Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years' failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and...
"... Last Friday, Salem Media Group announced that it had removed the fabulist film 2,000 Mules from its platform and said it would no longer distribute either the movie or an accompanying book by the right-wing activist and Trump-pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza. It...
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in "OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance," The Washington Post....
This morning's story, for me, is Patrick Jack's article in The Higher Education supplement, which examined the fallout in a conflict: Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, with Kamna Patel, associate...
dumbassery Jump to navigationJump to search Contents 1English 1.1Etymology 1.2Noun 1.2.1Synonyms English[edit] Etymology[edit] From dumbass + -ery. Noun[edit] dumbassery (uncountable) (slang,vulgar,Canada, US) Immature, foolish behavior;...
Dear Colleagues, Ingrid Moses messaged last night that John had died, after a long illness, although he was still quite sharp still in the last weeks and we had been messaging often. He was 91. Quite...
“The [UK] creation of the Office for Students by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act to ‘encourage competition between English higher education providers’ and to ‘promote value for money’ has been particularly instrumental in promoting...
Dear friends, Not understanding the A.I. risks. Tyler Austin Harper (2024). The Big Ai Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing: Beware technology that makes us less human, The Atlantic, MAY 21, 2024, 6 AM ET. GIFT ARTICLE In 1977, Ivan Illich,...
Dear Friends, and I thank Graham Perrett's office for its recent kind support, and several friends who made sure I have not gone under, I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024: Gift Article (I paid for it, the least you can do is read)...