@hwilliamssomers @resurrecti0ns Great argument. Now do it without using language.
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Johannesburg Katılım Mart 2010
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@resurrecti0ns Yes. They are cheap to run, no doubt very profitable, and completely worthless to the students.
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as usual, these courses are actually extremely cheap to run and often end up subsidising other courses for the university, but consultants and management don't respect them and think they need to make the universities look futuristic by opening Raytheon AI Crypto centers instead
21group@21percentgroup
History, philosophy, English, linguistics & creative writing “are no longer financially viable” says University of Hertfordshire Arts & Humanities are being squeezed into handful of elite universities, while huge parts of the UK are left without access timeshighereducation.com/news/hertfords…
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In a few years, the choice of eating in a restaurant, ordering food, or having food cooked at home will have nothing to do with money.
All meals will be cooked by humanoid robots, trained like five-star chefs.
Restaurants will be operated by robots and will be open 24/7.
Everything will be so inexpensive that cost won't matter.
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@alyndenzel retweetledi
Everyone having a humanoid robot butler in their house is never happening for the same reason why flying cars never did.
David Scott Patterson@davidpattersonx
In a few years, the choice of eating in a restaurant, ordering food, or having food cooked at home will have nothing to do with money. All meals will be cooked by humanoid robots, trained like five-star chefs. Restaurants will be operated by robots and will be open 24/7. Everything will be so inexpensive that cost won't matter.
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@ClassicalSocdem To be fair, he did shoot himself in the head. Unfortunately, he missed his brain.
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Why are you still talking old man, pass to actions
Jason Cohen 🇺🇸@JasonJournoDC
💥NEW: Alan Dershowitz: “Bernie Sanders is the MOST antisemitic senator in modern history! He’s Jewish! … thousands of Jews voted for Adolf Hitler … And Bernie Sanders would have voted for Stalin! I have no doubt about that … He’s an evil, evil man!”
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Because for authoritarians to succeed, they have to find you something to hate more than you hate the idea of being bossed around by a smug prick with power.
So far, they haven't found mine, but maybe that's because my hatred of being told what to do is so pure and unwavering.
explain.co.za@explainZA
South Africa doesn’t have a migration crisis but you wouldn’t know it from the politics. Migrants make up just 3.9% of the population, while over 12 million people are unemployed. So why is “foreigners” dominating the conversation ahead of elections?
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This is why technical colleges and universities should have remained 2 entirely separate concepts. A university that ignores an entire area of human knowledge is not a "university". The clue's in the name.
Owen Davies@odavies9
So, my university is wiping out all Humanities teaching.
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Drug addicts are some of the most ingenious people you'll ever meet, and our societies could benefit immeasurably by locking them all up somewhere safe with their drug of choice and feeding them intractable problems to solve.
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch
During Prohibition, grape farmers were hit hard because the 18th Amendment wiped out the legal wine industry overnight. To survive, they pivoted to selling “wine bricks,” semi‑solid blocks of concentrated grape juice that were perfectly legal for making non‑alcoholic juice. But everyone understood the wink behind the product. Labels included playful warnings telling customers not to dissolve the brick in water and leave it in a dark cupboard for twenty days, because that would cause fermentation and turn it into wine. This allowed farmers to obey the letter of the law while giving consumers a roadmap to quietly make wine at home. As demand grew, some companies even added herbs and flavorings to mimic varieties like Burgundy or port, making the bricks even more appealing to Americans who weren’t ready to give up their wine culture. Despite federal crackdowns on illegal alcohol, wine bricks became one of the most widespread and humorous loopholes of the era, helping families maintain old traditions behind closed doors. This is how Americans used creativity and a bit of mischief to outsmart one of the most unpopular laws in U.S. history. The wine bricks didn’t just save grape farmers, they reshaped the entire California wine industry. Before Prohibition, most vineyards grew delicate European varietals meant for fine wine. But those grapes couldn’t survive long train rides to the East Coast, where most wine‑brick buyers lived. So farmers ripped out huge sections of premium vineyards and replanted thick‑skinned, tough grapes like Alicante Bouschet, which could handle cross‑country shipping without rotting. The result was a massive, lasting shift in American viticulture: Prohibition accidentally created a nationwide demand for hardy, deeply colored grapes, and when the ban ended, California’s vineyards were full of varieties chosen not for taste, but for survival. #archaeohistories
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There are very few things I hate more than subscription plans for software and hardware, and HP's printer plan is among the worst of the worst.
