• Sexual politics online makes for strange bedfellows

    A report from the field For reasons I’m not entirely clear on, I happen to be someone who often finds himself in wildly different social circles through Facebook groups, email lists, and IRL gatherings. And when I say “wildly different,” I mean woke media and academic types, so-called TERFs and third-wave feminists, anarchists, MAGA, new right, tradcaths, rationalists, postrats, classical liberals, and more. If you have thoughts on some fringe, I’ve probably been in its group chat or at an...

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    Best Gear for Online Classes or Meetings in 2024

    Zoom call for work? Remote school session? Big presentation? This gear will enhance all your video chats.

  • Of course Netflix is making a film about learning to love AI

    The logline for Netflix’s upcoming film, Atlas, reads, “Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.” Which begs the question did an AI write this? Technically, no. The film was penned by Leo Sardarian (StartUp) and Aron Eli Coleite (The...

  • Columbia Moves All Classes Online Amid Campus Chaos

    Columbia University moved all Monday classes online as the week-long Jewish holiday of Passover begins amid widespread anti-Semitic protests on campus.

  • Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope

    Busy places and unexpected events used to send me into meltdown on holiday. An autism diagnosis helped me to adapt my plans and rediscover the joy of travellingWandering hand-in-hand through the medieval streets of Bologna, my boyfriend and I were in awe of the sweeping porticoes and distinctive rust-red brickwork of the city. It was our first holiday together. We’d wanted to find somewhere beyond the obvious that would marry our respective interests in architecture and history. Bologna was the...

  • How To Be a Cam Girl and Make Money Camming Online in 2024

    Curious how to side hustle your way into becoming a cam girl online in 2024? The life of a camgirl certainly has its appeal—making a little dough (or much more) […]

  • Online college classes have increased in New Mexico, report shows

    SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – During the COVID-19 pandemic, education largely switched to online classes. Since then, New Mexico's higher education institutions have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels of in-person classes. Online higher education in New Mexico peaked in 2020, according to a new report from the Legislative Finance Committee. The latest available data from the []

  • Reka Core Makes World Class AI With 20 Developers

    Reka Core is a new LLM that is competitive with OpenAI GPT4 and Anthropic Claude 3. Reka Core can identify an African Elephant from a picture by looking at its ears. It was a model created by a team of twenty people. Reka, a California-based AI startup, appears to be ready to go head-to-head with

  • Europe taps deep learning to make industrial robots safer colleagues

    Demand for industrial robots is rising in Europe, especially driven by the benefits of automation. However, there are ongoing challenges in ensuring seamless collaboration with humans while maintaining safety. To address this issue, a consortium of European universities, technology accelerators, and private research labs is launching the RoboSAPIENs project. The aim is to build the necessary safety mechanisms with a particular focus on adaptive industrial robots — a category of autonomous...

  • Experts reveal the one workout class proven to make you sleep better

    Resistance training led people to sleep better, compared with cardio training. This is because it stimulates hormones in the muscles that signal for repair. READ MORE:

  • UAE announces 2-day extension of online classes for govt schools

    The decision was taken to guarantee the preparedness of all schools and

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    Pentucket Regional School Plans Learning Collaborative With Various Classes for All Ages

    Pentucket Regional School District has opened registration for arts; cooking; conversational Spanish; Digital Literacy for Parents, Guardians and Caregivers; and other classes starting in May. The Pentucket Learning Collaborative, geared toward adults and people of all ages, is taught by Pentucket educators. Classes run Wednesdays from May 1-29, from 5-7 p.m., at Pentucket Regional Middle […] The post Pentucket Regional School Plans Learning Collaborative With Various Classes for All Ages first...