This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ULEZ proves good policy over popularity is what we need. Not dickhead politicians lapping up the support of idiots who want us all to be as miserable as them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others." Sylvester McMonkey McBean approves.

Dr J: Rich simple, vanilla extract, acidulated OJ, split base of smith&cross and planteray 3 star.

The idea that every human is a life deserving of fundamental rights, dignity & care—irrespective of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, or ability—*is* the common ground. It is the ground of the universal. People opposed to this aren't interested in common ground.

Courtesy of Muppet History:

When the cowboys win the Super Bowl, best believe I’ll be doing this for the whole damn year.

ppl who shit on sports to prove socialism credentials are extremely funny, like genuinely

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Nice views as the storm moved across campus. 1 hour time lapse as the storm approached (looking west). www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...

This plus manually correcting entries to ensure consistency (viz, capitalization & fields) is the way.

When you realize that all they care about is the appearance of passable output and not about process, or learning, or knowledge, or integrity, the fact that we’re inside a culture held captive by the worst grifters suddenly doesn’t seem so surprising.

there is nothing on this planet that comes close to a South Indian breakfast

guys there are like 150 kinds of dosa and that is one item

it's so loaded a roster that vada, the greatest fried dumpling of them all, is like a bench player

India and it's not close.

Forcing US taxpayers to become investors in companies built on a foundation of the greatest theft in human history is very much on brand for trump

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

My name is Josh Turek. I am a 2-time gold medalist, 4-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball, one of the first permanently disabled members of the Iowa House, and I am honored to be Iowa's Democratic nominee for United States Senate. If you are ready to push for change, join me: turek4iowa.com

Always delighted to see "we're rolling out a large language model to do a task that is built entirely around absolute precision in the handling of data." uhhhh so do you not know how LLMs work

Fuck the Oklahoma City Thunder as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

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<taps mic> <John Facenda voice> "NO ONE - absolutely NO ONE - knows the right amount of viewpoint diversity on college campuses & any attempt to legislate or regulate it means the death of that institution as a serious university" bsky.app/profile/mcop...

AI can tell you how a word is spelled. But the work these kids do to solve those words—developing study tactics, identifying linguistic patterns, honing their ability to perform under pressure—is something a computer can’t do for you. The Bee is a reminder of what the human brain is capable of.

A true competitive advantage is not something that people usually go screaming about at all hours of the day to anyone who will listen.

Something I don't get about this whole thing is the seeming insistence of many people who use AI extensively that everyone else must do the same. It's as if proselytizing is required. Something can be useful to YOU, full stop. The evangelism really does make it feel like a religion / cult sometimes.

The Butlerian Jihad is near.

This is some bs

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

i just want talarico to say “if you care more about my taco order than $7 gas you are a giant fucking idiot”

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

My students Ryan & Soham worked out a way to put random ridge functions (eg random Fourier features or a perceptron) in the leaves of BART while still maintaining (essentially) linear-time tree updates (ie same as BART).

Potato egg and cheese (when in Austin) and migas (when in Austin) is the correct move!

paxton is favored just because of the state's partisan lean but it is wild to me that this guy has made it this far in state politics. he has no juice! none! zilch!

The surrender to “Generative AI” (as its propagandists call it) is degrading, basically, everything that actually advances genuine human self-cultivation: thinking, notvbeing thought for, for a start. It is shading into a surrender of liberty at a very profound level. Just ask any good teacher.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

It’s time to renew that spark, and fight for healthcare for all, stronger voting rights, and better lives for all, not just those at the top.

To be clear, anyone complaining about the Brunson casting is a racist dumbass who spends their time on the dumbest things.

my full @re-publica.com talk in Berlin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mwd... #broligarchy #politicalphilosophyofAI

The most basic and banal opinion is that American public higher ed institutions are a fucking miracle that should be defended, but you are more likely to land real estate in right and centrist media institutions by ignoring or attacking that entirely correct view.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

*Se habla español* - Conference registration fees are much lower for Latin America - Workshops will be accessible to both English & Spanish speakers - We’ll have partial scholarships for a number of student presenters

The International Statistical Ecology Conference is extending abstract submissions to May 29, 2026 (AoE). Want to encourage more folks in 🇲🇽 & LATAM to participate. Spread the word to your colleagues in Latin America. Happy to answer any questions about the conference! statisticalecology.org

This was a fun project led by my fantastic PhD student Soham! Combines global-local priors with BART to fit high-dimensional varying coefficient models.

You had one job. Enough already, we don’t want it or need it