J Miller

@violetmadder

This is such an important post. I have taught classes like that, way before LLMs, and feel it viscerally. Add the fact that lying on an application is typically a firing offense (in the US anyway) and it's such a problem.

It reminds me of a similar-but-different situation recently, on a call for a general audience involved in data management. I was called out for using the confusing acronym LLM (which, fair, I apologized). But I bet they knew the marketing term AI ...

@adamgreenfield

I find myself reflecting that in a way it is giving a name to something that has always existed. Going back decades, beauty contests had a spokesmodel portion. Some athletes and actors were given that role. Who became pundits and talk show hosts? Etc.

Seeing it stripped down to its raw essence is jarring, though. But I find it helpful to go back and view Johnny Carson and Jay Leno through that lens,

@Shobeck

Four day school weeks are pretty common in the Western U.S. states. This is mostly in rural areas where regular office work hours aren’t the main type of employment. The evidence on impact on learning seems mostly negative. Implementation that keeps the same number of instructional hours seems to help. Here’s a summary https://www.nwea.org/blog/2026/what-the-research-tells-us-about-four-day-school-weeks/

@ifixcoinops

One venue with a lot of options to learn about topics like this is RightsCon. There’s an online option and the session list is here https://www.rightscon.org/program/#list

There is also a pay what you can option for online attendance.