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AERA Motivation in Education SIG Graduate Students @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 2d

I’m on a text-box only social media site and I think that sidesteps (only!) some of the issues that pop up elsewhere.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re interested, I’d be happy to dredge up the citation.

Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 2d

I read a research article on spanking once that found statistically significant decreases in emotion regulation ability and increases in aggression in children who were spanked, including those spanked only *one single time.*

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 5d

“Causal contribution“ is a phrase that’s really stuck with me.

Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 5d

Noteworthy excerpt: “It is not a matter of ‘free will,’ which is a throwback to medieval theology, but, in acting as an agent, an individual makes causal contributions to the course of events. The relative magnitude of the personal contribution to the code termination varies depending on…”

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know that I have your address—the article is titled Toward a Psychology of Human Agency by Bandura in 2006.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 5d

Albert Bandura has an article on agency that’s excellent. Will pull a citation for you in a bit.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 6d

(Damning with faint praise here, as the intention.)

Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 6d

I meeeeean. There’s some good scifi novels featuring it.

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Erik, the stepbrother of the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 8d

Hatch Act experts might we trouble you for your thoughts on this? Seems to me government workers are also (mostly) voters, and they are being campaigned to. But maybe there are nuances here I'm not seeing.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah. That article is definitely upsetting. I appreciate that it‘s from a student journalist with highly relevant credentials. At least there seems to be clarity into the malfeasance.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 8d

Would this make lead a better analogy? Harmful to all, but especially to the young?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 8d

Makes me wonder if there are Foreign Agent Registration Act implications. Seems reasonable to ask whether the action was taken under direction by a foreign intelligence service.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 9d

I always liked the quip, “Those who do not ‘do’ politics will have politics done to them.”

Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 9d

“I don’t do politics“. Well, politics has no problem doin’ the bending with you; so you better look alive, darling.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21d

No clue what the wut “optimal” means beyond maybe a basis to harshly judge folks who don’t meet a newly set standard.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 24d

"There are no grades and no hard deadlines, just the pleasure and satisfaction that comes with enriching your mind. "

You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.

CNN @cnn.com · 25d

People are coming up with their own “personal curriculums” to combat brain rot, improve their attention spans and enrich their minds. https://cnn.it/4gkALEh

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 25d

I am glad someone is saying this. To the extent google search is worse now it's due mostly to digital retrenchment. The world you long for is one where blogs, newspaper articles, magazines and the like were ad-funded and not paywalled on hit #1.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25d

this is more or less a conspiracy theory. it is parasite load and the fact that there are not websites anymore. there just more or less not any websites, and those that exist, exist solely to trick google into serving them to you.

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 26d

I worked on search engine optimization back in the days when there were 10-20 search engines and then Google just wiped them all out by being so much better.

Is there some financial advantage to them for making search useless at this point?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sure—that’s definitely a different use case. And it wasn’t what the article mentioned.

Its uncritical acceptance of the role of AI in a *hip* seems indicative of a tendency to overhype—to the point that it’s used as a given for further arguments.

Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s more than possible this is a failure of my imagination—and it seems to me that the relevant subconscious stuff relates (should relate?) to human cognition.

Is the argument that a prosthetic hip should have some sort of movement actuators separate from the musculoskeletal system?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · Sep 2

I can’t for the life of me imagine why a hip should have built in AI. Maaaaaybe self-diagnostic capability à la check engine lights, but even that is a stretch.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · Sep 2

But… Smart hips! </s>

Screenshot of a New York Times article. Text reads:

For instance, say you break your hip, and your orthopedist tells you the world’s most highly rated hip replacement is a Chinese-made prosthetic that is infused with Chinese-designed A.I. It is constantly learning about your body and, with its proprietary algorithm, using that data to optimize your movements in real time. It’s the best!

Would you let that “smart hip” be sewn into you? I wouldn’t— not unless I knew that China and America had agreed to embed a common ethical architecture into every A.I.-enabled device that either nation builds. Viewed on a much larger, global scale, this could ensure that A.I. is used only for the benefit of humanity, whether it is employed by humans or operates on its own initiative.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is an inevitable byproduct of automation. The AI boosters have been selling us that deskilling in some areas will result in upskilling in others, but we have no evidence of this. We don't even have a particularly good theory. We have salesmanship B.S.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 28

Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”

Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?

Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.

nyti.ms

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · Aug 20

For being a university so involved with the deaf community this is wild.

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