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Notices by Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)

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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:50:36 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
    • Jason Koebler
    • 404 Media

    I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

    https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

    While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

    #generativeAI #higherEducation #teaching #academicChatter

    In conversation about 3 days ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 04:13:50 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
    • The Conversation U.S.

    Wolfgang Messner, writing in @TheConversationUS on how generative AI could homogenize culture:
    "The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the depth, nuance and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work."
    https://theconversation.com/is-ai-sparking-a-cognitive-revolution-that-will-lead-to-mediocrity-and-conformity-256940

    In conversation about 4 days ago from aoir.social permalink

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      Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
      from Wolfgang Messner
      During the Industrial Revolution, craftsmanship retreated to the margins. As AI becomes widely adopted, will the same happen to original thinking?
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 10:39:13 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
    in reply to
    • wakest ⁂
    • bhaugen
    • Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

    @liaizon @bhaugen @youronlyone I've written a bit here and there, but agreed: the history of OStatus/diaspora federated social media itself is a rich tapestry that's very hard to present.

    In conversation about 13 days ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:53:27 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
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    • Adrienne Shaw

    @adrishaw IJOC is pretty old, right? First Monday?

    In conversation about 17 days ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:53:24 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
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    • Adrienne Shaw

    @adrishaw Wow, I thought IJOC was older!

    Good call on looking at the bibs of First Monday articles.

    Please do post what you find! This is really intriguing.

    In conversation about 17 days ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:53:17 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
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    • Adrienne Shaw

    @adrishaw that website is straight outta the 90s!

    In conversation about 17 days ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 10:04:49 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    every time you see a slug, you gotta do a shot

    oh, wait, don't do that

    #monsterdon

    In conversation about a month ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 09:35:09 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    I do believe I will Slugs-it-up tonight

    #monsterdon

    In conversation about a month ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 22:05:32 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    Will people keep using Twitter, even after Musk’s takeover – even after he changed its name to “X”? Is this time different? As of this writing, that remains an open question. One thing distinguishes the 2022 Twitter wave from previous waves of discontent, however: there is a viable alternative available in Mastodon and the fediverse....

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/move-slowly-and-build-bridges-9780197776681?cc=ca&lang=en&

    #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot

    In conversation about a month ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 00:07:22 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber

    One of my favorite genres of fedi posts is the @cwebber plaintive plea for people to explain things to her, things that she is in the top 0.001% of experts in.

    Can someone explain to me why I find those posts so hilarious? 😆

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 05:44:35 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    Is the entire NYSE comprised of meme stocks now?

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 22:02:57 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    The following is a random quote from my next book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges:

    It’s time, Balkan and the Small Tech Foundation argue, to degrow things like corporate social media. Degrowth is a way of thinking that counters years of capitalist fantasies of infinite growth....

    #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 08:27:03 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    I keep hearing people call legitimate concerns about LLMs/generative AI a "moral panic."

    I really hope folks stop using that framing. This is not the same as parents getting freaked out about Dungeons and Dragons in the 1980s. This is a moment when huge, for-profit interests are seeking to exploit the creativity of writers, artists, and anyone else who creates. It's completely legitimate to express concerns. It's not a moment of "Won't someone PLEASE think about the children!?!".

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 01:52:07 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
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    • Christine Lemmer-Webber

    @cwebber yes! It's all about how Mastodon invented ActivityPub! 😆

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 01:49:32 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    My book about Mastodon and the fediverse is now available for pre-order!

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/move-slowly-and-build-bridges-9780197776681?q=gehl&lang=en&cc=ca#

    #Mastodon #fediverse #bookstodon #academicchatter

    In conversation about 2 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 23:11:05 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Jarrod Urban

    @aral @FediThing @jarrodu but... it's a Public Benefit Company! Surely that means good intentions.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 04:53:11 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    I have reached the copyediting phase of the book, with a proof version of the title page as a nice tease of what it will all look like!

    #bookstodon

    In conversation about 3 months ago from aoir.social permalink

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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:27:52 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    My university, York U, is suspending admissions to a bunch of programs, mainly in the humanities. This includes Indigenous Studies.

    There's news coverage in @torontostar. But it doesn't really address the cause.

    1/2

    #academicchatter #indigenousStudies #YorkU

    In conversation about 4 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:27:51 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl
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    The immediate cause is that the federal government cut back on international students in Canada. But the underlying cause is Ontario universities becoming addicted to charging high tuition to those students. And the cause of *that* is the Ford government, which has underfunded education in the province.

    Hey, there's an election coming up! Hey, Ontario: vote out Ford!

    #canpoli #Ontario #higherEducation

    In conversation about 4 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:26:15 JST Robert W. Gehl Robert W. Gehl

    I don't know who cares to hear this, but I publicly pledge to never use generative #AI to do any of my writing.

    That means no AI to generate ideas, generate words, or edit my writing.

    (It does not mean I won't use tools to learn how they work for purposes of criticism.)

    #takeTheOrganicAcademicPledge

    In conversation about 4 months ago from aoir.social permalink
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    Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.My next book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" will be published by Oxford University Press this year.Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping set up AoIR.socialhe/himTrans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.

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