"Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party, said: “There’s nothing real about the Reform party. Their supposed policies to tackle cost of living are fake, they spin stories that are fake and now we know even their campaigners are fake.”
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Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
Join your union. It’s not perfect but it’s all we’ve got. #UCU
'The fundamental problem is that the relationship between the English state and higher education – what this paper terms the “HE/state nexus” – is broken....This mechanism has failed, by every metric its architects set for it, and its failure is structural, not incidental.'
Stark and to the point.
Funny really, in a tragic sense. All those decades in which states that are, in law & practice, structurally misogynist just nodded along with "Whatever..." and it takes the Trumpists to blow their cover.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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A black and white photo of a row Victorian houses tilted at odd angles presumably due to liquefaction, labeled “Peculiar Effects of Earthquake”
A ghostly black and white photo of people and a cart walking down a street where the buildings are all damaged and some just have the facades standing, labeled “California Street”
A black and white photograph of the burned-out shell of San Francisco city hall with the dome still mostly intact, labeled “City Hall”
A black and white photo of people and makeshift shelters in the earthquake and fire-damaged city, labeled “Refugee Camp”
It’s April 18th, so time to repost some of my great-grandfather’s photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
'In the tumultuous years since the creation of the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, three memorial committee members have stepped down and researchers have been fired largely over disputes related to engaging descendant communities.'
This week on Wonkhe: Stepped student loan repayments sound progressive. Jim Dickinson argues they distract from an accounting structure that structurally rewards chancellors for squeezing graduates and hides the lack of public subsidy
The 'bias' allegation misses the point. There's AI bias & ignorance among humanities academics, techbros & AI advocates. There's also a wealth of teaching & assessment-based academic evidence from the coalface. What's lacking is systematic research at volume & senior managers keen to support it. 2/2
'One group is opposing AI: academics, especially in the humanities. However many of them suffers from bias that prevents them from taking the technology seriously.'
Hmm. Don't actually know any humanities academics who are 'still dismissing AI as "glorified autocomplete".' 1/2
Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Question: “And do you tell him that?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
AI ruins so much.
Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.”
“Mr. Mamdani, 34, grew up a child of the Manhattan elite, his mother an Oscar-nominated movie director, his father a tenured Columbia professor. But his tax returns show no signs of his parents' success filtering down to his bank account just yet.
Apart from having a warped sense of what culture workers & professors make, WTF does the NYTimes mean by this “just yet” in the reporting on Mamdani’s taxes? “don’t worry we’re still digging because those brown ppl are up to something? We’ll get back to you when they die?
A reminder that when Epstein couldn’t convince Vicky Ward to back off her reporting by threatening her with miscarriage, he got her Vanity Fair Editor to push her off the sex trafficking part of her piece. #EpsteinFiles
This is disgusting.
The gambling industry, which donates hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Labour Party, “brings joy to a lot of people,” according to the Labour Party.
An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash.
The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life, take their jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, they might believe you. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tQNrOH
After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood.
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Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.
"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought
First they came for the billionaire pied-a-terre owners and I said nothing.
Then, after a few seconds, I said, great job, New York City, your turn, Miami.
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜
When you attempt to scale the beneficent effects of tutoring, those effects go away.
Feels like this would be pretty obvious to anybody who has ever been or had a tutor.
The 1-to-1 instructor to student ratio is definitional.
