Trump School Vouchers need state’s Governors to Buy-In, or not Buy-in.
by andflywrite | March 4, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
by Laura Meckler @WaPo Download Here: [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Democrats-weigh-Trump-school-vouchers-with-billions-at-stake-The-Washington-Post.pdf" title="Democrats weigh Trump school vouchers, with billions at stake - The Washington...
Human AI governance
by kris | March 2, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Something real is happening at the intersection of AI and learning. Yet, the local communities infrastructure isn't equal. Especially, we can't move faster than our governance or our relationships. This post is a GPT review of human governance when I asked for a cross review of a recent PSA...
Klein and Clark on AI and Education
by andflywrite | February 26, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
From a YouTube conversation on the Ezra Klein' YouTube channel interviewing Anthropic's co-founder Jack Clark. Mr Clark has a lot on his mind here on 2/26/2026 as co-founder of Anthropic, which is , as of this posting, in a sharp conflict with the Pentagon over autonomous use and surveillance of...
AI Startup Market Maps: Edtech Insiders
by andflywrite | February 18, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Over the past year, the landscape for AI in K-12 has matured quickly — not just in the number of tools available, but in who is building with AI, how they are deploying it, and where innovation is actually happening. This shift drove a deliberate structural change in how we’ve approached...
Major health insurers are turning to AI for help: STAT
by andflywrite | February 17, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
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Post-Labor Economics Explained in 8 Minutes: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | February 17, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
David Shapiro has been discussing AI development since the earliest days of GPT and before the LLMs via his websites, and his David Shapiro substack, and a large number of YouTubes. One of his perhaps most useful and original speculations is what he calls Post-Labor Economics. PSA has posted here...
The Future of AI Tutoring: Building What Actually Works: Edtech Insiders
by andflywrite | February 17, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
EdTech Insiders Overview What evidence says about effective AI tutoring—and how to design systems that deepen learning without replacing human connection. AI tutors aren’t coming—they’re already here. Millions of learners use them daily, adoption is accelerating rapidly, and the window to shape...
How NMSU is integrating AI for future-ready workforce
by andflywrite | February 15, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This sort of academic coursework is very hard to keep up to date with the latest prognostications of what the AI will be able to do, and what employment opportunities will exist by the time the course is over. IOW, education is going to be problematic when trying to keep up with rapidly changing...
Low cost diagnostics
by kris | February 12, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
HC-AI Analysis: What Low-Cost AI Diagnostics Mean for New Mexico Recent reporting in Nature (February 2026) describes inexpensive AI chatbots assisting clinicians in low-resource settings such as Rwanda and Pakistan. These are not laboratory demonstrations. They are being evaluated inside active...
Partial solution to the doctor shortage: Pharmacists
by andflywrite | February 12, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
From the Washington Post. Pharmacist education includes patient assessment, differential diagnosis, laboratory testing, drug administration and prescribing. But outdated statutes often limit pharmacists to testing without treatment or require referral even when clinical care is straightforward and...
Usefulness of Doctors in an AI world queried
by andflywrite | February 9, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Two takes on AI and Doctors usefulness. What are Doctors For...from the NYTimes. And a GPT analysis of that article. [embeddoc url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/A.I.-Is-Making-Doctors-Answer-a-Question-What-Are-They-Really-Good-For.pdf" height="1000px"...
Promotoras in New Mexico
by kris | February 4, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
The following post was created by ChatGPT as a response to my request to explain how promotoras are key to understanding caring for communities at the Women’s Intercultural Center in Anthony, New Mexico. WIC_Anthony_Local_Post In Anthony, care doesn’t start with programs or offices. It...
Doctor shortages: Healthcare in States like NM
by andflywrite | January 29, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
As is fairly common for the less affluent parts of the US, Medical professionals in New Mexico aren't sufficient in number to meet demand for services. That's just one example for just one US State of healthcare challenges facing most US State legislatures. Healthcare has many parts, and what...
$382 M for Broadband to rural NM homes
by andflywrite | January 24, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Which Federal Funding actually gets distributed currently is not always predictable, but this is certainly needed and way overdue. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/382-million-broadband-project-to-reach-rural-New-Mexico-homes.pdf" title="$382 million...
Huang’s Five Layer AI stack: DAVOS interview
by andflywrite | January 23, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Jensen Huang of NVIDIA is quite the worldwide AI leader, up there with Altman in determining where AI ends up. Was sort of interviewed by BlackRock's Larry Fink at DAVOS. Fink contributed a few short sentences…one of which was to say he thinks Pension Funds should invest in the Infrastructure...
