Ella Fitzsimmons

Banning Dissection: Where California Goes, So Goes the Nation In 1987, Jennifer Graham, a 15-year old California high school student, refused to dissect a frog because she believed doing so would be immoral. She asked her teacher for an alternative assignment, b...

I imagine it could be, in a parallel to the case of California students being allowed to choose an alternative form of assessment when it came to dissecting animals in biology class: stanforddaily.com/2019/04/29/b...

I’m so sorry about all of this!

I’ve found lawyers to be pretty careless abt what information is shared — legally covered, as in your case, but not careful

The alt text is poetry 🚲💕

Or barring that, just a functionality that lets you export your chats with the chatbots and ”live agents”.

So you have a trusted record that the gov has told you to ignore their emails

A practical application of the ”ethical tech” debates we’ve seen in the UK public sector: a single log of all the communications you’ve received from the government about your case

Far too self-critical :) ”Like a comedian, Chomsky knows what material works and he knows when to use it,” is an especially good observation. Sounds like a fascinating day!

How was interviewing Chomsky??

I checked out interviews and panels with the examiners I suggested, to screen for academics whose interpersonal behaviour seemed cruel/dismissive/unreasonable

Was worth the effort — most of my PhD experience was dreadful, but viva was by far one of the best parts

I’d add:

- start early, because scheduling can take time (mine took 11 months)
- find people whose research you respect but don’t idolise
- if difficult to find examiners with exact match of discipline/area, go for tangential ones whose approaches you agree with

Also: it’s meant to be a lottery for people who live in LA.

There should be an option to prove this, eg with state ID. The software and infrastructure for this exists!

Instead, there’s just a threat that if you put in a fraudulent zip code you might lose your tickets 🤷🏻‍♀️

Registered!

But LA28 need to begin hiring some service designers:

* random email the other day changing Terms and Conditions undermines trust

*FB/insta dependence locks people out

* reminders for registration arrived several hours after it opened

* weird you’re in/no you’re not loop

The waiting list for the waiting list for the LA Olympic ticket draw

”Hanging tight” but not hopeful

For 15 Years Sweden Thought Enemy Submarines Were Invading Its Territory. It Turned Out To Be Herring Farts

This is my second fave ”false positives” story ever

The farting herrings, who were not submarines, is difficult to beat

www.iflscience.com/for-15-years...

Hehe thanks!!

And apologies if that’s too reply-guy-y of me! Am slowly dipping my toes back into social media

YouTube video by PKI Consortium PQC in Practice: Why This, Not That?

That’s sort of true, but also there’s a lot of interesting work being done about post-quantum cryptography and how to deploy it. This panel is pretty technical but interesting:

youtu.be/sdOXO-KlK4w?...

”If a large language model can produce a "good" text on demand, then perhaps producing good papers was never the intellectual accomplishment we claimed it was. GenAl has revealed a deeper issue: we have confused form with content, polish with understanding, and product with learning.” Screengrab from the article

Assessment needs to grow up: what process and imperfection mean for higher education Rather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn

Echoes, here, of why so much LLM writing is hollow

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/asses...

Glad it’s useful! Reminds me that I should pick this up again for current project…

I mean it *will* mean more explaining about the need for production ready code, but that sort of thing keeps me employable soooooo…

It’s on my list of things to do once my current project is over — exactly the sort of thing I’m excited about

I don’t know what about the Tesla left with its doors open outside Lionsgate HQ for half an hour makes you say this

Why I believe prototyping in code beats everything else A code prototype changes everything. When you prototype in code, the thing you are testing is real. It works in the browser. It works on any device. It responds to real-world variables.

I’ve been asking designers-who-can code to write a post about this forever. This will save me a lot of gentle ”the Figma map is not the product territory” explaining

gavinelliott.co.uk/blog/why-i-b...

Researching the Human Digital Identity Space Today we are announcing an effort that will allow ISRG to learn about systems for human digital identity. We're partnering with the SIROS Foundation for this exploration, and our work has been generou...

For my fellow privacy and security nerds

www.abetterinternet.org/post/humandi...

I think she technically on here @elissejones.bsky.social but not sure if she’s very active: lmk if you want an intro

Ah, never got that far — too late. Managed to get the colour of the giant ”thermometer” on the wall changed to green from a throbbing red tho: small victories count too :) happy to chat abt it: would be wonderful to see Elisse get her (rightful) public due — a true unsung hero 💪🏼

(I tried to change the name from Transition, for all the obvious reasons, but it was too late.)

I was originally hired to ”tell stories” about it, and happy to fill you in if useful

Have a chat with Elisse Jones who led the programme (if you haven’t already)? She’ll know stuff. Jenni Moss might also have some of the things documented

Maker’s Knowledge We only know what we made ourselves, or: Why we want to know how things are made.

V good

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