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A study found that phishing tests and other training programs designed to educate employees about online dangers reduced phishing success rates by just 2% (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Weekly Link Roundup #52 is out! How L&D can help orgs learn how to think critically, how AI can help measure skills, 500K students w/ access to ChatGpt, and more. As always, this issue is free so please subscribe and share widely. It's deeply appreciated #LearnChat open.substack.com/pub/markoehl...

Dang. Missing #learnchat today. But Mark Oehlert checking in here from outside Seattle. If you’re so inclined, pls check out open.substack.com/pub/markoehl...

Yes. Also, I am absolutely terrible at asking people to support us, but it would really help. We took ads off the site a few years ago. We have no paywall. Not even a registration wall. We really depend on people just wanting to help us. www.techdirt.com/support/

Weekly Link Roundup 51 is out! Includes how L&D could shift to being transformational leaders, how AI could "turbocharge" organizational learning, a need to rebuild a healthy respect for complexity, & the danger of "product market fit collapse" #LearnChat markoehlert.substack.com/p/weekly-lin...

how shocking that someone like Andreessen wants to put a technologist in charge? How about someone who studied the Humanities? Maybe a philosopher, a historian or <gasp> an anthropologist? www.mckinsey.com/industries/t...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Great thread

Can people quit saying that Josh Allen failed to beat the Chiefs? Him and the offense put up 29 points against the Chiefs. I think the defense needs a hard look.

You know that feeling when you don’t know if it’ll be a good day and then something like this happens and you’re like the day is definitely looking up.

Quite the spectacular (in the best way) thread.

Does anyone have a source for this? Yes, I know its supposed to be Hemingway but where did he write or say that? > “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

This really highlights the foundational importance of The Bluesky Way (“immediately block anybody who says anything even remotely unchill to you or to anybody you like”)

A new Weekly Link Roundup is out! Includes: more Indigenous voices in AI models, y u should read more books, learn from architecture, how to incorporate AI into ur org structure. As always, this is free so subscribe and share widely if you find value. It's appreciated. markoehlert.substack.com

The State of Work Today is live! Lorna Hagen shares surprising insights on IPO readiness, data-driven HR, and engagement strategies. You won’t believe her take on aligning HR with business goals Listen here: pod.fo/e/2a19e5 #HRTransformation #HRcommunity #HRdata #HRpodcast #LornaHagen #HR

Good news for #historians: techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/a...

Reading.....(gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/b...

Hey @learnchat.bsky.social #Learnchat - what was the Blue Sky version of Tweet Deck that got recommended a couple weeks ago?

HUGE thanks to @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social for the pointer to the Bluesky Directory (starter pack directory) blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

What in the Willy Wonka Bad Ideas notebook is this?? www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

😱😱😱 theonion.com/egyptologist...

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The whining and level of perceived victim hood here is super strong.

Thoughtful piece. R.E.M. is so present in my playlists and such that it’s weird to me that Gen Z wouldn’t have heard of them, but one kid recently got into that oldies band that is Radiohead, so

Genius from a coworker: "This meeting could have been an emoji reaction"

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Guess who got hired by Reader's Digest and immediately started using their position to push small press and books by marginalized authors? www.rd.com/list/the-bes...

No big deal… Boston’s mayor just polished off a tax policy proposal in the morning before a meeting at the hospital to give birth to her third child 😏 She is amazing.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

A new issue of Relentlessly Curious and Deeply Engaged takes on the reality of what it would take to actually make use of all the trend reports we're seeing right now. As always, its free so subscribe and share widely. Thanks for reading! #LearningAndDevelopment open.substack.com/pub/markoehl...

My last short fiction spotlight for 2024 has some stories from magazines both new and old to me. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Who has a starter pack for #culturalanthropology?