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Prof at #CU_Boulder developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for scientific computing. Mostly https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
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It has been reported that he had a valid work permit until March of this year. To be here two months after that expired is hardly a rare situation.
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Being AAAI, there's a reap what you sow element wherein they may be regarded as an automated citation racket and responsible institutions would stop "counting" any publications there. That probably won't happen without a winter. Meanwhile, the "human reviewer" is already tainted in such communities.
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Schumer should know his imaginary friends at the gym don't give good advice.
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Yes, and note that Google and MS tell a different story depending on who they're talking to.
(The MS study on the left did not evaluate or cite the supposed efficiency gains, just took that for granted while diagnosing the impact on critical thinking.)
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I'd caution that what they say to pump "AI" investment is not consistent with their own analysis for technical reports. That said, a monopolist cutting payroll without losing revenue would not be a revelation, especially when they "invest" in government protection.
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Surely the GOP Congress will not stand for this unauthorized hike in corporate taxes. Surely.
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Algorithmic eugenics and euthanasia. Because they can't hire humans sufficiently amoral to implement what power wants, and humans can be called to testify in court.
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The counterfeiting gang is rich and the king likes them. Do not dream it could be any other way.
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A broader base is necessary and I think wall-to-wall unions like @campusworkers.bsky.social are a necessary part of weathering the coming years without generational backsliding.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. Faculty governance in coordination with militant unions can make that demand. 8/8
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However, I don't think faculty governance will be enough. University presidents respond too much to donors and reactionary politics, and they'll hear that faculty are too radical and attacking the fiscal health of the university. And faculty will question themselves, undermining their own power. 7/
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This runs deep, threatening the business model and toxic metrics that everyone knows is harmful but administrators still celebrate. Ranking lists will punish universities for protecting academic freedom and their mission. Faculty governance needs leaders with vision and courage. 6/
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Revising P&T guidelines and forcing the hand of deans and provosts and committees, to be able to promote and tenure faculty who are denied resources by segregationists, and to hire scholars doing necessary research that is temporarily unfundable, will be an uphill battle that must start now. 5/
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There are countless ways the Trump administration and GOP Congress are trying to destroy academic freedom and re-segregate the academy. This is one that faculty and university administrators will inflict upon themselves without proactive opposition by faculty and unions. 4/
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University charters and policies will have some language about academic freedom. Mine says administration "shall resist such pressures or interference when exerted from inside or outside the university." But defending academic freedom is eternally at the bottom of administration's priority list. 3/
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Most departments consider funding for P&T, and R1 universities usually require funding success (from nominal dollar amounts to "sufficient to support a vigorous research program"). Applying those standards, even while informally compensating for agency actions, is to be an agent of segregation. 2/
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A return of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, but everywhere in government, then have "AI" launder further denial of rights/disparate impacts.
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The rub is that "AI" has never had a meaningful technical definition; it has always been more cultural "you'll know it when you see it". This stark definition is useful to understand what this administration and tech oligarchs desire.
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An alternative to AP is for advanced HS students to attend local/community college part time, ideally with financial support, but that has huge variation in access. Transfer credits also stifle curricular reform, but denying them would be very inequitable.
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Are you thinking of this for both satisfying prereqs and college credit? As faculty, the appeal of delineating these courses is undeniable, but I also recall one of the few things that kept me sane in HS was walking over to the college campus for a half day of classes, and I'd hate to block that.
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Illiteracy and docility is another good lens by which to view the intent of these EOs. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Good short thread on the perils of citing "AI".
It is infuriating that many administrators buy into "AI" as a surrogate for teachers/course staff, when the effect is to necessitate pedagogy that is more personal and less "scalable" (unless you abandon learning as a goal)
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Yes, this was born as a way for politicians and donors to purchase the credentials of academia for favored purposes that undermine the "control and authority of the rational methods by which knowledge is established in the field." Shame on Dems who ceded without a fight.
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There is no progressive, liberal, or centrist analog to the Visiting Scholar of Conservative Thought. The "diversity of thought/political ideology" narrative was conceived to protect conservatives from scholarly critique, while violating their new law by hiring on the basis of conservative ideology.
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In fairness, your grant wasn't a mechanism to bail out "AI" companies struggling to justify their valuations, nor was it laundering the effect of segregated schools. Because that was the purpose of the EO (in concert with the disparate impact EO issued the same day).
In solidarity.
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Heck, owners don't know the manual procedure even after high-profile deaths due to those doors, let alone their kids. There should just be an ordinary mechanical door latch. Electric motors aren't reliable when on fire or underwater, and it was only ever a dumb gimmick to cut manufacturing costs.