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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
The upper chamber of the gov't of Tasmania is debating the stadium proposal right now.
AS it's the off-season, Reddit r/AFL has put it on as a match report. 😆
www.reddit.com/r/AFL/commen...
AS it's the off-season, Reddit r/AFL has put it on as a match report. 😆
www.reddit.com/r/AFL/commen...
From the AFL community on Reddit: Match Thread: Tasmanian Devils vs Tasmanian Parliament
Explore this post and more from the AFL community
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December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The upper chamber of the gov't of Tasmania is debating the stadium proposal right now.
AS it's the off-season, Reddit r/AFL has put it on as a match report. 😆
www.reddit.com/r/AFL/commen...
AS it's the off-season, Reddit r/AFL has put it on as a match report. 😆
www.reddit.com/r/AFL/commen...
Searched PDN Express and 4PX in Reddit today.
Oh my.
That explains why one personal package hasn't moved in two weeks, and why they couldn't figure out how to deliver to a business.
I wish I had known and gone with another company - lost a lot of time waiting for something uinlikely to ever come.
Oh my.
That explains why one personal package hasn't moved in two weeks, and why they couldn't figure out how to deliver to a business.
I wish I had known and gone with another company - lost a lot of time waiting for something uinlikely to ever come.
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Searched PDN Express and 4PX in Reddit today.
Oh my.
That explains why one personal package hasn't moved in two weeks, and why they couldn't figure out how to deliver to a business.
I wish I had known and gone with another company - lost a lot of time waiting for something uinlikely to ever come.
Oh my.
That explains why one personal package hasn't moved in two weeks, and why they couldn't figure out how to deliver to a business.
I wish I had known and gone with another company - lost a lot of time waiting for something uinlikely to ever come.
StatsCan today:
The share of full professors 65 and older:
5.6% in 2005/2006
22.6% in 2024/2025 😅
(Big gender gaps in wage and rank)☹️
Ref: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
The share of full professors 65 and older:
5.6% in 2005/2006
22.6% in 2024/2025 😅
(Big gender gaps in wage and rank)☹️
Ref: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
The Daily — Full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities, 2024/2025
For the 2024/2025 academic year, there were just over 49,000 full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities, a stable number compared with 2023/2024, representing the smallest annual increase since...
www150.statcan.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
StatsCan today:
The share of full professors 65 and older:
5.6% in 2005/2006
22.6% in 2024/2025 😅
(Big gender gaps in wage and rank)☹️
Ref: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
The share of full professors 65 and older:
5.6% in 2005/2006
22.6% in 2024/2025 😅
(Big gender gaps in wage and rank)☹️
Ref: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
No teaching labs today - we run a webservice for the iOLab!
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
No teaching labs today - we run a webservice for the iOLab!
Maybe we can put some of these data centers to keep the internet actually running, instead of AI?
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Maybe we can put some of these data centers to keep the internet actually running, instead of AI?
Earth Science dep't just bought a new 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. We wanted to take it out tonight, full moon and all. Yeah, it 80% overcast and no good viewing for over a week in the forcast. ☹️
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Earth Science dep't just bought a new 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. We wanted to take it out tonight, full moon and all. Yeah, it 80% overcast and no good viewing for over a week in the forcast. ☹️
Has any business executive made a real, impactful business decision with web cookie data? I sincerely doubt it.
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Has any business executive made a real, impactful business decision with web cookie data? I sincerely doubt it.
Testing motor control. #RaspberryPi5 Pironman case, and Pololu driver/motor. Tariffs are hurting this hobby.
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Testing motor control. #RaspberryPi5 Pironman case, and Pololu driver/motor. Tariffs are hurting this hobby.
In early grade school (late 70's) I had to write a newspaper sports article- based on a real newpaper's sport stats page.
I remember how wierd that was, restating some facts someone else had gathered and written and anyone could read themselves.
Now there is TikTok "breaking news".
I remember how wierd that was, restating some facts someone else had gathered and written and anyone could read themselves.
Now there is TikTok "breaking news".
September 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In early grade school (late 70's) I had to write a newspaper sports article- based on a real newpaper's sport stats page.
I remember how wierd that was, restating some facts someone else had gathered and written and anyone could read themselves.
Now there is TikTok "breaking news".
I remember how wierd that was, restating some facts someone else had gathered and written and anyone could read themselves.
