NEW REPORT: “Uber For Nursing Part II” uncovers a nationwide campaign — backed by huge sums of venture capital and private-equity funds — to limit public oversight of healthcare facilities, weaken labor protections, and expose patients to new risks: ainowinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing
the cold war teachers and professors responsible for the program's original design excluded courses like this because they wanted their students to experience liberal education before professionalization or specialization
Spanish Flu. Someone should google it.
Please take the time to read this award-worthy @motherjones.com article on the AI oligarchy, if only to experience great writing in an era of AI slop.
If the bots can ever write as well as my colleague @timothymurphy.bsky.social, we are surely cooked.
interesting paper on what makes a psychological event count as learning by henry schiller, who is not on bluesky. highly recommend it
philpapers.org/rec/SCHRLP-4
we have a lot of papers on deep learning but we need more deep papers on learning
"This vision for a future of postsecondary education is a recipe for mass immiseration and public disempowerment. Imagine a world where Microsoft, Google, McKinsey, et al … get to determine what and how you learn from cradle to retirement."
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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
This year's Lyrid meteor shower is getting a boost thanks to a dim crescent moon. Skywatchers could see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour soar across the spring sky, according to NASA, when the fiery display peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. https://to.pbs.org/4tWbyG2
right? and? i could cycle it and get there faster. a marathon is designed to test human athletes. a machine moving faster than a person is irrelevant to literally anything. who cares.
What I don't understd abt ppl who do this is, how do they not know that brains take time to learn? Stuff hits differently after a couple of years, & only once you've sat with things can you make connections. Like general education in high school is not a good idea! There's a huge diff btwn 18 & 22.
"The good news is that Sal Khan has failed in every one of his revolutions...Khan made it to 60 Minutes twice, 12 years apart, each time talking about a revolution. He was wrong both times. How many times does someone get to be wrong before we stop listening to them?" - @biblioracle.bsky.social
100 percent, and this is the sound the humanities make as they’re getting starved to death.
You can adequately “train” something in three weeks. College DEGREES are supposed to “shape” you, and that takes legit time. Industries that don’t care about that do so at all of our peril.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Watching Sam Altman's World ID announcement on its new ID verification partnerships w/ Tinder, Zoom, AWS, etc & want to point out that @technologyreview.com predicted all of this 4 years ago—while pointing out the privacy violations they built on. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1...
“Basically, every version of World’s approach to verification requires people to go along with invasive biometric scans…”
“Zoom said that hosts can enable a Deep Face waiting room to require all participants to verify their identity. Participants can also request mid-call that someone verify themselves on the spot.”
On March 19th Hachette Book Group made headlines for terminating a book contract with author Mia Ballard over her alleged use of AI in her novel Shy Girl; meanwhile, Hachette has negotiated with the AI editing software company Alighieria to integrate full-scope AI editorial correction tools into their production process.
Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie.
Also Trad publishers.
Our new issue is out!
This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.
Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.
Cover of Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book God Human Animal Machine
This one makes a good pairing
Skip the article about/from the employees of the Yale corporation and read this from SUNY Geneseo
www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...
Remember that whole conversation about eugenics and "real science"? Well, this is for that.
RESULT: Analilia Mejia is heading to Congress.
The AP has promptly called the NJ11 election for Mejia, the left-wing advocate who won a tight primary earlier this year and just easily won the general election. Mejia will replace Mikie Sherrill, who of course is now governor.
