After some students complained to the school about Negy’s tweets, UCF responded by soliciting further complaints about him. That led to the opening of an investigation into Negy’s classroom speech as well. Seven months later, what began as an investigation of tweets led to 300 interviews; which led to a (get ready for this) 244-page report. As I wrote at the time, the report made absolute hash of academic freedom with what struck me as nonsensical lines drawn between speech it believed to be protected and unprotected:

According to the UCF investigation, it is protected speech to say that girl scouts preserve their virginity (p. 25), but not that women are attracted to men with money (p. 26). It is protected speech to say that Jesus was schizophrenic (p. 36), but unprotected to say that Jesus did not come into the world to die for everyone’s sins (p. 36). It’s protected to say that Islam is cruel and not a religion of peace (p. 107) but not that it is a toxic mythology (p. 35).

This shit is so ridiculous. As someone who is ardently progressive, this is literally the reason why progressives fail to succeed in a nutshell. So much wasted time on people like this guy, who should be allowed to make his point, be derided by those who disagree, and everyone can move on.

But instead, no. We need 300 interviews and a 244 page report where a bunch of morons who make 6 figures a year in public/tuition money try to draw the line of what is an acceptable vs unacceptable opinion to have about random topics. And somehow, after 244 pages of writing that nonsense, no one stopped to think “hey, maybe were in the wrong here and this makes absolutely zero fucking sense whatsoever”

Winning political power to effect change isnt going to come from tossing out the 1st amendment and trying to criticize every opinion anyone ever has about anything. People should have the right to be wrong and change their minds. No one is born cognizant of how to not socially offend the sensibilities of everyone from the jump.

If progressives want to build the future they want for this country, they need to change hearts and minds. Meet disagreement on opinions with as much sensitivity as you demand out of everybody else not to offend you. Then maybe we can actually get somewhere. Ive never had a problem getting people to stop acting racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, etc just by not responding positively to that bullshit, and telling them facts about reality. Its not hard to change peoples views if you dont start by telling them they are a terrible person who should either adopt your view or parish

The J-1 visa, on the other hand, strictly prohibits using visa-holders to fill a labor need or engage in work that a U.S. worker could be hired for. In theory, these visas are supposed to provide educational work and study opportunities, and are often awarded to visiting professors and scholars.

Ive yet to ever hear of any J1 visa used that way at all. Theyre almost exclusively used to fill labor needs, especially in hospitality and service

I always accept a cookie in real life, so why would I turn it down online?

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Its incredible how things can just slip through, especially when they start at the very top

No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts

As someone who was a TA a bit, I think that is 99% because if schools tried to hold students accountable to the standards of even ten years ago they would have to fail 2/3rds of their students.

Highschool becoming a joke means none of the kids have strong enough core skills to be tackling real college work by the time they get there, but schools cant afford to enforce actual quality standards for work. The graded model has completely fallen apart at this point given how steep the curve is. The quality of work that gets an A today would have been a B or high C from 10-15 years ago. Of course there is real A grade work being done too, but what defines an A grade has ballooned to a ridiculous degree such that most of it is not really A grade work

The problem isnt new, it was already bad 10 years ago to be honest. I had a professor in community college about 10 years ago who had been a professor at ASU, and she had quit teaching there specifically because the university wouldnt allow anyone to be graded below a C, regardless of if they did any work or not.

Most large public universities are just degree mills at this point, or bordering on it if not

The word hallucination has zero implication of intent whatsoever. Last time I checked hallucination is an entirely involuntary experience, regardless of the context the word is used in.

They are called hallucination in computer science not “to romanticize” it. It is called that because the output is totally random from the perspective of the input. If there is no logical path from input to the output, it is similar to a human hallucinating. Human sees no actual weird visual stimuli that results in them hallucinating a dragon, therefore the input info from their eyes has no bearing on what they imagine is actually there.

This is different from “fabrication” in that the AI intentionally creating fake info based on your input request would not be a hallucination, because there would be a relationship between input and output.

While you say you prefer “fabrication”, the word fabrication actually implies some intent that is absent from what we are referring to as AI hallucinations

Its not really more futuristic, considering its a tried and true design.

I think you mean its just better designed

I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently

The borg are just low key nihilists frl frl

Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities

Hacking the US government is like the Chinese finger traps of hacking. Its easy enough to get in, but probably quite a mess when you go to get out. At least if they catch you anyways

You should look into flatiron pepper company pepper flakes. They make a ton of different blends at different levels of heat that are also really flavorful. It lets you bring the heat to your own food without having to use some kind of sauce. Plus, they are a great company. They send extra free shit every time I have ordered from them (3 or more times at this point?)

I like hot sauce too, but more situationally than every time I eat

Its because Elon Musk is an oxy moron

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Facebook actively contributed to the genocide in Myanmar, and did basically nothing about it because they didnt want to hire more moderators that spoke the language, so that they could adequately remove pro-genocidal content

Im imagining holding it and trying to use it right now, and all I can imagine is that it sucks