Daniela Tafani @dt@qoto.org

"The tech industry’s ethos is: If it’s doable, it is necessary. But for educators, that has to be an actual question: Is this necessary?... Is doing it this way good, or could we do it another way that would be better? Better in the ethical sense and the pedagogical sense" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/ed-tech-classroom.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Dopo il mio pezzo su Guido Calogero dello scorso dicembre, Morcelliana Scholé mi ha proposto di curare e introdurre una raccolta degli scritti scolastici del filosofo romano. Ho appena mandato il materiale in lavorazione, dovrebbe uscire entro settembre
@scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @histodons @histodon @notizie @poliversity @filosofia @zfphl @intellectualhistory https://www.rivistailmulino.it/a/guido-calogero

They “can’t write a three-page paper or hand-make a poster board. Their textbooks are all online, but tangible pages under your fingers literally connect you to the material you’re learning. These kids do not know how to move through their day without a device in their hand and under their fingertips. They never even get a chance to disconnect from their tech and reconnect with one another through eye contact and conversation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/opinion/schools-technology.html

L’università è una riserva di pensiero critico https://jacobinitalia.it/luniversita-e-una-riserva-di-pensiero-critico/ #Primopiano #Articoli

Su @jacobinitalia, alcune mie riflessioni sul ruolo della libertà accademica e sul bisogno che in questo momento società e potere si confrontino con una comunità universitaria pienamente capace della sua funzione critica
@intellectualhistory @scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @scuola@mastodon.uno @notizie @poliversity @universitaly @histodons @histodon https://jacobinitalia.it/luniversita-e-una-riserva-di-pensiero-critico/

#publishOrPerish or #publishAndPerish? If you spend your time writing, you will not have enough of it to read 🙂 https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/112241540643321194 via @petersuber @academicchatter

"...ma prima di chiedermi di fondere gli aratri per farne cannoni, vorrei che gentilmente mi si mostrassero le carte da dove evincere quali e quanti e quanto intelligenti sforzi sono stati fatti negli ultimi trent’anni per non arrivare a questo punto. Le carte, non i discorsi. Prima che i nostri figli si mettano in fila per il fronte, i cittadini d’Europa ne hanno diritto." Maurizio Maggiani su https://archive.ph/xgd86

#Anvur Sedicenti scienziati superdotati - per lo più valutatori di stato - chiedono effettive superdotazioni: https://www.roars.it/scienziati-superdotati-bussano-alla-porta-della-meloni/ #Herbalife (per capire perché c'è questo tag, leggete l'articolo 🙂 )

There’s no sweeter phrase than “I told you so”. But sweetness can turn bitter if I have to tell you every few months, and you keep acting surprised…

2024 - Alleged "cashier-less" Amazon shops actually need "1,000 real people in India scanning camera feeds". https://www.engadget.com/amazon-just-walked-out-on-its-self-checkout-technology-191703603.html

2023 - Same thing with Alexa.
2022 - Same thing with smart warehouses.
2019 - Same thing with Ring.
2018 - Same thing with Kiwibots...

World Central Kitchen founder's response

“The air strikes on our convoy were not just some unfortunate mistake in the fog of war. It was a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by the [Israeli military]. It was also the direct result of his [PM Netanyahu’s] government’s policy to squeeze humanitarian aid to desperate levels.”

Jose Andres

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#WCK

@pluralistic Hi Cory, this will be of interest to you - a preprint demonstrating (mathematically) that hallucinations are an inevitable consequence of how LLMs are made and work. You can’t avoid them: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

This take from @pluralistic deserves more play.

TL;DR: #Copyright is not a fix for your #AI fears. Bullies want you to think they're on your side, but it's a trap. Bosses blame immigrants for low wages, while they actually take workers' wages. Corporations claim to protect creative workers from AI companies, but they exploit them just as much. It's a ploy to gain control and exploit workers, while deflecting blame onto others.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/13/hey-look-over-there/#lets-you-and-he-fight

#Labor #Unions #WorkerRights

"Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself."

Stephen Khan on the societal, cultural, and scientific value of multilingualism in research.

https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198

Si vis pacem, para pacem: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/04/01/si-vis-pacem-para-pacem-lintervento-di-emiliano-manfredonia-presidente-delle-acli/ Perché il #pacifismo è una posizione *realista* (cfr. #Kant https://btfp.sp.unipi.it/dida/kant_7/ar01s11.xhtml#kingdomofheavens)

@dt @informapirata @informatica Sembra che anche il #GarantePrivacy pensi che convenga non moltiplicare le autorità: https://www.gpdp.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9996508 Abbiamo a che fare con #SALAMI che raccolgono e usano dati sulle persone. Non vedo perché occorra un'autorità specifica (e addirittura "etica") per dati raccolti e usati a macchina invece che a mano.

This is funny on a number of levels.

https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/26151

Describing the new French "transformative agreement" with Elsevier, the university of Lorraine uses my altered image from David Parkins as illustration, where Elsevier is depicted as the predatory publisher they are:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2019/12/elsevier-now-officially-a-predatory-publisher/

In the link to the image source, they link to a Swiss (EPFL) article (not the original Nature article) that actually contains the unaltered original illustration:

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/mise-en-garde-face-aux-editeurs-et-journaux-predat/

🤣