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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2025: You’re Only 15 Once Readers. Bike riders. Randonneurs. Always Be Coffeeneuring Club members. Scenesters. People (on Earth)!  It’s back again and it’s a big one. That’s right, it’s the 15th edition of the Coffeene…

It's time. chasingmailboxes.com/2025/09/29/c...

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

Missing Records, Missing Children Indian Residential School records still scarce: Senate report

(This webpage contains information about violence related to the Indian residential school system, which may be distressing to some readers.)

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I learned that it exists just last week, when one of my current students -- who was apparently a top-level participant -- gave the class a mini-tutorial about the sport.

WeRobot 2026 - Robotics & AI Law Society - RAILS

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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Boston opens free clinics to ease vaccine access - The Boston Globe The clinics offer COVID, flu, and childhood immunizations.

At a time of profound public confusion over vaccine policy and access, the City of Boston will host free vaccine clinics throughout the city through Dec. 15.

I winced.

Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe Climate Week Livestream · Luma Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to…

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Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.

oof

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First known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.

Oh. My. God.

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Orange Line closure: the MBTA has announced there will be no train service between Forest Hills and North Station this Saturday, September 27 through Sunday, September 28. Use shuttle buses between Forest Hills and Back Bay. Use the Green Line between Copley and North

🟠 Orange Line closure: the MBTA has announced there will be no train service between Forest Hills and North Station this Saturday, September 27 through Sunday, September 28.

Use shuttle buses between Forest Hills and Back Bay. Use the Green Line between Copley and North Station. mbta.com/orangeline

Screen capture of juxtaposed newspaper items. On top is a description of the Ohio State University's "AI Fluency Initiative" requiring that "from 2029 onward, every Ohio State graduate will be fluent in field-related AI applications. On the bottom is a headline: "DOGE revokes $23 million grant intended to help Ohioans without internet access".

Ohio State University launches initiative requiring that students study AI Beginning this year, all Ohio State University freshmen are required to take a course in generative AI and multiple workshops aimed at real-world applications to help them master the technology.

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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

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So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleg...

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If I'd known ahead of time that @imaniperry.bsky.social would be the emcee and interlocutor with Justice KBJ tonight, I would have paid double.

I pre-unsubscribed years ago!

Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction · Luma Flying cars in the Jetsons; trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and…

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj

WATCH: Tonight on public television across the nation, the premiere of the new documentary “Becoming Thurgood.” It’s so good. Check your PBS and public television schedules. It is part of #HBCUWeek on PBS.

The "using AI for completing assignments is like using a forklift at the weight room" analogy leads me to notice that most gyms I visit have many weight machines and comparatively few free weights. Extending the analogy - if gen AI is the forklift, then is the instructor the weight machine?

Overheard on the first day of my "responsible AI" course: "I thought this was going to be another one of those 'rah-rah AI' classes until I saw that he has us spending the first month reading the print edition of @karenhao.bsky.social's _Empire of AI_".

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

Win the battle, lose the war?

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

A campaign event announcement graphic for Ruthzee’s Boston City Council At-Large campaign featuring three headshots. The event details show “West Roxbury Canvass Kickoff with Rep. Bill MacGregor and Councilor Ben Weber” at Bellevue Hill Park (43 Bellevue Hill Rd, West Roxbury) on Saturday, September 6th at 10:00 AM. The design uses a light mint green background with purple text and includes a clipboard icon. The three people pictured are wearing professional attire - one man in a dark suit with light blue shirt, a woman in a light blazer with a chain necklace, and another man in a dark jacket with patterned shirt.

A similar campaign event graphic announcing a “Charlestown Canvass Kickoff with Rep. Daniel Ryan and Councilor Gigi Coletta Zapata” at Barry Playground (41 Medford St, Charlestown) on Saturday, September 6th at 12:00 PM. The graphic features the same design elements as the first, with three professional headshots - a man in a dark suit with striped tie, a woman in a light blazer, and a woman in a dark blazer with arms crossed.

A campaign event graphic for a “Roslindale Canvass Kickoff with Councilor Henry Santana and Progressive West Roxbury Roslindale” at Fallon Field (910 South St, Roslindale) on Sunday, September 7th at 12:00 PM. This graphic features the PWROX-ROZ logo (a blue circle with green border) and shows two headshots - a woman in a light blazer and a man in a dark suit with patterned tie.

A campaign event graphic for a “Roxbury Canvass Kickoff with Senator Liz Miranda and Rep. John Moran” at Marcella Playground (260 Highland St, Roxbury) on Sunday, September 7th at 2:00 PM. The graphic shows three headshots - a man in a dark sweater, a woman in a light blazer, and a woman in a patterned dark jacket with white turtleneck underneath.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This weekend is Get Out the Vote (GOTV) weekend! JOIN US! We will be knocking doors in:

West Roxbury
Charlestown
Roslindale
Roxbury

Join us! RSVP here:

bit.ly/R4BRoxbury
bit.ly/R4BRoslindale
bit.ly/R4BWestRoxbury
bit.ly/R4BCharlestown

More to come! Let’s go! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

I was doing some random research and I found out Jamaica Plain High, Hyde Park High, Mario Umana Harbor School/Tech & the Charles E. Mackey School were all closed in 1989…

No one has laid eyes on a letterman’s jacket, basketball, football or baseball jersey or even a t shirt from them all since.

Your thread is a shorter version of what this episode (www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...) needed an hour to say today :-)