Colin Madland 🇨🇦
@cmad.land
studying technology-integrated assessment | rider of bikes | smoker of meats | #RStats | #OpenResearch | #luddite | #ElbowsUp | he/him
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This is mind-boggling:
"“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus."
How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions?
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"“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus."
How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions?
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Oooo I first heard about this here
substack.com/@kelseytuoc/...
Lemme see what this Atlantic article is all about
substack.com/@kelseytuoc/...
Lemme see what this Atlantic article is all about
When grades stop meaning anything
The UC San Diego math scandal is a warning
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This is mind-boggling:
"“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus."
How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions?
♾️🎢
"“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus."
How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions?
♾️🎢
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for the visual learners
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
for the visual learners
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This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.
It’s pretty simple.
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Pick your industry, fits 'em all
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Pick your industry, fits 'em all
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Very much looking forward to all those mid-career AIs funding my pension in 10 years time…in addition to all the unemployment benefits for the workless 30-somethings 👍
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Very much looking forward to all those mid-career AIs funding my pension in 10 years time…in addition to all the unemployment benefits for the workless 30-somethings 👍
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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the biggest, angriest bitch planet, i love her
This is what Jupiter looks like in the infrared.
Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above.
You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.
Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above.
You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
the biggest, angriest bitch planet, i love her
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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From a software perspective, it's architecturally incapable of "improvement" along the lines these companies claim.
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
From a software perspective, it's architecturally incapable of "improvement" along the lines these companies claim.
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Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
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People who are opposed to any kind of regime running on Gen AI have to exercise our capacity to address it beyond its flaws. Flaws are opportunities to anyone looking for more money bc it gives them something to “fix.” Don’t get stuck in the “flaws.” Think about foundations.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
People who are opposed to any kind of regime running on Gen AI have to exercise our capacity to address it beyond its flaws. Flaws are opportunities to anyone looking for more money bc it gives them something to “fix.” Don’t get stuck in the “flaws.” Think about foundations.
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You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
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What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
sonjadrimmer.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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UBC just released its FY25 Statement of Financial Information. It shows $46,540 spent on Proctorio last year. That’s a lot to spend on academic surveillance software that UBC banned in 2021 for discriminatory practices. vpfo-finance-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...
vpfo-finance-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
UBC just released its FY25 Statement of Financial Information. It shows $46,540 spent on Proctorio last year. That’s a lot to spend on academic surveillance software that UBC banned in 2021 for discriminatory practices. vpfo-finance-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...
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Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
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The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
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A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students.
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students.
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Is anyone even on Bluesky? Worth blooting Sarah's keynote for the Deakin Teaching & Learning Conference?
#DeakinTLC
#DeakinTLC
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Is anyone even on Bluesky? Worth blooting Sarah's keynote for the Deakin Teaching & Learning Conference?
#DeakinTLC
#DeakinTLC
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.