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Under the "hold" scenario, you stay in the neighborhood you have known and can afford the payment for and maybe clean a couple extra rooms every couple weeks.

I cannot tell if this is a reporter fishing for some perennial complainers (found em!) or people for whom $3 million is simply not enough.

"For example, if a California home was purchased in 1997 for $500,000 and sells for $4 million today, that homeowner would likely owe around $1 million in taxes."

Also wild how bad people are at arithmetic. Under the "sell" scenario, you end up with $3 million dollars and can move where you please

A truly great book with the truly great line: "And then there was the flatulence."

Basically the last week of classes every year; nothing beats it.

It's not a technical issue -- it's an issue of human nature, speedup culture, and not being dedicated to craftsmanship.

... and I'm sure everyone thinks it does such a good job, no one will notice, and they get swamped with whatever, that they just use the slop.

So sloppy and lazy as to be professional malfeasance. Attorney is out of a job and I'd put this as Exhibit A in a class on where using AI will take you. Everyone starts out saying "I just use it to draft such and such then tailor and check it" ...

This is extremely wise.

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Great news. Note how the party that sued here was not the University of California but its faculty and staff unions.

I am too!

My optimism comes from a crisis of confidence I had a few years ago. I realized I couldn't keep up with the technology and didn't want to, and didn't want to keep speeding up, so I tried to re-think what I could still be good at if I could require less volume in my teaching, but could do better.

What is your wife's discipline?

I just don't believe that adding layers and layers of control and surveillance and whatnot is the answer. I think it comes down to learning and doing -- my discipline and work has fundamental value and I think we can still deliver that.

200 would seem pretty hard, but maybe do-able. In the survey I have blue books and reading quizzes. But I think of an intro to python course of about 100 that I took a few years ago. That course must be absolutely dead, basically non-viable in the way it was taught.

In some of the upper level classes that are supposed to be 30 to 40, it might be a bit harder, because you would normally ask for more writing (out of class) but it's large enough that you can't give the close attention of a smallish seminar.

In the U.S. history survey we had 100 (which also had discussion sections of ~33). I basically ran it like a mid-90s history survey with blue books, reading quizzes, and Friday discussions.

I agree with you that you cannot put everything in digital form and then also put in a bunch of digital infrastructure to prevent cheating and use of AI. But I think you can emphasize fundamentals and make sure students document their process in ways that undermine the use of AI.

The readings are in hard copy, as well. In this course (U.S. maritime history) the students are super eager because of the topic, but in my U.S. survey course and my U.S. urban history course, they are also handling it pretty well when I put on some guardrails.

We (historians) have been dealing with that for a while and I have been slowly reeling my materials back from online course management systems. This semester I have a course that is all analogue, with only in-class writing and no screens out during class. The students are super engaged.

I'll read any interview with @tj-stiles.bsky.social. Here's a good one for a Sunday morning.

Cake was a great late-90s band with a wide range of styles featuring guitar that I will remember all the rest of my days. Rest in Peace, Greg Brown.

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I am just a simple small-town lawyer but I really can’t think of a more toxic and self-defeating political strategy than telling your constituents the things they care about are “a distraction.”

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Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

This is the most correct take. It is extremely heartening to see someone in a leadership position say "I will continue to do my job and will not concede to bullshit."

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I realized we had 6 NU PhD students in the group today and wanted to get the "brains trust" together for a photo.