it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space division of General Dynamics, 1964

“This isn’t just a simple conflict between the good side and the dark side. Every choice these characters make has consequences, and they feel those consequences deeply.”
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.

I was just thinking about Miyazaki and the stupid AI Ghibli thing and I think what is so frustrating about something that seems, in the face, harmless, is that it risks creating new and diminished definitions for what style and vision are

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai


You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

Some writing about this from AI ethicists for folks who are curious:

www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...