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"Thank you for your attention to this matter?" What?

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I dunno, seems like a big ask.

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The Tucson Agenda wants to know what you think your elected representatives should be doing in this moment. Take the survey here: tucsonagenda.substack.com/survey/2303327

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Really looking forward to the Flashes Android app. Not that I'll personally use it much (ironic, given my main hobby is photography), but just having the alternative in existence is a huge step in the right direction.

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I finally had a chance to sit down this morning & 1. order more paper 2. set up a form for folks to donate to the press & receive a poster/digital file We’re asking for a $35 dollar donation for posters—we will make up to 200 $5 for a high-quality digital version Here’s the form—& please share!

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This seems, uh, important.

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The emotion is something like “the feeling of being terrorized by stupid shit.” You’re horrified by smthing, then embarrassed that smthing so stupid is the object of your horror, then horrified at a more profound level at what that coincidence of real fear and obvious stupidity says about the world…

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I shouldn't be as excited as I am about my new pack of whiteboard markers coming today, but here we are.

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Big "if we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist" vibes.

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Allegory alert!

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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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Guess my gift this year is a personal attack.

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There's no single "magic word" or "key phrase" that will break through, but I'm thinking about this a lot lately.

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"Move fast [so it's hard to see how bad we are at this] and break stuff [because we don't understand how it works, what it's for, the repercussions when it's actually broken, or why it's important for anyone since it's not for me]."

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From the New Yorker

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(proceeds to play 'Ghost Town' by The Specials for six hours straight)

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The MAHA EO is out. Kennedy’s pet theories are in it, in euphemism form.

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Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…

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People who spend their careers writing NIH grants are the literal opposite of grifters. It is a soul-sucking, brutal process. The scientists don’t get rich when they get funded. Their salary doesn’t change. They do it for science. For patients. You know, to make 🇺🇸healthy.

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why

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Cool! I was just invited to be a keynote speaker at a conference I've never heard of in a discipline that isn't mine, and it'll only cost me $1600 plus travel! To Budapest!

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What I wouldn't give for a new George Carlin special right about now.

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Insta-add.

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Feels good to get an email from a student saying a class called "Cyber Ethics" was their favorite class in a program named "Applied Computing." #AcademicSky

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The Loved Ones would certainly be on the list.

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See where $2.05B in NSF grant funding cuts hit hardest with an interactive dashboard showing impacts by state, institution & research area. 🌐 Dashboard: dashboard.thecoatlessprofessor.com/nsf-grant-cu... 💻 Code: github.com/coatless-das... #highered #rstats #quarto

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“Different people will have different takes on this, I suppose,” Hamilton said. #tucsonaz www.govtech.com/public-safet...

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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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"Broligarchy." Brilliant.

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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Nice little write-up on a panel I was on in the fall. Cheers to the OLC for that! #AcademicSky "One of the questions Dr. Straight posed got me thinking: How does AI affect students’ sense of accountability in their work?" onlinelearningconsortium.org/engaging-stu...

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🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

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Today in class I introduced students to (among other things) the Necker cube, Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, the Ship of Theseus, and Floridi's levels of abstraction. In 75 minutes.

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You would not want that Jeopardy! clue for fear of being the first person disappeared in the middle of a game show.

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

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AI's great at some things. This ain't it, bub.

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