Apostolos K.

College students’ beach drive ends with SUV in the ocean Two college students escaped unharmed after their SUV ended up in the ocean at Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea, prompting a police investigation.

Local dumbsasses...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

Thoughts and prayers, I guess? 🧐 Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

Trump Says Putin Should Be Allowed To Keep The Land He Has Seized In Ukraine The president met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and later stated that the fighting should end and that territorial lines should be where the battle lines are today.

NEW -- Trump is now saying that the battle lines in Ukraine as they are right now should be the new territorial lines -- meaning war criminal Putin would be rewarded for his invasion and keep the land he has seized.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"Comedians Kumail Nanjiani and Ilana Glazer dropped out of performing at Salesforce's annual tech conference this week".

I'm curious how Salesforce's Bay Area employees feel about their company being known as an authoritarian collaborator.

Pursuing misdemeanor charges against SEIU ISWW & @seiuca.org president David Huerta is a gross abuse of power by this administration. The 15 million members of the AFL-CIO stand shoulder to shoulder with David as he fights for justice. aflcio.org/press/releas...

We Don’t Need the Voting Rights Act Anymore, and You Can Tell by How Great Race Relations Are in America Right Now “The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit the use of the land...

"The Voting Rights Act was passed back when America was a far more racist country. These days, race only ever comes up in fun, joking ways. Like when the president shares a meme of the Speaker of the House wearing a sombrero."

Two simple androgynous line-drawn figures are holding hands. One is labeled OpenAI and the other is labeled Instructure. A speech bubble jointly from both of them has the text “We’re bringing AI to your LMS!” On the right is a simple line-drawn androgynous figure raising their hand to ask a question. They are labeled “Educator.” A speech bubble pointing to them reads “Could you tell your AI agents not to do students’ work for them?”

Instructure: Partners with OpenAI to bring AI to Canvas, touting built-in transparency about what is the student's and what is AI..

OpenAI: Lets ChatGPT Agent do students' work for them in Canvas.

Instructure: Lets ChatGPT Agent and other agents do students' work for them in Canvas.

I’m a Guardrail, and I Don’t Know What the Fuck You People Want from Me Okay, so look. I’m your basic galvanized steel thrie-beam guardrail. My job is to keep vehicles from flying off the escarpment and squishing all th...

"My job is to keep vehicles from flying off the escarpment and squishing all the people driving on the westbound lane who don’t wanna die... You know what I wasn’t built for? This Trump bullshit."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

How, exactly? Why is it no one ever asks these simple follow-up questions to these talking airheads when they make these insane claims?

Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs

Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’ The breach may have leaked 70,000 government ID photos.

Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’

H-1B visas: Chamber of Commerce sues Trump over $100K fee The president has defended the fee and said the programme - used widely by US tech companies - was being abused

Trump administration sued over $100K fee for skilled worker visas

Microsoft warns of the dangers of Shadow AI : Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?

Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft

MAGA Mike Johnson's priorities are super weird Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims to be an upstanding Christian "warrior" of the faith, but his actions suggest otherwise. Here MAGA Mike stands by as DHS agents shoot…

MAGA Mike Johnson's priorities are super weird

Concerns about AI-written police reports spur states to regulate the emerging practice AI-generated police reports promise to save cops time, but they also raise a host of legal and technical concerns.

Concerns about AI-written police reports spur states to regulate the emerging practice

Ep. 73 - Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes  Stephen Downes explores how networks, AI, and critical thinking are reshaping the future of education and lifelong learning.

Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troub…

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices

AARO, TRIO and Jumpstart face federal funding cuts The Asian American Resource Office, among other initiatives, faces closure and budget cuts due to a lack of federal funding, according to a Sept. 16 town hall meeting. “The office will still be open for drop-ins,” AARO’s Associate Director Karen Chi said, but they anticipate a less-stocked refreshment cabinet, fewer team outings and the end...

AARO, TRIO and Jumpstart face federal funding cuts

These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected Microsoft explored some designs that closely resembled its older Office for Mac icons.

These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected

'Save Our Signs' Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs - Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Monday, a publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trum...

'Save Our Signs' Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS Commentary on An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS

Trump Freezes $575M In MA Funding To Pressure Democrats To End Shutdown: Report More than $400 million of the funding was suspended in three Congressional districts.

Fuck Trump 🖕. Happy Friday 🐸 - Trump Freezes $575M In MA Funding To Pressure Democrats To End Shutdown: Report
More than $400 million of the funding was suspended in three Congressional districts.

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.

“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”

The reported purpose is to disrupt traditional academic publishing 😵‍💫. Honestly. What the actual fück is this? I feel like we've lost the ball a bit here and we're living the academic equivalent of influencers and karmachasers...
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While browsing a particular social network, I saw an announcement for a cfp whereby AI will be the first author with humans being second authors. It will be over reviewed, but the AI will be take first stab at review and if it passes it goes to human reviewers.
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TiVo has sold its last DVR The company is killing its hardware business, 26 years after becoming synonymous with TV recording.

TiVo has sold its last DVR