ChatGPT Edu contracts say that the university must prevent end-users (incl. students) from misusing the service and commits the university to indemnify OpenAI for claims related to "(a) use of the Services in violation of this Agreement; (b) Customer Applications, if any; or (c) Customer Content."
Keep dreaming, NYT.
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
Look at how you've phrased this. Look which basic fact is presented as a contested opinion. Look whose self-interest is hidden behind the idyllic abstraction of "farms and ranches."
So many people would have left out the second "a."
Forget the exclamation marks, I'm in love with his parallelism.
"That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!”
It's possible that the cancellation also deprives the charity of authority to place and oversee the children.
State constitutions for the win!
www.aclu.org/press-releas...
"Will you be traveling outside of the Continental US (plus Alaska/Hawaii)?"
Someday, working for a university is going to permanently break my brain. Maybe it already has.
As of January 2026, Colorado should have a green outline on this map, indicating that abortion is covered by Medicaid.
As noted in the article, Medicaid coverage for state residents helps support capacity to care for abortion refugees from other states.
"Omnipork spam, ..."
it gets worse
"with vegan spam"
why why why
"deportation tribunals"
"deportation star chambers"
Less than a month.
NYT article on Mrs. Bezos and this in screenshot: More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21m A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social .
Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.
Does anyone remember an essay about AI and the Turing Test that explained how the TT is set up to force the human to behave like a machine?
I learned this from when Trump told Giluiani what to order for lunch. It's fascinating.
Per the NYT, the answer to the question on the right is, of course, no. (The headline leaves out context, thereby implying there is a single, universal answer to the question.)
Time to restore glorious widespread outdoor dining to mamdanistan imo
"The US and UK are burning just as much coal as ever, only they're burning it in the vast extraterritorial labor camp known as the Global South."
"We ... have used every advance in renewables to consume more rather than less."
*Ye
Related: Keep CV-points language out of ordinary speech! What are you doing next week? You're giving "a talk," not "an invited talk."
FFS people, when you're talking to media and they ask for your title, the answer is "law professor."
Not, "Yes shall refer to me as "the Jane & John Bumblefuck Distinguished University Professor of Law."
Among other things, it's annoying to read through a bunch of irrelevant names mid-sentence.
A graphic that has the following words; each line is a different color on a black background: IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE WOMEN UNLESS THEY ACCUSE SOMEONE WE SUPPORT OR THE TIMING IS KINDA WEIRD ALSO REPUBLICANS GET AWAY WITH IT ALL THE TIME MAYBE WE SHOULD TOO * * * * * The graphic is made to look like the yard signs that have a list of slogans that are lefty/squishy/co-opted ("In this house, Black lives matter, we believe in science, love is real") and that are sometimes seen as a marker of people who say the right things but don't vote or act accordingly/blue wave maga/"libs"/etc.
what I'm hearing
Testimony is evidence. Testimony is evidence. Testimony is evidence.
(Seems like some people need this reminder)
Taps the sign
More power to them, but training doctors to write prescriptions for groceries so food can be billed as medicine is an ass-backwards way to create healthy food infrastructure.
To the idiots who are laughing: No, he won't. He will dangle pardons in front of you for the next three years, while you get deeper into the shit and the blood, and then when his coup fails he will blame it on you and pardon none of you unless you have something left to trade for it.
Social cohesion broke down due to lack of interpersonal ties after elders were killed off by waves of respiratory virus, now they've been at war for almost a decade. Hmm.