Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Also everyone who ever gets impeached was legitimately elected, that's the entire point of the thing

miss the days when someone was lying and you had video to show they were lying and ppl would go “oh! they were lying”

we have always been at war with the bureau of labor statistics

I think I laughed more at the Naked Gun trailer than I have at most recent movies.

I hate that people call sequels reboots now. I hate it. I know there are far, far, far bigger problems in the world, but I still hate it.
This is not a reboot. It's a sequel.

All the way to 2008 though or just through Daly's departure in 2003

Mtv turns 44 today, thanks for 15 years of music

From Slicing Up Eyeballs FB account

I don't know James but let's boost this and get it to the right people.

That would be a cool thing I think. linkedin.com/in/jameslbel...

I don't know James but he has a LinkedIn if people are interested

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The truth is a situation where one group uses a weapon and another foregoes it will never lead to both groups agreeing to forgo it. A weapon only available to one side become infinitely more valuable, not less.

The funny thing is it's finally time for some (actual) game theory

Oh I agree. And about 10 years ago I had a conversation with a student which changed my outlook -- they were highly intrinsically motivated but they explained when they saw cheating in their classes it was demotivating. They felt like a sucker.

I mean people's family members can barely compete with that phone. That person's significant other can barely compete. Why should we assume that the teacher is interesting enough they have a chance

Ooh I've been saying this for years!!Like people saying a teacher has to compete with the phone in the student's pocket. Fucking how? Why should we assume that is even possible?

(Signalling theory also covers this)

I have a keynote I'm giving in November and one of the quite lovely people inviting me said "Just give us your thoughts about the future of AI work and education, anything other than saying we're going back to blue books" and I decided to keep quiet at that moment

I think the argument that 50% of what an employer pays for in a credential is a person that can slog 4 years to show they want to do a certain sort of work has merit. Remove too much of the slog and the value disappears, not even getting to the skill part.

I've never been an academic integrity booster, I'm very much about intrinsic motivation. But we are quickly coming to a point where the whole thing will collapse. Higher education exists because it charges for a credential, and that's in deep peril.

There was a great post on LinkedIn today that said hey, forget about students using agent to complete work, what's to stop faculty from using it to grade? I don't think people are wrestling with the credibility problem near enough.

Education is really truly screwed by AI right now and while I think these tutor modules are somtimes interesting the idea they are going to protect education from AI damage is silly. The education world we knew ended months ago, we're just in a weird liminal space right now.

Study Mode as the frog and toad "cookies in a box" story where they put the cookies in a box so they can't get the cookies but then realize they can open the box

Lee Mager at LSE posted this about ChatGPT Study Mode and I can't stop laughing

In case you're wondering how we got to a 1.5 C minimum global temp hike, one answer can be found in the cnn commentator who said tonight that 20,000 people died in the "2011 tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster"

True!

Highly recommend. I think it's good during these things even if it's not a major threat that we get to learn about them for when it is a bigger threat.

Fox weather is good actually, did a good job explaining why tsunamis have a fundamentally different energy profile than waves, gave the buoy measurements that just came in (which were between 1 and 3 feet which is good news considering) and outlined the places on the west coast that suffer most.

I know it's not going to be a disaster but it would be good to get people off the beaches and the water, let's do that. If it was headed for Manhattan we'd have non stop coverage.

I don't need 6 hour coverage or anything but could we do news on the tsunami for just 40 minutes after the quake. Could we stick on that for 40 minutes even though New York City politics is oh so important.