Jesse Dukes

Thanks for keeping my feet warm, guys. Have a good time in your home state!

I'm sad to report that "Adult Undergarment Model" is a job that has been automated by AI.

(Disclosure: image created with AI)

"But Holmes, how did you deduce that the Røde company is headquartered in Australia, simply by glancing at one page on the manual?"

"Elementary Watson. You see, but you do not observe."

Flash floods, mudslides, and weak tornadoes = bad.

Snowpack = good.

A half drunk beer in the foreground, framing a tv screen showing the Brewers pitcher mid stretch, throwing to a Cubs batter

I saw things through last night. On the bright side, I discovered a great little sports bar in Mar Vista, which had this going alongside USC football. Thanks #TheField for welcoming the #cubsdiaspora.

YouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab Ep 7 Break the Teacher #shorts

"We're going to see some limited benefits, and we're going to see some harms, and then society will have to do what it does with every new technology and say 'What kind of investments do we want to make with our future'".

-Justin Reich

... is titling a post so that people click on it, despite the fact you're offering solid, but predictably straightforward advice.

I've Already Cut Everything I can Cut And Other Things You Can Say to Your Editor to Prove You're a Jackass

The writer is subtextually communicating “I think everything I’ve included in my draft is essential, I can’t come up with anything else to cut and there’s nothing you, the editor, can do that can possibly make it better. This entire process we’re preparing to embark on, this edit, is a charade."

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine Check out my podcast (with MIT) about AI and K12 education

diamondshoals.substack.com/p/the-homewo...

October 6th: Live Draft Coming Soon! On October 6th, Dukes and Bagg invite you to join us for the Season 4 Live Draft. We will tape an episode live on a video call, and you can join as our loyal live audience. Drafts are where we choo…

Save the Date! Live draft, October 6th.

Finally, some good news.

YouTube video by Upper Middlebrow Would you rather be Krabbé or Reilhan? #shorts #podcast #cycling #therider #krabbe

Would you rather be Krabbé or Reilhan?

#TheRider

We like to say that most ed tech is adopted by schools, but AI crashed the party. But, it's true that some teachers are inviting it in and they say there are ways AI can support learning.

www.teachlabpodcast.com/92

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

"I supplied everyone but the typewriter factory. I sold AI generated essays to students, AI detectors to teachers. I even sold image generators to the chuds when they were memeing on my fellow techbros. Never sold to Peter Thiel - not on any moral grounds, in those days his checks always bounced."

I would bet next week's pay that just about everything you know about world and national events you know because of traditional journalism. Even if you got it from some podcaster, Tik Tocker or Substack writer, who got it from traditional journalists.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

What if AI COULD Make an Actual Podcast? (Part 1) Would audio producers be in trouble?

I wrote this last October.

YouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab Winterset Iowa schools are all in on AI #shorts #ai #Homeworkmachine

This week on MIT's The Homework Machine, we tell the story of a school that's gone "all in" on AI, and what benefits and challenges they've encountered:

www.youtube.com/shorts/1W88k...

Ebony Woodruff Ebony Woodruff, an agricultural attorney from Chalmette, Louisiana, uses her legal expertise to combat Black land loss, a legacy of discrimination and heirs’ property issues. Inspired by her …

"Almost all the hard-earned acreage that Black Americans acquired after the Civil War has been forced from them by mob violence, bank and government discrimination, and harmful inheritance laws."

Reporting from @barryyeoman.com and John Noltner from "Still Here"

I just started listening to this podcast series, and it's very good. Timely, too.

How AI is changing my life for the better.

Florida to Key West: Remove Rainbow Crosswalks by Sept. 3 State threatens to withhold funds for any 'additional violations'

Key West has also received notice from the state that their rainbow crosswalks must go. Except these crosswalks aren't your normal crossings...

"They’re thermoplastic strips that were sealed into the pavement with heat from a propane torch."

The latest from @gwenfilosamedia.bsky.social...

Listen to the most recent episode of "The Homework Machine" called "The Duplicitous Nature of Humanity" in which teachers share stories of dealing with AI powered cheating.

bit.ly/4oBPmPo

Me: Hello company, I give you money every month. I'd like to give you more money every month for a better service. How much?

Company: You sent to the wrong email. Resubmit the same info you should shared with me to the portal.

Me: Thanks, that tells me what I need to know.

The Jagged Frontier LLMs are weird. They can perform very well and very poorly, often unpredictably, and that creates unique challenges for education.

Ethan Mollick et all coined the term "jagged technological frontier" to describe the weird and wild variation in LLM outputs. On #thehomeworkmachine, we explore what makes it jagged, and why it's a challenging tech for schools.

www.teachlabpodcast.com/the-jagged-f...

It turns out that while they broke the curse in 2016, the President actually brought it back as a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill.

YouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab "Buckle Up, Here it Comes!"

Oh, hello, finally figured out how to automatically post #theHomeworkMachine up on Youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yplW...

I mean, he can't be that smart if he left his snake hook at home and had to borrow somebody's golf club. #herpetology