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    Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

    F it. Give 'em all A's and get on with yer summer.
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    Infants are bleeding to death after parents shun routine vitamin K shots

    Hey the let's all have more babies party is killing babies. Go figure. Dead babies are fine, but a dead early term fetus is a bridge too far.
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    Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate

    I prefer "El Super Niño" AKA Superboy AKA the Christ-child (full circle etymology, bam!)
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    Gateway manufacturer finally acknowledges issue, fails to mention “corrosion”

    I find Isaacman's openness refreshing. NASA has a long legacy now of bureaucratically shielding its contractors from criticism around mistakes and poor performance that is nonetheless continually compensated. I mean who do they think they're fooling? Text-scraping AIs that might flag...
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    Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone

    Man I thought we'd finish with a season 5 not 4. I really liked SNW and it has been the most true to OG trek, Next Generation, and DS9. Including the goofy episodes and the not-great episodes. Completely in line. At least we'll have the new Kirk-led series spinoff, now that they've obviously...
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    Global growth in solar “the largest ever observed for any source”

    Kinda surprised Tesla hasn't put a propylene glycol stage fog machine on the back of the Cybertruck.
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    Lawsuits, licensing, and royalties are complicating 4K video support in gadgets

    20? Damn I must be old. I thought it was 7.
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    Physicists think they’ve resolved the proton size puzzle

    Shouldn't those labels be reversed, where experimentation consistently pulls the ball away from the existence of new physics?
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    To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

    1) Students are really bad at determining what is irrelevant for them in the future. Something that seems unrelated now becomes the edge that lands you the better job later 2) an education is different than training (though the distinction has been blurred by politics and school...
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    New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

    When discussing the differences along the very obviously time-transgressive track of volcanism, it is worth considering that a plume's topographic effects, eruption style, vent locations, and eruption chemistry manifest after interaction with the crust and mantle lithosphere, which can be quite...
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    To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

    Who's "we all"? Don't lump us into your cheaters circle.
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    To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

    There are newer platforms which allow a student to gIve them their institutional login to access their online course in its entirety, which can and will take the entire course for the student with no further intervention, and will use previous assignments as context. (the massive IT security...
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    Generalist’s new physical robotics AI brings “production-level” success rates

    We need some kind of AI powered Word Police for the internet. Even at just 60% accuracy, it could do better than most forum posters at telling whether a word is offensive in context.
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    Video from Artemis II flyby of the Moon will not initially look spectacular

    Dang we're spoiled because compared to digital footage from the late '90s-early 2000's this is still phenomenal. DVDs were 480P for cryin' out loud! That was the high-quality hardcopy video format except for us laserdisc freaks.
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    Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

    fer crisssakes do we need to take atheism to the point of being its own easily offendable religion? This atheist says no.
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    Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

    This and the full-disc crescent image literally teared me up, which I didn't expect as I've seen so many pictures of Earth from space over the decades... but somehow knowing it was just taken yesterday, by a person, triggered something deep.
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    Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

    Everybody's making jokes, but I, for one, am just glad it was successfully troubleshat.
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    Launch day has arrived for NASA’s Artemis II mission—here’s what to expect

    The comma misplacement on this is chefs kiss
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    Launch day has arrived for NASA’s Artemis II mission—here’s what to expect

    Know who wasn’t just bitching about the broadcast production? My 7 year old, who was absolutely thrilled to see this, and I was very glad I could watch it with him.