Steve Wright

I love that Bill Clinton will likely be the one that makes it possible to indict politicians for contempt.

not so much as nostalgic returns to a pre-digital humanism, but rather as practices of resilience and relational care that sustain the possibility of civic life amidst ontological capture."

"Obedience is never total: every regime of compliance provokes the possibility of disobedience. The challenge for educational theory is to articulate how such spaces of disobedience might be fostered in algorithmic societies;

It seems to me there is an emerging consensus that LLM GenAI is detrimental to critical thinking. Can anyone make a counter argument grounded in research?

First academic paper to make me cry.

"In childhood, <obedience> appears as habituation: to obey the platform is simply to inhabit the world (Quadflieg et al. 2022)."

This is the only research paper that has ever made me cry.

Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming

www.springerprofessional.de/en/ontologic...

Small coffee table for my kid!

@pottery

This year's Santa's Sweatshop gifts. #pottery

Dummies

Making planters for XMas. Colab btwn multiple family members. Super fun! #pottery

Really luvly artistic balance.

I'm new to this selling thing and just don't have any pots, no inventory. I'm a fulltime high school computer science teacher. :)

OMG! Thank you. :) Not yet. I am grateful for the encouragement! Soon! :)

OMG! We did so good! The price of our table was about 20% of our revenue. We covered our costs and a bit more. Maybe this could support my pottery habit?

First time selling. Nervous. Me and the kid. #pottery

Human in a dog suit.

Pottery

Haven't had an 💥 in the kiln in a while. Def need to figure out how to make the bottom of taller skinnier vessels

Bought a table at a holiday craft sale for next weekend. Here are my wares. Never done this before. Think I'll sell anything? #pottery

Whiteness and Autocracy A friend of mine, Jed Emerson, is writing a series of posts titled Antidote to Autocracy. This post is a response or an adjacency to his work. However, two posts happened. It is the second of two part...

Whiteness and Autocracy
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Head: Whiteness and Autocracy A friend of mine, Jed Emerson, is writing a series of posts titled Antidote to Autocracy. This post is a response or an adjacency to his work. However, two posts happened. It is the second of two part...

Because America is intent on sustaining poverty and racial animus Your whiter skin justifies your hatred for those who are taking your place in line. Don’t worry that the line isn’t moving. Be grateful that you are allowed to wait.

conches.substack.com/p/head-white...

In a quiet conversation with a student who wanted to ask a question but couldn't figure out how to frame it, he came out to our table that he thinks he is anti-AI. This was not a space that he felt he could explore his concerns.

And, as they have learned to do, they stayed inside the boundaries setup by the adults. It was a place for student voice, but it was also crafted to ensure those student voices stayed within the boundaries.

In the closing aiEDU patted themselves on the back for having done such a great job letting students take the lead. Students were absolutely the bright spot. In general, students were very skeptical, very discerning, thinking critically.