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Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer NEW YORK—Casting doubt on the mayoral candidate’s ability to effectively carry out the duties of the office, critics assailed New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani Friday for refusing to share his plan t...

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

We have a right to dissent, and we will use it.

It’s sizing up to be a painful day.

How’s this different from going to church?

It doesn’t get any more B1G than this.

Pretty classy that he helped the receiver up at the end.

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

My son is convinced that this is The Rock

Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1

“Going forward, however, fewer data tables are expected to be produced because separate contracts for a range of data collections were also terminated in February.”

hechingerreport.org/proof-points... Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report

Becoming ‘AI-ready’: U of T’s task force on artificial intelligence releases recommendations The University of Toronto’s artificial intelligence task force has released several high-level recommendations aimed at making the university an “AI-ready” institution while upholding its core mission...

www.utoronto.ca/news/becomin... Becoming ‘AI-ready’: U of T’s task force on artificial intelligence releases recommendations | University of Toronto

Just got an epic Father’s Day gift.

REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

Justice Ketjani Brown Jackson wore a collar made of cowrie shells along with a pair of matching earrings over her black robes to the presidential inauguration. The shells were used as currency in some 16th Century African cultures, & also signified protection & prosperity, & the National Museum of African American History & Culture reminds us that they appeared as amulets in America & “may have been brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement”

& that’s that on that.

Dr Martin Luther King jr. knew what we needed then.

We need it more than ever now.

Meet Jimmy.

Jimmy builds houses for the homeless.

Be like Jimmy.

Opinion | How Higher Education Can Win America Back Jefferson believed in the egalitarian potential of education, and we should, too.

“A good college education opens pathways for transformative achievement. “

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

Before this month is over, Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social may need to rewrite this chapter to something more like, "Do Not Ignominiously Grovel in Advance"

Why Income Inequality in America Is Hurting Collective Happiness Research from Wharton's Matt Killingsworth finds that raising the incomes of the lowest earners can help increase happiness across society.

“…to increase happiness across society, it’s more effective to raise the incomes of those earning the least.”

knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-...

The Seventy Percent, by Yiyun Li On minor characters and human possibility

“...what afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to grasp subtlety, and to understand ambiguity”

harpers.org/archive/2024...

That’s after the third round.

Hello world.

Part-time thinker, full-time overthinker. Data wrangler by day, pun enthusiast by night. Here for the vibes and the occasional dad joke. Let’s pivot some tables and stir up some laughs.

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

“…zero might have evolved from a more fundamental ability to grasp the idea that “nothing” really is “something.”

www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-huma...

How the EU’s Green Deal is driving business reinvention Climate-focused policies are transforming Europe’s economy. To create value amid the changes, leaders need to master new rules and remake business models.

“research indicates companies that take more action on climate-related opportunities and risks also have better financial performance.”

www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues...