Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI Is Not the Inevitable Answer to What Ails Us: We've Seen Artificial Solutions Before

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"The myth of artificial intelligence is that its arrival is inevitable, and only a matter of time--that we have already embarked on the...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Twitter (X Account Deactivated)

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As of today I have deactivated my Twitter account. I joined Twitter in 2008. I want not part of the Elon Musk show and his nonsense. Twitter...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Social Media (and the Internet) Makes People Stupid

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It is true. Social media, and the Internet, makes people stupid. The entire Internet is responsible for lowering the IQ of the population of...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Here We Go Again! The Educational Hype and Promise of Generative AI in Education is a Re-Run I've Seen Before

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 "Across the sciences and society, in politics and education, in warfare and commerce, new technologies do not merely augment our abili...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Do Our Educational Institutions Really Value and Want Originality? Not Really. Conformity Is More Desirable

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 "Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other su...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Developing a Thoreauvian Skepticism to Blind Trust in Technological Solutions

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 "The terrible lethality of machinery is one problem; the more banal daily drain of technology is another. A faceless and amoral machin...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Schools Need to Be Cautious of Business Leaders Telling Us What Kind of Graduates Educational Institutions Should Provide

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 "...it was in the 1990s that shop class started to become a thing of the past, as educators prepared students to become 'knowledge...