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Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

Screen shot: “Meet Einstein Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework - automatically.”

These evil mfs

I can’t see anyway around it.

Handwritten essays and detailed first-hand sources described. Students are going to have to speak to professors in their field and write down what they say.

Students who skip their learning for short-cuts are soon going to find out in the workplace/professional exams.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Our governments are actively selling us out to companies that do not have our best interests in mind, based on promises of increased productivity and a flood of investment that are based far more on hype than reality. There are already signals that companies in other parts of the economy are pulling back from AI investment after not seeing the returns, and that even workers in tech who think they’re becoming more productive thanks to these tools are deluding themselves. While chasing the hype, governments are leaving their citizens open to abuse and harms that few other industries would so easily get away with. As Altman and his colleagues make it clearer than ever that they care very little for most of the humans on our planet and in our societies, their word should stop being taken as gospel and the impacts of their companies should be assessed on what they’re doing in the here and now, not what they might do sometime in the far future.

Governments need to realize the AI productivity boost is not coming, and the investment they’re eager to win will dry up once the bubble bursts. They need to protect their citizens, not sell them out to tech companies that care so little for the social good.

disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

One of the things I love about Gen Z is how they take all the little millennial snark sayings seriously. We said “hang it in the louvre” for two decades and they said “bet”

Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope – but first, the more strident, misguided voices must pipe down, says author Laura Spinney

Covid, 5 years on:
"The mRNA vaccines prevented millions of deaths. [...] Masks worked. And as with every pandemic in recent history, subsequent reviews have found that the advice to go early and hard with containment was correct."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US software and private capital shares hit with fresh wave of selling Wall Street banks also slide as fears over AI disruption mount

US software stocks were hit with a fresh burst of selling this Monday 23 Feb

as investors fretted that AI will upend the industry,

in a sell-off that cascaded to private capital groups that have lent heavily to the sector.

www.ft.com/content/c43b...

On the eve of the 4th anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war, we raise the Ukrainian flag at our headquarters.

So it can fly proudly at the heart of our Union, where it belongs.

One day Ukraine will be safe.

Ukraine will be free.

Ukraine will be part of our European family.

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EU Council chief warns Orbán against backtracking on €90B Ukraine loan The Hungarian leader is threatening to block the EU cash to Kyiv, despite agreeing to the plan in December.

Hungary must lift its blockade on a €90 billion loan to Ukraine and abide by the commitments it made to other EU leaders in December, European Council President António Costa warned in a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

BREAKING: The moment Peter Mandelson is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

The 72-year-old was led away by police officers and taken to a London police station for interview

Louisiana mifepristone lawsuit could hinder telehealth abortion nationwide • Pennsylvania Capital-Star A hearing is set for Tuesday in a federal lawsuit led by Louisiana seeking to further restrict access to mifepristone by asking the courts to stop abortion pills from being mailed across the country.

A hearing is set for Tuesday in a federal lawsuit led by Louisiana seeking to further restrict access to mifepristone by asking the courts to stop abortion pills from being mailed across the country.

From @statesnewsroom.com

With International Women’s Day approaching, we’re going to be dedicating a full show to women in film to mark that occasion.

Your nominations for inclusion in the show please - reply below or via the normal email address with your suggestions for the greatest women working in film today. #IWD2026

The volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slop The editors are both populating and fighting the world’s regional language AI engines.

Wikipedia editors are doing double duty: feeding LLMs and fighting AI-generated spam
https://restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-training-regional-languages/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1771852740

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

En lees vooral ook: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Beëdigd. We gaan beginnen. Aan de slag.

The image shows Ukrainian soldiers with a family—including young children—near a military vehicle. It captured a moment in November 2022 when Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson after 254 days of Russian occupation.

The image shows Ukrainian soldiers with a family—including young children—near a military vehicle. It captured a moment in November 2022 when Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson after 254 days of Russian occupation.

The Photograph Context: The photo depicts a Ukrainian soldier carrying an elder while evacuating from Irpin, a city near Kyiv, on March 6, 2022.

The Photograph Context: The photo depicts a Ukrainian soldier carrying an elder while evacuating from Irpin, a city near Kyiv, on March 6, 2022.

"If they try to take our country away from us, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. Not attack, defend ourselves. And when you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs, but our faces."

- President Zelenskyy, 2022. #StandWithUkraine #3E

The War Is Coming Home to Russia Western sanctions are biting harder into the fragile Russian economy. And there is growing evidence of the war's negative, long-term impacts on Russian society, from rising crime and corruption to wor...

"Moscow has built a larger repressive apparatus. It has cultivated a climate of fear and uncertainty that encouraged many Russians to silence not just themselves but also one another.

If you think public spaces can be hostile for women now, wait until every man can use their Meta facial recognition glasses to identify any woman they see, slide instantly into their DMs, and then get mad when they don't instantly and positively respond.

Burn this company to the ground.

Meta.

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

Re some arguments I had at the weekend: the EU is still expanding. You might hate the EU, but it’s not dying on its ass as many like to claim

www.politico.eu/article/icel...

I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.

Palantir sues magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its approaches Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group alleges that Republik did not give it sufficient right to reply

"The company objects to Republik’s presentation of the public documents and believes its right to reply has been wrongfully denied"

Looks like when newspapers don't parrot the usual hype then AI companies get stressed. Which is why we need reporting beyond the hype.

www.ft.com/content/434b...

Creativity is made, not generated — Procreate® We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.

Like. There is a way forward without giving into this shit and then seeing everything you rely on collapse when the bubble bursts.

procreate.com/ai

Our EU gas demand tracker was updated by @bmcwilliams.bsky.social

Rather than falling in line with EU energy strategies, EU gas demand crept back up to 90% of pre-crisis levels.

www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro... 1/3

The greening of career education: US students learn new skills as climate crisis intensifies Some districts are adding programs in clean energy and sustainability, while one state is infusing environmental lessons into culinary education and construction

Despite Tr$mp, school systems in blue and red states are adding classes in clean energy and infusing environmental sustainability lessons in construction, culinary and other career pathways, an effort to prepare students for a workplace altered by climate change. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...