Yes, the Koch’s own kids get to go to schools with fabulously progressive pedagogy. But Koch money pushes a very different sort of classroom elsewhere. In Tennessee, for example, Koch funding promoted charter schools for low-income families. At some of those schools, most famously the KIPP network, students are rigidly controlled. KIPP’s “no excuses” model and “SLANT” rules (Sit up, Listen, Ask and Answer questions, Nod and Track the teacher) can feel oppressive.
Source: The Tortuous Triumph of Progressive Education | I Love You but You’re Going to Hell
The group accessed Mythos by using knowledge of Anthropic’s other model formats obtained from a recent Mercor data breach to make “an educated guess” about its online location.
Source: Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands | The Verge
–Maybe run your all-powerful, terrifying security AI against your own stuff so people can’t just guess a URL?
Pull up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for any library directly into Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and other AI coding tools.
Source: Context7 – Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
Out of the box, the model will natively interpret a transcript and determine how your words should be delivered. Simple transcripts without any additional prompting sound natural. But Gemini TTS also comes with tools you can use to steer it.
The purpose of this guide is to offer fundamental direction and spark ideas when developing audio experiences. We’ll start with Tags for quick inline control, and then explore advanced Prompting structures for full performance direction.
Source: Text-to-speech generation (TTS) | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers
I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the decisions of automated moderation systems. It may be external, as when lawyers are penalized for submitting LLM lies to the court. It may involve formalized responsibility, like a Data Protection Officer. It may be convenient for a company to have third-party subcontractors, like Buscaglia, who can be thrown under the bus when the system as a whole misbehaves. Perhaps drivers whose mostly-automated cars crash will be held responsible in the same way—Madeline Clare Elish calls this concept a moral crumple zone.
Source: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
A cognitive scaffolding intervention (partnership training that reframed AI as a thought partner) was associated with higher individual document quality at the top of the distribution.
Source: [2604.08678] Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Behavioral Protocols and Cognitive Reframing
h/t Downes
The findings reveal a counterintuitive paradox: pedagogical partnerships simultaneously activate cognitive vigilance (critical evaluation) and cognitive offloading (strategic delegation). Contrary to traditional assumptions that delegation diminishes learning depth, our results indicate that strategic cognitive offloading—when exceeding specific thresholds—liberates mental resources for higher-order reflection, thereby enhancing transformative learning experiences
Source: Pedagogical partnerships with generative AI in higher education: how dual cognitive pathways paradoxically enable transformative learning | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Springer Nature Link
So I sat next to him and we started examining the UI changes in detail. And Cabel was zooming in and out instantaneously. I was like, “Whoa, how are you doing that?” And Cabel was like, “You don’t know about the Accessibility Zoom gesture? Here, let me show you!” And my mind was blown. Cabel emphasized the importance of going into the “Advanced…” dialog to turn off “Smooth images”, and I agree. This is a fantastic feature, but Apple has the default setting wrong for smoothing (a.k.a. blurring) the zoomed image. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want the zoomed image blurred.
Source: Daring Fireball: MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture
Must be able to ignore the most foul stench coming off my open leg wound, and not ask any pointed questions about the double-edged fate that befell my most recent wife.
Source: Henry VIII’s Dating App Profiles – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency