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EDUCATION
School Debt: The Great Unequalizer
In Pennsylvania, the state’s school funding system was deemed unconstitutional; its distribution discriminates against students from low-wealth districts. And districts w/ fewest resources pay the most to borrow. In Pennsylvania, the state’s school funding system was recently deemed unconstitutional; its distribution mechanism discriminates against students who live in low-wealth districts. Without adequate funds, school districts increasingly must borrow millions of dollars, provoking a massive increase in debt-laden schools.
Climate Denial in the Classroom.
A climate scientist at @UCSUSA debunks a PragerU video greenlit for Florida schools, exposing its dangerous climate-denial arguments. Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It. “I find something like this…to be really dangerous.”
BRICS Plan New Global University Ranking, Say Current Ones Favor Western Universities A key theme of the summit, which brings together the world’s fast-growing emerging economies, is redrawing the world order to reflect the new economic and political realities. A new global university ranking dovetails neatly into that aim.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to attend the summit hosted by South Africa in Johannesburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend virtually. BRICS 2023 has ‘BRICS and Africa’ as its theme. Between them the five countries account for 43% of the world’s population and 16% of global trade.
TECH
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
Generative AI Is Scraping Your Data. So, Now What?
AI innovation is moving faster than our laws and regulations, making it hard to decide whether Web or content scraping activity is good or bad, and what (if anything) you should do about it.
“If you don’t want ChatGPT or other generative AI tools to train on your data, the first step you can take is to block traffic from the Common Crawler bot, CCBot.” -Benjamin Fabre, @bfabre, Co-Founder & CEO, @data_dome
“A new study by the @ISDglobal an independent London-based nonprofit… found that Meta has failed to remove content celebrating Wagner and containing recruitment information for the group, despite labelling them as a ‘dangerous organisation.’“ In late May, Meta said it had labelled Wagner as a “dangerous organisation,” saying that content promoting the group will be removed from its platforms. A recent study found it’s still there.
Wagner, Russia’s violent mercenary group accused of committing horrifying crimes and human rights abuses across the world in the past few years, is still using Facebook and Instagram to recruit people online, despite the fact that its content violates Meta’s policies.
POLITICS
Churches aren’t supposed to endorse political candidates, according to IRS rules. Across the country, churches appear to be doing so anyway.
These 20 Churches Supported Political Candidates. Experts Say They Violated Federal Law.
Evangelicals for Trump. There were about 20 Pastors there that night
https://twitter.com/sandibachom/status/1693667283846004786
Deliberately Constructed Idiocracy
Moms for Liberty is scrambling to find a location for its GOP presidential “town hall” in Milwaukee. M4L masquerades as a “parents’ rights” advocate but it’s really an agent for the radical right’s attack on public education.
Republican Senator’s Stock Trade Linked to Ukraine War Raises Eyebrows
On Jan 5, 2021, Roger Stone spoke during a rally outside the US Supreme Court, using Oath Keepers as security. Within hours, Sidney Powell would quietly file an application asking Justice Alito to delay certification. But sure, Stone wasn’t involved.
Has anyone ever *admitted* that there was an effort on January 6th to delay the certifications of votes in the senate? Cuz Roger Stone (7x Felon) just did. (8/20/23)