A Bluesky thread. Daniel Radosh writes: Took my kid to a college fair for small liberal arts schools and asked each one, "how are you thinking about Al?" (hard to find a neutral way to phrase that so they didn't just say what I want to hear). Only one gushed about how they're integrating it into the curriculum (crossed it off the list) The most common response was a cautious "right now we leave it up to individual profs but it's not going away so we've begun an investigation into whether to formally allow it or adopt it, and how to engage with it critically." But one school said, "We believe in a human-centered education and Al is at odds with that. Honor code rules about plagiarism cover Al but we also don't waste effort cracking down on it. Instead we make it clear that using it is cheating yourself out of the education you presumably signed up for" I told the rep, "That's the best answer I've heard all day, now I need to ask about Leon Botstein," and she just deflated.

Look, you win some, you lose some @radosh.bsky.social

Bard’s President Should Resign Today Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.

In case you need the case made for you — @katemanne.bsky.social is on it

Bard’s President Should Resign Today
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aiyo why is Bard College keeping President Leon Botstein if he was inviting Epstein to go window shopping at the high schools he oversaw

Epstein Used Botstein’s Prestige and Connections to Recruit and Support One of His Victims, a Violinist from Europe - The Daily Catch Jeffrey Epstein utilized his burgeoning relationship with Bard College President and American Symphony Orchestra Conductor Leon Botstein in 2013 to procure perks for a young violinist who ultimately b...

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

bravoandy • 3h Posted before reading the news. Wtf 8.1K Q 335 G 64 → 31 bravoandy • 4h Good morning ! 1.7K Q 151 G5

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

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I assume it's because I'm the only DSA member a lot of people in my life know. if you are inspired by Zohran's win, might I suggest joining DSA: act.dsausa.org/s/3359.vd7dVw

at least 5 people have congratulated me on Zohran's win even though I truly had nothing to do with it, I did not volunteer for him and haven't lived in NYC in 4 years. that said, I'm happy to take the credit

I'm unironically old enough to remember how openly scorned Ralph Nader was for "stealing votes" from Democrats and find this pretty interesting

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giving my job a lot of opinions they didn't ask for in my answers to the survey they just sent us about which AI tools we like to use

heard 5 seconds of Miley Cyrus's Psycho Killer cover and it ruined my day

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

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Always the bread winner never the bread 💔

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sorry but why the fuck is it July? not in the mood for this

Tell Senator Gillibrand: Retract or Resign! On Thursday, June 26, Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appeared on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show and upon prompting from the show’s host and callers to weigh in on Zohran Mamdani’s historic a...

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very excited for my first foray into being let down by the Hudson Valley housing market

republicans are about to tweet things about mamdani that are like the hatred you read about in the bible

elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son”

the product doesn’t return reliable results, it’s an ethicist’s waking nightmare, to keep it running they have to punch barn-sized holes in the environment, but at least it’s wildly profitable [touches earpiece] hang on

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott

he’s right and he’s right to say it