#Smart Work Tools

[goodoldbandit]

Empowering Humans, Empowering Work: The New Frontier of Human Augmentation.

Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo. skm.stayingalive.in A detailed look at wearable tech, exoskeletons, and brain-computer interfaces that enhance human performance and reshape workplace productivity. This post examines how wearable tech, exoskeletons, and brain-computer interfaces are reshaping workplace productivity and boosting human performance. We examine a mix of practical…

[sototallynormaliswear]

actually. AU where stiles USED to be a Spark. He used to be able to use magic and use it freely, even if he never really noticed.

au where after the nogistune, something's wrong with stiles. not "possessed by a demon and setting serial killers loose on purpose" kind of wrong, but in a "something's missing that I never knew was there kind of way" like realizing that your vision is juuust slightly out of focus

Stiles used to be a proper spark. now, most of what he has are illusions and mountain ash, and he can't use illusions without a full blown panic attack.

stiles used to have some proper firepower. these days... well he does what he always has, and makes the best of what he has.

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

[solitaireships]

Just saw a really good video talking about how the fandom tends to ignore the way that Jayce is clearly written with him being a brown Latino man in mind and talking about the inherent racism of people acting like a thing he helped to create is all actually the product of a white man and treating Jayce as a big dumb himbo is a take that is also the product of racism. Maybe we are finally healing

[recsspecs]

Good students, on the other hand, constantly raise the bar for themselves

as they focus on what they haven’t learned and mastered yet. This is why high achievers who have had a taste of the vast amount of knowledge out there are likely to suffer from what psychologists call imposter syndrome, the feeling that you are not really up to the job, even though, of all people, they are (Clance and Imes 1978; Brems et al. 1994).

- How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens)

[iron-niffler]

god im tired

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Imagine doing so much hard work and persevering through law school to have your failed tests advertised on the internet news. The bar is really hard; he’s not “cringe fail.” I am jealous of his ability to even attend college without committing suicide. He did a good job. Leave my dude the fuck alone.

I don’t care if they’re elites. If they’re elites; then make fun of them solely for being rich nepotism babies. There are non-elites who have failed the bar (or any important test) once or twice as well who will see this and feel bad about themselves.

[metropolitant]

BEYOND SIRI: HOW NEXT-GEN AI PERSONAL ASSISTANTS ARE QUIETLY RESHAPING OUR LIVES

It starts small: a whisper suggesting a quicker route to work. A quiet nudge reminding you to pick up groceries. A tip about an email you forgot to send. Today’s AI-powered personal assistants are no longer simple gadgets—they’re embedding themselves into our lives, predicting needs before we even realise it. Gone are the days when assistants like Siri and Alexa only set alarms or played songs.…

[joyxande]

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[nanonursanity]

My English teacher very actively encourages the class to use AI to come up with ideas for our projects and assignments. My English teacher.. SIR! And the thing is that most people don’t question it? I’d say about 70% of my class (which to be fair is filled with your typical dumb jock stereotype of teenage boys) uses it to “think” of ideas. So anyways we’re doomed! Wdym you can’t figure out the character progression from beginning to end from our three page short story!!!

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

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[ioferreira]

Isn't there a smarter and faster way to find anything in this vast ocean of information?

[jatanshahskill]

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[gaymelie]

Ok but we need to have this discussion with the clear knowledge that the AI component is not what is making it join the meetings or gives it the ability to. Someone built a program and MADE it do that deliberately. AI does not actually mean intelligence or making decisions. This isnt „AI going rogue“ this is companies lying and misleading about their products, producing invasive programms, and having no regard for privacy or even laws.

At the California Institute of the Arts, it all started with a videoconference between the registrar’s office and a nonprofit.

One of the nonprofit’s representatives had enabled an AI note-taking tool from Read AI. At the end of the meeting, it emailed a summary to all attendees, said Allan Chen, the institute’s chief technology officer. They could have a copy of the notes, if they wanted — they just needed to create their own account.

Next thing Chen knew, Read AI’s bot had popped up inabout a dozen of his meetings over a one-week span. It was in one-on-one check-ins. Project meetings. “Everything.”

The spread “was very aggressive,” recalled Chen, who also serves as vice president for institute technology. And it “took us by surprise.”

The scenariounderscores a growing challenge for colleges: Tech adoption and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff — especially as it pertains to AI — are outpacing institutions’ governance of these technologies and may even violate their data-privacy and security policies.

That has been the case with note-taking tools from companies including Read AI, Otter.ai, and Fireflies.ai.They can integrate with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teamsto provide live transcriptions, meeting summaries, audio and video recordings, and other services.

Higher-ed interest in these products isn’t surprising.For those bogged down with virtual rendezvouses, a tool that can ingest long, winding conversations and spit outkey takeaways and action items is alluring. These services can also aid people with disabilities, including those who are deaf.

But the tools can quickly propagate unchecked across a university. They can auto-join any virtual meetings on a user’s calendar — even if that person is not in attendance. And that’s a concern, administrators say, if it means third-party productsthat an institution hasn’t reviewedmay be capturing and analyzing personal information, proprietary material, or confidential communications.

“What keeps me up at night is the ability for individual users to do things that are very powerful, but they don’t realize what they’re doing,” Chen said. “You may not realize you’re opening a can of worms.“

The Chronicle documented both individual and universitywide instances of this trend. At Tidewater Community College, in Virginia, Heather Brown, an instructional designer, unwittingly gave Otter.ai’s tool access to her calendar, and it joined a Faculty Senate meeting she didn’t end up attending. “One of our [associate vice presidents] reached out to inform me,” she wrote in a message. “I was mortified!”

[spicebiter]

Got one of those activity tracker watches specifically for the sleep tracking function and its kinda loose (I got a metal band) but I thought it wouldn't be an issue. Well I slept for like 14 hours last night (think I had a mild fever, possibly some sleep debt) and its trying to tell me I slept for 6 and half and I've been up since 7 am. So. I'm gonna get my watch adjusted