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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cat and Girl'
- kudos:Generative AI has a digital labor issue, and we aren’t paying enough attention to it. link to “Cat and Girl”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What is the Annotated Book of Mormon? – From the Desk'
- kudos:Grant Hardy is doing great work with the Book of Mormon. I don’t see the text the same way that he does, but I’m deeply grateful for what he’s contributed to new readings of it, and I’m glad I have a copy if this. It surprised me in this interview to learn that the LDS Church forebade a reprinting of the semi-official study edition Hardy had recently worked on. I found that to be a tremendously helpful text, and I’m glad I have a copy since it’s apparently doomed to go out of print.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides (16 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Some interesting thoughts here from Doctorow. Makes me want to put more effort into OER. link to “Pluralistic: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides (16 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says'
- kudos:Even if AI would be beneficial for humanity in the aggregate, it’s important to ask how that benefit would be distributed. link to “AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Plagiarism is the latest weapon in the culture wars. But what even is it? - Vox'
- kudos:Lots of interesting comments in this article. I haven’t been following this story as closely as I should, but it—and articles like this—are making me think that I need to think harder about plagiarism: what it is and how I should respond to it. link to “Plagiarism is the latest weapon in the culture wars. But what even is it? - Vox”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy - The Verge'
- kudos:Yeah, but don’t worry, this is definitely the only way that generative AI will be used to overwhelm us with useless content. link to “I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer - The Verge'
- kudos:Good for Platformer. link to “Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis) | Techdirt'
- kudos:As usual, I find Masnick’s recap of this recent nonsense helpful in terms of summary and interpretation. link to “Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis) | Techdirt”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s “A City On Mars” (09 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’ve wanted to read this book for a while, but Doctorow has really sold me on it. link to “Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s “A City On Mars” (09 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2 – Platypus'
- kudos:Strong follow up to the last post I just linked to. link to “Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2 – Platypus”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1 – Platypus'
- kudos:Lots of helpful thoughts in this post. Makes me think about the value of Mastodon for the academy—and other spaces that I care about. Also, I love seeing Doctorow and academic thinking come together. link to “Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1 – Platypus”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics - The New York Times'
- kudos:Don’t love it when platforms shut down tools because they don’t like outside research. Gift Link link to “TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics - The New York Times”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Are education and learning engineering problems? – George Veletsianos, PhD'
- kudos:I’m grateful for George’s comments here. link to “Are education and learning engineering problems? – George Veletsianos, PhD”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism - The New York Times'
- kudos:Plagiarism is clearly bad, but its weaponization as part of a culture war could well he worse. I don’t love the idea of its escalation. Gift link. link to “Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism - The New York Times”
🔗 linkblog: mes pensées sur 'La première église urbaine de Suisse romande ouvre ses portes à Lausanne - rts.ch - Vaud'
- kudos:De quoi s’inspirer pour imaginer de nouveaux avenirs chrétiens. lien pour “La première “église urbaine” de Suisse romande ouvre ses portes à Lausanne - rts.ch - Vaud”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Kentucky Senate leader files bill to curb 'divisive concepts' in public higher education - Kentucky Lantern'
- kudos:Welp, here’s something to pay attention to this legislative session. link to “Kentucky Senate leader files bill to curb ‘divisive concepts’ in public higher education - Kentucky Lantern”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse - The Verge'
- kudos:Happy Public Domain day! link to “Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas - The New York Times'
- kudos:Again, what’s going on isn’t bad because it happens to touch on things significant to Christians, and it’s bad when Christians only care about Palestine and Israel because it fits with their religious worldview. Yet, it would be a missed opportunity to talk about Bethlehem this Christmas season without asking about the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza, and how to make a better world for everyone there. link to “‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas - The New York Times”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge'
