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Materials from UDL Conference Talk: “No to Normal: A Neurodiversity-informed approach to UDL”
Sarah E. Silverman, 2024/10/02

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Interesting post linking to slides and a handout for a session looking at the intersection between neurodiversity and universal design for learning (UDL). "UDL is informed by a recognition of learner variability, a concept that is distinct from, but often conflated with neurodiversity." There's a tension, I think, between the idea that people are just different and the idea that some are different in a way that is a significant disadvantage. Having said that, I like the way Sarah Silverman steps through the discussion in this presentation, taking care to reflect the various perceptions and respect sensitivities around these topics.

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Microsoft to re-launch ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool
Zoe Kleinman, BBC, 2024/10/02

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Has the headline states, Microsoft is relaunching 'Recall'. "It was designed to help people find things they had looked at or worked on previously by searching through desktop screenshots taken every few seconds." Now, you'll have to explicitly turn it on. ""Recall is an opt-in experience. Snapshots and any associated information are always encrypted." Would I use Recall? If it performed as expected, sure. But it's like Google's promise that you can just use search to find anything in Gmail - it sounds good in theory, but it's really hard to make such a feature work well in practice. What about privacy? I grew up in a small town - to me, the whole concept of privacy has always been a big city thing. I think people will adapt. More: techradar, the Verge, Ars Technica.

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Going back to the well: CNN.com, the most popular news site in the U.S., is putting up a paywall
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab, 2024/10/02

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At the headline says. The same story mentions that Reuters is putting up a paywall as well. Oh well; Fox News is still open access.

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AI for Breakfast
Audrey Watters, Second Breakfast, 2024/10/02

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"I'm ready to resume my work as 'ed-tech's Cassandra'," writes Audrey Watters, resuming the campaign against "the future of human- and machine-learning as envisioned by Silicon Valley's libertarian elite." At least for now. One item of interest is the discussion of Reddit, which "is being overrun with machine-generated storytelling" (as a Reddit reader I can attest to that). The worst thing the managers of Reddit could have done was to turn against their human moderators, but they did, and now the deluge of unmoderated AI sludge has started. Via Matt Crosslin.

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New Research Confirms AI Can Exploit Image-Based CAPTCHAs, Alternatives Needed -- Campus Technology
David Ramel, Campus Technology, 2024/10/02

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Frankly, I find myself getting the Capchas wrong as often as I get them right. What percentage of a motorcycle counts as being 'a motorcycle in the square'? I don't know either, and I'm not surprised that AI performs the test better than I do. In the long run, we will need some more specific 'human-identifier' - something that lets us identify ourselves as human, without giving away our personal identity.

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