Hello everyone! I’m Sanyu from Uganda. My name means happiness or joy, and it really reflects who I am because I’m almost always smiling or finding something to laugh about.

This is my #introduction post. I’m a #filmmaker and an animation student though my mother once believed I’d become a lawyer. Instead, I followed my love for stories, and here I am.

I love sleeping, good food, reading, writing, poetry, rain, billiards, music, movies and anime. I'm also known as the Korean girl because of how much I love Korean language and culture.

If you enjoy films, books, poetry, anime, or just want to chat, feel free to say hi. I’d love to connect with more people who love what they do and live it with joy.😊

#writing #art #film

Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people?

Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes.

Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE.

That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.

It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.

Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.

#uspol #fascism #immigration #medicaid #ableism #disability

Robert W. Gehl: "We need to rethink higher ed, grading, the whole thing. I think part of the problem is that we've been inconsistent in rules about genAI use. Some profs ban it altogether, while others attempt to carve out acceptable uses. The problem is the line between acceptable and unacceptable use. For example, some profs say students can use genAI for "idea generation" but then prohibit using it for writing text. Where's the line between those? In addition, universities are contracting with companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and Google for digital services, and those companies are constantly pushing their AI tools. So a student might hear "don't use generative AI" from a prof but then log on to the university's Microsoft suite, which then suggests using Copilot to sum up readings or help draft writing. It's inconsistent and confusing.

I've been working on ways to increase the amount of in-class discussion we do in classes. But that's tricky because it's hard to grade in-class discussions—it's much easier to manage digital files. Another option would be to do hand-written in-class essays, but I have a hard time asking that of students. I hardly write by hand anymore, so why would I demand they do so?

I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.

It has made my job much, much harder."

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Teaching #Education #Chatbots #ChatGPT #HigherEd #Universities

From my Nature World View article just released:

"There have always been risks to scientists for speaking out, but in the spring of 2025 in the USA, those risks have never been so high. Perhaps for this very reason, the risks of remaining silent are even greater, which makes it urgent that those of us who are capable and able to speak out do so. If we allow the destruction of US science by this administration, then massive local and global environmental threats will not be identified and addressed; medicines that could save lives and reduce suffering will not be discovered or produced or delivered; and technologies that advance industries and provide jobs and economic growth will not be invented and built. In short, the dismantling of US science now underway will make us poorer, sicker and blind to developing problems.

History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time."

https://rdcu.be/eo3Hb