Dr. Annaliese Hoehling

I would rather high schools teach students how to use Wikipedia than how to prompt a chatbot. If they can’t do the former “ethically and effectively” then they are not ready for the AI plagiarism tool.

This just sent me to a future-flashback vision of people asking AI chatbots who they should vote for.

i have a lot of thoughts about AI and LLMs and they are quite complex but a real fucking loud one is it is not my job to make a market for this technology or contribute to its optimisation barring an eight figure check delivered ditectly to my credit union account

One reason our sclerotic elites are failing at confronting fascism is because rationalism, incrementalism and proceduralism are completely insufficient weapons to confront an irrational actor that exploits the latter two to in order to do away with all three.

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Time for nonprofit and educational organizations to move away from google. Not going to be easy, of course.

Absolutely. I learned pretty young that I needed to always be doodling while sitting in class—not only for retention of info but to keep me from bouncing off walls, interrupting others, getting really frustrated, etc.

When I was working from home I’d play Antiques Roadshow on autoplay all day long. Perfect for background noise that was just as much of a distraction as you needed in literally any situation.

I just subscribed even though I barely watch any TV at all, cause PBS is important, and I want them to stick around. Their minimum monthly donation is low enough I can actually afford it.

even worse, learning to use AI as implemented in any particular model will be a completely outdated skillset in 12 months

Like Virginia Woolf didn’t write a whole book about the institutions that destroy boys and therefore destroy all of us almost 100 yrs ago. And yet they keep coming demanding our guineas for their ‘save the boys’ causes.

the CPB shutting down is a history defining event in the arc of journalism’s existence as a practice

“Students should understand AI’s numerous social, economic, health, and environmental costs. Giving lip service to these big ethical issues while hastily integrating AI sends kids a strong message — the adults don’t really care and neither should you.”

PBS was for everyone

I watch them too. Boone has always been bad at managing pitching. It’s just not something he knows how to do. It’s a shame the best years of Judge and Cole are under him. Your comments here are not going to change that.

It’s so funny how suddenly everyone’s a bad pitcher once they land in the Yankees bullpen. Must be kryptonite.

How is it not? Over and over he shows he doesn’t know how to manage pitching. Left Rodon in too long, brought Loaisiga with runners on, doesn’t know how/when to use the new arms.

There’s some crazy “baseball luck” happening here but it would be great if just one analyst recognized the common denominator with Yankees losing leads (over and over) is Boone

Folks are going to blame the individual performances of the pitchers who came in from the bullpen and lost the Yankees’ lead and will ignore the part where the manager makes all the situational decisions. Boone is the absolute worst.

Seems to be happening a lot. Would love to see a compilation of scholars/creators finding AI slop misusing/misrepresenting their work.

Been told for years that the capitalists value government economic data and need it to be reliable. We'll see.

Put this in my veins

Academics seeing today’s date

The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women. Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.

"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.

In a world of "AI summaries" I just want a definitive answer from someone who *knows* or *knows how to determine the right answer.*

In a world of "AI summaries" I just want a definitive answer from someone who *knows* or *knows how to determine the right answer.*

I recently had an exchange with two (young) employees to find out about what is included/not included with a new power tool bc the language on the box didn't specify something, and the first called the second for help, and the 2nd looked up on her phone and I saw her reading the AI summary to me. 🙃

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

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