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Christopher Newfield, Critical AI, 2025/12/22

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This is a review of Alan F. Blackwell's open access book Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI (239 page PDF). I haven't read the book yet but it seems right up my alley. Christopher Newfield summarizes, "we must organize widespread social means to learn everyday programming that is rooted in 'MORAL CODES.' The first word is an acronym for More Open Representation for Accessible Learning... More Open Representations allow information to be exchanged, Access to Learning allows it to be acquired, and Control Over Digital Expression [the second word] allows it to be expressed." Now there is a good point here, and that is that the ethos of computer programming when it was in its infancy was agency. We weren't passive subjects of a machine, we could control it. Now that remains true (to an extent) in the age of AI. But. "It's hard to imagine the spread of programming skills in a country like the United States, where fewer than half of adults read even one book a year. But by now it's pretty much do or die. So better do it."

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OpenAI’s New AI Foundations Course Promises 'Job-Ready' Skills and Credential
Liz Ticong, TechRepublic, 2025/12/22

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The AI Foundations course is being offered in pilot projects through "employers and public-sector partners," which means it's not generally available and hence not worth writing about. The ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers course is open access through Coursera, however, and along with some 14,000 other enrollees, I took a look at it today (its launch date). My quick assessment is that the course is pretty basic, but will offer a functional working knowledge of ChatGPT, which I suppose is pretty useful if you've had no exposure at all. I know, there's a ton of other (free and open) learning opportunities out there; I just happened to land on this one. See also OpenAI, Launching our first OpenAI Certifications courses.

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Three Ways to Organize Gen AI GPTs and Projects
Miguel Guhlin, Another Think Coming, 2025/12/22

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Miguel Guhlin explains, "Since I spend so much time working on BoodleBox Bots, ChatGPT Custom GPTs and Projects, I find myself longing for a better way to organize it all." First is Raindrop.io, which Guhlin writes about here. It's essentially a bookmarks manager (which you can share via RSS). Next is OneTab, "a super helpful tool for managing ongoing Gen AI chats, Projects, or GPTs/Gems/Bots." Third is Toby, a tab organizer self-styles as "a visual workspace for your links and resources." Guhlin also mentions Easy Folders, which "does a tolerable job," and FolderMate, which "has some colored folders, subfolders, etc. that you can add chats, too." 

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