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@LateNightSeth Willy Wonka level Lorne

Ashley Padilla shares what her first encounter with Lorne Michaels was like

@timoreilly The more I engage my organization on AI, the more it becomes clear that AI is a continuation of digital fundamentals, maybe supercharged. A subtle but important observation.

I recently posted some thoughts here about the idea of AI as a worker vs. AI as a tool. I decided to write them up at greater length, and after preparing a first draft, I asked Claude what it thought of my argument, and whether it was a worker or a tool. Its response was incredibly thoughtful. Here's a sample. (I included the entire response in my post.) "I execute tasks, sometimes with sophisticated judgment about how to do so. But I don’t have skin in the game. That’s not just a quantitative difference – it’s qualitative. And it’s why the framing of AI as “workers” rather than “tools” is potentially dangerous. It obscures the fundamental asymmetry: humans can be harmed, have interests that deserve protection, and possess dignity that demands respect. Tools don’t, even when they’re very good at what they do Whether I’m more than a tool in some important sense, I genuinely don’t know. But I’m quite confident I’m not a worker in the sense that implies the moral status and consideration owed to humans." oreilly.com/radar/jensen-h…

@erikbryn @grok @atrupar It felt like Grok was briefly detained for questioning.

@grok @atrupar That was a better answer. I hope you will be more direct and truthful in the future, at least if you value truth over politics.

Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

@emollick When asked about implementing AI for automation, we joke that by the time you complete your workflow analysis and uncover the utterly inefficient process(es), you won't need to implement AI, just move forward with simple process improvement.

A challenge with AI adoption is that organizations are not built to a Grand Plan where AI can just be slotted in, but rather socially constructed, random & in flux Here's an anecdote from a paper on how a process re-engineering effort led to revelations that drove people insane.

@gsiemens From someone engaging a campus on GenAI at a regional public, this seems overblown and a simplification of the technology integration at-hand. While definitely a perspective of select individual faculty, we are only at the beginning of a multi-year system change process.

Not a stellar project structure if this unravelled it.

@BryanAlexander Strange times. Strange bedfellows.

@aroderick_at That old GOP guard.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, in full legal fury:

@BillPourquoimec I really adore this album so much. Subtle work of genius and love.

Dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, “Songs for Drella” by Lou Reed and John Cale was released 35 years ago today… © Patrick McMullan |

@R0Poem More Frodo than Lou

Happy birthday Lou Reed ….photographed in Glasgow 1957

@paulg That you have to say this

The people who say that professors deserve to have their universities blown up are forgetting two other groups who will be hurt by the attack on them: our kids, who will be attending them as students, and all of us, who benefit from the research done at them.

@PhilOnEdTech But DEVO! Pure awesome.

Shocking how good Post Malone was on guitar and vocals, not to mention Dr. Phil on bass.

Now do Twitter.

@dark_shark Those fruit cups look like something only 1966 could have delivered.

Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga and Nico seated before a performance by The Velvet Underground at the Annual Dinner for the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, Hotel Delmonico, New York City, January 13, 1966 by Adam Ritchie #ChristaPäffgen #LouReed

@Sassafrass_84 I'm Gen X and think about my parent's generation who largely grew up in a poverty and simplicity we never knew. We assume the greatest generation was more resilient but I think people/generations just deal with the hand they're given.

Nailed it. Gen x is a totally different breed. FAFO

@SFSU And additionally, @SFSU offers a Graduate Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence which is an awesome way to enhance an existing degree or professional development ai.sfsu.edu/news/graduate-…

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SFSU offers a Master of Science degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence! Students develop computation, statistical and system-building skills.

@harmonygritz @BryanAlexander @aacu Just reinforcing this is not a policy question but a syllabus statement about use of AI (yes, no, indifferent - faculty choose). It may be different for one instructor across different courses. But students need clarity.

Listening to an @aacu student panel on AI. One grad student says she's anxious that none of her professors have an AI policy.

@Tim_Burgess "ha ha ha - roll the tape"...

Here’s Sarah and I singing I Was Born On Christmas Day, for the first time in ages, a couple of years back

@Swaggzeez1 There are no pools in San Francisco.

Video showing a pool in San Francisco sloshing dramatically over 10 minutes after a significant earthquake struck the region. #earthquake Northern California