Phil Cubeta

Teach philanthropy

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

Love to have Cory’s support. RSS is patient. Only 22 years since it took off. It’s always ready to “deshitify” the corporate Silicon Valley disneyfied web.

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[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

—Robert Frost

[Council on Foundations @COF_]

Trust-based philanthropy paired with localization recognizes that organizations based in a community and led by local leaders know how to best address issues and direct resources.

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[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

1. Do not obey in advance.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Charles Koch recently transferred more than $5 billion to two secretive organizations

The donations are structured to allow Koch to avoid BILLIONS in taxes but the money can still be used directly in political campaigns

It's an audacious scheme

Here is how it works

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[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

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[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

Analytic philosophy as explication of the intuitions of Philosophy Dons. C.f. Foucault on epistemes. Seldom do the Dons test their intuitions against the Porter at the Gates. My intro was “the concept of heed.” As opposed to mind. Heed your head or mind it? Discuss.

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

Arizona State University faces crisis as donor pulls money, lawmakers probe free speech concerns | Just The News

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[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

"Not the odds, but the stakes."

That's my shortand for the organizing principle we most need from journalists covering the 2024 election. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy.

Here's an example of stakes reporting. https://t.co/1MufKvvPrQ

[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

As a former Yale Grad Student, found this quite compelling. Radical left breeds radical right. Intolerance creates intolerance. Deconstruction of truth is balanced by conspiracy theories. Power as the master term. https://t.co/FEdYow34Kt

[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

“Our findings show that tweets produced by GPT-3 can both inform and disinform better than organic tweets.”

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[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

@newinquiry @eleanormiestern Fortunately for the author few will have any understanding of what he is saying about them.

[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

The opportunity to learn. The means. The learning is the student’s job, though a good teacher can sometimes outwit a closed and reactive mind.

[Jan Rennick @PaulJanRenn]

Thank you! @letsquitteachin This arrived this week. Started reading and couldn't quit. Sharing quotes with whomever would listen. "I never want to say to myself again, "I am a great teacher", .... Learning is what we are paid to provide". -Jason Kennedy

[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

@sjessielondon Maybe the algos need a therapist. Cold readers of human beings. Seeking heat at the base of the brain stem.

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Not the odds, but the stakes.

@DanRather: "A horse race confers an equivalence upon all candidates. The only detail that matters is who is going to win — not all that might be lost. To view America through that lens today is an exercise in the absurd." https://t.co/WpFEMxQrZu

[Phil Cubeta @PhilCubeta]

@AKMA @williamcrawley @HartleyHAM You seem a proper Prophet in the beard.

[SEIU @SEIU]

Why are many of us living paycheck-to-paycheck in the richest country in the world? Hint: #GreedyCEOs

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Wordsworth, born on this day in 1770, on genius and the creative responsibility of elevating taste rather than merely catering https://t.co/11WNaYH8Wb

[Big Think @bigthink]

Want antifragile kids? Get out of their way. NYU Professor @JonHaidt explains why kids born after 1995 are more anxious and depressed.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I asked GPT-4 to create a mini Harvard Business School case study on Google’s challenges releasing a fictional generative AI along with an instructors note on running the case. It is actually quite good (and the references are real!)

Prompt: “You will write a Harvard Business School case on the topic of Google managing AI, when subject to Arrow’s cannibalization problem and the innovator’s dilemma.

Chain of thought:
step 1. Consider how these concepts relate to google.
step 2: write a case that revolves around a dilemma at google about releasing a generative AI system that could compete with search
step 3: write an instructors note. “