As someone who uses AI heavily, I don't lose sleep worrying about student usage. But I do lose sleep worrying that proprietary tools will outpace open ones and I'll be dependent on them. Or that I won't be able to keep up with the meta-cognitive burden of figuring out how to use all this! +

I'm pretty sure more than half of my colleagues use AI. My Provost uses it.

I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).

@tillgrallert maybe @internetarchiveeurope or @internetarchive can/want to say something about deduplication?

LibreOffice Base is a usability nightmare, Access and FileMaker are proprietary. I know of Heurist, but its UX is not exactly modern. NodeGoat is kind of nice, but there’s no generic instance to get started with. I recently encountered NocoDB, but I still have to make up my mind on that one […]

Somehow feel compelled to add a picture of Kim Novak in front of San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge