I find it amusing that they're all about the amateur epidemiologists but not amateur surgeons.. "what do you mean you don't want this guy to take out your appendix, he's done his own research, and he's been on a lot of podcasts"
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I find it amusing that they're all about the amateur epidemiologists but not amateur surgeons.. "what do you mean you don't want this guy to take out your appendix, he's done his own research, and he's been on a lot of podcasts"
"our infinite greed notwithstanding, trust us we're for ubi" sure thing bud
The talk-show host in charge is very concerned about "merit," ah ok.
"elections are rigged" was always projection/intent from the GOP rather than something to fix
I wonder how much of their energy goes into trying to source matching white track suits with pointy hoods.
If not for the fact these people put their kids in danger, I would wish week-shattering diarrhea on all of them. Perhaps not being able to not poop would be a bit of a corrective for "I did my own research" types.
These folks seem to want to hold "don't tell me what to do" and "nothing is ever my fault" at the same time. Evidently there is no appreciation of "personal responsibility" in their culture.
Would this have happened without the GOP entertaining conspiratorial bs? People need to realize the GOP doesn't care at all about officers- their guy pardoned people that beat up cops!
If I am trying to be optimistic, I think about how the billionaires falling all over themselves to suck up to evil in this admin makes it crystal clear these people are no better. Endorsing and enabling the most corrupt admin in history destroys the pretext it's just about "business."
"who wore 88?" It's important to call these people out, remind them that being a Hitler fanboy isn't edgy, it means you're a piece of shit not welcome in society.
So is meta's chatbot named groomer?
Basically exactly this idea is in the Neal Stephenson novel Fall
Seems like people are just talking past each other. NYC being preeminent culturally and also a place most people don't want to live can both be true.
More people die from guns than cars, should we do away with driver's licenses too?
Perhaps, but "explain how this makes America great, explain xyz" is too deferential imo. These people lie like normal people breathe. Ask them if they have plans to erect monuments to other traitors against the United States.
It's not like it's a mystery. They want a white country even if that means poorer and backward, and they want people to be educated enough to follow orders and not more. They hate foreigners and hate higher ed, so going after student visas is a win win for them I'd imagine.
Seems implausible the author could be so ignorant, is this a deliberate choice? Such insistent know-knothing-ism is very trumpy.
It feels like airlines put all their innovation into exploring what is the absolute worst experience customers will tolerate.
How do you say 'blizzard' in Afrikaans?
Amazing that DHS using rental trucks is the same tactic white supremacist and neonazi marchers use. Impossible they're not aware of that, gross.
I love how this tech is so awesome they have to force everyone to use it and don't let you turn it off.
There was a time when I thought SD conservatism was different, more small government, libertarian, but help your neighbor- distressing to see it go all in on culture war, know-knothing, revel in cruelty. Seems personified pretty clearly in noem.
Did someone forget to lock the day room?
I don't get why these dudes don't see through this crap once it's clear the "influencer" types are trying to take their money. Or perhaps they accept it thinking they'll learn how to fleece others? Idk perhaps it is my age, but the idea of giving your $ to some online douche is incomprehensible
"Poisoning pigeons in the park."
Would love recs for more technically literate LLM critics. Considering the potential downsides (thinking about it primarily from the perspective of education and young people), it surprises me how little scrutiny it gets.
It's darkly amusing what gets updated in Canvas and why. E.g. speedgrader is hot garbage and will remain so, there have been two incompatible quiz systems for like 5+ years; no money to be made in making faculty-facing systems less painful to use. Injecting AI into things on the other hand..
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of AI-generated assignment type in the works.. presumably most readily completed with the aid of a little chat GPT.
Ross' right-wing nut platform hour continues to be a piss poor substitute for Matter of Opinion
I don't disagree.. it's fundamentally so problematic; what if students simply don't like measures which help them learn? Alas it's a hard thing to change.. need to get faculty to agree lol AND need to get admin to jettison a metric they likely make use of for looking at things from year to year.
"waste, fraud and abuse" is very much a guiding governance principle of trump and co
I very much worry about young people who are growing up swimming in this and are unaware of what faculties they may never be developing in the first place.
Very Interesting, and that's the intended market for this venture? Seems to me that's pretty problematic from a proliferation standpoint and for the prospects of the tech- I cannot imagine the US supporting these elsewhere if it meant more 20% enriched U floating around.
Where does the 20% number come from? That's a lot higher than what would normally be needed for power generation; I don't understand why a private entity would be doing that.
That's a lot sad. We shouldn't be able to get donuts delivered, etc. A lot of the "innovation" in our lives isn't really good for anyone IMO
I mean that must be fake? "I eat chili's way more than anything else" seems super suspect/designed to get a reaction.
But hey it also consumes a tremendous amount of energy
Darkly amusing to me that the alternative, driving, has a whole category of life-endangering behavior that's so prominent/frequent it has its own name: road rage.
I thought athletics were supposed to make universities money? Am I like 10 years behind or something?
What study is the tree claim from?
I can't get over how profoundly impaired one would have to be to confidently assume a demonstrated degenerate like trump wouldn't be implicated in this. It's really a cult- same level of crazy as those loons who were genuinely surprised the alien spaceship didn't pick them up.
Thank goodness for arxiv, at least for some stuff
I enjoy how casually many of the sites ask if you want to just buy a single article for like $100. Does anybody have $ for that? Like I'm going to read up on a topic, look to see if side topic x shows up in papers by author y, and it'll only cost an afternoon and like $1200 lol
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
It's remarkable how passionate trump and co are about increasing rather than decreasing "waste, fraud and abuse"
If the private prison industry is involved in immigration, isn't there a financial incentive to do just this, lock people up as long as possible in miserable (cheap) conditions?
I didn't do it, but I wish I had.
I'm not so sure; the guy incited a mob that broke into the US capital, led to like 1000 arrests; that was supposed to be a Rubicon moment and he was.. reelected.
"policy-based fact making"
Seems increasingly clear these billionaire types have no one in their lives besides sycophants. Obscene power and an intellectual environment like sitting in a closet huffing their own farts is bad for the world and them.
What the actual fuck? How the hell is vile crap like that supposed to coexist with normy users and things like advertising from actual companies?
What outlet characterizes racist crank rufo as an "independent journalist"
Remarkable the degree to which trump loves to surrender to China
The aspect of this that I find amazing is the GOP just absolutely jettisoning any apparent concern about "small government" in the "leave me the fuck alone" sense. "We're going to meddle in everything, including checking the genitals of your children, and we shall be greeted as liberators."
When trump and co talk about "waste, fraud and abuse," it's not something they're getting out of government, it's something they're putting in.
"Do you have unique talents or aspirations? Go elsewhere." What a message for the young people of the state.
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
Barf. It's such a disappointment that NYT ditched "Matter of Opinion" for Douthat's right-wing freak normalization hour.
The tariffs are the one that get me b/c "business" is supposedly his area of expertise and it's very clear he is no less dumb about that than anything else
Critical bit left unsaid: "death is evil, for me;" these assholes care zero percent if other people live or die.
Is this real or satire?
It's impossible to not mentally preface everything she says with "Well we're all going to die anyway, so"
Nature is amazing
I don't understand how Bruenig seems to care a great deal about the dignity of women in one case (the Amber Wyatt story she is known for) while here she appears to not care at all.
It's like saying "yes, we're giving you food poisoning for longer, but improving the experience"
Why wouldn't the reporter reply with "isn't the best ad experience no ads though?"
Would hope that at the next opportunity the senators from MN would ask Lee what the fuck is wrong with him and if someone so damaged as he appears is fit to serve in the Senate.
Crazy to me that this piece only gives the briefest possible mention of trump's pardoning of his rioters.
It's amazing how much this admin hates free speech.
Do reporters actually take statements like "don't worry about it, we'll just do UBI" without laughing in their faces?
It's not mine, but I've seen it in reference to rfk and find it quite apt.
"policy-based fact making"
Based on the media coverage of the last guy, pretty wild how little attention the cognitive functioning of the oldest person ever elected president gets.
Holy crap that's so much time. Perhaps this is an effort to get people to quit
A very literal way to answer the question "what are you made of?"
Easy tiger, I'm not accusing you of anything. Think of the critics or general public; unfortunately, I suspect very few could accurately describe the process.
I suspect many don't understand the context and stakes around tenure and so don't understand why not approving it would be so anxiety inducing.. it's not "try again next year" if it doesn't go through- it's "you're done here"
Is it weird that the "we're all going to die" folks are indifferent to healthcare availability for their constituents?
Is it aid or bait?
They had to pay better part of a billion dollars for lying about voting machines no? pretty bleak that's been accompanied by evidently no reputational or other consequences
Interesting
What is haze? If it's condensation or something inside the lens, I wonder if you could put it under vacuum to remove it.
Sure, thing is if you're e.g. a first time buyer, that is probably not something the first realtor you talk to is going to mention. FSBO also.
Precisely. Heard basically "well that's just what the rate is" in response to asking about the rate.. red flag.
"the American people getting the return on their investment"
Why would anyone take what he says at face value? he lies about everything.
Probably plus a dash of roid rage.
It's amazing what a worm Rubio is; one would think he'd care more about political repression with his family being from Cuba, but he is actually happy and eager to facilitate locking people up for their political opinions.
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Isn't she a faculty at a real university, university of Toronto? She doesn't mention the degree to which she benefits/is protected by the type of institution that "the university of Austin" exists to criticize.
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"zero issues with it" lol imagine the fit he would pitch if this were a Dem president
"are you a moron or a liar?" Might be a decent follow up.
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The next POTUS should cancel the deal and use the plane for refugee flights to the US.
Also it's not like Xi has to worry about the polls for the midterms. I can't discern if trump is doing this because he's unconstrained and world-historically stupid or because he's unconstrained and also thinks he's an unaccountable autocrat.
Bleakly funny how "warfighters" are so afraid of books
My impression is that since they tend to care about education, e.g. they run a lot of colleges, and social justice, conservatives are especially triggered by them.
You need to go to Aldis for some perspective