funnymonkey / is on Nostr

Personal Acc't. Speaking only for myself. Privacy, Misinformation, AdTech, Education, Open Source, Content, and Standards. Education is a social justice issue.

#NoBot

Personal Site: https://www.funnymonkey.com
It's Lunchtime!: https://homeofficelunch.com/
Pronouns: he/him

Last Notes

2024-08-30 13:23:42

One point I'm surprised isn't made more often: Trump inherited a functioning country when he took office in 2017.
His claimed successes are the result of Obama's 8 years in the presidency.
When Biden and Harris took office after Trump, they inherited a country and a government that was fractured in multiple ways.
So when Dana Bash asks about "people doing better under Trump" she's really asking about people benefitting from Obama era policies.
@npub1z4k…g27u

2024-08-22 01:09:57

For people in the @npub1u97…c75y group who want a collection of relevant, accurate journalism on US Politics: I can't recommend the Cornerstone of Democracy from @npub1ry2…ma3q enough.
Subscribe for a daily summary of good reporting.
https://cornerstone.ghost.io/

2024-08-20 14:27:17

- reply

The latest example of this comes from from Walt Disney. In October 2023, Kanokporn Tangsuan — a medical doctor with food allergies — ate with her husband and mother in a restaurant in Disney Springs shopping area in Orlando. They chose this restaurant specifically because it advertised that it paid careful attention to preparing food for people with allergies. Despite this, it appears the restaurant failed to meet this commitment. Tangsuan died of anaphylaxis shortly after eating the meal.
5/x

2024-08-20 14:25:15

- reply

I have been told this by product manufacturers, people with purchasing and decision making authority in higher ed and K12, senior leadership at nonprofits that claim to understand and care about privacy, academic researchers at R1 universities, researchers at nonprofit and for profit orgs, and more.
2/x

2024-08-10 01:39:57

- reply

Peaches in the queue.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/934/697/066/414/226/original/a36ade6e7fa403b4.jpg

2024-08-07 14:21:31

- reply

Has anybody reviewed these contracts?
What claims does Houghton Mifflin make, and are these marketing claims, or legally binding claims?
(and yes, marketing claims can be actionable as false or misleading, but thats a long and circuitous road)
Has anyone audited the performance of the service against the claims HM makes, and the requirements defined in data sharing agreements?
@npub1svp…js2d

2024-08-07 14:19:32

- reply

Houghton Mifflin just "added AI".
I'd be willing to bet that the Houghton Mifflin products that embedded data collection to serve what they are calling "AI" are covered under existing contracts, and that these contracts have clauses permitting some form of data use for "product improvement"
And this is the question: is there any language in the contracts that address and forbid the use of student data in LLMs?
@npub1svp…js2d

2024-06-15 16:45:35

- reply

Such great pups!