ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

Funny to see VCs who generally rail against government intervention making the case for a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank now that there's an intervention that would directly help them and their friends.

Socialism for me, capitalism for thee.

Reminds me a bit of the people I know who went from ardent YIMBY to NIMBY the moment they settled down in a neighborhood and bought a house.

paraphrased: ...the intellectual bankruptcy of a conservative legal movement that has spent half a century rhapsodizing about how judges must apply the law, not make it. All six conservatives agreed that making millions of Puerto Ricans ineligible for certain federal benefits presents no fairness concerns requiring judicial intervention. Today, confronted with a result they don’t like, the conservatives reserve the option to veto any action they deem Too Big A Deal.

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-student-debt-cases-fairness/

#introduction

Hi, I'm Justin. I am a software engineer living in #SanFrancisco's #innerrichmond. I'm married, have two kids, and enjoy spending time with them.

Right now, I am working on personal projects and would like to work someday in #MachineLearning or #VirtualReality #VR. I wish both were more open like the web was in the early 00's.

To keep fit I mostly enjoy #Cycling around #sfbay

I enjoy #3dprinting, #gaming, #SciFi and #GeekCulture #Goth #Cyberpunk.

Still wife with frzxwzz #midjourney #AIArt

Chicago takes a lot of abuse from right-wing pundits and pols, who call it a failing Democratic city.

But did you know that one of the top anti-abortion orgs in the US is based in...Chicago?

And that the same non-profit is now behind a massive push to "Stop the Steal" and discredit the 2020 presidential election?

And that this org has raked in >$30 million in donations in recent years?

Here's @ProPublica's Megan O'Matz on the Thomas More Society, a group to watch.

https://www.propublica.org/article/anti-abortion-activists-fighting-to-change-election-law

Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave

Link: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35090238

What “cancel culture” pundits decry as a threat is a long overdue process, made necessary by the fact that in a multiracial, pluralistic society, traditionally marginalized groups are finally part of the conversation. And from a democratic perspective, that is actually progress. 7/

Shabbat Shalom

#CatsOfMastodon #Shabbat

I have a bunch of new followers today, so a re- #Introduction is in order.

I'm Serge. I'm sometimes known online as @emacsen

I'm a believer in the power of #FreeSoftware to do good in the world and be an agent of self-determination.

I believe in #FreeCulture because culture is part of humanity.

My most recent project is #Babka, an online space for #Jews and Jewish allies.

I'm a #geek I love play, #boardgames #ttpg, #videogames, #superheroes

Let's be #friends

Huh. So, I had suggested this might happen at some point, though I assumed Google was the more likely player (and it may still do it...), but apparently Meta is developing an ActivityPub compatible protocol/microblogging social media app!!! Some people will freak out, but I'll argue this is a good thing...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized

A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs

https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/a-beautiful-1897-illustrated-book-shows-how-flowers-become-art-nouveau-designs.html

Content is corporate.

Don't be corporate.

The only way left to combat the algorithms is being aggressively human.

"#Norwegians are #Cylons. It all makes sense now." #nocontextforyou

Anyone have any suggestions fgor cool linux-oriented ways to sync bookmarks between systems and browsers? Bonus points if it does something cool with that on top of it (encryption, a social element, a way to share the bookmarks, whatever).

I just posted a significant bit of analysis for Sentient Syllabus, a proof of concept for personalized assignments.

https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/assignment-and-agency

In the eighties, Benjamin Bloom (the Bloom of Blooms taxonomy) reported that one on one instruction can boost student performance by two sigma! Ever since then, we have been searching for ways to scale this for our current realities in #education - but no breakthrough has appeared. Why are we not teaching this way if the results are so compelling? Because, as Bloom said: "it is too costly for most societies to bear on a large scale".

With the arrival of generative AI that limit will change.

I have worked out a proof of concept for personalized assignment design that needs only a spreadsheet and #ChatGPT. The spreadsheet builds a prompt that students can customize, ChatGPT writes out the assignment. No specialized software, technology, or third party involvement are needed.

Of course, the results need to be vetted - but the improvement becomes part of the learning process, and overall the process hands agency for learning back to the student: the assignment becomes theirs.

The proof of concept is done from the perspective of a Computational Biology course I taught last year - but adapting it to other fields of higher education should be trivial. There is nothing inherently STEM like in the approach - humanities, writing, language learning ... no reason it would not work for secondary education as well.

The potential is remarkable.

I encourage you to boost and share - this will be valuable for educators at all levels, and it will give us very concrete ways to harness the new opportunities.

:-)