Evans and Berman: Two Takes on OpenAI Viability
by andflywrite | January 22, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As with much informed speculation about how the economics of AI are developing, here's two takes with differing opinions. One from Mathew Berman respected AI and software development soothsayer and influencer. The other from Benedict Evans whose tech industry newsletter we often quote from at PSA,...
Let A.I. Help Save Your Life: Dr. Wachter, Medicine Chair at UCSF
by andflywrite | January 21, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
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Hidden assumptions and meaning-gaps
by kris | January 20, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The following is a framework developed by GPT analyzing Best Practices in Health Care using AI Systems . Best Practices need to surface hidden assumptions, prevent meaning loss, and ensure that cost savings never come at the expense of dignity, trust, or appropriate care. What is AI capable of...
Re-Designing the Healthcare Machine in the age of AI
by andflywrite | January 19, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Public Services Alliance is currently developing an experimental project: "Healthcare with AI Innovation" strategic plan, working with ChatGPT5.2 Deep Research and other GPT tools. The hypothesis for doing so is that LLMs, specifically GPT, prove their true capability the more iterations and...
The AI future has arrived: AXIOS on 1/17/26
by andflywrite | January 17, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We've been hearing two hot takes about AI's future for a few years now, and they keep on coming. Recently we posted on "Reasons Why Getting to AGI with LLMs is problematic". This is the other side of the coin: "AGI and the future is here now." Can both be somehow describing the same elephant in...
Teaching and Learning in a Multimodal World: EdTech Insiders Webinar
by andflywrite | January 16, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Teaching & Learning in a Multimodal World How Google, HeyGen, Novodia, and Creatium are using video, audio, and AI to drive engagement — live on Jan 30 ALEX SARLIN AND JEN LAPAZ JAN 16 2026 Learning is no longer text-first. As video, audio, AI, and interactive media become central to how...
Anthropic releases new “Claude Cowork”:WIRED
by andflywrite | January 15, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Leading LLM services and tools providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc, are working on creating multifaceted interfaces that can do a lot of what operating systems and applications currently do. There are various reasons for this, but generally it's about creating one place that users can...
OpenAI acquires health tech company Torch: AXIOS
by andflywrite | January 12, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
For Axios: Brock E.W. Turner OpenAI says it acquired Torch, a startup that unifies lab results, medications and visit recordings. Why it matters: Large AI companies are showing more interest in monetizing health care workflows. Zoom in: The deal was valued at $100 million in equity, per The...
ChatGPT, Claude startup Health Advice. Should you trust them?: STAT News
by andflywrite | January 12, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Chatbots could expand access for some users, but the tools aren’t yet fully validated for consumer health questions OpenAI and Anthropic are launching health-focused versions of their chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, allowing users to upload medical records and receive health advice. While...
Will current LLM-style systems get us to AGI? 3 Perspectives on AI Development
by andflywrite | January 7, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
In the previous post three AI research and development leaders were noted as being pessimistic about how far the LLM models can take us toward to AGI. And/or how long it would take to get there. Since all AI projections and predictions start from a specific world picture of the current AI status...
Understanding AI in 2026: Beyond the LLM Paradigm: Potkalitsky
by andflywrite | January 6, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This is another set of views that explores ideas about what is needed to understand and achieve "AGI". As previously noted here, the use of "AGI" as a defined concept is misleading but perhaps still necessary in lieu of a better concept to reference. . According to many, AGI is a process not a...
Electronic Caregiver Addison Care
by andflywrite | January 1, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
ACCESS and Addison Care by Electronic Caregiver Revolutionizing Healthcare with Innovative Virtual Care Solutions At Electronic Caregiver, we’re dedicated to transforming healthcare with innovative solutions that empower individuals to take control of their health. Founded with the mission to...
ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model
by andflywrite | January 1, 2026 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
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Benedict Evans 2025 year end column
by andflywrite | December 21, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
When Benedict Evans speaks on the business side of tech development, many listen. Here's his 2025 year end column and a link to his weekly newsletter which comes in free and also "premium" editions. (Note Mr. Evans uses British spellings.) ...the gurus of the (AI) field (and I choose this word...
Music takeover by AI: What does it mean for education and healthcare?
by andflywrite | December 20, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Music is in great part about emotions, yet the early days of discussing LLMs have been mostly about text,, and what effect conversations with AI have on humans. This AI topping the charts thing seems to be some important way point on the AI development graph. Clearly AI created music becoming very...
Demons in the Details: Optimization as Control: Medium is the Massage: part 1
by andflywrite | December 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As educational and healthcare institutions work to find positive ways to incorporate AI tools into their process, there are ongoing challenges to understand the contexts of how these tools work. That is reflected in posts here where the inner workings and challenges of AI tools are explored. For...
