To explain to people, like my spouse, why Thanksgiving meals are properly done at 3:00, it's important that it be done at an awkward time so you have to skip lunch and are extra hungry
At the end of the board meeting for our local school district, the president of the Salt Lake City Board of Education commemorated Transgender Awareness Week by reaffirming the district's commitment to policies that recognize and protect trans students, even in the face of hostility from state and federal governments.
Local politics matters
Problem: You have your printer listed twice for some reason, only one of them works, and you can never remember which one
Solution: Delete both and re-add the printer
Results: You have three copies of your printer listed
It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.
Okay, you're skeptical of AI, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?
I think that many of us are starved for participation in small-scale systems in which we interact with other humans, and are treated like humans in return
