This 'plan' is crazed. Okay, cut international student numbers, you have to take 2 or 3 home students for every international student you lose. That will make the crisis worse, not better! Nonsense stuff - very worrying. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

English universities offer to curb foreign students if they can raise tuition fees

Vice-chancellors to publish ‘blueprint’ proposing ministers stabilise visa regime and allow them to address sector’s financial crisis

Before that this Compaq Portable regularly borrowed by my dad from his office job

List of UK politicians/'political figures' who have declared support for Trump over Biden/Harris: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng

HE has to be one of the most systematically misunderstood and misrepresented sectors in the UK. I’m sure there are other areas I’m not thinking about, but universities really do stand out.

Every single word utter drivel. Don't pay Simon Jenkins to write about universities! He doesn't know the first thing about them. As usual, I'll write the piece for 10% of his fee. Will have the benefit of containing facts and stuff. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bankrupt and ravaged by student mental illness, Britain’s universities are badly in need of reform | Simon Jenkins

Tough questions need to be asked of these institutions, starting with: are they really the right place for so many young people? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

We're going to need critiques of AI that don't rely so heavily on the notion that it's "just predicting the next word," because that's clearly no longer a good description of what's happening with models like o1. openai.com/index/introd...

Introducing OpenAI o1

Introducing OpenAI o1

My department, Radio-TV-Film at UT-Austin, is running a tenure-track search in video game studies with a focus on history, industry, and/or culture. Details in link. Please help circulate! faculty.utexas.edu/career/147463

Yuk Hui, Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking - University of Minnesota Press, October 2024 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791741...

Book Details - University of Minnesota Press

Developing a new political thought to address today’s planetary crises What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently need...

Got zero and proud of it.