PhD candidate in History working on Black disability in the modern US. Proud member UCW-CWA at W&M fighting for $15/hr & fully funded healthcare. #COYS
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Very proud to have published my first peer reviewed article in the @DSQJournal Special Issue on "Race and Disability." My article explores cross-disability community at Virginia's residential school for deaf and blind African Americans.dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/ar…
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Virginia State Crime Commission report said 20 law enforcement agencies shared ALPR data in violation of the 2025 state law since January.
Includes Virginia State Police, the Virginia Beach and Richmond police. pilotonline.com/2026/11/06/v…
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Harvard Academic Workers — about 2,600 preceptors, lecturers, teaching assistants, and postdoctoral researchers — are on strike as of this morning. The Academic Workers join with other @hgsuuaw members are now on week three of their strike…
A win for one union, is a win for us all. Solidarity with Harvard workers
"Harvard’s non-tenure-track faculty and researchers will walk out of classrooms and labs Tuesday for the first time, after a final bargaining session Monday ended without a contract agreement with the University."
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We now have rigorous, empirical evidence on the real-world, long-term impact of students using AI. This research indicates that AI substantially harms learning for half of all students, & provides no discernible benefit to the other half.
educationnext.org/the-penalt…
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Princeton Students rock: "We think it is clear that AI is not academically necessary to a large portion of the student body and may have destructive consequences." dailyprincetonian.com/articl…
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The question on university campuses should now be how to get rid of all the administrators who caved to and collaborated with a grossly unpopular political agenda, including curricular changes, reversals on diversity mandates, buying into AI hype, clamping down on Gaza protests…
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"The surge in construction of fossil-fueled power plants to run AI data centers is set to undo 15 years’ worth of greenhouse gas reductions from US electricity generation" 👍🏿bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
You definitely need and want AI, that's why we're making you use it
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
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Anyone else feeling a brief bit of disappointment grading assignments and seeing that once again, Test Student has not submitted anything?
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How does a watermark imply that it’s evil? Shouldn’t you be proud that everyone knows you used the machine that is helping so, so many people with great ideas?
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Using AI to “help” you with your writing is like a baseball player subbing in a robot at the plate to “help” with batting. No one would count that at-bat statistically. We cannot count any AI writing whole or partial as belonging to an author. It’s absurd.
Perhaps he has realized his business model is a dead end and is pitching centralized cloud data centers as a way to have these data centers remain viable investments.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” that people have so much DRAM sitting in their own PCs instead of being used in data centers.
“Everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time,”
He argues that cloud data centers should make better use of limited memory supplies instead of people running AI models locally.
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Just fire him. Just fire anyone in academia who's using AI to do their writing. Research, whatever. I don't agree with it but it's debatable. Writing is not. If AI does it, or "helps" you do it in _any_ way, you're plagiarizing.
Students at Dartmouth are required to disclose any use of AI in coursework to their professors, at the risk of facing disciplinary action. But the college's chief academic officer, the provost, said that he has used AI without disclosure in a range of published work. chroni.cl/3TNwqTi
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I agree with this and in the humanities, the norm needs to be that we don't use AI at all. Perhaps it should be that way in other areas too, but I'm certain it should be that way in my own.
I truly don't understand the temptation here. If you don't enjoy thinking, researching, and writing, perhaps follow your bliss and become a car mechanic if you like servicing machines so much.
BREAKING: Santiago Schnell has resigned as provost of the College, after a committee-led review of his academic publications and public writing found that he had used artificial intelligence without proper disclosure. thedartmouth.com/article/202…
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The RPD chief said he’s sorry the city’s FLOCK camera WRONGLY identified Rosalyn Crump’s car that officers had towed, the car was allowed to fall off a tow truck, totaling her car which led to her losing her job.
But chief Edwards said sorry. 12onyourside.com/2026/10/27/…
