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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 6h

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 6h

An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a mistake that is specifically made by game theorists.

Kevin needs to be careful.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 1d

Declare yourself Dean.

Puts off the problem but you can cross that bridge when you come to it.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by the US Department of Justice.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 1d

Suppose someone has succeeded in everything they have tried. Does that mean they would succeed no matter what they tried? Of course not.

Likewise it is important to remember that there are limits on what Trump could get away with, and in fact the world would look very different otherwise.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 1d

I reject the premise. I think we can still teach serious writing and deep reading.

I think one important technique is to do hybrid assignments where there is a take home part and an in class assessment (eg a quiz testing your understanding of your paper) to make cheating unprofitable.

Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 1d

I think there is a good chance that AI will be on net good for higher ed.

It can make teachers and students more productive. It creates cheating problems but I think we will develop straightforward techniques to address this.

Of course there is uncertainty and it could turn out badly.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 2d

I am not in charge Scott, how many times do I have to tell you?

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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · 3d

"A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact often by a factor of five to ten or more. "
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 7d

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...

youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...

Brian Eno on How Machines Can Make Us More Human

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 4d

Really important.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t claim to know what would be the most effective approach here

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve become more sympathetic to the shutdown. By his constant lawlessness, Trump is making it impossible for Democrats. People have limits, they naturally get angry and it stops being about a political calculation.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

blog.dividedargument.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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