The best LLM for education? Widely advertised "open" solutions like Llama are open in weights only, providing no access to training code or to the all-important instruction-tuning data. What to use instead?

https://osai-index.eu/guides/open-llms-education

Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models https://t.co/IpTpdF1Na7

All @ACM publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!

@wilbowma this is what the youth call malicious compliance

📢 research call 📢

please boost! we're running a series of small group design workshops for community governance on fedi. if you are a user, admin, mod, dev, organizer - or have thought quite a bit about governance on fedi - and a legal adult in your locale, join us!

each workshop, scheduled based on peoples' availability, is:
🌐 2 hrs on Zoom
👥 w/ 6-10 people
💲 comes w/ $60 USD per person

details: https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/
sign up: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3SdG4y6wocMPie
questions: frictance@princeton.edu

@davidthewid I also am in academia lately, but my life experience inside and outside of academia has convinced me that being able to give and receive critical yet encouraging feedback are the two most important skills humans can build.

Today I am choosing not to cite a year-old AI related pre-print that has not yet been peer reviewed, even though it perfectly makes a point I want to be true— and many others have cited it.

The methods section seems a bit incomplete, so the longer it goes un-published the more concerned I get.

Monkey paw curls

#uspol

If you need other humans to put their bodies on the line to protect kids from getting hit by cars maybe the cars are the problem? https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/education/crossing-guards-paying-off-at-las-vegas-valley-middle-schools-3303977/

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris

1. Strong interpersonal relationships and ad hoc coalitions are needed.

2. Localized governance initiatives allow workplaces, organizations, and communities to build resources and power to determine if, when, and how AI should be adopted within specific contexts.

3. AI awareness and education should come from the bottom up: communities can build knowledge of how #AI impacts them and can be regulated by them.

https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-countergovernance-lessons-learned-from-canada-and-paris/

@bkeegan how are they asking you to "act now"?

ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm.

This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.

RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDC89laNhHZi1hzQXbzI72hP53WhHmO56fFrorfZHv4iQYOQ/viewform

listen to the end to hear me talk about bombing data centers :)

I recently gave one of the best talks of my career thus far, and thankfully it was recorded, so I figured I share that here!

Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!

https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0998d732-f40d-42b7-949a-b26c01545a20

wow, turns out that being on a long term course of steroids while on the job market while the country implodes is really taking a lot out of me. not fun!

@hipsterelectron

Right gotcha, for a sec I thought you meant Ruha was saying that, which would have made me skeptical.

@hipsterelectron who at AIS is saying that?

Wrote a short blog post about the workshop we ran at CSCW 2024 in November of last year about contestability in AI value chains. Includes a canvas made by Mireia Yurrita and me to help guide one of the group activities. https://leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/2025/02/10/on-mapping-ai-value-chains/

@hipsterelectron @jtlg 🥁 when trans youth are under attack, what does James do? DOES NOT HOLD BACK 🥁

Op ed by Cornell Professor James Grimmelmann @jtlg "Cornell Must Defend Its Values", on the university cowardly backing away from its support for Trans youth.

Powerful stuff, we love it when tenure armor is put to good use:

https://cornellsun.com/2025/02/08/grimmelmann-cornell-must-defend-its-values/