Manuel Cabrera

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.

He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.

Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.

Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.

He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.

Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.

Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.

[FΛME @famexbt]

They keep asking why people don’t want to work anymore.

Maybe they’re asking the wrong question.

Why would someone give the best years of their life to a system that leaves them exhausted, buried in bills, and one emergency away from losing everything?

People are missing their children’s childhoods.

Skipping meals to pay rent.

Working two jobs and still falling behind.

Watching the price of everything rise while their paycheck barely moves.

This isn’t about laziness.

It’s about the pain of giving everything… and feeling like it’s never enough.

[Geeky REAL GINGER Sparkles @desert_starr_57]

Now Gen Z wants the internet to not be their entire life.

Less than a generation and people are already over it.

[Josh Fairhurst @JoshFairhurst]

Guess what? Optical Microlenses are critical for AI data centers.

That means we can add physical media to the list of things the AI industry has killed alongside affordable hardware.

[old toons @oldtoons_]

40 years to this hybrid genius of 2D & 3D.

For the Big Ben climax in 'The Great Mouse Detective', Disney wanted dynamic camera moves through Big Ben’s gears, but in 1986 there was no digital compositing.

Solution? 3D wireframes plotted by literal ballpoint pen machines, xeroxed onto cels, hand-painted, then filmed with 2D characters layered on top.

Animation is supposed to be about these creative innovations, not soulless shortcuts.

[Manuel Cabrera @MC599]

@PlayStation I see I cashed out of gaming right on time.
From owning the latest consoles of the Big 3 to just my Xbox 360.

Gaming is dead, or at least the way I grew up playing is.

[Ron wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The problem with corporate jobs isn’t Millennials or Gen Z. It’s the people in decision making positions who are older and refuse to understand today’s workforce. They refuse to acknowledge that people’s priorities have changed and that many no longer see success as sacrificing their health, time, and lives for a company.

The workforce has evolved. Leadership needs to evolve with it.

[Ankit @terakyalenadena]

A "basic work ethic" is showing up, working your hours and going home. Everything extra is corporate bullshit.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.

[Ana_LaPatata @ymuchosmemes]

Y por qué está interesado en cambiar de empresa?

[Marley Arévalo @MarleysArevalo]

Todo es urgente en el mundo corporativo, excepto el reconocimiento y el aumento de sueldo.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Company: We’re deeply committed to mental health in the workplace.

Employees: Great, then hire more staff, pay living wages, and give us a 4 day workweek so we don’t burn out.

Company: No, not like that. Have you tried yoga? Or maybe some deep breathing?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Most modern billionaires are just so tacky. Go endow a library. Fund research and get your name on a cancer center. Sponsor an eccentric polymath who’s obsessed with marble. Build a museum. Fund public parks. Back climate research. Create something that outlives your ego.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Samsung just averted a strike by granting chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000.

The union made a credible strike threat that would have threatened the global chip supply, and Samsung, predicted to be the 2nd most profitable company on Earth this year, caved to worker demands.

Samsung has about 78,000 people in its semiconductor division, and while bonuses will vary the average comes out to a stunning $340,000 per worker.

[YoPorLas40Horas @YoXLas40Horas2]

13 de junio de 2018 es la fecha que se le notificó a México que sería coanfitrión del mundial y se esperaron hasta menos de 6 meses para iniciar todas las obras al mismo tiempo a costa de toda la clase trabajadora. 8 perros años de no hacer nada. Eso son.

[Javier @jromerf]

En la vida laboral, “urgente” significa mala planeación de alguien más.