Her passion for fighting human trafficking and seeking the practical application of eternal principles set Ashley Poole, '26, apart before the prestigious national Truman Scholarship committee, which granted her the award of Hillsdale’s first Truman Scholar.
Read her story: https://t.co/wSDjPYyi3Z
In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, Hillsdale's Class of 2027 has set a goal to raise $20,000 for the Freedom Scholarship, which supports veterans, service members, and their dependents at Hillsdale.
The senior class gift honors those who have sacrificed in defense of the freedoms entrusted to each generation. 🇺🇸
Read more: https://t.co/PczVmytsJ1
@owenthcarey Are you interested in joining a group that is reading through the Bible over the course of 3 years? You would be joining mid-flight, for sure. But, it's a group of geeks, and you might get a kick out of that part. Here's an invite link: https://t.co/Q3fDEO3TSN
Remembrance brings generations together.
Hillsdale College was honored to stand alongside local first responders, veterans, students, and neighbors to remember September 11 and those whose courage and sacrifice we will never forget.
@AnnaEloyan5@SharylAttkisson As a parent, knowing our children can live independently can be a huge concern. Has Vaughn considered Neuralink?
https://t.co/g58ShuoyTk
Today marks 25 years since September 11, 2001.
We solemnly remember the lives lost, honor the heroes who rose on that terrible day, and thank the brave men and women who continue to protect our country.
We will never forget. 🇺🇸
#PatriotDay
ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ ʙᴀᴄᴋ
Haas was named the G-MAC Athlete of the Year for the second straight season, becoming the first man in the award’s 15-year history to earn the honor twice.
#TheDale
Female Athlete of the Year
The sophomore cross country and track & field standout is the third Hillsdale woman to earn the honor and helped Hillsdale sweep the G-MAC Athlete of the Year awards alongside Ben Haas
#TheDale
A central locus of the debate over LLM authorship is the very idea that we are human, that to communicate is human, and, above all:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Insofar as true care of a person involves engaging with him sincerely, I ask: How can you really love your neighbor, insofar as that involves verbally interacting, if you do not genuinely communicate with him? I do not see how. If an LLM is authoring "your" words, you are not the one communicating—the clanker is. And then your neighbor is not receiving your words, but a clanker's. Similarly, if your neighbor responds to you not with his own words, but with some clanker's, then no human interaction has occurred. It's just a mockery of human interaction.
This leaves us in bubbles in which we interact with machines, some of which basically act as our ambassadors to other bubbles, at the center of which there is a real human being. That is the direction we seem to be moving in: all communication mediated, never any direct. Our own contribution to the process threatens to shrink as the clankers become more and more adept at predicting "what we would say"—and who knows when it stops?
Will we stop having thoughts of our own? Will we accept the thoughts attributed to us by an intelligent machine as our own? Will we then simply agree to let those thoughts be sent to others or published, attributed to us but with no one really knowing what we "really" think because we ourselves don't know?
I began this comment by saying there is no way to communicate genuinely if mediated by machines, and that we cannot really love one another if we are never authentically connected to one another. But the ultimate cause *and* result of this state of affairs would be the loss of our own humanity. How can there be free will without free thought? How can there be free thought without any thought of our own? If we descend to the center of an LLM-mediated bubble, I fear that we will end up empty shells, pawns of whoever controls the LLMs.
Earlier this year, I filed OPRA requests with every county in New Jersey seeking records related to ballot drop boxes, including:
▪️Collection procedures
▪️Chain of custody
▪️Personnel responsible for collections
▪️Security procedures
▪️Audits and related records
Most counties responded.
But Bergen County (the most populous county in New Jersey) told me I would have to pay $1,557 just to obtain the records.
These are records involving how ballots are handled. Transparency shouldn’t be available only to those who can afford a four-figure price tag.
Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, or Independent, election integrity depends on public confidence. Public confidence depends on transparency.
When citizens ask to review records about the handling of ballots, the response should be openness, not financial barriers.
Sunlight builds trust. Secrecy and excessive costs do not.