It's the NFL, so the motives can only be craven and exploitative. Maybe using machine learning on large datasets to rank potential draftees according to their marketability. Or scanning players' social media to predict the likelihood of draftees' being pro-union.
Seems telling that this proselytizing event was in The Surfboard Room (check out the backdrop); Tate and his test would seem comical if they weren't so clearly devoted to Christianizing and dumbing down education across the, uh, board. We're in their crosshairs.
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An admirable version of the NYT's op-ed page would be comprised of stellar writers and thinkers like @colsonwhitehead.com, in so far as they were willing, and never the Edsells, Douthats, Dowds, etc. Unfilled space could go to reviews of work by neglected artists and thinkers.
Excellent equivalent of mocking the DJTers as "weird," but way wittier. Ultimately very affirmative by implication: stuff (thinking, making, engaging) is worth doing.
Reality may not have given up any homers, but _1984_ was at least a gapper.
I confess that if the medical treatments at NIH on which my family has depended weren’t so dependent on AI, and if I weren’t so appalled by higher ed’s thoughtless embrace of AI, my entire position on AI would be ‘whatever Matt Kirschenbaum says.’
Terrific, moving, informative thread
I'm all for buying local, and Charlottesville has excellent options. But I also find ordering from the great @legroff.bsky.social's bookshop.org/shop/thelynx easy and satisfying, especially as a way of contributing to resistance against the horrors being perpetrated against reading in Florida.
I think the Za'atar & Jebneh flatbread wrap at Thyme & Co. is marvelous.
Vancequished
@collegeboard.org making a bid to overtake the Congressional GOP as the most craven bunch of charlatans in. the US.
@slangsonsports.bsky.social posts the most interesting baseball information I’ve ever seen. Not for betting, not for competition. Just fascinating. Any baseball reporter or announcer who isn’t relying on her lacks credibility.
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
This is sad for a lot of reasons, not least because Hampshire dared to be, and stay, distinctive while so many schools chased a safe, tedious script. Hampshire also seemed to certain kind of students a uniquely safe place.
Maybe no one showed? He just harangued the staff who flew in with him, watched the Artemis return, fell asleep in his drool, left for the UFC thing?
It's worse than a conspiracy of silence. There's been a readiness to consider whether he is in fact extraordinarily gifted--consistent with the readiness to ascribe talent and intelligence to the most wealthy. eg www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
news.virginia.edu/content/uva-... The Forbes article just relays employers' patting universities on the head for chugging AI Kool-Aid, even though "25% of these executives said AI would reduce their need for entry level college graduates." Nothing to be proud of.
I'm sure this information will save many lives, but doesn't the risk level for pretty much anything depend on its texture and where it's applied? Like wouldn't that be true of soup and zippers, for instance?
"When it comes to addressing how the party should deal with Israel, the Democratic establishment went to their favorite answer: no thanks."
You're assuming he can do object permanence. He has likely forgotten about last month's targets. I'd worry about Brazil, Nigeria, Angola. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
The MCU did an extended take on this in the second "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, and various Star Wars plots touch on it. Dylan's misguided "Joey" may be more on the Coppola/Scorsese model.
The Who contemplated a rock opera built around such a figure, resulting in their song "Behind Blue Eyes."
I think maybe _The Crying Game_ counts. (Certainly the source material for the first half, O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation," does.)
Get Shorty
A relative, a pediatric cancer researcher and luddite, showed me this week how necessary AI is to aggregating his data, and I am immensely grateful my docs can use it. But crud it has to be used with a wariness equal to its power—and I don’t see my employer or other univs taking that approach
Umpteenth visit to NIH. The place is a miracle in so many ways: such amazing, committed, brilliant people. These grim photos are a foul desecration.
