readywriting

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I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can.

Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.

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Mass-market lagers like Budweiser are denigrated as cheap swill, but are actually among the most-difficult beers to brew. Their decade-to-decade consistency is a marvel, especially at their production volumes.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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Headlines: "Stupid satellites crash after failing to understand Elon Musk’s historically genius plan"

He is not sending anybody to Mars. Ever. I mean...

20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigationwww.livescience.com Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confi...

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I'm an amateur fashion historian and have been selling vintage clothes off and on for almost 20 years. You have to go back at least 100 years before people were meaningfully smaller than they are now, the reason smaller sizes are all you can find is because it wasn't worn as much and survived.

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I’ve been up to something really exciting in recent months—launching a worker-run local news outlet in DC!! News cooperatives are a bright spot in a bleak media (and everything?) landscape & we need them more than ever. Read about our crowdfunding launch in The Washington Post t.co/R1s2UOmJfO

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtont.co The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

JFC the episode of The Bear, Ice Chips, needs to come with a context warning for daughters with problematic relationship with their mothers. I haven’t sobbed that hard at a tv show in FOREVER.

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On that “data centers don’t consume water” talking point.

“In the back end, these algorithms that need to be running for any generative AI model are fundamentally very, very different from the traditional kind of Google Search or email…”

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Erawww.wired.com Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.

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Milwaukee police are looking into the death of a Black man in an incident drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, after footage emerged that appears to show hotel guards pinning the man to the ground as he called for help.

Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video showswapo.st The videos of the incident drew comparisons to George Floyd. Dvontaye Mitchell’s mother said she believed her son was suffering from poor mental health.

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Y'all LMAO 🤦🏻‍♀️ NYPD admitting they don't give a fuck and can't stand behind these bullshit hollow words anymore (not thst the new one is accurate either...) "Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect" will be replaced with: "Fighting crime, protecting the public." The move will cost $1,390 per vehicle"

The NYPD is spending $200K to change the slogan on its patrol carsgothamist.com The new slogan: “Fighting crime, protecting the public.”

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NEW: Former WSJ health-care reporter Stephanie Armour files a disability discrimination lawsuit against the paper, alleging her editors kept trying to revoke her disability accommodation of working from home and ultimately made it impossible for her to continue there (via David Folkenflik)

‘Wall Street Journal’ sued by star reporter for discriminationwww.npr.org The Wall Street Journal has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs this year. In a lawsuit, former reporter Stephanie Armour says the paper tried to shed employees with significant health-care costs by ...

You take for granted how much of your daily life relies on WiFi. In this house tomorrow there will be no coffee and the daughter will have to unplug her lights to turn them off 🤣🤣🤣

Why in the year our (over)lord 2024 do we need a Dance Moms reboot? Did the USA Gymnastics (and Canada and and and) teach us nothing about fear and intimidation-based coaching and teaching?

Technician coming tomorrow to hopefully get the internet/cable working again. In the meantime, I guess I’m watching DVDs tonight.

So our internet line was apparently cut when one of our neighbors was renovating and of course trying to talk to a human is nigh impossible.

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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

No room for privacy: How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Awaywww.bloomberg.com When things go horribly wrong during a stay—the company’s secretive safety team jumps in.

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“‘We’re transforming shopping from a chore to an adventure,’ Instacart told Fortune.”

“Caper Carts sync with grocery stores’ loyalty accounts to give customers discounts and personalized advertisements, and have ‘gamification’ features to give customers rewards for fulfilling certain shopping behaviors like spending a certain amount of money.” 🥴

Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts, which offer real-time recommendations and 'gamified' shopping, are coming to more U.S. grocery storesfortune.com Grocers plan to increase spending on AI by 400% by 2025.

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Scummy corp. stealing all creators' works asks "How do we know NYT wrote it?" "OpenAI is not entitled to unbounded discovery into nearly 100 years of underlying reporters' files, on the off chance that such a frolic might conceivably raise a doubt about the validity of...copyrights."