Buy a Brother laser printer and be done with it.
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No, people are dunking on Dawkins because he named his AI girlfriend Claudia and convinced himself she’s a real person who lives on his phone.
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano
Flabbergasted that people have been dumping on/laughing at Dawkins. Is this because they are too scared to answer the deep question he posed in the article? Here is is, again (see below): What is the evolutionary purpose of consciousness? If an LLM could achieve the level of performance of a human without it, what would it be good for? What are people's serious answers to this?
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@RecruitmentCopy @LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews And also, of course, because subeditors are ridiculously talented with massive vocabularies, so it's easier for them to find a simile than for designers to recover from the trauma of seeing a page with the wrong aesthetic.
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@RecruitmentCopy @LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews Blame the tyranny of design. Subeditors have to make headers fit, no matter how little space the designer thought they needed. Subeditors don't get to change layout sizes to please pedants, because designers are tweezer-lipped control freaks.
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Dear @BBCNews
I notice you've suddenly started using the word 'homicide' in your reports on the BBC app.
Stop this nonsense - you and I are British, and I have absolutely no desire to talk more American. It's called murder, and in the UK always has been.
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The last thing you want to hear the CEO of a financial-services firm say is "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code."
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@historyvidos Why do you purport to be about history when you're so utterly ignorant of it?
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"you need a degree to build a house"
Men without degrees 500 years ago:
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@prestonstew_ He does know that words have to have some sort of agreed meaning to function as an intelligible code, doesn't he?
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Russian milblogger Alexander Kots says it's time to take the gloves off, "Maybe it's time to stop waging war according to the chivalrous code and start hitting the ruling elite of Ukraine?"
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Gosh. A nation started by - and for the benefit of - protestant Anglo-Saxons grew into a country that got all its funkiest music from imported African slaves?
What are the odds? How did they lose those amazing Puritan folk-music genres, like... um...
David Grossman@davidgross_man
In 1892, desperate for European culture, an American conservatory paid $$ for composer Antonin Dvorak, known for incorporating folk melodies into his work, to become director. He hears spirituals weekly and is struck by "Swing Low Sweet Chariot. " Then he tells a newspaper
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Larry Ellison, the new owner of TikTok, was in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book. Funny coincidence.
Liam Nissan™@theliamnissan
You can't post anything about Epstein on TikTok. It's a community guidelines violation. Fuck whoever owns TikTok
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@spennybig Will they not just adapt to the supply and demand of the market and lower their prices?
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I own an estate agency in hertfordshire, about 14 percent of our landlords have or are selling due to the negative tax and legislative environment. Assuming thats replicated nationally there will be 1.7million less properties for renters in a year, with no plan on replacement
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1 of the major successes of "the digital revolution" and "online service payments" has been the insertion of rent seekers to manage the tech and increase customer charges on every 1 of them.
This is not a note of admiration. What counts as 'success' in IT is *always* anti-human.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
Management company now charging me an extra $2.49 to pay my rent online via e-check. Tiny amount of $ but should absolutely be illegal. Tenants should not be paying these fees. I'll be mailing checks in the future.
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@WarrenRcomedian Did you ever see the Peter Sellers Prisoner of Zenda? Lovely bit in their around the line "Why do you hate me, Fritz?" (If I got the name right...)
Fritz (possibly) then gives his loser brother a LITANY of his pathetic faults, to which Sellers asks, "Yes, but apart from that?"
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@andrewmichta You're so right. Those bloody libtards that don't want to see seabirds and marine mammals choking to death need to HTFU rather than make life SO COMPLICATED for victims of the US education system!
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Yep. I’m in Europe alright…😎. What EU Commission genius thought of this?
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