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href weekly | Oct 1 -Oct 7 2023

Bits

Not robots in the classroom, but teachers acting in standardised and predictable ways, unable to operate autonomously when unplugged from the digital infrastructure. https://automatedonline.org/2023/07/13/some-thoughts-about-the-automation-of-educational-labour/

Now Institute produces diagnosis and on artificial intelligence. We develop policy strategy to redirect away from the current trajectory: unbridled commercial surveillance, consolidation of power in very few companies, and a lack of public accountability. https://ainowinstitute.org/

insights and tips, guiding you on how to spot generated images https://journal.everypixel.com/how-to-spot-ai-generated-images

We’ve also reorganized the staff intranet again. Good luck. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/due-to-falling-enrollments-we-will-no-longer-offer-courses-in-romulan-at-starfleet-academy

Art

“Lawyers, Guns & Money” re-imagines the 1978 Warren Zevon song as the cover of a 1970s spy novel https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/738050231/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-money

Computer Love” re-imagines the 1981 Kraftwerk song as the cover of a 1960s-era computer manual. https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1373282838/kraftwerk-computer-love-1960s-computer

href weekly | Aug27-Sep2 2023

Bits

Plugin that provides a shortcode to easily integrate mastodon feeds into wordpress pages. https://wordpress.org/plugins/include-mastodon-feed/

Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

What’s called for .. is not a ban on but rather a reassessment of what are expected to do. https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/chatgpt-ai-cheating-revolutionizing-university-education/

Notice how after you consumed the Cake, the Cake is no longer in your inventory. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/common-proverbs-as-video-game-tutorials

Politics & Economics

It requires us to stop equating an with preparation for the workforce. It requires us to recognize that encouraging everyone to get a four-year degree as a substitute for serious labor policy was doomed from the beginning. Perhaps hardest of all, it requires us to recognize that the true value of an education should not and cannot be quantified by its economic return alone. https://newrepublic.com/article/175277/college-debt-biden-rethink-higher-education

This tool should take approximately 10 to 20 minutes to complete. It depends on how much of an earful you want to give the Department of Education. We encourage you to take the time to write more, but you don’t have to. https://tools.debtcollective.org/run/student/#/1