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I’m seeing some discouraging things around ChatGPT: 1.Schools blocking it 2. New apps promising to determine “cheating using ChatGPT Can we move past surveillance and rethink what school means in an age of AI?

theverge.com/23547877/decod… Important listening/reading for those interested in how monopolies exert control over the economy in the Internet era.

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j… #KeenanAnderson #BlackLivesMatter

Funny the The New York Times covered this today, but I had an honest conversation with my students today about #chatGPT. 🧵

blog.weareopen.coop/i-got-99-probl… What does open recognition look like adopted as an ongoing workplace practice? Recognition is not something that is targeted at enabling transitions between communities, it can help us develop and honor autonomy, mastery and purpose every day.

Fascinating how after years of “debate me!!!” cries, the moment Republicans won control of committee debates and hearings, they flopped spectacularly. They controlled the topic, time, witnesses, named their “star” members, and STILL failed. What’s going to be their excuse now?

psyche.co/films/is-the-c… On our cultural fascination with originality.

It's definitely a good idea to get a personal sense for what ChatGPT is good at, and where it falls over, as it applies to your own disciplines, like Daniel Hickey did here. It's not just "mindless" assignments where ChatGPT can get a student 80% of the way there.

🚨 74.7 Millions #OpenBadges in the wild ! 🚀 +74% growth from 2020. New Badge Count report by Credential Engine and 1EdTech content.1edtech.org/badge-count-20… #OpenBadges #DigitalCredentials #VerifiableCredentials #OB3

So that's 1.1 billion worth of stock buybacks for those keeping track at home. So how much did those ~200 employees cost per year? 60 million. DigitalOcean could have funded the affected people for 20 years but instead chose to buy back stock to make the investors richer

nytimes.com/2023/02/16/sty… Ok, hanging out is great. Add in "messing around" and "geeking out", and you've got pretty much everything you need.

Absolutely unreal.

Is there a really cool library leader in my network who wants to move to my pretty cool small city and lead a really cool library, recreation and cultural services department? governmentjobs.com/careers/eugene…

“As tech giants reach terminal enshittification, hollowed out to the point where they are barely able to keep their end-users or business customers locked in, the capital classes are ready for the final rug-pull, where all the value is…” — Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK link.medium.com/hmO5kroLlyb

WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open! Our board voted to rescind both layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation—and you were made it possible! #TexasNeedsAnObserver! texasobserver.org/texas-observer…

One goal of our hackathon was to ideate creative solutions to improve OSMT. Congratulations to Nate Otto and the Youni Team on delivering solutions that connect published RSDs to other platforms, extending their use!

7am PDT / 10am EDT tomorrow (16th), some interesting conversations going down that we'll have the first part of and then continue in beautiful Vienna in December. #OpenBadges #OpenRecognition