High school students using AI to write college application essays that are then graded by AI from admissions departments is a great example of how AI usage devalues systems while people can accurately point to “productivity gains” from using AI.
Sixty-five members of the University of Minnesota Law School have signed an open letter “to address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.” docs.google.com/document/d/1bJ…
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence aga…
Just ran into this on a technical article I was reading. This is what MAGA has done to us: Taken a nation that was doing quite well, and finally trying to grow out of and atone for its wrongs, and turned it into one where our citizens qualify for "relief pricing" because we are under the malignantly cancerous rule of a fascist regime intent on destroying everything of value here.
I really really really really really really hate the JAWS install at this point of time. In other news, we're getting up to 60 CMs of snow... 3 feet, so nothing better to do than to repeatedly install and uninstall JAWS versions.
Asking again if someone happens to have contacts inside Harvard University or Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who feel responsible for open source software licensing. Please get in touch. :)
Note: Please do not copy and paste the contacts for their legal departments, etc. #harvard #ucb #berkeley
"Signal doesn't log metadata" -- does that really matter in practice? If the government wants to prove you sent a message at a specific time all they have to do is go after your mobile carrier or ISP and get their netflow logs associated with your IP address
They can even prove you have an account as well because when you activated the service you received an SMS... and they can prove this happened too
So even if you try to disavow any ownership of a message they find on someone's phone, they'll still nail you to the wall. They'll even be able to tell where you were when you sent it.
None of this actually protects you when it matters most. Don't for a second believe that a passive monitoring dragnet by the NSA is within your threat model. You're being gaslit by people who are still addicted to the state of technology and the world during the Snowden revelations
So just a quick question, I've been noticing people putting re then a link to a post then their reply, why are you doing this, when you can just hit reply on the post you want to reply to?
Every year, we have a fine old tradition of renting a hot tub over Christmas and New Year’s. Sometimes they leave it longer if they don’t have anybody booked immediately. We still have the tub and we just went in. We are having an epic snowstorm in Toronto right now. They are saying we might get 60 cm. They were snowbanks higher than the edge of the tub.
A lesson I have to keep learning over and over again, most people aren't out to get you. I'm often fearful of interacting with people, especially those I don't know, always scared of saying the wrong thing or offending someone. 99% of the time it goes well, and I end up telling myself "hey, it wasn't so bad man, calm down." No idea where this came from but it's always been something I've struggled with.
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