\u267f\ufe0f Thursday this week was Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)<\/a>. As part of that, I uploaded a video walkthrough of Canva’s new accessibility features<\/a> \u2014\u00a0I’ve generally not been a big fan of Canva, but they have been making some notable improvements to their products, and that’s worth recognizing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83d\udeb6\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u27a1\ufe0f This weekend my wife had a work conference in Portland, so I went along as her chauffeur. We drove down Thursday afternoon, and then while she was conferencing, I got to spend Friday and Saturday wandering around Portland with my camera. Friday was around the downtown area (including a stop by Powell’s, of course), and Saturday I took the Max up to Washington Park and spent a few hours wandering around the Hoyt Arboretum. “Real camera” photos will go up eventually, but some of my iPhone shots are below.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Jeremy Hsu at ars technica<\/cite>: Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags<\/a>: “Since its publication, the study has been cited 262 times in other papers published by Springer Nature\u2019s peer-reviewed journals and received a total of 504 citations from both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources. It also attracted nearly half a million readers and received enough online attention to rank in the 99th percentile for journal articles in terms of attention score.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Subvert<\/a>: A co-op music publishing marketplace, similar to Bandcamp but with a different backend structure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Rose Horowitch at The Atlantic<\/cite>: How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition<\/a> (archive.is version of a paywalled original<\/a>): “[Princeton’s honor] code lasted through two world wars, the upheaval of the 1960s, the disillusionment of Watergate, and even the rise of search engines and SparkNotes. It finally met its match in generative AI. Yesterday, after the rise of AI-facilitated cheating became too obvious to ignore, Princeton\u2019s faculty voted to begin proctoring exams again.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Manda Factor at MyNorthwest<\/cite>: Five WA Supreme Court seats are on the ballot this fall, and the stakes have never been higher<\/a>: “Under normal circumstances, three justices face voters every two years as part of their staggered six-year terms. But recent resignations led then-Governor Jay Inslee to appoint replacements to fill the vacancies, and those appointees must now stand for election. Additionally, two of the three justices whose terms are expiring could not seek reelection due to age.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Gracchus at Build a Better Donkey<\/cite>: The VRA Was the Nice Version<\/a> (archive.is version of a Substack original<\/a>): “The question is whether this country holds or comes apart, and coming apart doesn\u2019t mean a stern editorial in The Atlantic<\/cite>. It means what it has always meant, every time a society told a critical mass of its members that their participation was decoration. It means blood. It means whole regions of this country deciding that the social contract is a piece of paper the other side already burned, and they\u2019re under no obligation to honor a corpse.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n📸 Photos<\/h2>\n
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