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Joe Walsh (he/him)
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Denver. PhD Gonzaga University
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Another student/ friend over the line :-)

Ngaire Rae's thesis on Pākehā allyship in the time of health reforms is a page turner.

Check out her new model Whiti mai te rā and the entire thesis.

openrepository.aut.ac.nz/server/api/c...
March 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Complex systems can't be fully understood just by looking at their individual parts 🧪🧵
February 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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1/ RFK Jr. wants to observe unvaccinated kids in Samoa as a “natural experiment.”

This is disturbingly similar to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where researchers let people suffer and die instead of treating them.

Let’s compare. ⬇️
January 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM