I want to talk briefly about the implications of using AI in creative work. First of all, we agree so-called "AI" is ruining our society and planet. BUT (yikes right?), AI is also transforming our cognitive relationship to the things we use it for. 1/12
The authors’ conclusions are bunk from the jump because they assume that parameters laid out by Chomsky are valid indicators that show humans uniquely use language. Chomsky fundamentally discounted the actual humanity of language, making Chomskyan tests of humanness a joke.
Ugh & use of old theories to prove the "humanness" of LLMs, which use pattern recognition, challenging those formalistic theories! As @bethmsemel.bsky.social said, it calls on a narrow def of metalinguistic awareness. She shared this great piece
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics
Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Zohran Mamdani are standing side by side indoors. The chancellor on the left is wearing a white long-sleeve button-up shirt with two chest pockets, while Mamdani on the right is dressed in a dark suit jacket, white dress shirt, and a red textured tie.
On behalf of our @cuny.edu community, I extend heartfelt congratulations to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on a remarkable and history-making victory. Your inspiring leadership marks a new chapter for our city.
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
The tool might actually be helpful if it was framed as a supplement rather than a replacement... sigh
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
intro image for "Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
poem for "Legacies" by Giovanni
Morning! We're going to skip the last Poets.org selection because, as @heymrsbond.com rightly pointed out to me and @thevogelman.bsky.social, "Nikki Giovanni has to appear in a month where we talk about poetry."
So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly:
"Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
“And ultimately, what I fear,” Mamdani said, “is that if this is what Donald Trump and his administration feel comfortable about saying about the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, imagine what they feel comfortable saying and doing about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”
WATCH: Brad Lander responds to Mayor Eric Adam's statement on his arrest by ICE agents.
“I’ve been thinking why the Maker movement lost its momentum. Maybe it’s because we rushed to make it without taking the time to understand. Real learning —the kind that sticks —takes time. Time is in short supply in most schools, squeezed out by pacing guides, test prep, and competing priorities”
Loving the series so far. How many WBCQ listeners are estimated -- enough to make it worth the expenditures? Why not just post religious and conspiratorial content online? I'm also confused about why, if the FCC gave Alan the frequency in the 1990s, they wouldn't have any oversight on the content?
"This route involves two transfers and provides a straightforward path from your starting point to Times Square."
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To travel from Myrtle Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn to Times Square in Manhattan via subway, follow these steps: Board the M Train at Myrtle Avenue–Broadway Station: Enter the station at Myrtle Avenue and Broadway. Take the M train (Queens Boulevard Local / 6th Avenue Local / Myrtle Avenue Local) heading toward Manhattan. zynamicgroup.com Transfer at 14th Street–Union Square Station: Ride the M train to 14th Street–
Union Square. At this station, transfer to the L train (8th Avenue Local) toward Brooklyn. Travel to 8th Avenue Station: Ride the L train to 8th Avenue. At this station, transfer to the C train (8th Avenue Local) toward Brooklyn. Arrive at Times Square–42nd Street Station: Ride the C train to Times Square–42nd Street. Exit the station to reach Times Square in Manhattan.
This route involves two transfers and provides a straightforward path from your starting point to Times Square.
A tourist was trying to follow directions provided by ChatGPT to get from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I told her to throw them in the garbage... I have no idea where she would have wound up....
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
the lie of an objective, neutral summary runs parallel to the lie of the objective, neutral reporter
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Katie's right, but I want to nuance the issue.
Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.
Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
Yesterday, I joined my brilliant colleagues at #AERA2025 for a panel, "AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation." An audience member asked for more concrete ways to resist the imposition of AI on teachers/students - ahem, Trump's EO on AI - and I wanted to expand on my answer. 🧵
Today is the day that funding expires for ERIC with no renewal at all. After that, there will be no new updates to the indexing of the database. This is bad for all of Education research #EduSky #AERA2025
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
I am choosy about the assignments where I give detailed feedback. Low stakes assignments promote practice, no need for feedback, just worth points if they did it. Peer feedback on a checklist/ rubric. Fishbowl writing workshops around a point of concern many students had in their writing.
Wow... you are bringing me back. And when Snapple started having vending machines in NYC schools, same issue! But this is way worse...
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
Whoever pulled the trigger on the decision around Amber WHCD knew to do it on a damn Saturday morning fully knowing we tape on Friday nights and wouldn't be able to talk about this week. New @HignfyUS up now on @StreamOnMax w/ Guest Sam Seder & Sam Jay.
Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."
