Ruxanda Alaback @AlabackR

@CJRobichaud You're gonna go all bye bye 👋👋😥

We welcome today’s words on opening a new chapter between #Europe and #Canada. Canada belongs with Europe, and Europe belongs with Canada. EDP has said it for over a year: Joachim Streit was among the first MEPs to put it on the table, and Sandro Gozi was among the first to call for an association agreement. Mark #Carney’s warm welcome in Strasbourg shows a political reality already taking shape: two democracies, one shared future 🇪🇺🇨🇦 #SOTEU

Seriously depressed about AI, politics, society and economy. A full bouquet 💐

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

Today, we remember. We remember that 25 years ago, the world stood still. We remember the 3,000 people who left home that morning and never returned. Where the Twin Towers once stood, two columns of light now rise into the New York sky. They remind us that light triumphs even on the darkest of days. My statement on 25 years since 9/11. link.europa.eu/FbKkR7

Die Enthistorisierung des politischen Denkens ist stark an die Generationenperspektive gebunden.Wir haben eine Situation, in der eine Gesellschaft aus der Geschichte viel geschaffen hat, aber kaum noch Menschen, die diese Erfahrungen erlebt haben. Das ist ein gefährlicher Abstand

Frankfurter Allgemeine @faznet

a week ago

Deutschland erlebt eine paradoxe Enthistorisierung des politischen Denkens. Nie gab es so viele Referenten, Strategiepapiere, Thinktanks – aber selten war der historische Horizont des politischen Betriebs so verengt. Wie kommt das? faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

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Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan” every single book in the world. The more hazardous and worrisome form of destruction is less obvious. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

Don't call me Nazi, I'm just a concerned citizen, afraid of foreign domination

Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, Dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht, Ich kann nicht mehr die Augen schließen, Und meine heißen Tränen fließen...

DIE ZEIT @zeitonline

2 weeks ago

Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik greift die radikale Rechte nach der Macht. Und in dem Moment ihres größten Erfolgs lässt sie die Maske fallen. trib.al/knZY4KY

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MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy. A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression" As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets. When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes. Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice. They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down. The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression. The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution. Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it. It gets worse. The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy. As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability. They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth. Nobody is voting to end democracy. The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.

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The university degree is losing its lustre ft.trib.al/lOqf8de

Auf dem Filmfestival von Venedig feiert Werner Herzogs »Bucking Fastard« im Wettbewerb seine Weltpremiere. Harter Titel, zarter Film. trib.al/CpyhvVY

@Kierkegaarddd Hermann Hesse

@CJRobichaud Last quote says it all. Hope profs. can set up their own requirements in future. AI is here, no denial.A compromise to use AI just for brainstorming isn't much different from raising the baseline of a class IQ. Writing should still be individually human. It's education after all!

I'm incredibly grateful to Mark Wooding @AfterSkool100 for taking the time, on his own initiative, to create this rather wonderful animated version of my 2017 @TEDTalks on consciousness & controlled hallucinations. It's well worth a look IMO 🙏🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=BBYmL5…

I am new to X and only told X I was interested in news and agreed to follow a few topics, and somehow I ended up in a rabbit hole where I’m suddenly being shown and followed by AfD/right-wing accounts I never intended to engage with. How dark can it get??

@Saganismm

All social science Core classes at UChicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/sos…