New fresh hell just dropped: "OpenAI specifically asked for interview memos, reporters' notes, records of files and other materials cited in NYT articles. It stated that it was not looking for the identities of the paper's sources." www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

ChatGPT's Owner Asks For Proof That 'New York Times' Articles Are Original. Here's the Media Company's Response.www.entrepreneur.com The "New York Times" sued OpenAI less than a year ago over copyright infringement. Now, the ChatGPT owner is making a request the "NYT" calls "harassment and retaliation."

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Louder for those of you in the back (last year: Edna Ferber & Major Taylor; next year, Dawn Powell & ???)

I am making notes towards new candidates for Belt’s Revivals series so do send me any Midwestern US public domain authors/titles of which you want a pretty new edition!

Youngest started summer school today so alarms had to be set for an early (for summer) wake-up. Folks, I am falling asleep in my chair.

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For anyone who may need it. (Me. Me needs it. Repeatedly.) You are loved. And you are not alone.

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My comrades in ADHD and/or Autism You are allowed to have needs and take up space Someone getting angry at you for saying a truth they don't want to handle is not your fault You are not responsible for someone else's poorly managed emotions We are not the fault in their flawed society

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This piece is running now. A mental health chatbot named Woebot. Woe is us.

Say “just like a human” one more time. 😬

Companies harness AI power for mental health support | 60 Minuteswww.cbsnews.com Artificial intelligence is being used as a way to help those dealing with depression, anxiety and eating disorders, but some therapists worry some chatbots could offer harmful advice.

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We’ve seen it time and time again that Indigenous knowledge keepers have real knowledge For example - the “lost” Franklin shipwreck was exactly where Inuit said it was. And yet we still insist that until the white person goes and digs something up We can’t know if the story is true

After 165 years, Inuit knowledge leads to Franklin’s wrecksnunatsiaq.com The discoveries—in 2014 and 2016—of the lost ships of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition were among the most significant archaeological finds of their kind.

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"The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing." undark.org/2024/07/04/o... 🧪 #science #academia #publishing #phdlife #academicchatter #research #biology #physics #chemistry #peerreview #academic

The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishingundark.org Opinion | Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that.

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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people. reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

Sacramento cops shared license plate data with anti-abortion statesreason.com Sacramento authorities are not only collecting drivers' information but sharing it with law enforcement agencies in other states without a warrant.

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This article is a case study in the rise of a paranoid logic that’s transformed American campuses into quasi-police states, with militarized security and surveillance resources used against students and faculty. Crucial read.

A very well-reported article about excessive policing at Stony Brook. It’s almost impossible to get traction for these stories when you’re a public university. This is a rare and important opportunity. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...

Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook Universitywww.nytimes.com In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

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This is egregious. I'm going to need Taylor Swift to write something "glorifying gun culture" and see what doesn't happen.

What the fuck? They keep finding new ways to be racist

Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US governmentwww.theguardian.com Ruling leads to claims that BG’s right to free speech unfairly challenged in another case putting rap lyrics on trial

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Brilliant write up by @donnalanclos.bsky.social who also provided the inspiration for the keynote, through her 2019 keynote on refusal.

Blogged the keynote for #APT2024 that I wrote along with @lawriephipps.bsky.social and Richard Watermeyer, in which we ask about the nature of Consent, and what it really means when people seem to say "yes" to GAI tools digitalispeople.org/agency-and-c...

Agency and Consent: The impact of Generative AI in Academia – Digital is Peopledigitalispeople.org

I think we should all know by now, but forget: if you are assigning your students essential course materials that live on the web, make SURE you have a backup copy somewhere. Even just print the webpage as a PDF.

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“Somewhat alarmingly, none of Sonia’s founders have backgrounds in psychology. But Aeberli [the CEO] says that the startup consults with psychologists, recently hired a cognitive psychology graduate, and is actively recruiting a full-time clinical psychologist.”

Sonia's AI chatbot steps in for therapists | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Sonia is a new chatbot app that aims to provide an AI-powered 'therapist' for users to speak with on a range of topics.

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“While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulation of its very physical impacts has not kept pace.”

The Unknown Toll of the AI Takeoverprospect.org As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?