Journalists for outlets with national distribution fly a lot. Although, as the son of a journalist who used to work the state Dept beat, perhaps I overestimate the avg?

People are commenting “welcome to turkmenistan” all over Kyrgyz social media —and I have to say that the measure is indeed more extreme than anything we’ve seen in Kazakhstan or even Uzbekistan in recent years

A new hidden curriculum of sorts...

I don't really know how they're supposed to thread the needle between the plain language of the law (which requires these things) and the EOs/political minders.

Imagine what Schroedinger's lame duck could do

I like the idea of probabilistic limits. Say 25% chance of being term limited out, every term after you've served more than 10 years in a given institution, and you find out 3-6 months before the end of the term, so you aren't a lame duck for long and campaign less early in your term.

Ha, apparently there was an NDA about this pre-rollout?! Only plausible reason for that was to make sure the faculty didn't hear about it ahead of time and proclaim it stupid, irritating the donor.

This press release more clearly centers the AI focus: www.ndsu.edu/news/ndsu-an...

This is completely top-down. A group of faculty developed a plan for an honors college, it was set aside, and then this happened. I co-direct the, admittedly kind of abstractly existing, Center for the Study of Digital Society here and had not heard a word about this before the campus-wide email...