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US politics
fromThe Nation
1 week ago

Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a "Small Goodlooking Blonde" Student Is No Longer Teaching

Yale is reviewing computer science professor David Gelernter after student outcry over emails revealing his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Professor Says Her Garbled AI Textbook Was a Huge Success

Designed for a comparative literature course on medieval and Renaissance-era writing and announced by UCLA at the end of 2024, the digital textbook was immediately met with widespread mockery and derision from educators. Its AI-generated cover was riddled with incomprehensible text - "Of Nerniacular Latin To An Evoolitun On Nance Langusages," for example - and featured generic visuals that had little to do with the period it was supposedly covering. At the time, Elizabeth Landers, a grad student who helped put together the volume, said that the errors "aren't a failure of AI." Instead, she argued, "they're an intentional artistic choice that prompts students to question their assumptions about language, meaning and historical truth."
Higher education
Social justice
fromNew York Post
1 month ago

Exclusive | Woke Brooklyn College course lectures students about 'weaponizing whiteness,' requires BuzzFeed privilege quiz

Brooklyn College psychology students must take a Multicultural Counseling course teaching whiteness, privilege quizzes, microaggression identification, and racial healing activities.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

The perils of centrist economics in a polarised world | Kenneth Rogoff

Centrist economic positions on cash policy and public debt attract intense polarization, threats, and mischaracterization despite nuanced evidence and ordinary academic revision processes.
Arts
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

What T.J. Clark Sees

A politically committed, Marxist-inflected art critic transformed exhibition reviewing by embracing disorientation to convey excitement and provoke challenging, politically charged questions.
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