Posts by tomstafford@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #B6vTTSWIXsFC6HvRdQ by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #Fediverse I'll go first:
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vTTSszBWONEeXYzw by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       MOAR MEMES
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vrpVy4nuc245y6Yy by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       NEW FAV#Mastodon #Fediverse #Meme
       
 (DIR) Post #BAdMUNGVnH6F5KiUhU by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       Here's @giorgiogilestro on how AI can destroy the meritocracy of text and leave us with an academia based on reputational rent-seeking"in an age of technofeudalism, open source hardware development is an act of armed resistance."https://giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-of-knowledge/
       
 (DIR) Post #BAdMUNWooe8xtuLW7M by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       Related: The AI wheel of death for Universitiesviahttps://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/are-universities-on-the-brink-of
       
 (DIR) Post #BAdMUNsRWFROyySmp6 by tomstafford@mastodon.online
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       Also related: Jordan Dworkin summarises some recent talking points on the future of the universityhttps://www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/californias-year-of-fees-observations"Ben posits that the university’s problem is that it combines too many unrelated jobs into one institution (credentialing, research, teaching, job training, technology development, etc), and that each would benefit from being housed in a more specialized institutional form."My take would be that tangled functions are a strength of the University, not a weakness