The end of education? The era of dumb and dumber? "When they do show up for class, they are focused on their devices, and are reluctant to speak out. Sometimes it is because they are afraid of sharing ideas that others will disagree with. But often, they have not read enough of

What a weird environment! "And to help students overcome fears about speaking up, professors are adopting rules that bar students from sharing what people say inside." "Students were afraid, the report said, of being socially ostracized. They were embarrassed about possibly

Why? "Harvard may be partly to blame for encouraging student absences, with a policy that allows students to enroll in two classes that meet at the same time." archive.is/80Tek#selectio…

AI Hallucination I was at a conference and I noticed that a presentation cited me in the bibliography for their abstract. But I didn't recognise the title of "my" essay, nor did I recognise the book title it "appeared" in. It turns out that the author asked Chat GPT to create a

I'm sure Oscar Wilde would have come up with a witty response to this act of virtue signalling. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"His son Tom confirmed the death, in a hospital, adding that Professor Searle’s health had declined since a bout with coronavirus last year." #Covid nytimes.com/2025/10/12/boo…

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I see little condemnation of this in my women’s rights timeline. We don’t all have to support Thunberg’s actions to agree that this brutal mistreatment, violence & dehumanisation of a young woman by Israeli authorities deserves international condemnation? If not, why not?

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Last season, Legia Warsaw fans were barred from entry into Villa Park on the grounds of public safety. Also last season, supporters of PSV Eindhoven were prevented from travelling to their match against Paris St Germain last season.

Israeli football authorities have themselves fined and sanctioned Maccabi Tel Aviv for multiple violent incidents. IIRC those sanctions have included playing behind closed doors (which is definitely what UEFA required, in neutral Hungary, after the Amsterdam riots).

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One criminal releasing another criminal... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Must be antisemitism? There is no other explanation? bbc.co.uk/sport/football…