you know pretty soon those generic slop AI comments on your posts will look and feel very real + actually have insights
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The Lone Genius Myth: Deconstructing Startup Mythology
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The blue pill illusion is this romantic notion of the lone genius or the startup in a garage creating something utterly new from thin air. It’s the narrative of “I built this all myself, from scratch.” We hero-worship inventors and founders as if they pulled a completely novel
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Creative Workshop Explores Possible Futures Beyond Tech Fascism
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Tired of cleaning up after techno-fascist dumpster fires? So are we. Want to exercise your creative muscle and dream of a better technological future instead? So do we. So we created a creative workshop around our Possible Futures Series.
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Imagining Possible Futures: Creative AI Workshop
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Join us next Friday April 11 for a hopeful virtual event and creative workshop to get us to think about our possible technological futures. Register at https://
eventbrite.com/e/dair-present
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Students Using AI to Cheat: Concerning Patterns Emerge
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Are students using AI to cheat? It’s hard to know whether any specific category is cheating or legitimate study, but we did notice some concerning patterns: students straightforwardly asking for answers, or asking Claude to rewrite an essay to avoid plagiarism detection.
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AI Use in Education: Cognitive Offloading and Learning Concerns
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Students mostly used AI to create and analyze, according to our analysis using Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals. Whether cheating or not, this raises important questions about how to stop students offloading important cognitive tasks to AI.
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Control and Freedom: Who Really Governs Our Society
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We are all being controlled by someone else and they talk about freedom, democracy and what not
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Email Responsiveness and Modern Salaryman Work Culture
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As many on the Internet are aware, I ordinarily do not have that level of email responsiveness, but when I accidentally am on phone in late evening when the email rolls in I like to be able to pretend that I’m still a salaryman.
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The Paradox of Effort: Why Hard Work Feels Valuable Sometimes
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The paradox of effort: Why hard work only feels valuable sometimes https://
fastcompany.com/91311753/parad
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Supporting Overloaded Managers: Effective Employee Communication
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Overloaded managers often have limited time—here’s how to get the support you need without adding to their stress. https://
bit.ly/4lnFneX #leadership #employees #work #howto #jobs