I’m thinking about the NYTimes story about offspring cutting ties with their parents. I have no doubt that is very difficult for the parents who may however have made the bed they must now lie in. What I am curious about is why no stories about the parents who threaten to cut off their children…

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I'm in The Crimson today asking Harvard to "reboot" our relationship with AI by: matching investments in AI with investments in reading and writing; (re)constructing "analog" education infrastructure; and developing regulations from the bottom up (incl. departments and faculty committees).

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BOOM! 💥💥💥 The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals granted Penn-AAUP’s motion to vacate the bad district court opinion on Trump’s absurd demands. Trump tried to get a list of Jews from Penn & failed, & now, thanks to @aaup-penn.bsky.social, the admin leaves with nothing that it can use elsewhere.

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The Chronicle Of We Hate Higher Education And Cannot Read The Authoritarian Moment

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The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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