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Thank you! Preparing a similar course for this semester. This is so useful!

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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This is great! Thank you.

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM

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Educators:

We have to steel ourselves against the urge to consume everything, everywhere, all at once. The next four years are going to be long and hard; some of us will not make it.

Protect your heart.
Protect your peace.
Protect the children.

In this paper I look at how coloniality is embedded in digital systems and introductory programming education, and discuss decolonial approaches to teaching coding.

Decoloniality, Digital-coloniality and Computer Programming Education | ACM Transactions on Computing Education Like digital technologies themselves, programming education is embedded in the colonial matrix of power, and access to programming knowledge demands immersion in the epistemologies of the Global North...

New publication - Decoloniality, Digital-coloniality, and Computer Programming Education: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.

Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

Give us our data back, says AU Tech companies are hoarding African data. The African Union wants them to hand it over.

If a TikTok user from the US or Europe wants any of their data that the platform collects, they can request it from the company. The same is not true for African TikTok or YouTube users, who aren’t even given the option to apply, @marche.bsky.social reports.

this is from michael denning's, "noise uprising: the audiopolitics of a world musical revolution," which is an incredible book

someone made a playlist of the music he discusses, and it's pretty awesome as well: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Hy...

The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future 🤖
GenAI is revolutionizing education—but at what cost?
Read more: openpraxis.org/articles/10....

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.

We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

Website header for 'The Consentful Tech Project' with the title 'What is Consentful Tech?' against a deep purple background. Below are five glowing geometric shapes arranged in a circular pattern, each containing one word of the FRIES consent framework: 'FREELY GIVEN' (blue), 'INFORMED' (magenta), 'SPECIFIC' (orange), 'ENTHUSIASTIC' (green), and 'REVERSIBLE' (pink). Each shape has a pulsing glow effect in its respective color. A hamburger menu icon appears in the top right corner.

It's almost as if most of you have never heard of consentfultech.io

Text on a light background of bookshelves Student Outstanding Research Award Aesthetic Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies: Tracing Aesthetic Tools and Functions in a Youth Literary Salon Scott Storm Concerned with disinformation, fake news, and a posttruth era, literacy research on digital learning ecologies has examined content of the texts that youth encounter but have focused less explicitly on aesthetics-issues of form or the way a text is written. This article examines aesthetic literacy practices of queer youth of color and allies in an online summer literary salon. Findings reveal that youth engagement with aesthetic tools achieve poetic, catalytic, and ideological functions complicating previous understandings of disinformation, fake news, and critical reasoning in literacies research. Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice Bluesky @LRTMP Facebook LRTMP Instagram @LR_TMP Created in partnership with the Education Now Lab Check out Volume 73!

📢 Publication alert!
💡 The Literacy Research Association 2023 Student Outstanding Research Awardee @scottstorm.bsky.social’s article “Aesthetic Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies: Tracing Aesthetic Tools and Functions in a Youth Literary Salon” is now live at journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx

For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.

the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...

Analysis | Musk admits X throttles links as ‘news influencers’ take over Hard times for the humble hyperlink and those who depend on it.

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It was truly something to be a teenager & early adult between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center. That’s not just a nostalgic idealization of youth; we were in a moment that’s impossible to explain now.

Or, you know, we could all just support the African researchers who are already addressing African dialects.

www.dair-institute.org