Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “link”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What France and America Know About Each Other'
- kudos:This is clever, spot on, and sometimes hilarious. link to “What France and America Know About Each Other”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change'
- kudos:This sucks so much—and encapsulates our world’s obsession with financial success over environmental health. link to “AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'
- kudos:If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling'
- kudos:Look, I’ve been trying to approach the SCOTUS decision with an open “I’m not a legal expert” mind, but I think this quickly demonstrates how dangerous the decision is. There’s no way this is an official act, and Trump’s insistence that it could be shows his confidence that he can get away with what he wants as president. This is not good for democracy. link to “Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible'
- kudos:I’m not necessarily opposed to teaching the Bible in public schools, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it right: Compare and contrast the creation accounts, discuss different authors’ conflicting takes on issues, and treat it as literature. That’s clearly not what Walters is advocating for, and his approach is indefensible. link to “Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It'
- kudos:This is a darker version of some of the thoughts I had when I first heard about the “PhD comparison.” Before you click through to the article, I also want to use this short post as a complaint that I don’t think “intelligence” is a thing—and that PhDs certainly wouldn’t be a measure of it if it were. link to “ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascot'
- kudos:I went to BCHS and was on speech and debate with Akilah. I was one of those naïve white kids who didn’t really register all of the problematic parts of our mascot, and I have regrets. I’ll be interested to listen to this podcast and do some more internal work. link to “Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Does the Book of Mormon Reinterpret the Bible? – From the Desk'
- kudos:Austin’s book was already on my ’to read’ list, but this interview really convinced me. There are some really interesting arguments in here, and while I want to evaluate them in more detail, they’d provide fascinating readings if they hold up. link to “How Does the Book of Mormon Reinterpret the Bible? – From the Desk”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fast Crimes at Lambda School'
- kudos:What a fascinating, depressing read. The Mormon angle only makes it more interesting (even if it doesn’t really play in here). link to “Fast Crimes at Lambda School”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?'
- kudos:This is a helpful EFF overview that I’m posting to bookmark for later. link to “What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used To Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers - Slashdot'
- kudos:This sucks on so many levels. link to “Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used To Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers - Slashdot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'On What We Lose: Chai, AI and Nostalgia | Punya Mishra's Web'
- kudos:I appreciate Punya’s essay here. I’m very grumpy about generative AI, but that doesn’t change the fact that some grumpiness has more to do with moral panic than a reasoned response—but THAT doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for some of this kind of careful nostalgia that Punya is sharing. link to “On What We Lose: Chai, AI and Nostalgia | Punya Mishra’s Web”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex'
- kudos:We should all be worried about what’s happening here. link to “My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia - Slashdot'
- kudos:Now, this is more the Mozilla I know. link to “Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia - Slashdot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A major disinformation research center’s future looks uncertain'
- kudos:What a sucky situation. link to “A major disinformation research center’s future looks uncertain”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK board votes to dissolve university Senate, outlines role of new faculty body'
- kudos:I have tried to be open minded about this, and I am always hesitant to take a position on something that I haven’t done all the homework on. I also agree with the point the president’s made that staff, students, and non-tenure-track faculty don’t have enough of a voice, so I’m open to changing what inclusive governance looks like at UK. This doesn’t seem to me to be it, though. Even without having done all the homework, the president’s arguments don’t land for me, and I don’t see how removing the faculty’s voice gives staff and students more of a voice.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns'
- kudos:Scary stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced that facial recognition tech does more good than harm. link to “Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger'
- kudos:ALPRs suck. link to “Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Lexington’s 2-mile downtown trail system wins another national award'
- kudos:Lexington has lots of room to improve, but I’m glad they’re getting credit for the good work they’ve done. link to “Lexington’s 2-mile downtown trail system wins another national award”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request'
- kudos:This sucks. If even Mozilla is selling out, then we’re in a real bad place. link to “Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’ve been thinking recently that I need to reread Doctorow’s The Lost Cause (about beating back the climate catastrophe), so this blog post was welcome. Doctorow’s hopefulness—all while rejecting naïve optimism—is what I needed to read this morning. link to “Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway'
- kudos:Generative AI suuuucks, but AI detection software may suck even more. link to “AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs'
- kudos:I am very grumpy about this. Also, the point of emoji is that they exist within Unicode, yeah? So these aren’t really emoji in the way that those icons are useful—they’re just a fun trick that’s helping advance the climate crisis. link to “Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'La droite française se déchire sur une possible alliance avec le RN en vue des législatives'
- kudos:Quelle honte ! link to “La droite française se déchire sur une possible alliance avec le RN en vue des législatives”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements'
- kudos:I’ve been feeling for a while like I need to move away from Apple eventually, but I’m so entangled in the ecosystem that I’m dragging my feet on it. Seeing the company drink the AI Kool-Aid is definitely accelerating my plans—and will even more so if there’s no easy way to turn these featutes off. link to “Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK, KCTCS create pathways allowing community college students to transfer into UK'
- kudos:I’m all for this, but in line with earlier posts from today, I wish it weren’t just about workplace readiness. Higher ed needs to be more than that. link to “UK, KCTCS create pathways allowing community college students to transfer into UK”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Academia’s emphasis on job training harms free speech, bodes ill for democracy | Opinion'
- kudos:Some important points in this op-ed from a UK colleague. I was just thinking earlier today how I have trouble getting concerned about the “summer slide” when I know that even K-12 education is increasingly seen as an economic—not democratic—priority. link to “Academia’s emphasis on job training harms free speech, bodes ill for democracy | Opinion”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wallace & Gromit's New Movie Will Bring Back the Greatest Villain In Animation History'
- kudos:I suspect the return of Feathers McGraw will ultimately be a disappointment, but I love the character enough to be very excited in the meantime. link to “Wallace & Gromit’s New Movie Will Bring Back the Greatest Villain In Animation History”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting'
- kudos:I had forgotten Kentucky did this, and that just makes me more mad. link to “Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic'
- kudos:In a roundabout way, I think this helps demonstrate why scraping data for generative AI isn’t a question of copyright. Even when there is a legal agreement, it can still be exploitative—it’s a question of digital labor. link to “Journalists ‘deeply troubled’ by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits'
- kudos:Oh, please no no no. I usually read a whole article before posting it, but just the first few paragraphs are giving me such a visceral reaction that I don’t know if I’ll make it through the rest. The existing tech giants already have such a hold on us, let’s please not let OpenAI in the door. link to “OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'YouTuber Has Video Demonitized Over Washing Machine Chime'
- kudos:Bookmarking so I have enraging examples to show my students. link to “YouTuber Has Video Demonitized Over Washing Machine Chime”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash'
- kudos:I appreciate Anil’s perspective here and want to try to start thinking this way. link to “Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The hidden potential of bicycles'
- kudos:What a great ode to the bike. link to “The hidden potential of bicycles”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'PayPal is building an ad network based on your Venmo data'
- kudos:This is why I include nonsense descriptions for all my Venmo transactions. link to “PayPal is building an ad network based on your Venmo data”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline'
- kudos:Some good thoughts here by Masnick. link to “Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline”