I don't think they realize how condescending that email sounds.

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It is indeed an achievement to unify Italian press. Next level is the football fans youtu.be/phb4N12_aAk?...

Agreed. Putting the content of the petition aside, denying the institutional process of membership input in the name of "unity" is a slippery slope for democratic governance, the likes of which are used by autocratic leaders' discourse to justify executive overreach.

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Cat of the day, sleeping at a café in Istanbul

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March 19, 1956 - Washington Post reports Revelle’s statements - All Our Yesterdays Sixty eight years ago, on this day, March 19th, 1956, the question of possible climate change due to carbon dioxide build-up gets an airing (sorry) in the Washington Post. 19 March 1956 Washington Pos...

SEVENTY YEARS ago today - March 19, 1956 – Washington Post article "Fumes seen warming Arctic seas" - reports oceanographer Roger Revelle’s statements...

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Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

So he's saying that he knew Israel was going to attack Iran and he believed Iran would retaliate by attacking US bases, so we had to strike first since Israel was going to get US forces attacked.

In case the scam here isn't obvious - Grammarly is, without permission, creating little LLM agents based on the work of academics and then claiming this is the same as their "expert opinion" - using their names and reputations for free without consent.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Outside the US cases, higher ed structures and gov. orgs can lead to different paths. In my experience though, such analyses are often published outside peer-reviewed journals and depending on context not necessarily in English :/ Interested to hear suggestions here.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Love it when nerdy table top RPG references meet political commentary 😎

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

I am thinking this through, so genuine question re: #2. To me, a customized AI app does not automatically mean it is better than ChatGPT because it can easily be sold to companies like OpenAI or scaled up with similar intent. IRB should still have oversight since it's done as academic research.

The replies here, with multiple scholars noting that U Chicago’s IRB seemingly approved a study that violated copyright and subject consent, points to a serious failure at that university and the supervising professor on the research. It may not seem so from the outside, but this is a big deal.

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."

Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

I wouldn't use the word collapse here. That brings in too much passive tense. Just like "sunsetting". What is going on is a tragedy though, I agree. With global implications.

This is a terrible blow to the social sciences and humanities at UNC-Ch. I don't think anybody would buy the officially stated reason for "sunsetting", given the amount of money the university spends on sports.

Yikes!

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This is terrifying.

"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."

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Sorry for my ignorence but isn't that a door security camera thing? At least it seems so when I google it, so totally confused.

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

sometimes there's just Too Much World, isn't there