AGI variables and interface fluency
by kris | December 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Curious to understand how Chatgpt 5.2 may assist PSA in creating posts supporting the PSA mission. To test Chaptgpt 5.2 skills, I pasted the recent PSA post: "AGI:variables that matter" into my Chatgpt 5.2. The chat reflected and suggested that the most important variable may not be technical....
Legg’s White Paper compared and contrasted to Legg’s Interview on YouTube
by andflywrite | December 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The white paper is basically “Legg’s interview, but formalized into an operational measuring system.” The interview is qualitative (why the term AGI got messy, what changes may come soon, and how to think about ethics/safety). The paper turns that into a shared language: (1) levels of capability...
Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
by andflywrite | December 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Shane Legg is one of the group of authors of this paper, which is sort of live in the sense of it keeps getting updated. In this position paper, we argue that it is critical for the AI research community to explicitly reflect on what we mean by “AGI,” and aspire to quantify attributes like the...
AGI Variables That Matter
by andflywrite | December 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
AGI = A system that can do most of the cognitive things typical humans can do across many different tasks (not just one narrow domain). Think spectrum, not on/off. Minimal AGI vs Full AGI vs ASI Minimal AGI: broadly human-typical competence across most cognitive tasks. Full AGI: covers the...
Shane Legg Defined AGI: A field of study = NOT a line in the sand
by andflywrite | December 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been talking about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for more than a decade. So what’s changed? Shane Legg says that AGI is more about a...
ChatGPT5.1 provided a PSA take of Shapiro’s “Elite Capture of AI” essay; part 2
by andflywrite | December 9, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The advent of AIs that think and write knowledgable essays applicable to varied contexts and projects... creates a NEW problem for authorship. ChatGPT5.1 offered to do an essay about PSA's response to the challenging ideas in Shapiro's Elite Capture of AI. Thinking why not...we gave it the go...
AI data center
by kris | December 8, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This post highlights how Project Jupiter’s recent $50,000 donation supported Casa de Peregrinos in feeding families across Doña Ana County. As conversations continue around the future of AI infrastructure, stories like this show the immediate community-level impact emerging technologies can offer....
ChatGPT5.1 analysis of Shapiro’s “Elite Capture of AI” essay; part 1
by andflywrite | December 6, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Shapiros' essay was uploaded to ChatGPT 5.1 for analysis, and this seems a fruitful exercise when many "takes" and "opinions" are stated in an essay. Doing a sufficiently in depth research on those would be difficult and very time consuming, whereas ChatGPT can do a quality and very comprehansive...
“The Elite Capture of AI: From Public Promise to Private Fortress”: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | December 5, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
David Shapiro is a popular AI reporter, if you will, with regular YouTubes, Substacks, podcasts etc on the current state of AI. His opinions are his own, and not necessarily PSA's, but they are generally thought provoking and valuable in a context where one needs to gain a broad collection of...
Americans’ Social Media Use 2025: PEW Research Annual Report
by andflywrite | November 28, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Growing shares of U.S. adults say they are using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit, but YouTube still rises to the top PEW Research is one of the most reputable polling and surveying services in the world. Which is not easy to maintain during a time when facts may be easily disparaged in...
AI Eats the World: ChatGPT 5.1 Analysis
by andflywrite | November 25, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Perhaps it's ironic to use an LLM to analyze Benedict's presentation on LLMs. But if there's a way to dig through a comprehensive aggregation such as Evans provides, it seems LLMs are one good way to do it. Thus the analysis below. Might be interesting to see what a different LLM such as Gemini 3...
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans Nov. 2025
by andflywrite | November 23, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Benedict Evans, highly respected Internet Tech and Platform Consultant of many years standing, has created his semi-annual slide deck presentation shown below from November 2025. His newsletter is available in a free subscription here. [pdf-embedder...
Dig Into the 6 Stories That Changed AI This Week: *week of 11/17/2025* : Nate B. Jones
by andflywrite | November 22, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Agentic IDEs (Gemini 3 + Anti-gravity) signal that the true battleground is the development and work environment, not just the model. GPT-5.1 Pro is starting to act as a genuine scientific collaborator, not just a writing assistant, especially in math, physics, and biology. SAM3 makes...
Approaching AI and society
by kris | November 18, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The final module for "AI for Everyone" offered in Coursera Deepens Our Understanding of Lifelong Learning. The earlier modules were useful in understanding what AI can and can't do, how to build a data science project, and the context of AI in a company. AI is becoming part of daily life —...
