Hard to overstate Siebel's impact on the US brewing industry. It was founded in 1868 and has trained literal generations of US brewing talent. Survived Prohibition by teaching baking and other adjacent trades. If your favorite brewer didn't go there, their favorite brewer did. An immeasurable loss.

it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well

Me: Word processing program I can use forever, please?
Microsoft: Monthly subscription?
Me: No, I want to own...
Microsoft: Monthly subscription it is.
Me: *sigh*
Microsoft: Save to OneDrive by default settings activated.

Spineless and utterly stupid. Have the galaxy brains in the Russell Group not seen how Trump turned on universities regardless of their obsequiousness?

So basically flying commercial is now off limits to any noncitizen with a parking ticket?

Sergeant Stanislav Mozheiko # 4481 of SRG 5 doing the pepper spraying of both protesters and his fellow officers
www.50-a.org/officer/TPNH

Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

Members of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group pepper-sprayed several protesters as they cleared the road for federal immigration officials.

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.