To be clear, this isn't unique to oral exams. Timed exams assess whether students can work quickly. Open book exams favor students who are good at finding information. Any exam is going to test skills related to the exam format itself, which will advantage some students and disadvantage others.

Not a professor, but do consider what exactly you're trying to measure with your exam. An oral exam will select for strong speakers, in addition to knowledge of the content. A student who needs more time to organize their thoughts or has an easier time writing than speaking will be disadvantaged.

If these are image editing mistakes, I kinda get it. Part of me wonders tho if there's some AI slop here.

My apologies! I believe I have been guilty of this, but I'll make sure to avoid doing so in the future.

Tobacco company claims getting cancer violates cigarette terms of use

When Takata airbags killed like a dozen people, recalls were issued for tens of millions of vehicles, and the fines and damages were high enough to put the company out of business.

We know how to respond to companies selling dangerous products. The fact that this continues to happen is a choice.

The "centrist" strategy favors candidates who don't actually believe in anything, and who will throw you under the bus if polls say it's popular. Just ask trans people, women, abortion providers, poor people, immigrants, scientists, abuse survivors, unions, veterans, teachers, or healthcare workers.

I wish Washington Football Team had stuck

I listen on PodcastAddict, which doesn't have its own ads, so any ads I hear are part of the file it pulls from its RSS feed. @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social , I'm not sure who manages your ads, but it might be time to find a new producer or distribution platform.

And if you claim to be a "philanthropist" but still have a billion dollars, you suck at philanthropy.

(Also love how Bluesky tried to make those settings names into links, so I had to put a zero-width space (U+200B) in some of the words lol)

Firefox started sneaking "ask ai chatbot" into my context menu recently. Had to go to about:config and set browser.ml.chat.enabled and browser.ml.chat.m​enu to false. There's no reason for these not to be exposed as user-facing settings, and yet, I have to waste my time digging in about:config.

I think about this whenever execs push for more use of "AI." Their jobs can be done by a spigot of on-demand Frankfurtian bullshit, and they think that must be true for everyone else too.

Seems like the pundits will do anything to avoid a conversation about how Mamdani's policy positions might actually be good and popular and something voters are interested in

Have you ever talked to magic 8 ball? I mean, *really* talked to one? I had a deep conversation with a fortune cookie the other day about this. My client, a bag of Scrabble tiles, would make an excellent guest on your podcast.