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EDUCATION
THEY DON’T COME TO LEARN
Study: 94% Of AI-Generated College Writing Is Undetected By Teachers
BUT THEY KNOW! Oh trust me, they are detected. But we cant definitively prove its AI which is the problem. “You read that right – 97% of AI work in university courses was not flagged as possible AI by teachers.” I teach comms at a university. We can tell.
The thing is: it’s hard to PROVE it was done by ai. Why bother reporting? It’s a massive bureaucratic headache.
Eta: we are not paid enough to care that much.
Handwritten assignments and/or oral presentations done in class are usually the best option, to be honest.
The fallout from “Editing out GPTisms” also concerns me considering I’ve seen multiple instances on social media now of people picking some word that’s not even that obscure and going “You see this pop up and you know bro was on chatGPT” and things to that effect. Are we really heading towards a situation where you have to dumb your vocabulary way down when submitting anything online, school or otherwise, lest people assume you’re using AI?
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist
Labor organizer Mother Jones died on this day in 1930.
“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.”
In the 1880s, the director of Harvard Observatory was often frustrated with his staff, and supposedly said, “My Scottish maid could do better!” So, he decided to hire her. !! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE EVER SAID THAT”
Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified thousands of stars, and discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
Williamina Fleming was a Scottish immigrant single mom who worked for Pickering, the director, as his maid (Mr Fleming ditched her and her young son). He hired her because being a “computer” was grunt work but he thought she had the right temperament to be patient enough to do it- you basically had to look at allllll the dots and look at which ones changed from one image to another days or months later, thousands of times. Williamina ended up running all the women who worked at Harvard as computers for many years, and did interesting things in her life like have a friendship with Andrew Carnegie and his wife. There’s a great book on all this btw if anyone is interested- The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel.
Happy 100th Birthday to the iconic #ShirleyChisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and first Black person to seek a major party’s presidential nomination. Her “Unbought and Unbossed” approach to Congress fuels our fight for justice and equality every single day.
Traditional Folktales in the Classroom – Johnny Apple Seed and Apple Jack
America has a rich tradition of folk heroes. Apple Jack – the natives call it Jersey Lightnin’ – Heritage Tradition
The real Johnny Appleseed was John Chapman September 26, 1774 – March 11, 1845 who spread apples for the purpose of creating cider orchards.
According to the Explore Pennsylvania website, Chapman: Created nurseries by clearing areas of scrub and building brush fences to protect the developing “whips,” as the young trees were called, from deer and other animals. As the whips grew, he camped nearby in a wigwam-like structure and busied himself by weeding his orchard, mending the fence, starting other nurseries, or visiting frontier families. And depending on his assessment of a person’s ability to pay, he sold, traded, or simply gave away his little apple trees. When he had no more seedlings, or simply decided it was time to move on, he headed west. While some depict him as giving away apples, Chapman was essentially a businessman. John Chapman frequented Western Pennsylvania.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Folktales-JohnnyAppleseed.html
Hard cider was about 60 proof. When a second distillation was made, the resulting 120 proof liquor was then diluted down to 100 proof, and the barrels aged. The result was an 80 proof product that, when bottled, became known as Apple Brandy, or Apple Jack, or “Jersey Lightning.”
The American Whiskey Trail:
By the mid-1790s, around the height of the Whiskey Rebellion. Origins of Hillbilly Music / Story Roots of Moonshine Whiskey Rebellion and the Amber Waves of Grain. Chapman lived in a cabin on Grant’s Hill in Pittsburgh, where he tended an orchard.
“Hundreds of Beavers” which tells the story of a drunken applejack salesman who must defeat hundreds of beavers to become North America’s greatest fur trapper. In this 19th century, slapstick epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Henry Ford’s Energy Standard: A 100-Year Old Bitcoin Prediction
FORD “THE ENERGY DOLLAR” OR “UNITS OF ENERGY”
In 1921, American industrialist Henry Ford proposed the creation of an “energy currency” that could form the basis of a new monetary system.
Henry Ford’s Energy Standard: A 100-Year Old Bitcoin Prediction
On December 4, 1921, The New York Tribune published a story detailing a plan by inventor Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, to replace the existing gold-backed currency system into one based on an “energy currency.”
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. – MARK TWAIN
BITCOIN’S TRUE POWER IS ITS SCARCITY
“The reason that Bitcoin is magical is because there’s only 21 million.
Bitcoin is a scarcity. Everything else could be manufactured.”
Brazil lawmaker proposes $18 BILLION #Bitcoin Sovereign Reserve
180,000 $BTC
First they fight you. Then they join you.
Senator Cynthia Lummis: “#Bitcoin is an essential element in the realization of the modern American Dream.”
The USA is now embracing Bitcoin
“If you are going to invest in #Bitcoin, a short time horizon is four years, a mid-time horizon is ten years, & the right time horizon is forever.” – Michael Saylor in 2022
Geoff Kendrick Standard Charted #Bitcoin is going to reach $124k by the end of this year and push up to $200k by end of next year.
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee believes it is “highly probable” that Bitcoin hits $250,000 in the next 12 months and even higher if the US adopts a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
SAYLOR: “The reason that Bitcoin is magical is because there’s only 21 million.” They can print more dollars but they can’t print more #Bitcoin.
Andreas Antonopoulos talked about #Bitcoin neutrality in 2013 with only 5 people in the room.
Jack Mallers – Gold was demonetized because it required trust.
#Bitcoin is more scarce, portable, divisible, verifiable & sealable but most importantly:
#Bitcoin achieves unmatched monetary properties without relying on trust.
“All benefits are lost if a trusted party is required” – Satoshi
WEIRD
12/24/20 Trump Pardons Jared Kushner’s Dad, Who Paid a Prostitute to Seduce His Brother-in-Law
The president issued pardons for more than two dozen people late Wednesday. He Used a hooker to commit obstruction of Justice.
Trump Taps Charles Kushner, Father Of His Son-in-law, As Envoy To France
Trump did not mention, however, that the elder Kushner once served jail time — a two-year sentence, most of it served in a federal prison.
Kushner, who is now 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign contributions.
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