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Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”
Dear friend, I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully, “the professional historians are not listening”. Australian…
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Stephanie M. Lee on “AI by omission”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thursday, December 19, 2024
AI by omission Researchers seem to agree that the people who helped write a paper should have their names attached to it. The same can’t be said about artificial intelligence, as our Stephanie M. Lee reports. Researchers are often flouting requirements to note their use of AI, suggests a preprint from Alex Glynn, a research literacy…
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John Wagner’s List of Negative Characteristics in Corporate Culture
From John Wagner’s List on LinkedIn. Corporate culture that needs to get canceled in 2025: * Micromanagement * Mandatory Return To Office * Glorifying Overworking * Expecting staff to be available 24/7 * Meetings that could have been an email * Unsympathetic Layoffs * Not disclosing salary ranges in job postings…
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Economic Error in Australian International Student Market
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. – Adlai Stevenson MARGIN OF ERROR. From THE, 19 December 2024 Despite the expensive fees that they pay, Australian universities are barely profiting off international students because they are spending so…
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Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond. 1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…
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Can federation models save universities?
PRETENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION MODELS This proposed federation model is an example of unimaginative and uncreative decision-makers who dress up a very old model and pretend that they are clever. These “politicians”, for such decision-makers are acting like politicians, are “clever”; too smartass clever for realistic comprehensive educational thinking. …
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The Employment Industry has become unaccountable to the Public
On Linked-In: Dear Hiring Managers, I would like to express my feelings regarding a recent interview experience that I found quite disappointing. I applied for a position about a month ago, and the job posting is still active. The marketing representative who conducted my interview started three minutes late and continued to…
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2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology
https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/ The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it. Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing. Cognition histories is simply an account of…
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Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism
Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson in his book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, published in…
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Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.
Update Preface. Dr Michael Macklin is a former Dean at the University of New England: the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science from 2002 to 2007, and Macklin also represented the University as the Director, UNE Partnerships Ltd. He had previously worked as an Adjunct Professor, Centre for…