Metacognitive AI literacy: findings from an interactive AI fair - AI & SOCIETY Public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is essential for navigating the increasingly significant impacts of AI on society. Existing research provides guidance, but more work is needed to ...

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My colleagues and I just published an awesome new article on AI literacy published in AI & Society:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YES!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

This is really not great

When to Be a Hero (guest post) - Daily Nous "Is now the time to be a hero?" The Trump administration's brazen interferences with academic freedom and university governance, its punishment of students for exercising their freedom of expression, ...

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That’s a first for misspelling my name

Exclusive | Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI Advertising powered by artificial intelligence is a core part of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the company’s future.

This is scary…

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta... Exclusive | Meta Aims to Use AI to Fully Automate Ad Creation - WSJ

Really odd, this. I assume there will be subsequent efforts, but I don't have any on my radar yet...

Opinion | There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms

Very interesting / terrifying op-ed by my old law prof

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...

The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point

Terrific additonal reporting in the times:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

very important op-ed here about both higher ed and the military

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

I favor the latter option... but the argument is not straightforward

In response: Liberals have to either show that secularism is actually "neutral" in some sense or else explain why secular beliefs and values ought to be treated differently from religious beliefs and values.

This is the key point in the OK charter school case: the conservative justices say that secularism is a particular "viewpoint" (or viewpoints) on a par with religious beliefs or doctrines.

I'm relieved to find this out

That is really, really bad.

I figured it would be the bond market that would instill some discipline. It always does.

The suit is filed by Munger Tolles & Olson, the law firm that organized the law firm amicus brief in the case challenging other executive orders targeting other firms.

Quick Background on the Mid Atlantic region's native bees Bees are tiny, one bush or one clump of perennials is often all it takes to foster native bees in your yard. Within a mile of your yard (urban or rural) there are at least over 100 species of bees loo...

FYI: if you're in the mid Atlantic, the US Geological Survey has a list of native plants you can plant that will be good for native pollinators (which includes blueberry bushes...). you can get seed packs that include perennials so you don't have to replant all the time

www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc...

Who is supposed to benefit if the dollar is no longer the reserve currency? Presumably it would be whomever is in control of the next reserve currency. So why do these america first folks want to devalue the dollar? That's the part I don't get...

Oren Cass has been making the rounds, pretending to sound reasonable, but the above quote I pulled shows that he at least used to support the theory that our overall net exports should equal our net imports. What is the basis for this theory?

Or maybe it's this? Oren Cass via American Mind

Is this really the explanation for the tariffs? Peter Navarro via Project 2025

Is this really the explanation for the tariffs? Peter Navarro via Project 2025

This should be a good issue

This is a blatantly unconst'l letter. The govt may not coerce private institutions into suppressing other people's speech by threatening them with legal penalties if they refuse, as SCOTUS affirmed 9-0 last year
www.oyez.org/cases/2023/2...

But will it matter?

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Later this week, March 28-30, the GPPC is co-sponsoring a conference at Temple U. on "Constitutional Democracy in Crisis." Co-hosted by the Philosophy Department at Temple and the University of Glasgow School of Law.

More information here: sites.temple.edu/crisis/sched...

History, Hospitals, and Health Disparities In the early days of COVID-19, I was a bioethics fellow at Johns Hopkins, and I became involved with several efforts to evaluate the ethics of the pandemic response. One thing that immediately stood o...

Check out my post up on the APA blog!
blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/21/h...

Supreme Court to Hear Oklahoma Case Involving Nation’s First Religious Public Charter School | American Civil Liberties Union Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, Education Law Center, and Freedom From Religion Foundation...

Well, it's happening:

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