Yup! Looking forward to rekindling old and making new connections with folks.

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Starting July 1, I'll be part of the faculty of the School of Information Science (iSchool) at @uarizona.bsky.social along with the rest of CAST faculty and staff. Lots of changes! #BearDown #UArizona

Technology is or mediates everything.

The number of 3-letter-agency (FBI, CIA, NSA, NDI) informational and hiring events that have been cancelled is outrageous. Our students are worse off for it, and that directly impacts the nation's security posture. This helps no one*.

*No one here, anyway.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter?"

What?

The new "kick ass and chew gum"?

CAPTCHA, reading "Complete the challenge" and then a checkbox next to "I am human."

I dunno, seems like a big ask.

So, "We want your opinions! But not that kind." Brilliant move.

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Nope, never. If anything the awareness coming from DEI initiatives made me more critical and thoughtful of what I was teaching, why, and by whom, and that made me a better teacher.

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.

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!

This seems, uh, important.

Quarto An open source technical publishing system for creating beautiful articles, websites, blogs, books, slides, and more. Supports Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript.

Here you go! quarto.org

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Reticulating splines...

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…

DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

More from @wired.com here:

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

I genuinely use it for everything that I'm not using Obsidian for. :D With the qmd-as-md plugin for Obsidian, you can open any RStudio project folder as a vault and edit QMDs easily. Plus, course assignments, slide decks, websites, you name it. And it looks so dang *clean*.

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

Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"

Allegory alert!

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

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Guess my gift this year is a personal attack.

two men in suits are standing next to each other and one of them is asking the other if he looks tired . Alt: The Doctor from Doctor Who effectively sets off the downfall of prime minister Harriet Jones by simply asking, "Don't you think she looks tired?"

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

"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]."

New Yorker cartoon showing a cookie factory executive in front of a company podium with the Cookie Monster Frome Sesame Street by this side. Caption: “Let me assure you that as an unpaid ‘special factory employee’ Mr. Monster stands to gain nothing personally from his work.”

From the New Yorker

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