Sarah O'Connor (FT) warns students taking up AI to get them through their studies may be counter-productive;
Good careers depend on employees being able to demonstrate they add value & if they depend on AI to deliver what they claim to know, why would employers not just 'employ' artificial intelligence directly?
While clinging to AI might be understandable in a time of student stress & anxiety, educators (universities) should help them resist the siren call of AI!
I completely concur!
#AI
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#Mutualaid for March
Made 70% of last month's goal—thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
If y'all contribute $162/day we'll be able to meet the goal this month!
18 of you are monthly patrons, which is a KEY way to help us get financially stable ♥️
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#Mutualaid for March
Just $10 bucks away from covering the PO box renewal fee. Thanks so much for the help so far!
Having been housing insecure for a bit having a PO box is a tremendous safety net so I really appreciate the help maintaining that.
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Thanks so much for the support so far this month!
We making slow progress on our March fundraising goal, can we break $500 before this weekend? We've got a couple bills (cell phone and credit card) due in the next few days.
So far y'all have really helped me survive capitalism while taking time to focus on our tiny human and look after my partner as they recover from childbirth.
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URGENT:
Our phone and other bills are due tomorrow. Hoping for some help raising $250 by the 15th.
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URGENT:
Our phone and other bills are due today. We raised about 30% of what we need for bills this weekend. Just $175 to go, can you help us get across the finish line?
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URGENT MUTUAL AID:
We're only 6% of the way to our goal for this month, we have to mail our rent check in a little over a week. Can you help us make rent on time?
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URGENT #MutualAid
We're urgently needing to send in our rent check, but there's more.
With @nat's postpartum depletion, I'm falling behind on work, and we need childcare ASAP to start catching up.
We got to 70% of our Feb goal; this month we're only 15% of the way.
So right now we need a HUGE push. I have over 4k followers and 18 monthly subscribers. If even 1% of y'all made a monthly donation, that would double my monthly patrons.
PS Thanks so much for your boosts and support. Got some racist hate on my fundraising posts this week. I really appreciate y'all recognizing that it's fucking hard to ask for help and it means a lot when this community comes thru for us.
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EXTREMELY URGENT MUTUAL AID
Trying to send rent check TODAY but we still need $1920 (have $450 on hand). I know a lot of people are struggling and don't have much to give, but if you're able to help, it would mean SO much.
Help a Black activist & my partner & baby!
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In today's society The Bible is a book people can hold in their hands. So it is not as obvious to them that The Bible is not a book but is a collection of books. Revelation 22:18 is referring to the book of Revelation not the entire collection of books.
As to whether the Catholics added Apocrypha or it was removed by the Protestants is really of no concern to me. I am an Atheist, more specifically a Secular Buddhist and have no horse in the race. Though it is nice for people to practice tolerance and allow everyone to believe as they choose to believe.
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What debian flavor should I try out? Keep in mind my laptop is a 2-in-1 with touch and a fingerprint sensor
as much as i might be killed for this, Ubuntu
regular Ubuntu works just fine, and the annoyances can be removed with 5 minutes of your time
i personally daily drive Ubuntu and like… it’s fine
it’s nothing to write home about. but it isn’t broken or “bad” it just works ive had no real issues with it other than my own fuckups
The latest version of Debian will be just fine. Is there a reason you are limiting yourself to just Debian derivatives?
Congratulations to Gints Zilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!
Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.
Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d
Who wants a fluffy house? 🙋
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Hairy Solar Panels: A Revolutionary Leap in Renewable Energy
A groundbreaking innovation has emerged in the world of renewables: hairy solar panels. Find out more in our latest blog post.Lauren Crosby (Solarvault)
Personally, I prefer the Install a heating system solution. It involves less labor on my part. Who, wants to be out in the cold brushing Snow off your Solar Panels?
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Flow just won Best Animated Picture at the #Oscars. A film made in #Blender
They shouted out @Blender during the acceptance speech.
