up a 200+ page analysis, the High Court observes that while its decision may prove "historic," it's also limited. Bottom line, however, @StabilityAI.com wins: a model, even when its weights are informed by ©d works, is NOT itself an infringing copy...

BREAKING IN THE UK: @GettyImages.com, @MLex.com reports, has lost its remaining © claims v @StabilityAI.com in Britain's High Court. Fair Use, a US construct, doesn't apply but the idea of "transformativeness" may de facto figure in the ruling, though not by that name or by statute...🧵⏬...

Common Crawl is open source, abides by fair use principles and "no robots," and has maintained its open access data archive since 2008. Everyone knew this. They have awards for this If people understood LLMs, they would understand that TRAINING (NOT prompting) with copyrighted materials is fair use

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

A program adjusting its weights by looking at something is also arguably not infringement, but a fair use.

If Ye Love Me Composer: Thomas Tallis Allyson Clare, Rose Hegele, sopranos; Brian Mark, tenor; Seth Gilman, baritone Recorded 2025 www.tumblr.com/sethsings/79...

In the words of @dr-frasier-crane.bsky.social, "I will CHOKE on another platitude!"

I'm talking about paraphrase in class this week and was curious to know how ChatGPT would fare creating a lesson similar to the one I'm actually using (that I made without AI). I asked for a passage from a real article and then a good paraphrase. It did give me a passage. But the rest? Not great. /1

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

I finished last in my 1st triathlon. Dead last. I ran the last bit with the steward who was making sure no one was stranded on the course. He peeled off near the finish so I could experience, alone, the amazing cheers (from a big crowd of people) that went up for the final finisher. I cried.