Bookmarks: Week of Jun 8 - Jun 14, 2026

Generated on June 14, 2026

Why I think we need a learning model (for AI) for the whole institution and not just a single course

davecormier.com

I needed a model that I could bring across the whole university. One that folks in student services, quality assurance and a faculty council could all see themselves in. The university is a vast ecosystem and each one of those groups is a part of the discussion of how we are adapting for AI. If you make a change in a classroom in how you call good writing done it really helps if someone tells the student advisors or the writing centre that is helping those students do their assignments. If you are making changes to your online course it really helps if you are using the same language as the folks who are helping you translate your ideas to the LMS.

#person:DaveCormier #AI #models

oMLX — LLM inference, optimized for your Mac

omlx.ai

This claims to be much faster than Ollama for coding. My main use-case for local LLM is generating relatedness scores for my Obsidian notes using an embedding model. Might have to test this out to see if it’s worth switching.

A native macOS inference server built on MLX. Paged SSD KV caching drops agent TTFT from 30-90s to under 5s. OpenAI & Anthropic compatible API for Apple Silicon.

#AI #macOS #software #LLM

ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit

cloud.google.com

An active compromise and extortion campaign attributed to ShinyHunters targeting Oracle PeopleSoft with a zero-day exploit.

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Verified propagation success by running remote checks for the defacement marker file README-IF-YOU-SEE-THIS-YOUVE-BEEN-HACKED.TXT

#cybersecurity #PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

arstechnica.com

We know higher ed platforms are only going to be more under attack post-Canvas-ransomware, but I’d figured it’d have been the other LMSs and related platforms to be next, not something from Oracle. Crossing fingers that our campus peoplesoft/oracle stuff was properly secured.

Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.

#cybersecurity #PeopleSoft

AI Economics for Dummies

mcsweeneys.net

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi…

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Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit.

#AI #McSweeny’s

People of ACM - Sheelagh Carpendale

acm.org

An interview with Sheelagh about her approach to infovis and how art and creativity are essential in science.

Sheelagh Carpendale emphasizes that creativity and personal data empowerment are essential for navigating the complexities of modern data visualization. By focusing on human-centric design, she advocates for technologies that prioritize individual agency over the interests of Data Barons.

#via:LeanneWu #infovis #person:SheelaghCarpendale #ACM #computerscience #creativity

The Turing Gradient

abacusnoir.com

The article reads as though it was AI-generated. Maybe it was. Who knows anymore?

Whether AI ‘passes’ the Turing Test is the wrong question. The right one is which judges it passes for… and what that reveals about the rest of us.

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“Good enough” is the real threshold

AI does not need to be smarter than a person to take part of that person’s job. It only needs to clear the local bar for “good enough.” … and that bar is lower than we like to admit across a lot of paid knowledge work.

Much of what knowledge work produces is not brilliant insight. It is plausible output: the competent memo, the standard summary, the first-draft code, the meeting recap, the answer that sounds like the answer.

That layer of work is exactly what language models are built to produce. They are machines for generating plausible artifacts. When that becomes cheap, the old bundle of knowledge work starts to come apart.

Fluency, formatting, and generic synthesis move to one side. They become abundant, almost free. Judgment, taste, context, and responsibility move to the other side. Those remain scarce. And suddenly you can see which people were mostly supplying which.

#via:KagiSmallWeb #AI

On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness

idle.news

Why the wellness industry loves rest, fears idleness, and has spent a great deal of money to keep you from noticing the difference.

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Some time should be wasted. That is the claim. Not all of it, not most of it, but some, deliberately, as a matter of principle.

Because a life in which every hour serves work, including the hours of rest that serve work by restoring you for more work, is a life that belongs entirely to work, even in its leisure, even in its sleep. Such a life has no outside. It is productive all the way down, optimized in its very relaxation, and a person living it has never once, not for a single hour, simply been alive without being also, somehow, useful. The idle hour is the one hour that has an outside. It is the one hour that does not belong to the project of your own improvement. It is, in the most literal sense, free time: not time freed up for other tasks, but time that is genuinely free, owned by no purpose, answerable to no return.

#via:GrantPotter #rest #burnout

Orion Browser by Kagi

orionbrowser.com

I’m trying to switch to Orion for a bit. Seems to work well on macOS and iOS. Passwords integration is slightly clunky, but works.

Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.

#Kagi #software #macOS #browser