- kudos:There are legitimately difficult content moderation decisions, but this is not one of them. Shame on Substack for this approach. link to “Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK School of Information Science researchers awarded nearly $700,000 in IMLS grants | UKNow'
- kudos:Proud of my colleagues! link to “UK School of Information Science researchers awarded nearly $700,000 in IMLS grants | UKNow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'With war raging in Gaza, Christmas in Bethlehem has been canceled : NPR'
- kudos:As I’ve written before, I’m skeptical when Christians see the Middle East uniquely through the particularities of our beliefs and tradition—there’s so many ways that can (and does) go wrong. Yet, if we’re going to sing and preach about Bethlehem this year, we ought to use modern Bethlehem to get us thinking about a better world for the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza. link to “With war raging in Gaza, Christmas in Bethlehem has been canceled : NPR”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - The Verge'
- kudos:I think folks are right to distrust Meta, but Threads with ActivityPub seems to me to be clearly better than Threads without. link to “Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on ''Shameless': Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it : NPR'
- kudos:Kind of hilarious, actually, but in the depressing way that most Twitter news is these days. link to “‘Shameless’: Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it : NPR”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Ranked choice voting: what it is and where it might be next : NPR'
- kudos:I wasn’t aware of these critiques of ranked-choice voting. The right-wing hand-wringing about it is obviously ridiculous, and I still believe more RCV is the way to go, but I appreciate more nuance in the conversation. link to “Ranked choice voting: what it is and where it might be next : NPR”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Community Notes Is Great Until It Challenges Elon, And Then It’s Being ‘Manipulated’ By State Actors | Techdirt'
- kudos:Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check? link to “Community Notes Is Great Until It Challenges Elon, And Then It’s Being ‘Manipulated’ By State Actors | Techdirt”
🔗 linkblog: mes pensées sur 'Moins de chats, plus de crustacés... des scientifiques veulent davantage de biodiversité dans les emoji - rts.ch - Environnement'
- kudos:Trop de vertébrés dans les emojis ? Ça fait rire un peu, mais je comprends aussi la motivation. C’est vrai que ces petits symboles représentent notre compréhension du monde—pourquoi ne pas donc élargir la collection ? lien pour “Moins de chats, plus de crustacés… des scientifiques veulent davantage de biodiversité dans les emoji - rts.ch - Environnement”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time - The New York Times'
- kudos:Joli article ! I mostly learned Parisian French from my school classes, and I’ve always been interested in the alternatives out there, though I’ll admit I’ve never fully appreciated African French. Time for that to change. link to gift article link to “How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time - The New York Times”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk unbans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from X - The Verge'
- kudos:This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh. link to “Elon Musk unbans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from X - The Verge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Apple’s Nonsensical Attack On Beeper For Making Apple’s Own Users Safer | Techdirt'
- kudos:Good observations by Masnick here. link to “Apple’s Nonsensical Attack On Beeper For Making Apple’s Own Users Safer | Techdirt”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk restores X account of Alex Jones : NPR'
- kudos:Musk keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper. link to “Elon Musk restores X account of Alex Jones : NPR”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: An adversarial iMessage client for Android (07 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’m an Apple user, but that never stops me from agreeing with Doctorow’s critiques. link to “Pluralistic: An adversarial iMessage client for Android (07 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos | Ars Technica'
- kudos:The phrase popped into my head before the article could even get to it: We are the product. link to “Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos | Ars Technica”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump's not-so-secret plans for unprecedented power : NPR'
- kudos:Some worrying information here. link to “Trump’s not-so-secret plans for unprecedented power : NPR”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye | Techdirt'
- kudos:The digital could have been used to expand access to content, but we’re using it to actually restrict that access. What a crappy future. link to “You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye | Techdirt”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A New Trump Administration Will ‘Come After’ the Media, Says Kash Patel - The New York Times'
- kudos:I try not to post too much about this campaign because I find it overwhelming, but this is worrying stuff. Really worrying. link to “A New Trump Administration Will ‘Come After’ the Media, Says Kash Patel - The New York Times”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fantasy Morality - Existential Comics'
- kudos:Good joke here—and one I may share with the students in my games and learning class next semester. link to “Fantasy Morality - Existential Comics”