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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, a purported student at Alpha School - the teacherless AI-powered private academy led by software developer Joe Liemandt - posted to X, “Today [at Alpha School] they hooked me up to a heart rate monitor, put my live pulse on a big screen, and played a pre-recorded video of my parents giving critical feedback in front of the entire class. The challenge was simple: my resting heart rate was 80 bpm, and I had to stay within 10% of that the whole time. Anything above 88 was a fail.”T
Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College) (opens the original)
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Apple Podcasts | SpotifyFrom the 10th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, hosted by the Center For Mark Twain Studies, comes a conversation about how scholars nineteenth-century culture and media technology analyze the contemporary AI boom and broader changes to the media ecosystem of the
Guillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite. (opens the original)
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The practice of guillotining books - that is severing the binding from the printed pages such that the latter can be scanned, shredded, and pulped - originally came to light thanks to the Bartz v. Anthropic ruling last year. The ruling was a mixed bag. It led to multibillion dollar settlements, yielding four- and five-figure paydays for authors whose pirated works were scraped off the internet and dumped into the corpuses of commercial LLMs. More consequentially, it established a precedent for r
AI, FOIA, & The Public Good (Vandal Live from Labor@Wayne) (opens the original)
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Apple Podcasts | SpotifyOur second episode from the “Public Bugets, Public Good” workshop, hosted by Wayne State University and co-sponsored by Labor@Wayne, AAUP, HELU, and <a href="https://publicgoodu.o
A Moral Document (Vandal Live @ Wayne State) (opens the original)
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Apple Podcasts | SpotifyThe first of two episodes recorded at the “Public Budgets, Public Good” workshop hosted by Labor@Wayne, and co-sponsored by AAUP, HELU, and Public Good U. This episode features p
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