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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

New by-law to stop people roaming at first Scottish Center Parcs Restrictions at the site of its first Scottish holiday village will come into force in April.

Scottish Centre Parcs just axed right to roam!

New by-law to stop people roaming at first Scottish Center Parcs - BBC News share.google/IT2dqQS0ZwQE...

As AI adoption grows, how should research record it?

Article published today in @researchinfo.bsky.social

www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

She’s been released 🙏🏽

That is not what happened to horses.

Me: earth’s tilted orbit around the sun is entirely predictable and the resulting gradual shift of day length through the year should be the cause neither of surprise nor wonderment.

Also me: IT’S STILL LIGHT AT SIX O’CLOCK PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS WONDROUS MIRACLE

You are not alone 😁

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

This one hits hard.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."

AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle' Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love reading pieces about the ethics and poetics of “attention” from senior male Ivy academics who, my women colleagues tell me, have conveniently and consistently avoided institutional service and all the other pesky things that tend to distract others 💅

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

“Content delivery” is a sign you misunderstand teaching.

Submitted a humongous ethics application today. And I have this niggling feeling in the back of my head that I forgot something gha... Well that's what the review process is for!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

James Talarico in his censored CBS interview: "This is the party that ran against cancel culture and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture."

Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

World Tinnitus Week 2026: New Resources From ASHA Journals - ASHA Journals Academy ASHA’s journals publish hundreds of articles every year to help audiologists provide evidence-based care for people with tinnitus and other hearing issues. In honor of World Tinnitus Week, we’ve compi...

It's World Tinnitus Week, and we're highlighting new resources on tinnitus published across the ASHA Journals. Read more on the Context Blog! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/02/world-tinnitus-week-2026-new-resources-from-asha-journals/

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Three Eastern Bluebirds are together having a meal on a terra cotta saucer. The background is mostly white from the snow.

I am really enjoying having the Eastern Bluebirds here for the winter. They seem to be very social and full of personality. It's a shame they are not here year-round.

North Texas

#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#nature #naturephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds

quote text: A passionate group of women rediscovered fitness in VR. They’re furious with Mark Zuckerberg for killing their community. -- DeeDee Henry, an avid Supernatural athlete since 2020 Photo: a woman in a VR headset

A passionate group of women rediscovered fitness in VR. They’re furious with Mark Zuckerberg for killing their community.

Read more from @vicmsong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/871250/...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search AI search tools aren't "agreeing" with users—they are retrieval systems. Confusing the two is a category error that obscures the real risks.

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search aarontay.substack.com/p/the-sycophan… #AI #libraries #searcg #RAG

Is there platform all journalists have access to, where citizen observers can log activities in their neighbourhood? So local journalists can get alerts?