aphrodite
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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@Jingjing_Li wtf is xizang? it’s tibet and will always be tibet
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It’s my 12th time visiting the Xizang Autonomous Region since 2017, and every time I see improvements in roads, electricity, infrastructure, education, healthcare, internet connections, and food supply ...
Building infrastructure in such high altitudes and extreme geographical conditions is so much harder than doing that anywhere else. I can’t imagine how much dedication and investment the whole country had to put into uplifting this region over the past few decades.
Many people have even lost their lives while doing their job, improving the conditions here ... They have my admiration and appreciation❤️
#travelChina #tibet
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@realEstateTrent asian airports like hkg and sin have had this for years but it’s good that ewr terminal a finally added it
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I flew out of Newark Airport this morning and experienced something that is obviously going to become standard everywhere within the next few years.
There was no TSA agent checking IDs. No pulling anything out of my pocket.
I walked up to this new machine, it scanned my face, the gate opened, and I kept walking.
There was no line because the process moved so fast.
It felt like stepping a few years into the future, and it was awesome!
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After 31 years as a pedestrianized plaza, the famous car-free stretch in front of the White House has been converted into a parking lot.
Andrew Leyden@PenguinSix
The National Park Service is turning Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House into street parking today.
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@LVpolitic those are nyc kids, not bay area or tri state suburbs kids, they are rich af
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What is up with with idea that all these Asian students are coming from rich “privileged” backgrounds? Most these kids grow up in a house with no English - spend hours a day at their parents jobs, and frankly - a lot of times - are on their own.
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson
I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission. That feeling should not be dismissed. But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages. That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context. And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society. The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.
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SCOOP: Everlane sold to Shein for $100 million puck.news/everlane-is-se… @PuckNews
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@RiseBharata literally no city in india can compare to even a tier 2/3 city in china
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@midnight_b65055 24 million people’s lives depend on it so does the global economy
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Sorry but you can't get me to care about Taiwan at all . It's a nothing burger conflict that I Honestly don't care how it ends
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@libsoftiktok is she running in detroit? anyways how can i vote for her
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Michigan House Democrat candidate Shelby Campbell’s campaign strategy?
Twerking for votes.
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Some close advisers to President Trump fear the most significant outcome of the recent China summit could be an increased risk of Chinese President Xi Jinping moving to invade Taiwan within the next five years, Axios reports.
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@PakistanTVcom pakistani?? those artifacts sure as hell aren’t pakistani or connected to that islamist shithole
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The US returned stolen Pakistani antiquities worth nearly $23 million, including rare Gandharan sculptures and 4,000-year-old artifacts recovered from trafficking networks.
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NEW: California judge bans Kars4Kids ads from broadcasting in California, says the money was mostly going to a Jewish organization in New Jersey.
Judge Gassia Apkarian alleged that the ads were misleading because they led the public “into believing donations aid underprivileged children in California.”
“…the funds primarily support a separate organization benefiting specific families in New York, New Jersey, and abroad based on religious affiliation,” the judge said.
Kars4Kids primarily funds Oorah, which spends money on various programs and initiatives including a $16.5 million purchase of a building in Israel, according to the New York Times.
“We believe this decision is deeply flawed, ignores the facts and misapplies the law,” the organization said.
“It’s well known that we are a Jewish organization and our website makes it abundantly clear.”
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Trump on Taiwan:
When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That’s a very small island.
Think of it; it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem.
If you look at the history, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
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TRUMP ON TAIWAN: NOT LOOKING TO TRAVEL 9500 MILES TO FIGHT WAR
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Seeing this physiognomy must have triggered some genetic memories of the Mongol conquest in Xi. This is psychological warfare of the highest order.
johnny maga@johnnymaga
Xi Jinping meets Steven Cheung in Beijing
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Mother busted 3 months after her 2 toddler daughters found drowned with cocaine in their systems trib.al/fqjmFEz
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@JeffAnderson_ are you retarded? admission isn’t based on population percentages, it’s based on mcat, gpa, etc. blacks have worse scores and get in
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Yale School of Medicine Has a total of 553 students across All four classes.
Total Black students: 44. That’s ~10 per class.
Total Asian students: 157. That’s ~40 per class.
There are nearly as many Asian students PER CLASS as there are Black students in the entire school.
Black: 14% of America. Only 7% of Yale Med
Asian: 7% of America. 28% of Yale Med.
Who exactly is getting discriminated against here ?
aamc.org/media/6131/dow…
AAGHarmeetDhillon@AAGDhillon
At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics. Today, @CivilRights told Yale that its use of race in admissions is ILLEGAL—and that @TheJusticeDept will step in to enforce Title VI. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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