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New comment by mold_aid in "We must pace the frontier"

mold_aid — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:16:08 +0000

To whom?

New comment by mold_aid in "How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]"

mold_aid — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:52:04 +0000

Is your girlfriend secondary or primary, if you don't mind? Our secondary programs in the region have a lot of AI vendor and software money flowing into them yet like you I see them (the teachers, not the AI) crafting lesson plans and assorted work with free institutional accounts for these products or personal ones. The vendors seem focused on student acts; for the teachers, there's a lot of "say your lecture into this tool and it will provide feedback on your performance" type of thing, which seems specialized.

New comment by mold_aid in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

mold_aid — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:05:13 +0000

The tilde thing remains uniquely obnoxious in a field that seems want to mangle language for fun, so that's innovative I guess

New comment by mold_aid in "A past and future of trade secrets"

mold_aid — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:37:08 +0000

Can’t believe Cabinet is still around. Issue 8’s “bang the keys swiftly” (2002) is still one of my favorite articles re: media history

New comment by mold_aid in "The End of an Era"

mold_aid — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:50:46 +0000

Boy I have not seen Scalzi's bluesky but I gotta imagine there's a minion named Hugh getting a nasty splinter in a Starter Villain sequel

New comment by mold_aid in "AI in Education: Using ChatGPT Without Losing Critical Thinking"

mold_aid — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:20:52 +0000

As a style, slop is starting to settle into an aesthetic effect that's hard to find a word for, but "twee" is getting close. Anyway I can't read more than a paragraph of this crap before bailing now, it's like an allergic reaction

This is an ad, also.

New comment by mold_aid in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mold_aid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:47:20 +0000

Was sad to hear about the fate of WMHD. Growing up in the US around that time college radio and left-of-the-dial stations were the only places you'd get introduced to different stuff.

New comment by mold_aid in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mold_aid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:41:50 +0000

Always try to find time for the Evan Davies show

New comment by mold_aid in "Number of days reaching 100°F and 105°F have declined since 1895"

mold_aid — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:40:23 +0000

"Thankfully I can crib from John Christy's work, reproduced here out of context and without attribution"

New comment by mold_aid in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

mold_aid — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:36:12 +0000

>is rather stigmatising

Oh you went with the "rather" instead of the "quite" that's interesting. Anyway if vegans want to say "I am vegan" you'd profit from taking just a second to ask yourself why you get reflexively pissy about it.

New comment by mold_aid in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

mold_aid — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:09:32 +0000

Yes, people in the US definitely have trouble with virtue.

New comment by mold_aid in "School Is Not Enough"

mold_aid — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:58:51 +0000

"Instead of a lemonade stand, parents should have their children try to make pastries, which is more amenable to an early-career pastry empire" is one of the more stupid propositions in here (and there's competition), but my favorite part is this:

_Unlike textbooks or professors, the creators of these educational materials are willing to engage with random students throughout the world, provide feedback, and even arrange meetups—often for free._

Oh I'm certain they are. That's why educators and staff in the United States get fingerprinted and submit background checks.

New comment by mold_aid in "Half-Baked Product"

mold_aid — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:06:20 +0000

nvm author explains in the comment directly below this one, lol

New comment by mold_aid in "Half-Baked Product"

mold_aid — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:02:19 +0000

"It’s not that the engineers are getting slower: it’s that every new button has to coexist with all the previous buttons."

I thought it might be intentional though? The first half reads very non-slop, and it just kind of inches its way in as the situation falls apart

New comment by mold_aid in "Opinion: I Was Not Allowed to Type Prompts into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk"

mold_aid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:50:55 +0000

>This is so shockingly naive I feel I’m being trolled

I'd take the under on "getting the joke" in this thread, imho, if people start piling in

New comment by mold_aid in "Opinion: I Was Not Allowed to Type Prompts into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk"

mold_aid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:51:39 +0000

...and This Is Discrimination (title in full)

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed to Type Prompts into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk

mold_aid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:51:39 +0000

Article URL: https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744819

Points: 5

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New comment by mold_aid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

mold_aid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:52:35 +0000

>Let's all work together

Nah

New comment by mold_aid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

mold_aid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:03:58 +0000

I'd like to add that "DEI" is, in this administrative environment, often reduced to a collection of terms searched for and flagged without regard for context. Such that "diversity" might be flagged in a grant application that has nothing to do with racial or ethnic diversity.

USDA is doing the same thing with ag funding, though I don't think the same level of chaos is appearing because there are still at the moment competent people below the true-believer management. But not for long, as soon as they complete their return to Kansas City, inevitably losing DERP holdouts (exactly as happened during the last Trump admin).

New comment by mold_aid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

mold_aid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:02:36 +0000

Perhaps better than "if I don't like it, it deserves to have its funding cut"