Many arguments for jettisoning PhD thesis requirements because it serves no utilitarian value and is a waste of time have also been used to argue against liberal arts. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s the value of a liberal arts education. Everything isn’t about utility.

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This is Apple Maps. This is Apple bowing down to Donald Trump. This is what happens when oligarchs reveal themselves to be cowards in service to the almighty dollar over our democracy, sanity and the truth. Shame on Apple.

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6/7 So to summarize: In 2021 the Anthropic CEO knew full well that taking works they did not own or had rights to, to train their models, was wrong. Yet they willfully did it anyway. But this isn’t exclusive to Anthropic. *ALL* GenAi companies do this. This theft MUST stop.

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They are! Their axons are not as thick as the DRG ones, but you can see them when people publish pics of the scales

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Good morning from the @aaas.org Annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ. #AAASmtg Lots going on in the Expo hall. Talks by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Sci-Mic Stage.

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