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"AI Literacy" and the Pedagogy of the Oppressor
“AI Literacy.” We’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the coming months, I reckon, as various ed-tech consultants and entrepreneurs hustle to capitalize on the generative AI hype – before the next “AI winter” sets in, at least. Tacking the word “literacy” to the tail-end of the
Venture-Backed Conspiracies
I regret to inform you that Paul Graham, investor and founder of the startup training program Y Combinator, has published a new essay: "The Origins of Wokeness." You can tell the political bent of his screed by the invocation of "woke," no doubt. But at this
Bad Traffic
Congestion pricing finally went into effect in New York City last week, over 15 years since the idea was first proposed. The new program charges a toll on vehicles (capped at $9/day for passenger vehicles) that drive in the central business district of Manhattan – that is, everything south of
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Apparently there’s been an "incident" at PowerSchool. An incident. A breach. A hack. NBD, just one of the largest ed-tech companies in the world, provider of a student information system for about 16,000 schools (75% of districts in the US), the central piece of digital infrastructure