Did I read right?

Lawrie Phipps got bounced from scholar.social because they're a military veteran? (Not because they're being militaristic... but because they USED TO BE in the military?)

This will exclude a lot of people (me too), regardless of one's current political leanings or qualifications as a scholar.

Here's Lawrie's version of events, with receipts:

https://lawriephipps.co.uk/account-suspended-you-are-not-welcome-here/

If anyone needs me to explain how Groucho Marx applies, I'll be glad to.

@StephanieMoore You can do internet alone at Comcast?!? We have 500+ MB? GB? (I can’t remember what the units are) speed internet for $80 a month.

Every woman you know has:
- taken a longer route
- doubled back on herself
- pretended to dawdle by a shop window
- held her keys in her hand pointy side out
- made a fake phone call
- rounded a corner and ran
- texted her location to friends just in case
- walked home scared

Every woman you know.
Every single one.

My father was stationed in Alabama when white supremacist terrorists killed four Black girls in Birmingham. My favorite neighbor in the latter 2010s was a Holocaust survivor who was only alive because she made a run for it during a Nazi death march through the forest.

Ancient history? Hell, it isn't even history when you KNOW someone who was there.

Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives: "The purposes of this study were, first, to reveal ways students in postsecondary institutions perceive care and, second, to determine how students suggest OP can be used to create an open/caring learning process." https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/6901/5910

#OpenPedagogy #OER #HigherEd #teaching

The cycle:

1 A new tech figure is held up as a genius/savior
2 Fawning
3 Critics are treated like heretics
4 Fawning
5 Issues emerge
6 Fawning
7 More issues
8 Fawning
9 Really big issues
10 “nobody saw this coming”
11 learn nothing
12 search for a new savior starts
13 Back to 1

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

Read more about the valuable community leadership work that @osi is doing to develop a definition of open source AI.

The webinar series especially looks excellent.

Please share widely.

https://blog.opensource.org/open-source-initiative-hosts-2nd-deep-dive-ai-event-aims-to-define-open-source-for-ai/

@StephanieMoore Feeling the exact same way about my new* birks.

*actually bought them at the beginning of summer and am still wearing them in...😭🤣

This is just one way the rich got richer.

Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.

Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.

Anyone see a problem here?

I wrote about how faculty can approach climate action in their teaching for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

#ClimateAction
#ClimateActionPedagogy
#HigherEd
#FacDev

https://www.chronicle.com/article/5-steps-to-integrate-climate-action-into-your-courses-this-fall

@StephanieMoore Can I tell you how much I’m looking forward to filling that out?!?

Like...not at all...

Coming soon on #MYFest23 August 30
OPEN Brave Space - Picture Perfect Doomsday with Roz Hussin @ noon GMT
Linguistic Justice as an Anticolonial Project with Jamiella Brooks @ 2pm GMT
Register for #MYFest23 to join https://myfest.equityunbound.org

@TaiMunro Oh wow. I’m sorry Tai.

@TusculumPearson @actualham I. HAVE. NO. ANSWERS.

Like for real. I got nothing.

great work by techno-feminist collective The Bachchao Project @tbp (via @info_activism)

"Our main goal is to help people develop & use Open-Source technologies that can advance the rights of women & LGBTQIA communities. People who build technological frameworks are largely disconnected from the communities using them. There is little understanding of the issues... no effort to make the technology palatable to the communities. Our work is to reduce this gap."

#FemEdTech @FullStackFeminism

Fellow educators:

1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.

Screen caps from some spam I received just now:

@actualham A for-profit what now?!? I don’t even understand the phrase “for-profit community college”. Like I understand the words but cannot make the phrase compute.