Ashraf Abdo

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Dima Khatib @Dima_Khatib]

Is it just me or is it becoming untenable to see awards and prizes for films about Palestine around the world celebrated with so much enthusiasm while the genocide continues and Palestinians are less free?

Is it humanity’s way to feel better about itself while it is crippled?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk says Jacob Coxon’s warning about the existential threat of AI is a “setup.”

Really?

In 2014, Musk said, “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”

In 2018, Musk said, “Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. Far. So why do we have no regulatory oversight? This is insane.”

In 2025, Musk said, earth faces a 10-20% chance of “killer robots annihilating humanity.”

Elon, what’s changed? Does it have anything to do with the fact that you have invested many billions of dollars in AI and plan to build ten million robots a year?

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

An Israeli Air Force reservist officer told Haaretz:

“I asked an intelligence officer to enter targets into the computer. He told me: ‘You have 2 million targets in Gaza’” — meaning virtually anyone in Gaza could be treated as a target.

“I personally took part in killing 54 people before October 7.”

“I saw soldiers shoot at clearly identifiable rescue workers in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah.”

“I realized that any soldier could kill whoever they wanted in Gaza, as many as they wanted, without accountability.”

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

If this was an Israeli child, this atrocity would lead every news bulletin, and be splashed on every front page.

But this is a Palestinian child murdered by Israel.

There’s no attempt to disguise the total lack of value attached to Palestinian life - none at all.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Former Israeli MP Moshe Feiglin on Israel's most watched news show:

"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one [Palestinian] remains in Gaza.”

When people tell you who they are, believe them

Zionism is the new Nazism

[Yahia @yahiapal]

My little brother Omar and his cat, both killed by Israel.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The famous Syrian activist Mazen Hamada was alive the whole time in Sednaya prison - Assad’s men killed him right before they fled. No doubt they did not want him to testify to their barbaric crimes.

He lived the most hellish life on Earth. The photo of his corpse is something you can never unsee. They raped and tortured him for years. Maybe no man on planet earth lived a life of greater pain and suffering.

Assad and his men are demons and everybody who supports them are pure scum. There were tens of thousands who committed obscene crimes against humanity in Assad’s name and they all walk the face of the Earth today unpunished because tens of millions spread Russian propaganda and lies to defend them. The injustice of the world is too much…

[MSF International @MSF]

We are horrified by the recent Israeli bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in #Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed. This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable...

[Ashraf Abdo @AshrafAbdoS]

Syria accused of playing politics with aid in aftermath of earthquake https://t.co/qzTv1vK3yq

[Ashraf Abdo @AshrafAbdoS]

هذا الأسبوع سأقوم بالمشي من أجل رغيد الططري، أقدم معتقل سياسي في سوريا. انضموا إلى الحملة للمطالبة بحريته والتي تهدف لجمع ٧٥ مليون خطوة حول العالم، العدد التقريبي للخطوات التي لم يتمكن رغيد من مشيها خلال ٤١ عاماً في معتقلات النظام السوري #نمشي_من_أجل_رغيد https://t.co/9Sw2ZBDQH3

[Roshan Patel @roshanpateI]

bless her little heart

[Ashraf Abdo @AshrafAbdoS]

تم الكشف عن ادعاءات بالفساد والرشاوى والإساءات في مكتب منظمة الصحة العالمية في دمشق @WHOSyria. وقعوا العريضة لمطالبة @DrTedros و @antonioguterres بفتح تحقيق واتخاذ خطوات جدية للمحاسبة والإصلاح https://t.co/5WT2zVKL1O

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.🧵

[Ashraf Abdo @AshrafAbdoS]

Rwanda asylum flight cancelled after 11th-hour ECHR intervention https://t.co/BXUdopiTpo

[Ashraf Abdo @AshrafAbdoS]

حياة وأهلها في انتظار حِداد مستحق https://t.co/ba1dS8TaMcمعنى-التغييب-ال��سري/

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.

1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protest breaking out in #StPetersburg tonight.

Small rallies are taking place in several cities across #Russia 🇷🇺.