"'All of us were more confident about large language models a year ago'... strategic shift away from generative AI toward more predictable "deterministic" automation... after Salesforce reportedly reduced its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 employees...” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

I don’t care.

Evergreen 58-year-old striker Kazuyoshi Miura is set to join Fukushima United, a J. League third-division team, to begin his 41th season as a professional soccer player.

Fascinating from Tom’s piece

A third of AI cancer pathology models introduced racial bias into their analysis even when they weren’t programmed to futurism.com/health-medic...

Amazing example of how to infer people's valuation of their time. Ryanair has determined customers are willing to pay $1.17 per extra two rows forward they can sit on an airplane, allowing them to disembark a bit sooner. If that saves 1 minute, customers value their time at about $70/hour.

The scale of Russia's expansion of international scholarships as a soft power tool is a wonder to behold. I think I can count at least 20 countries in Asia and Africa where new scholarships have been announced in the last 12 months.

It’s like the Venetian Las Vegas threw up all over an apartment.

There is a place where higher education seems to be doing quite well financially these days. It's Hong Kong.

I am skeptical that these ideas will get far. But if they do, that would automatically make NZ the most interesting spot in global higher ed.

Interesting comparative perspective

1/ I have just seen the program costing model that Huron Consulting & Nova Scotia govt are trying to foist on Nova Scotia universities. My reaction can largely be summed up as BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA. AHAHA Heh. Oh, mercy!

oh my god

It's intriguing that the Japanese govt keeps choosing *not* to give this money to Todai, Kyoto or Osaka.

Christmas: the universal holiday?

Making Canada the #1 economy in the OECD by protecting absurd monopolies, FFS.

As a general rule of thumb: are Canadian intergovernmental bodies considered i) beyond the reach of things like FOIs and provincial procurement rules because they aren't govts, or ii) absolutely under FOI and procurement rules because otherwise govts could just use them to get around said rules?

Just need Ecuador and we're back to Gran Colombia of the 1820s.

Now a pizza company is publicly calling out #Toronto ‘s long-delayed “rapid” transit lines for slow delivery. (A+ trolling, by the way)

You think your university has infrastructure problems

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

Plov is the bomb.

BC universities, reducing spending by eliminating duplication and getting serious about cost control. Makes you wonder why the provincial government thinks it needs to step in and make its own contribution via a PSE review.

Yay? bsky.app/profile/phil...

Yes! This!

One way to understand the VC/MAGA collaboration to wreck higher education is that its a petty revenge move because all of their predictions about imminent collapse and how a new model will disrupt the sector have been incorrect. www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

Missed this a couple of days ago but....eeeenteresting.

One for @registrarism.bsky.social's Crime on Campus files. I know UNAM is a big place, but these are still some very large numbers.

"Crystal Meth Clippy" is 🔥

The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:

Never change, Newfoundland politics.

Never change, Quebec politics.

Somehow I completely missed this article when it came out in the summer. Essential to understanding the politics of the Compact.

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

Quite possibly the best con law article ever written in the English language. Bravo @jerryedwards.bsky.social

I would read this.

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

That's...a big win. From a Higher Ed perspective it will be most interesting to see if gratuidad survives. And what lessons, if any, Kast chooses to take from Milei's experience next door in Argentina.

Thread.

From yougov UK. If you don't follow up this question with: "what are your ambitions for *your* child or grandchild", you are involved in serious polling malpractice.

This story is completely bananapants

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

High income countries now discovering how people from low and middle income countries have been treated for decades This is standard immigration questioning in every North American and European airport

[bookstore] customer: can you tell me where the do it yourself section is? me: you are not off to a good start

Each?

In terms of GDP per capita, you say? <as thousands of overly-online Canadian liberals tie themselves in knots working out how to both argue for the Trudeau record and against Brexit>

"C'est un vrai cri d'alarme" : de Lille à Angers, des universités alertent sur leur situation financière www.franceinfo.fr/societe/educ... @afp.com @franceinfo.fr

Only 7.5 hours more to go on this godforsaken flight.

Thought: One of main things preventing universities from declaring financial exigency and get on a path to reducing staff numbers is that they don't want the humiliation of being "the one" that looks like it's financially inept. But if many of them decided to declare exigency simultaneously...

In an annual tradition, I had a blast chatting with @alexusherhesa.bsky.social about the top ten higher education items in the United States during 2025. It only felt like 2025 has been 25 years long!