Now there is TikTok "breaking news".
Honouring the US soldiers of the Wounded Knee massacre? People knew at the time it was a crime.
The smug arrogance of his pronouncement.
The pictures of the aftermath.
Tuesday is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here in Canada.
I can't type what I'm feeling now.
The smug arrogance of his pronouncement.
The pictures of the aftermath.
Tuesday is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here in Canada.
I can't type what I'm feeling now.
September 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Honouring the US soldiers of the Wounded Knee massacre? People knew at the time it was a crime.
The smug arrogance of his pronouncement.
The pictures of the aftermath.
Tuesday is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here in Canada.
I can't type what I'm feeling now.
The smug arrogance of his pronouncement.
The pictures of the aftermath.
Tuesday is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here in Canada.
I can't type what I'm feeling now.
A retired prof shares this email:
"Hello Prof, I just heard The Who last night in Vancouver. I thought of an exam question you posed in the year 2000 where we had to calculate the sound energy Pete Townsend endured while performing. They're not quite as loud as when I heard the.." 😀 #ITeachPhysics
"Hello Prof, I just heard The Who last night in Vancouver. I thought of an exam question you posed in the year 2000 where we had to calculate the sound energy Pete Townsend endured while performing. They're not quite as loud as when I heard the.." 😀 #ITeachPhysics
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A retired prof shares this email:
"Hello Prof, I just heard The Who last night in Vancouver. I thought of an exam question you posed in the year 2000 where we had to calculate the sound energy Pete Townsend endured while performing. They're not quite as loud as when I heard the.." 😀 #ITeachPhysics
"Hello Prof, I just heard The Who last night in Vancouver. I thought of an exam question you posed in the year 2000 where we had to calculate the sound energy Pete Townsend endured while performing. They're not quite as loud as when I heard the.." 😀 #ITeachPhysics
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Happy Pythagoras Day: 9/16/25.
(Or 3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared.)
(Or 3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared.)
September 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Happy Pythagoras Day: 9/16/25.
(Or 3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared.)
(Or 3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared.)
Reposted by Thad Harroun
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The campus bookstore has new management.
1. Who organizes books by author, and not course number?
2. Confirmed there is a $500 textbook, as seen on Reddit.
So glad our department uses only free or old versions.
1. Who organizes books by author, and not course number?
2. Confirmed there is a $500 textbook, as seen on Reddit.
So glad our department uses only free or old versions.
September 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The campus bookstore has new management.
1. Who organizes books by author, and not course number?
2. Confirmed there is a $500 textbook, as seen on Reddit.
So glad our department uses only free or old versions.
1. Who organizes books by author, and not course number?
2. Confirmed there is a $500 textbook, as seen on Reddit.
So glad our department uses only free or old versions.
It was a beautiful day at Hamilton Beach, but where was everybody? It’s the last weekend of summer!
August 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It was a beautiful day at Hamilton Beach, but where was everybody? It’s the last weekend of summer!
I *have* to try this for the nostalgia.
Previous (the NeXT) Emulator Installation on a Raspberry Pi 5
how to create a minimal system that boots directly into the NeXTSTEP interface after startup:
#vintagecomputing
layered.work/nextstep-on-...
how to create a minimal system that boots directly into the NeXTSTEP interface after startup:
#vintagecomputing
layered.work/nextstep-on-...
NeXTSTEP: On a RPi 5
🇩🇪 Deutsche Version… In this guide, I’ll show you step-by-step how to install NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Raspberry Pi 5 using the Previous emulator. This guide is based on Raspberry Pi OS Lite to create a mini...
layered.work
August 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I *have* to try this for the nostalgia.
Very thoughtful post. Thank you Marc.
The biggest challenge to innovation and change is academic freedom. The biggest challenge to upholding learning and scholarship against hype and misinformation is also academic freedom.
The biggest challenge to innovation and change is academic freedom. The biggest challenge to upholding learning and scholarship against hype and misinformation is also academic freedom.
August 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Very thoughtful post. Thank you Marc.
The biggest challenge to innovation and change is academic freedom. The biggest challenge to upholding learning and scholarship against hype and misinformation is also academic freedom.
The biggest challenge to innovation and change is academic freedom. The biggest challenge to upholding learning and scholarship against hype and misinformation is also academic freedom.