Teaching AI real world physicality and physics: Periodic Labs
by andflywrite | November 17, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Open and Download a PDF of this entire post here. Conventional wisdom: “physical AI” like Prometheus and Periodic is the next trillion-dollar frontier – making AI useful for semiconductors, energy, defense, pharma. (Andreessen Horowitz) Periodic Labs is basically trying to teach AI about...
Open AI testing Group Chat: Axios
by andflywrite | November 16, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
All below is content from an Axios post from 11/15/25: Megan Morrone Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios OpenAI is piloting group chat in ChatGPT, letting multiple users join one conversation. Why it matters: Giving AI access to group text dynamics could reshape how tech companies learn about our social...
100 Ways to Use AI: ForwardFuture by Berman and Wentz
by andflywrite | November 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This eBook by Mathew Berman and Nick Wentz is available from the ForwardFuture site here, requiring an email address, but otherwise FREE. (This document is also available below. Note there is more than one document with the "100 ways to use AI" title online; Also of note: Berman is generally very...
Analyzing the Economics of AI development and infrastructure: Bubble or Smart Investing?
by andflywrite | November 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The Matthew Berman YouTube Is this the End (AI Bubble) ...paints AI as a huge, infrastructure-heavy boom driven by real consumer and early enterprise demand. But it comes with big uncertainties: extreme capex, circular money flows around Nvidia, concentrated gains in a handful of mega-caps,...
Winning the Race for Tomorrow’s Technologies: The Council on Foreign Relations
by andflywrite | November 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The Council on Foreign Relations is a well respected generally non-partisan think tank that produces some of the highest quality white papers on "What the US should do". Below is their current report on technological innovation guidance for US policy makers. The report is lengthy, and also...
Nate B. Jones’s Personal AI stack
by andflywrite | November 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Nate Jones is a respected developer and YouTube creator knowledgeable about AI and related issues. Here he discusses his own use of AI as of early November 2025. While these are his personal choices which may or may not align with others' choices, they do give at least an overview and some...
How to Measure Intelligence: Six Researchers Discuss
by andflywrite | November 8, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Abstract: This analysis distills the central insights from the “How to Measure Intelligence” panel discussion into twenty-five key takeaways. The conversation explores how human intelligence differs from artificial systems in origin, motivation, and development. Speakers contrast developmental...
Education and AI: Essential Data Access vs Privacy Concerns
by andflywrite | November 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
From a YouTube on Andrea Karpathy's recent controversial AI post. Karpathy’s podcast has AI and Education things that I'm really curious to see. There's a number of initiatives going on right now around education and AI. I want to get into the weeds. I want to understand better how...
Building AI literacy
by kris | November 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Adapted from the Center for Research Initiatives (CRI), Dhaka, Bangladesh — AI Literacy Newsletter, September 2025 AI literacy isn’t just another skill—it’s a public good. The CRI newsletter defines it as a blend of technical, social, and ethical understanding that allows people to 'evaluate,...
Anthropic paper : “Emergent Introspective Awareness in LLMs”
by andflywrite | November 3, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Mathew Berman, a well respected software developer and also a YouTube creator about all things AI posted an "Anthropic's New Paper is Wild" Youtube on Nov. 2. PSA has turned that YouTube transcript into an analyzed GPT5 file, to help grok the noted perspectives. [embeddoc...
Bringing a forest into a preschool for Health: Can AI be called a “Life form”?
by andflywrite | November 2, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
AFAIK, LLMs and other versions of AI don't come in "organic" versions, and this may continue to be a bridge too far for thinking AI is a lifeform. In a scientific sense, "organic" means "contains Carbon compounds"..as in "organic chemistry". There are no known forms of life on Earth that are not...
AI literacy slice for PSA
by kris | October 27, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"AI for Everyone" is a course offered by DeepLearning.AI. Andrew Ng is the Instructor of the course on the Coursera platform...the Worlds largest MOOC platform. While Andrew Ng focuses his time on machine learning and online education, this particular course is non-technical. The course covers...
From Signs to Systems: Semiotics, McLuhan, and the Meaning of Media in the Age of AI: White Paper part 1
by andflywrite | October 27, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Free peer online tutoring
by kris | October 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Schoolhouse.world is a nonprofit, peer-to-peer tutoring platform offering live, small-group help in math and test prep, plus free 4‑week SAT® bootcamps and college‑readiness workshops. It’s free to join and built for real human interaction—small cohorts, conversation, and practice. What it...
Higher education in a tailspin? : Peter Diamandis
by andflywrite | October 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"What is education for?" has long been a tough question to answer simply. Education for what purpose? Career Prep? Humanities awareness? Better Cititzens in a democracy? Screening for suitable employees/ Badges of competence and achievements? Social status? Literateness? Trade skills? Enough...
