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Apple’s new algorithm to detect whether someone has been in a car accident is wreaking havoc for 911 call centers this ski season. Yet another example of a good idea from a technology company in theory that has problems in practice. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

You don't have to be a Harvard professor to do the math on this one... #JoanDonovan's pathbreaking work on #disinformation and #SocialMedia is a liability for a university that gets half a billion dollars from the owner of the greatest disinformation machine ever built. #commodon @commodon @communicationscholars @ICAHDQ @HigherEdLabor #academic @academicchatter

Today in #LuxurySurveillance https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

Yesterday I attended a popular webinar around chat, #GPT in education. The special guest went on at length about how amazing the tool was with no mention of ethics. They talked about using the tool with eighth graders with no mention that this violates the terms of use. No mention of getting consent from these children, who cannot consent so I guess no mention of getting consent from their parents. No mention of privacy no mention of anything critical.

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@ccampboyle @ZingerLearns @ungrading Yes, absolutely. These are such important questions. I’d like to see administrators reflect on this more. I see less movement at the upper levels than I do in the classroom.

The US appeals court just ruled men under domestic violence orders can own guns

Every day in America, three women die from domestic violence

This country won’t stop at taking our rights, they want to take our lives

Many of the conservatives who are pushing hardest for book bans in public schools homeschool their kids or send them to private schools.

They still push for this because destruction of public schools as an engine of egalitarianism, democracy and social mobility serves their larger ideological goals of having an unequal society with "good people" like them at the top, served and exploited by exploited and ignorant poor underneath.

Final tally was 36 hours without power. Very happy to have had a back-up plan after managing Feb. 2021. Had difficulty following public info (cuz Twitter yadda yadda yadda). Should I buy a radio? #TX #poweroutage #atx #winterstorm

Forced return to office plans only serve to drive mothers & others with caretaking responsibilities out of the workforce. The estimated 72 min avg commute time savings matter, the difference between chaos & sanity.
https://time.com/6251465/return-to-office-working-moms-pandemic/

A House Republican from Utah just introduced a bill that would ban every kid under 16 from using social media.

@evangreer: “For many kids, especially LGBTQ young people who may have unsupportive parents or live in a conservative area, the internet and social media are a lifeline"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/02/new-bill-would-ban-anyone-under-16-using-social-media/

I talked to the former Memphis police surveillance manager who installed the SkyCop camera that recorded Nichols' beating (and who now works for SkyCop).

He said, “Crimes of passion cannot be deterred. ... In the Nichols case, that was a crime of passion, and it was caught on video."

He says surveillance is the future, so get used to it:

“It’s the most indiscriminate form of policing there is. The camera doesn’t care. It just records.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/

@ZingerLearns @ccampboyle @ungrading That's what I was thinking: lack of transparency. Surprise! Your excellent paper deserves a D. Why would a teacher do that? It's sadistic.

@DrSuzanne @ZingerLearns @ungrading However, my father didn’t take it that way. He was angry before she told him that. Afterward, he interpreted it as being called on coasting, and he agreed that he was. When he relayed the story to me 25 years later, he was using it as an example of the need to put in that good faith effort. She was actually his favorite teacher; he credited her with keeping him intellectually honest.

@DrSuzanne @ZingerLearns @ungrading I agree, it is NOT transparent. The same method could have been used to destroy a student an unscrupulous teacher didn’t like. For that reason, I don’t think it is justified as a teaching method. I prefer a use of rubrics, so people know where they stand.

This must be said: YOU paid for Social Security. It’s YOUR money - and now Republicans want to drastically cut your entitled benefits. House Democrats won’t let that happen.

#HandsOffSocialSecurity

@ZingerLearns @ungrading @DrSuzanne In high school, in the 1950s, my father received a D on a paper. He was angry because he knew his paper was better than that of a classmate who had received an A. His teacher replied, “His paper was an A for him; your paper was a D for you.”

I totally forgot about this music video where Weezer got all the early internet celebrities together to be in their video.... my god the memories, back when the internet was an enjoyable place to be.

https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E

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