Mastodawn

Daniel Probst Nov 11, 2022

Moving instances now, see you in a minute 🙂

Daniel Probst Nov 11, 2022

Ethan Brown ☕️Nov 6, 2022

#introduction I'm Ethan. I work in all flavors analytics and have for some time, building and leading data teams at a few places.

My background is in computational #physics and occasionally I still read abstracts and toot about them to feel alive.

I also dabble in #generativeart, but only the very fungible kind.

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

TIL: You can see planets (and their moons) during the day.

(Source: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/jupiter-in-daylight)

Jupiter in Daylight

If you know where to look, you can find planets in the daytime. This image of Jupiter was captured by The Rogue Astronaut in 2020. Jupiter's moon Europa is the dot seen at the right.

The Planetary Society

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

Here's my prediction: After Twitter falls apart, Melon Husk will run a Mastodon instance for his fans and claim to have invented it.

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

How it started & how it's going.

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

Is Alanis Morissette on Mastodon yet? I would like to show her this prime example of irony.

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

Interesting read:

"Artificial intelligence and the technological turn of public education privatization: In defence of democratic education"

https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/LRE.18.2.04

#Science #MachineLearning #Education #Society

Artificial intelligence and the technological turn of public education privatization: In defence of democratic education

This article considers how the development of for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) technologies fosters the privatization of public education and erodes the values and practices of democratic education. The introduction situates the advent of digital technologies in the context of the structural economic and ideological shifts of the past 40 years. Such changes include neo-liberal restructuring, the repressive school and social turn, changes in the use of positivist ideology in schooling, the role of new technologies in social and cultural reproduction and changing imperatives for capital accumulation. The article illustrates different uses of AI as part of the technological turn of public education privatization. Examples include: (1) adaptive learning technology, and transformations to teacher work and conceptions of knowledge and learning; (2) biometric pedagogy and the cultural politics of locating learning in the body; and (3) the convergence of impact investing and digital surveillance technologies. The article considers how changes in the ownership and control over different aspects of public education relate to the cultural politics of knowledge and learning. It also examines how, under the guise of disinterested objectivity and neutrality, particular class and cultural ideologies and interests are promoted through new technologies, with significant pedagogical, cultural, economic and political implications. The article concludes by arguing that AI education is a site of cultural and political contestation and must be comprehended as a form of representational politics. By showing a critical pedagogical AI project, the article suggests that the anti-democratic tendencies of most AI education is hardly inevitable or determined, but rather represents a replication of long-standing ideologies.

ScienceOpen

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

Michael Clemens Nov 10, 2022

A #NewPaperAlert —> Just published, the single most up-to-date and complete review of the literature on the #economics of #crime that I've seen.

Broadly: Immigration reduces per capita crime rates because immigrants typically have lower propensity toward criminal acts. The crime that is typically increased by immigration is crime *against immigrants*.

By Paolo Pinotti and Sandra Rozo —> https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909333.00015

Chapter 11: New evidence on immigration and crime

This chapter explores recent advances in the economics literature that studies the relationship between immigration and crime. We focus primarily on recent studies employing econometric methods to uncover causal relationships, but we will also cover some earlier, descriptive analyses.

Elgar Online: The online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

I just learned that Larry Ellison also put money into Twitter and now I really want to see it sink.

Daniel Probst Nov 10, 2022

Twitter Drama

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