This is a great achievement for Open Source.
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'Flow' Wins Best Animated Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
'Flow' (Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, Gregory Zalcman) with the Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.Missed the 97th ...YouTube
There's a real chance millions of women voters will be disenfranchised soon. That's certainly the goal.
It is true: The proposed nazi SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
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The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.The New Republic
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... and here is the finished painting that I posted work in progress shots of yesterday - have a happy day with my happy tuxedo cat!
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Yesterday I figured I'd try setting up something I could use to work with my critique group. I was looking for collaborative editing, chat, etc. Nextcloud looked like a good candidate, so I gave it a go.
Well, Nextcloud is obviously designed to be an enterprise solution. That thing repeatedly hammered my poor little VPS into the ground on the simplest of operations. I took it out and restored Mattermost, which is great for chatting with a curated group and some other Slack-like tasks, but doesn't support collaborative editing.
The search continues.
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Sometimes the question comes up if we have any DNS servers to point at. The answer is no, we only do authoritative DNS (for now anyways 
).
There are multiple other projects that do recursive DNS in the EU or based out of the EU though, like
- quad9.net (@quad9dns)
- mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-h… (@mullvadnet)
- stats.ffmuc.net/d/tlvoghcZk/do… (@freifunkMUC)
- digitalcourage.de/support/zens… (website in German, @digitalcourage)
european-alternatives.eu/alter… also has some more
Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacyQuad9
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My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World
The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about itAndrew Postman (The Guardian)
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WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial English.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
@Jennifer I Have never been proud or ashamed of an accident of birth. I did not chose nor have any influence in being America. Nationalism is just another form of prejudice.
I am proud of the fact that I voted against what is transpiring today in America. That I did everything I could do to avoid it. It is unfortunate that I failed; though I did what I could reasonably do.
If you also have done what you could then you have no reason to be embarrassed. You did the right thing. We are not responsible for the rash and irresponsible behavior of others. Even if we must live with their mistakes.
We can get through these four years together. Stay strong.
Take Care
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them: write a sad story using only 4 words
me: sudo rm -rf /*
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • •@Emeritus Prof Christopher May
This reminds me of a discussion I had with a supervisor I once had, and very much appreciated, were I explained that the internet is not an equalizer. He had made a correlation between a colt (firearm) being the great equalizer as advertised. I brought up the following point. The colt is not an equalizer. If one is not trained and disciplined with the weapon they have no advantage. The same is true for the internet. You can search for answers though with no prior knowledge in field you have no way to verify the quality of the knowledge you found. It is not vetted. The same issue comes to head with AI.
Those of us that work with AI know that it is not always right. Quite often it is very wrong. Just like any expert can be. The only way to know that you are getting quality feedback from your AI tool is if you know something about what it is producing. For example, if I work with Stable D
... show more@Emeritus Prof Christopher May
This reminds me of a discussion I had with a supervisor I once had, and very much appreciated, were I explained that the internet is not an equalizer. He had made a correlation between a colt (firearm) being the great equalizer as advertised. I brought up the following point. The colt is not an equalizer. If one is not trained and disciplined with the weapon they have no advantage. The same is true for the internet. You can search for answers though with no prior knowledge in field you have no way to verify the quality of the knowledge you found. It is not vetted. The same issue comes to head with AI.
Those of us that work with AI know that it is not always right. Quite often it is very wrong. Just like any expert can be. The only way to know that you are getting quality feedback from your AI tool is if you know something about what it is producing. For example, if I work with Stable Diffusion but I know nothing of art or drawing then how do I know if the AI got the shadowing correct (I mention this as it typically will not unless you are very careful with your prompt). If you are using Generative AI for code then you will only know that the code produced is not inferior if you know how to code. The list goes on.
In conclusion, AI is a great tool for an expert that works in the field. It is not a substitute for learning and becoming an expert yourself.