The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.
LET’S DEMAND MORE/OTHER THINGS!
Where did the notion of an "infinitely patient" AI tutor being a good thing come from? Sal Khan uses this. I've seen Marc Andreessen use it. It makes no sense. Some of the most important moments in my learning life was a teacher losing patience with me.
Ontario health care & education whittled to the bone, but private jet purchased with taxpayer money.
Saving this thread to update slides for my next offering of Economic Botany …
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Time spent with a pair of #penguins in woolly jumpers is never wasted
Indeed. It’s particularly striking to see this even in a border city (Windsor, ON) with close ties to Detroit area.
That's not to say that you shouldn't be careful how you use these glasses. Meta doesn’t have the greatest track record on privacy, and the company has continued to push forward with policies that are questionable at best. Even if you’re not concerned that face recognition will allow Meta to target immigrants or enable stalkers to find their victims, at the very least, people really do not like the idea that you could start recording them at any moment.
Probably the biggest hurdle to wearing Meta glasses is that even doing so seems like a gross violation of the social contract. After all, these are Mark Zuckerberg's “pervert glasses.” When I pop these on my head, I’ve had friends (and my spouse) recoil and say, “I have apps to warn me away from people like you.” The best part, though, is that Oakley and Ray-Ban already make really great sunglasses. Even if the battery runs out or you don't use Meta AI at all, these are stellar at shading your eyes from the sun
This is the most extensive disclaimer I’ve ever seen in a buying guide. www.wired.com/story/best-m...
The specifics of this example aside, I find these articles are often written in a way that seeks to discredit the work of anyone working inside of education so to make educators even more subject to the views of those on the outside. The message is that no educator can be trusted with their own work
It’s … alive!
Loved writing this story about violet tunicates for @thetyee.ca Whenever there’s an opportunity to talk to scientists about slimy blobs, you have to take it.
In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways
In his petition to Dr. Bhattacharya, Mr. Siri similarly argued that vaccines that blunt illness but do not prevent infection or transmission do not have an impact more broadly on the population, so individuals should be free to choose for themselves whether they wish to be immunized. He included in this category vaccines against polio, tetanus and human papillomavirus or HPV.
I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵
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Deleted my post this responded to but reposting this so hopefully other folks won't make the same error I did.
Oh, I am sorry! Thanks for letting me know.
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Gorgeous image & I 🖤 💛 that name so much.
The book "Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance" by Joey Santore is on a pillow next to a longish-haired tortoiseshell cat (Stella) who is curled up on a blanket. The cat does not appear terribly interested in the book, understandably.
Yay - my copy of "Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance" by Joey Santore has arrived!
Santore's "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" videos: www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysBu... (NB: salty language in these videos, along with excellent botanical & social commentary!)
no yeah please give me a list of desperate hacks to save money while a minuscule sliver of the population hoards all the wealth and our government pisses in our mouths. thank you, newspaper ❤️
Front of a black t-shirt with white graphic of three crows in different poses. Small text beside them says, “Murder”.
Just got my latest graphic T from Blackhare Print Studio and wanted to give a shoutout to this Canadian family business. Gorgeous hand-printed T’s with designs of birds and bugs, etc. inspired by nature photography. Carbon neutral shipping, too #birds 🌿 blackhare.ca
yeah yeah we know we know we’ve noticed
#PEPFAR, which changed the trajectory of the #HIV epidemic, "is being slowly starved, through budgetary choke points and administrative fiat," at risk of dying a death of a thousand cuts, @cohenjon.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
Next time someone hypes the potential climate benefits of LLMs, maybe think about how they enabled mass fabrication of "public" comments that killed an important climate policy. Just one harmful application of software that can quickly generate lots of truthy-sounding bullshit.
Check out our new paper on development of disease suppressive phyllosphere microbiome
Department of Biology, Lakehead University is seeking a CERC in Freshwater Sustainability and Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems. On the shores of Lake Superior, Experimental Lakes Area and Large Lakes Observatory both just down the road... Deadline Dec 1. DM for questions! www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-...
In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.
Not sure Canada will take advantage of this, given recent trends …