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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. This was the 5th clinic held so far in total, nearly 500 individuals have benefitted.

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Humane Ingenuity 46: Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?

Dan Cohen

Into this landscape a human prompt sets in motion a narrative snowball, which rolls according to the model’s internal physics, gathering words along the way. This is, of course, a recipe for unvaried familiarity, as the angle of the human prompt, like the pool cue, can overdetermine the flow that ensues.

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Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book

The Guardian - Higher Education

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

Recliners + the scrolling text of a book on the ceiling, yes please. ). The Coulson Conundrum leads us once again to a common theme of this newsletter: We need to imagine a healthier, more productive collaboration between human experts and raw AI power. She was not tagged by the AI platform.

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Humane Ingenuity 42: Not So NFT

Dan Cohen

Are books, for instance, going to have associated NFTs? She projected forward by looking backward, specifically by finding detailed descriptions of the river and its morphology in old books. Previously covered in Humane Ingenuity : the potent combination of human expertise and AI processing. Scaife, et al.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. The RRI is also now defunct.

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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs

Dan Cohen

We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Trettien’s book is a diverse collection of assemblages, including religious books that have been spliced together, reimagined works of poetry, and scrapbooks.