Ted’s Next Chapter:What it signals for learning communities
by kris | October 23, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
According to this Blog Post, TED is staying a nonprofit and appointing Sal Khan (Khan Academy) as Vision Steward alongside a new CEO, Logan McClure Davda. No sale, no for-profit control—explicitly recommitting to free access, editorial independence, and global learning. Why it matters: For those...
Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary: NYTimes
by andflywrite | October 23, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Wyoming, like many states, embraced a campaign to increase higher education enrollment, aiming for 67% of its working adults to earn a post-high school credential by 2025. Despite efforts to make education more relevant and accessible, including financial aid and flexible programs, the state fell...
Student data privacy and security: Khan Academy’s Khanmigo
by andflywrite | October 22, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As OpenAI seeks to establish a platform for ChatGPT that includes learning apps such as Coursera (College Level) and Khanmigo (k-12) privacy and security of student generated data is essential to obtain wide distribution in the Education Sphere in the US. It's very very early days, but ChatGPT5...
Apps in ChatGPT, with Coursera as a first learning partner
by andflywrite | October 17, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
OpenAI is moving on several fronts to make ChatGPT a platform where people go to do a variety of tasks, not just "naked inference" queries. A huge part of that OpenAI effort is "Apps in ChatGPT" where the "action" takes place within the ChatGPT "envelope" but is powered by all manner of 3rd party...
Why all students should have a real chance at success
by andflywrite | October 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Sometimes the powers that be fail to recognize the potential resources in less advantaged groups or locations. This story below, of a student that climbed up from a rural school district in one of the poorest areas in the US, is instructive that talent isn't confined to the high income areas. The...
Spiral of knowledge to wisdom
by kris | October 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
🌀 PSA Spiral Framework: From Knowledge to Wisdom A ChatGPT5 response to my prompt "how can PSA understand "learning today"by partnering with AI for breadth while cultivating human wisdom for depth: Exploring how learning evolves from data to reflection to wisdom — with AI as a companion in...
Microsoft putting AI in schools statewide
by kris | October 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
🏫 Microsoft to Put AI in Schools Statewide Washington launches an ambitious AI-in-education initiative reaching every district and community college. Microsoft is bringing artificial intelligence to every public school district and community college in Washington. The move, announced through...
Students saying “no” to using AI
by kris | October 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
🧠 Meet the Students Who Are Saying No to AI The following article explores why some young people are choosing human learning over machine help. When ChatGPT appeared in 2022, it set off alarms in classrooms. Educators feared that students would use AI to write essays or complete exams....
Semiotics: Signs Mediate Understanding: Basic Introduction
by andflywrite | October 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Understanding Media and technological abstraction in the age of AI involves understanding Semiotics, a field we rarely hear about, although it was foundational for McLuhan and others who study media. It so happens that one of the leading lights of the French New Wave, Jean Luc Godard, had studied...
New Mexico nonprofit wins AARP Prize for tech access in rural communities
by andflywrite | October 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Aaron Casillas does a 501c3 NonProfit called Mycelia Foundation. Aaron Casillas initially moved from Connecticut to Las Cruces, New Mexico with intent to retire. But once there he couldn’t ignore the pervasive lack of interest connectivity and tech education. A year later, the technologist...
Plato and the transition to Text from Oral Traditions
by andflywrite | October 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
From ChatGPT5: Plato’s concern was primarily with the transition to written language, and his resistance reveals one of the earliest recorded critiques of a new communication medium. What he sensed, and what Marshall McLuhan later expanded upon, was how a change in medium changes not just how...
What’s Not Included in Human-AI Communication: The Path Ahead (detail)
by andflywrite | October 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
What’s Not Included in Human-AI Communication: Outline of the Path Ahead
by andflywrite | October 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Missing_Human_AI_Communication_Outline_FULL.pdf
Everything is Television: Derek Thompson substack
by andflywrite | October 11, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kudos to Gary for the link. PSA will be publishing more "media studies" in the coming days. Stay tuned, as TV often instructs us to do, and as T. Leary also suggested was important in his slogan: Turn on, Tune In, Drop Out. "Turn On" 50 year later has a different connotation, as we presume...
“Someone else was going to do it if we didn’t”: moral hazards of tech advancements
by andflywrite | October 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Was the distribution of deep fake video capability to any and all inevitable? Move fast and breaks things? Better to ask forgiveness than permission? Is it okay to release a Beta Version and have the users find the bugs? Those are not always easy questions to answer, as with just about everything...