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Can you predict what AI will do?

How good are you at predicting how well Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini will perform on simple tasks?

Here’s a little weekend quiz.

We set AI tools some simple tasks and gave them 10 attempts at each one. See if you can predict the results – and then how you compare with others: quiz.wholesum.tech

As a LFC fan I’d probably have been annoyed if we were closer but that was very cool. Definitely take AFC over MCFC as champions

Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq – March 14, 2026 - U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Iraq

⚠️ US Embassy in Baghdad:

“U.S. citizens should leave Iraq now.”

SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2

link.motherjones.com/public/44694...

It's reassuring to see which side those two are on...

Reject the Deportation & Detention Agenda Tell your Members of Congress to publicly oppose any warehouses or detention centers being expanded in your community or anywhere in the country.

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I kid you not... The same White House that forgot that invading Iran might lead it to close the Strait of Hormuz, is now arguing (through Peter Navarro) that war with Iran is a good idea because it'll prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz.

“The American Association of University Professors and its faculty, staff, and student members across Texas are committed to defending the freedom to teach so that students have the freedom to learn, and maintaining the excellence of the state’s public colleges and universities.”

Share widely!

Trump apparently needed one of those allies he doesn't need anymore to rescue the Americans in Iraq who weren't evacuated before Trump shat the place up.

Meanwhile, Witkoff is meeting with the people who helped Iran do the targeting.

abcnews.com/Internationa...

Pentagon now says approximately 140 US troops wounded over 10 days of Iran war The Pentagon on Tuesday said 140 U.S. troops have been wounded over 10 days of the Iran war, a number far higher than initially suggested.

abcnews.com/Politics/pen...

Hands off our unions!

St. John’s University AAUP and allies are out in full force to tell Father Shanley that they are not backing down in the fight to keep faculty unions at SJU.

Union busting is unholy!

@bradlander.bsky.social agrees that faculty unions belong at Catholic universities.

Shame on Father Shanley for misusing Vincentian values to justify withdrawing recognition of faculty unions at St. John’s University!

“A university that sits on a one billion dollar endowment does not get to reinvent Catholic Social Teaching…Catholic Social Teaching for over a century has repeatedly affirmed that the common good requires unions.”

—Jeremy Cruz, St. John’s University AAUP Equity Officer and Professor of Theology

This is what solidarity looks like.

@psc-cuny.org stands shoulder to shoulder with St. John’s University in their fight to maintain faculty union representation and collective bargaining rights on campus.

Tigers, it's Advisement Month! 🐯 Stop by TODAY, March 11, 11 AM–2 PM, Science Building (S-111/S-112) for advisement help, Navigate tips, and free ☕ & snacks. #QCCProud #QueensboroughCommunityCollege #CUNY #ASAP #QCCASAP

Transparent & Inclusive OSU Presidential Search With the resignation of Ted Carter, the Ohio State University is searching for a new president at a time of deep distrust and skepticism about its leadership. Join the call for a transparent, inclusiv...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Transparent & Inclusive OSU Presidential Search. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

The One-House Bills have been out for just over 24 hours now. Here’s a thread focused on higher ed!

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

hmm

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Portland State declares financial crisis, reveals plan to cut or reduce 19 departments Portland State’s announcement Monday lays the groundwork for a process that could result in a massive restructuring of the university.

Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregon’s higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why?

@psuaaup.bsky.social

I wish there was someone who could rein him in

Russia

a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . '' Alt: a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . ''

He's surrounded by American versions of Bob

Sometimes all I've got left is sarcasm. And when that runs out, I get serious.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Japan's Nikkei set to plunge over 7% as oil breaches $100 mark Brent futures spiked 16.1% to last trade at $107.61, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose almost 17.7% to $107.02

Japan's Nikkei set to plunge over 7% as oil breaches $100 mark