Hogan Hayes

This is an issue with micro blogging. It's like reading a choose your own adventure book, reaching a conclusion you don't like, going back to page 14, reading a few pages to learn that you actually need to return to page 56. The solution seems to be "live on the app," and that feels like marketing

I take it back. If you jump back to the thread originally posted by @coreyatad.com, they're replying to someone who shared the link.

Oh yeah... I encountered someone else quoting that single screenshot, went and read the column, agreed with you, still felt frustrated that I had to leave the app, came back and complained, only to have you gesture at the whole thread. You're right, but micro blogging's issues persist.

Why use a screenshot without any link to the argument? There are links in the article that allow a deeper critique, but you're keeping us a step away from that. Like you want us to uncritically accept your take. I'm not saying you're wrong, but putting a barrier between us and debate is shady

I do not like how Atad's post uses a screenshot and no link. It's like he's intentionally making it difficult to click through to Pinker's sources and critique his arguments. Effectively saying, "This debate is over because of what Pinker said here." It's no way to conduct discourse

Opinion | How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ (Published 2018)

Ummm... The article says a bit more than that. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/o...

Celebrated my promotion to full professor last night!

Many of these missteps are the result of people not knowing an appropriate use for AI, and it's not the user's fault because the developers launched an unfinished product and expect the users to figure out appropriate uses. We still don't know what AI is good at

AmeriCorps members who respond to disasters and help nonprofits are let go in DOGE cuts Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged.

In the name of efficiency, we're ending volunteer programs?

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This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Mr. Siegal"

You got to tell me brave captain,
Why are the wicked so strong,
How do the angels get to sleep,
When the devil leaves the porchlight on.

Tom Waits, "Mr. Siegal"
youtu.be/uL3yp75Gb7Q?...

Got pulled into a Faculty Senate meeting on Zoom. Wish I could join you

The foundation of the systems we are interrogating understood that a human must be in the loop. Despite what the GenAI pitch might claim, the machine cannot select for meaning because the system, at its roots, is designed to allow all meanings so a human might eventually find the actual message

The system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one which will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design."

"These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages...

Listening to @jsanofranchini.bsky.social at the #4C25 Chair's address and keep thinking of the quote I love from Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," arguably the origin of information theory,...

TikTok video by Caro 🫶🏼

Great dystopian science fiction leaves the events that precipitated their dystopias off the page. But this video makes me think we might be living through the events that led to Snow Crash, Neuromancer, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, Ubik, and The Windup Girl
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jdxWXF/

Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI There seem to be signs that president Donald Trump's befuddling tariff measures were cooked up by an AI chatbot.

I'm on a research project that helps students understand how human-AI hybrid processes can support writing development.

Meanwhile, the US is letting AI impose tariffs without a human in the loop.

Bright side: Support for my argument
Down Side: Economic madness
futurism.com/trump-tariff...

I cannot re-recommend this enough.
My key takeaway so far is that conspiracy theory is alluring because "it feels like critical thinking." So succinct

Sorry, @adamkinzinger.bsky.social , you don't have the clearance required to know how negative your security clearance actually is

But a lot of bike companies are like that. I love the Csepel road bikes out of Budapest, but they operate at far too small a scale to export. They focus on quality over quantity, and that means a smaller market. Seems like Lovens might be a similar story, no?

I'm just past the halfway mark and I have to say, the bestseller status is not a fluke. You wrote a great book, John

They're surprisingly common in Davis, California.

One Book Program The Sacramento State University One Book Program selects a book each year to bring together the Sac State community and the Sacramento region. The Program offers many exciting events throughout the ac...

I just suggested it for our University's One Book program. Fingers crossed! www.csus.edu/undergraduat...

When I was in my twenties, I got some advice along the lines of, 'Make sure to take time to appreciate the occasional sunrise. It's worth the effort.'

Sunrises remain just as inspirational today, but I would appreciate having time to occasionally miss a sunrise or two.

From the 1994 Budapest Memo
"The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine [...] to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine."
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