New seg academies, brought to us by the grandchildren of the founders of the original seg academies.

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Google Scholar can now give you an #AI "quick read" summary of papers. If only we had thought to include short summaries in our papers sooner!

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Instead of pouring all their resources into new features no one asked for (e.g., AI summaries that steal web traffic from the source info) maybe Google could focus on fixing features that people constantly use (e.g., stop the Google Scholar citation button from dropping ending page numbers)?

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I seriously look at people sometime and sense their constant, unexamined panic. The world demands ever more literacy, at faster processing speed. If you can’t do that, the world right now must feel like the sixth circle of hell.

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Monopoly power and politics of code means Gen Ai makes the user legible without ever becoming legible to the user. (In fact thats AI’s entire value proposition — make know without being known.) Literacy cannot overcome that kind of architecture of secrecy.

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