Reposted by profmattdecarloPenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah I hate e-motos as much as the next bicycle rider, but when I see people calling for wholesale e-bike bans instead of better enforcement of existing bans I know they are not my friend. 1431
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Damn we need an entire news source for the ways they are coming after social work 010
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey #psychometrics bluesky...How can researchers best influence the next NCME Testing Standards? There are responsibilities for state licensure boards as test users that they are entirely ignorant of and incentivized not to do. Psychometric validation relies on competent test users/board members 100
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I swear, this process took like an hour. And if windows has literally stopped behaving for you, it's time to move to an OS that's not run by an ad/surveillance company. 001
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Full LA Times reporting : archive.ph/TkMmWarchive.ph 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026THIS IS NOT A DRILL! New kpop uk garage mix just dropped. (really wish this channel had a better name than lotion, but it is what it is) www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Cz...youtube.comcute and cool dancy kpop/ukg perfect for a grls girl night outYouTube video by lotion 100
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That's the same guy?! I cite that paper all the time! What happened to that man's mind? 000
Reposted by profmattdecarloChristo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened 225328
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh I'm so glad that there's been at least some scholarship. Now let me just take a tall drink of water while I look at the author's name.. 200
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is what I was waiting for. Like, I'm glad there are new review standards but... The work *on Cochrane's own reviews* continues. 010
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Faith-based initiatives director at the MacroSW talk today: Yes In God's Backyard...a faith-based housing reform initiative. YIGBY 020
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I received an AI generated rejection letter for a grant. I confronted the grant admin about it, and when I explained that I could point to the exact things the AI said were missing in our proposal they ghosted me. I'm guessing they are still drowning in proposals, and tbh good. 1104
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ah, I see that early intervention is the problem here... I really hate postmodern fascism. 012
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Shout out to the loquacious motherfucker who allowed 50-word titles in this conference proposal form. Absolute madness and I love it! 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Linux mint is awesome. My computer works again. I really thought I had to upgrade last year...and uh, no I don't. 120
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's amazing how every single Windows update makes my computer function less. It's now gotten to the point where my computer cannot load a browser window upon startup. 230
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026AI gaslighting bingo in faculty development: Better prompting means better results! If you have a conversation with students, they don't use AI. You just need to scaffold and not rely on final papers! Make assignments more reflective and interactive! ..any other suggestions? 210
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Man, those LLM solicitations are getting good. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I swear I'm moving to Zotero for collaborative annotation in online classes next year. 010
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hey did anyone see that the Council on Social Work Education has some red flags on their financial audit? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I need all of these AI studies to contextualize this with the fact that like 40-odd percent of students are food insecure and more than half are housing insecure. 011
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wishcasting the production of an optimistic sequel to The Wire depicting the Brandon Scott administration. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What the living fuck is trumpaccounts.gov We're doing IDAs for pronatalism? I am so confused.trumpaccounts.govThe American Dream Starts NowTrump Accounts provide eligible American children with tax-advantaged investment accounts courtesy of President Donald J. Trump. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Wii Homebrew community's pretty rad. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So are trans people not a protected category? And/or saying the name of the group is not targeting? Gotcha! Btw, not great to throw around the thing people are clearly fucking freaking out about flippantly in your response! 040
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I once met the Republicans who worked on Cash & Counseling Medicaid Home and Community Based Services in the 80s which married market based employer and budget authority with humanistic goals for inclusion and self determination. New Republicans trying to kill the programs and clients cuz eugenics 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yes, trans loves my liberation is bound up in yours so I support you. But you also make art I love and are generally a good hang. So I also support you for that. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don't know how to convey this point to the general public. We live in a weird time of legal press freedom but broad complicity to not engage in basic journalism. 011
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026THIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026...so it's a religion based on linear regression? 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just so we are clear, if anyone is adopting a policy responsive to LLM-powered epistemic pollution in their classroom learning spaces.. that MUST be a contract for students AND FACULTY. Faculty using LLMs to create slop lesson plans, quizzes, or slideshows saving us "hours of time" is just as bad! 100
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Mamdani also highlights and important part to undermining the power dynamics of double-binds. Notice the larger game being played, understand its rules better than your opposition, and press your advantage within that larger space, ignoring the artificial constrains set by your opponents 010
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dan Ariely is running for the Knesset with the Pirate Party?! 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This STORY "In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available by subscription. Limiting the accessibility of such knowledge... [/2] #paywalls 120
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This alleges child abuse as part of the cult-ish stuff. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026FYI, #socialwork colleagues. Macro 2.0 got moved from June to August 2027. From Gary: . The conference will now take place August 5–7, 2027, in Chicago. A major citywide convention during our original dates would have pushed hotel rates beyond what would be affordable for many attendees 010
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is a truly interesting and revealing reaction. 001
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026So, a hacked WiiU is like $250 all-in including controllers? And the most expensive part is the HDD? And it plays WiiU, Wii, and GameCube games? Hmm 120
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Gurrrrrl yes. Ditto social work and evidence based practice 021
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026LLM-generated writing: using XML to look for indications of academic dishonesty. #1 Word Docs: Ask for a .docx (no PDFs). Open in 7-zip (or other .zip app) Open the Word folder. core.xml will tell you the date of creation & last revision. totaltime= edit time in minutes 100
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Really wish Bill Hicks were alive to disappoint me in this political moment 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The racists give as much of a shit about academic freedom as they do plagiarism. It's a cudgel, not a principle. 000
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Glad I'm not the only one. I will die angry about this. IP theft is only okay to make a plagiarism machine, apparently. 131
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My only critique of this policy is the use of LLMs for citation and searching. Perhaps this is just my bias since *this is the subject I teach & write about* but you absolutely should not outsource this to LLMs. Learning how to structure a complex Boolean query, for example, is actually useful 121