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This "good news" piece, presumably intended to inspire young people in #Suffolk to go up to #University hides until the end the fact the chap got his big break (making music for a computer game) only happened when he was well into his 30s, he had to work for free previously to get it, and I suspect these opportunities are way less today as I'm always seeing folk here with all sorts of skills from the #demoscene and #indie #coding posting appeals to get jobs (especially after being laid off from previous positions)

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@w7voa No longer relevant. What parent from outside the #usa in its right mind would still send their child to a #us #university ?

I mean what if he/she would be so unwise to express their personal opinions about -say- israel, or even more unwise, about Donald?

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Late Friday morning, at the #university’s request, a federal judge in Boston moved swiftly to block implementation of the #Trump admin’s order.

The judge, Allison D. Burroughs 🦸🏻‍♀️ issued a temporary restraining order [#TRO] against the federal edict, agreeing that #Harvard had shown that its implementation would cause “immediate & irreparable injury” to the university.

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The #Trump admin edict ultimately affects both existing #InternationalStudents, who would need to find other schools to attend, & newly admitted #Harvard #students headed for the US in the fall.

The admin’s announcement on Thurs upends students’ lives, & would also be a financial blow to Harvard. Many of Harvard’s international students are enrolled in costly graduate programs, tuition paid by those students potentially generates millions for the #university.

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The #Trump admin said #Harvard had not complied with a list of demands sent on April 16 that contained records of protest activity dating back 5 years, including videotapes of misconduct & records of disciplinary actions involving #InternationalStudents.

Harvard’s lawsuit said the #university had been working to comply with the April 16 request, & included a letter from the admin attacking the university for failure to condemn *antisemitism*.

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In the new lawsuit, the #university accused the #Trump admin of exerting “clear retaliation for #Harvard exercising its #FirstAmendment rights to control Harvard’s governance, #curriculum & the ‘ideology’ of its #faculty & #students.”

“With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, #InternationalStudents who contribute significantly to the university & its mission,” the lawsuit said. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”

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The lawsuit, which accused the #Trump admin of a “campaign of retribution” against the #university followed an announcement on Thurs that #Harvard’s Student & Exchange Visitor Program [#SEVP] certification was revoked, halting the university’s ability to enroll #InternationalStudents. The university indicated that it would also be filing a request for a temporary restraining order [#TRO] asking a judge to immediately block implementation of the admin action.

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The #Trump admin notified #Harvard about the decision after a back-&-forth in recent days over the legality of a sprawling records request as part of the #DHS’s investigation, acc/to 3 people w/knowledge of negotiations.

“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, #HarvardUniversity’s Student & Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” acc/to a letter sent to the #university by DHS Secy #KristiNoem. A copy of the letter was obtained by NYT.

Osobiście nie jestem przeciwko modelom językowym typu chatGPT, Mistral, czy nasz polski Bielik. Tez w sumie nie obawiam się niepożądanych konsekwencji korzystania z nich, przynajmniej na tym poziomie, bo jak ktoś sam używa, to łatwo rozpoznać, co jest napisane przez taki model. Często też rezultaty są po prostu gorsze, niż jak samemu się zreliazuje jakiś projekt.

Ale fakt, jest to urocza zabawka i na uniwerku mamy z tego niezły fun, kiedy na obronie projektu, napisanego w większości przez chatGPT i tylko w połowie sprawdzonego przez nas, profesor mówi, żeby samemu sformułować jeszcze raz caly tekst. Najzabawniejsze jest to, że oni sobie zdają z tego sprawę i my też i końcowo dochodzimy do wniosku, że najlepiej samemu po prostu wszystko pisać, bo z modelami językowymi jest jeszcze więcej zbędnej pracy.

Serdeczne pozdrowienia dla mojego uniwersytetu i takie luźne, zdroworozsądkowe podejście.

in other news, I caught up on a bunch of work today. I would like to share with you the brilliance of my #university's #IT configuration w.r.t our official email accounts.

On the left, the messages in my spam folder, which explain why I wasn't getting notifications of progress on an IRB proposal. On the right, an email from our official 'training' system, in which images are hidden because they aren't in the 'safe senders' list.

They tell on themselves all the time.

Upcoming seminar by @danmcquillan:

"Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI. The university as a space for the pursuit of knowledge and the development of independent thought has long been undermined by neoliberal restructuring and the ambitions of the Ed Tech industry. So-called generative AI has added computational shock and awe to the assault on criticality, both inside and outside higher education, despite the gulf between the rhetoric and the actual capacities of its computational operations. Such is the synergy between AI's dissimulations and emerging political currents that AI will become embedded in all aspects of students' lives at university and afterwards, preempting and foreclosing diverse futures. It's vital to develop alternatives to AI's optimised nihilism and to sustain the joyful knowledge that nothing is inevitable and other worlds are still possible. The talk will ask what Illich has to teach us about an approach to technology that prioritises creativity and autonomy, how we can bolster academic inquiry through technical inquiry, workers' inquiry and struggle inquiry, and whether the future of higher education should enrol lecturers and students in a process of collective decomputing."

danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract

danmcquillan.orgAbstract for seminar at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT)