\n\n\nAI vendors are clearly the “new new gatekeepers”. Like the previous ones, they will dominate how we learn about the world even while some of us turn to open source and liberatory alternatives. But they may not dominate how we connect and share our experiences of the world, and that’s the core of the opportunity: how do we design pro-social frameworks and spaces that sit alongside an agentic information ecosystem?
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And how do help people know the difference?
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\n\n\nPapers that are more difficult to read might be worth it if AI increased the amount of good science being produced. But this doesn’t seem to be the case. Organization Science is desk-rejecting (e.g., rejecting a paper before even sending it to peer reviewers) nearly 70% of manuscripts that made heavy use of AI. This number drops to 44% for papers written without AI.
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Can we do this kind of analysis on grant submissions?
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5 Questions to Help You Navigate Uncertainty
\nI refer to this kind of uncertainty as navigating with a compass, not a map. I will read How To Not Know — this post is by the author —...
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What We Will Refuse to Build Again | dangerousmeta!
\nHow do we architect for thoughtfulness and meaningful engagement?
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\n\nUltimately, why not just build a “meta-paper,” using AI, to answer any possible question about the subject area under consideration. This meta-paper would allow the reader, using AI, to make many sorts of modifications and additions to the basic work. The meta-paper also would allow the reader to add new data, to run additional robustness checks, and to do whatever else you might think of. Once again, the canonical version of the paper evolves away.
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[Will AI kill the research paper? - Marginal REVOLUTION](marginalrevolution.com/marginalr…
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\n\nBeing successful with this approach to coding agents hinges on a rather crucial element: only a skilled developer who’s thinking critically, and comfortable operating at the architectural level, can spot issues in the thousands of lines of generated code, before they become a problem.
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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
\nIt’s like developers are now experiencing what anyone who has paid for a technology project feels.
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GitHub - mattpocock/skills: Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory. · GitHub
\nInteresting model to apply inside a workplace and in the nonprofit sector broadly.
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Jamelle Bouie via kottke
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Trans people could be banned from homeless shelters soon
\nAnother inhumane action.
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Your website is not for you — Websmith Studio
\nThis.
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The Psychological Costs of Adopting AI
\nKeeping team member agency while integrating and using AI is very important.
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This is balance nonprofits need to struggle with as they understand how and where to use AI. How do we keep the texture of experience? How do we keep the agency of it in our...
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Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? - Anil Dash
\nFlickr was — is — one of my favorite corners on the internet.
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[What I Learned about Hyperscalers
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How to Survive the Agentic AI Era | HackerNoon
\nAlso applies to organizations.
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\nThe proposal also removes a 2016 safeguard that banned shelters from asking invasive questions or requiring proof of a person’s body or medical history.
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Donald Trump rolls back LGBTQ housing protections
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\nNonprofits are operating in spaces where capitalism and govt have failed.
\ntheir job is to make a social, not financial, impact.
\nbusiness has crazy competition and incentives. Let’s work that out for nonprofits.
\n@numericcitizen Terrific texture.
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\nGive! Any amount helps us get to the goal -> www.every.org/techsoup/f/f…
\nShare! Repost this, write you own post, send emails.
\nActivate! Every year we vote on the funding that supports the meals. Make sure your congresspeople know how critical this is.
\n@marniewebb.bsky.social AND our funding models don’t make it easy for a small, lightweight app that doesn’t collect user data to get consistent ongoing funding.
\nWe are building an endowment to help respond to the need and provide an example of funding a product that keeps it going.
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\nThe 90K public schools that provide access to meals for students who need it close during the summer months.
\nThe ~35K places that do serve meals are open at various hours.
\nThat means the place a young person got a meal on Monday may no longer be serving on Wednesday.
\n@rubyji.bsky.social I’m with you. Especially after yesterday’s win by UCLA Women’s basketball 💪
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