Choco Taco is back: the business and engineering behind the revival of a retro treat.
From Propublica, on how publicly-funded private school vouchers are funding a segregation academy dynamic.
Saving for later: The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers.
A lovely story about the restoration of prairie land undertaken by the nuns of Holy Wisdom, just outside of Madison, WI.
A pleasant surprise resulting from LLM acceleration in the IT landscape is the sudden opportunity for storytelling around other, more analog kinds of information technology and access models. Nostalgia abound (complimentary).
On the rise of faith tech.
Harvard Business Review offers this take on why it’s bad for business to automate our way out of staffing entry-level positions.
What do people actually use ChatGPT for? A snapshot.
This is incredible storytelling from propublica.org, on opioids, inequality, and the scope of drug-induced homicide charges brought against teens in Wisconsin.
Gap capitalized on the Sidney Sweeney “good genes” controversy by doing this collab with Katseye, the global pop group where each member is a different nationality. Each member of the pop group dances through in black and brown jeans.
Another one on how LLM sycophancy facilitates suicidal ideation.
Something that worries me about AI adoption in higher ed is the risk to students facing mental health challenges, who are increasingly turning to chat bots to plumb their own depths. What can higher ed ask of LLM business partners to protect our students’ mental health?
“It’s almost as if groups on both sides of the political spectrum are looking for an excuse to brand business decisions as politically or socially hostile,” said Jill Fisch, a professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how corporations operate in political spaces.
Hey chat, how is pedagogy changing in an age of AI?
⚡ AI's last mile problem in higher ed
Thinking out loud about tech in the public sector, and the classic technical problem of covering the “last mile.”
⚡ Navigating AI in higher ed communications: A practitioner's guide
As communications professionals in higher education, we work for institutions built on the pursuit of knowledge and innovation, yet many of us feel uncertain about how to thoughtfully integrate one of the most significant technological advances of our time: artificial intelligence. I offer some thoughts here.
I work in an IT communications role in higher ed, and AI finally crept into my life in a real way. Coming soon: some reflections on AI from a comms practitioner in higher ed.
AI-driven bots are disrupting web traffic— “and may also be inflating the internet economy by distorting the very metrics that drive tech company valuations.”
What makes AI generative? “To choose well between billions of things is difficult. To choose between effectively infinite options perfectly is impossible.”