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OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 | Mike Caulfield
OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 | Mike Caulfield
There might be a better point here just poorly expressed but "GenAI is like Ozempic because you're going to be on it forever (and shame on you for being that weak!)" is inadvertently a succinct summary of a certain type of judgmental rot that gets in the way of real analysis. Who says "yeah, the housing industry wants you to get used to living in a house, so you will need a house forever! The scam!" Look around your living area, with electricity, heat, refrigeration, books, running water, internet. Can you do your work without these things that society has rendered you dependent on? Are these things immoral shortcuts? The question is not about dependence. If you believe you are independent from your technical environment you have already lost me. If you believe the solution to obesity is everyone just has to try a little harder, and that Ozempic is worrisome "because it works" I don't know what to do with that. Our starting point is not the value of the human stripped of technology as the mythical "real" human. Our starting point is the inherent potential of every human and how technology can best augment that and help people to realize that potential. True, that requires careful thought and design, and attention to developing the skills that allow one to harness its potential rather than be steamrolled by it. But start with these moralistic notions and we won't get there at all.
#ai#mikecaulfield#metaphors#ethics#aiethics
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OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 | Mike Caulfield
The AI Wisdom Matrix | Josh Brake
The AI Wisdom Matrix | Josh Brake
One of the tricky things about technology in education is that figuring out whether a technology is more likely to be helpful or harmful is highly context dependent. The same technology, applied in the same way, can help one student and harm another based on their own individual circumstances. This week I tried to get at a framework to help articulate four different categories of work and think through how we might think about AI's potential to support or undermine the purpose of our work in those four areas. Link to the full post with a fuller articulation of each of these areas in the comments.
#ai#joshbrake#recommendations#academicintegrity
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The AI Wisdom Matrix | Josh Brake
Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state — Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state — Decoder with Nilay Patel
Today, we’re talking about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state. Since it aired for a massive audience at the Super Bowl, Ring’s Search Party commercial has become a lightning rod for controversy. It’s easy to see how the same technology that can find lost dogs can be used to find people, and then used to invade our privacy in all kinds of uncomfortable ways, by cops and regular people alike. Although Ring has since canceled its partnership with controversial surveillance company Flock, the company is now facing hard questions about its plans to use AI to promote safer neighborhoods, and how that intersects with its ongoing relationship with law enforcement. Links: Ring cancels partnership with Flock after surveillance backlash | The Verge Ring’s lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of surveillance | The Verge Ring says it’s not giving ICE access to its cameras | The Verge How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell footage | The Verge Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can…
#surveillance#lawenforcement#privacy#ai#technology#crime#ring#marketing#ethics#busn435#theverge#surveillancecapitalism
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Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state — Decoder with Nilay Patel
When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers — The Daily
When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers — The Daily
Tech companies are racing to build thousands of huge data centers to power the artificial intelligence revolution. To find the land they need, they are barreling into rural communities across the United States with the promise of good jobs. But not everyone is buying that pitch. Karen Weise, a technology correspondent for The New York Times, tells the story of one county pushing back against big tech.
#ai#datacenters#ethics#busn435#environment#csr#polution#labor#work#jobs#economy#audio
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When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers — The Daily
Building Websites with Claude Code
Building Websites with Claude Code
Learn how to build and deploy complete websites using Claude Code and agent teams. This step-by-step guide walks through the process of turning existing content (PDFs, eBooks, articles) into fast, accessible static websites using Astro 5 and Cloudflare Pages. Includes a downloadable Claude Code skill file, real examples of five published websites, and practical advice on accessibility audits, security checks, and iterative development from the terminal. Intermediate to advanced: some technical confidence required.
#wi#leonfurze#claudecode
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Building Websites with Claude Code
AI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeeping | Wonkhe
AI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeeping | Wonkhe
For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold
#ai#writing#criticalthinking#ethics#academicintegrity#ableism#neurodiversity#equity
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AI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeeping | Wonkhe
“AI will finally allow us to personalize learning at scale.” It’s an influential argument, which drives AI adoption at many institutions. But: 1) I’m not sure it’s true. I have seen very few… | Jason Gulya | 33 comments
“AI will finally allow us to personalize learning at scale.” It’s an influential argument, which drives AI adoption at many institutions. But: 1) I’m not sure it’s true. I have seen very few… | Jason Gulya | 33 comments
“AI will finally allow us to personalize learning at scale.”
#ai#jasongulya#ethics#audreywaters#audreywatters#personalizedlearning#criticalAI
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“AI will finally allow us to personalize learning at scale.” It’s an influential argument, which drives AI adoption at many institutions. But: 1) I’m not sure it’s true. I have seen very few… | Jason Gulya | 33 comments
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show

Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.

What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so twisted? And what exactly is wrong here? What kinds of policies could actually make our digital lives meaningfully better?

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu have two different theories of the case, which I thought would be interesting to put in conversation together. Doctorow is a science fiction writer, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.” Wu is a law professor who worked on technology policy in the Biden White House; his latest book is “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.”

In this conversation, we discuss their different frameworks, and how they connect to all kinds of issues that plague the modern internet: the feeling that we’re being manipulated; the deranging of our politics; the squeezing of small businesses and creators; the deluge of spam and fraud; the constant surveillance and privacy risks; the quiet rise of algorithmic pricing; and the dehumanization of work. And they lay out the policies that they think would go furthest in making all these different aspects of our digital lives better.

0:00 Intro 2:33 Sworn enemies of our tech overlords 4:14 What feels bad about the internet? 5:46 What do you say to people who think the internet is a good thing? 10:26 Defining Enshittification and Extraction 20:32 The Enshittification of Facebook 27:23 Competition and honor among thieves 32:23 Amazon and extraction 39:31 When does this become a public policy problem? 41:38 Anti-competition vs pro-scale 46:44 The decline of labor practices 1:05:32 G

#ai#ezraklein#internet#enshitification#infolit#privacy#corydoctorow#video#audio#ethics
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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show