God I really hope this is because of some shitty AI coding integration.
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God I really hope this is because of some shitty AI coding integration.
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Fetterman was really an incredible mistake, eh? Basically like voting in one of the batshit Berzattos (Donna?) to help run the show.
Can attest to this.
I read this recently and found it quite good (certainly written from a critic's perspective, but there is indeed much to be critical of).
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Is there a prediction market going on yet on how long it takes for him to end of at either Hoover Inst. or University of Austin?
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I've already corrected the "Michel-Rolph Trouillot" :)
Fellow historians. I'm trying to "spice up" my essay prompts for upcoming midterms. Curious to see if y'all think something like this would work, or if it's too much to expect from students in a first-year Global History survey (all students are humanities majors). All thoughts greatly appreciated!
Everything about Saruman, Isengard, and the fate of the Shire before its Scouring is a transparent reference to capitalist industrialisation, and you have to be a genuine idiot not to understand that.
"Europe editor of The Economist."
Richard Sennett is going to explode.
Only a fool would make such a shallow and individualist objection to the kind of circus that can make millionaires of people from the four corners of the world one moment, and scream for nationalistic triumph the next...
Some of us actually enjoy allocating time to entertainment that produces passionate responses that speak to humanity's foibles?
But yeah, guess that instead of spending time arguing about football with family and friends I could learn how to code. Surely that would make my life more meaningful?
That would make you an economist/political scientist.
Did Carnegies etc just donate moneys and get their names on building? Or did they also take an active role steering their philanthropic work like Bill (the latter from my understanding leading to some really problematic stuff, like aggressive vertical intervention that silences local voices).
Did Carnegies etc just donate moneys and get their names on building? Or did they also take an active role steering their philanthropic work like Bill (the latter from my understanding leading to some really problematic stuff, like aggressive vertical intervention that silences local voices).
Asking for realz since I'm not familiar at all with the history of philanthropy.
This is also my intuition, and I have little love for the robber barons (boy do I try to rattle the cage when I'm teaching Gilded Age/Belle Époque). That being said, are there substantial differences between these examples and something like the Gates foundation? Is that also from a bygone era?
Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ • Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were
It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? — that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.
Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
Damn. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to reading more about it.
Also going to go ahead an assume that the IOC has no issues with, say, the French national anthem—which as we all know is deeply apolitical.
What a great painting.
Can't make this shit up.
This is a pretty compelling theory.
The world is in a pretty dark place, so it's all the more important to celebrate initiatives that try to shine some light through the darkness. Today I'm proud to be part of this political community.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
every week there's a new problem caused by trump that i thought was definitively solved in the 1880's
There are currently 58 U.S.-based "prompt engineer" jobs on LinkedIn.
Every single higher ed administrator and policy figure who claimed that they were pivoting to LLMs to prepare students for the "jobs of the future" should be forced to stare at that number for the rest of their lives.
Isn't this just the "faculty" at the "University" of Austin?
They really want to nail that higher ed coffin as tight as they can... Truly one of the great tragedies of the brief 21st century...
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
