Small Potatoes. Country Hardball. Turns out Gilgit-Baltistan's a pretty important region.
18th-19th c. France/Germany. Arendt.
Chess. Aviation. Agriculture.
Solution from yesterday. Black played 1...Rxc6!, winning. The key idea is that 2.Bxc6 Nd3+ 3.Ke3 Nxc1 4.Ba4 fails to 4...Nb3! and that 4.Kd2 fails to 4...Nd3 5.Kxc2 Nb4+.
A student pilot experiences his first fully developed spin during emergency maneuver training with an aerobatic instructor. Having only practiced incipient spins before, he entered the spin at 6,700 ft, started recovery at 4,500 feet using the Beggs-Mueller method, and leveled out safely at 3,200 ft.
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AI just killed higher education’s old teaching model. We need smaller classes and oral defenses for every paper—implying more faculty time, hence more professors. Since banning AI is unenforceable, written work alone can no longer be trusted.
Universities cutting humanities programs know the going narrative is “the humanities are in crisis.” So if you cut them, the public will assume it’s because there is no demand when the truth is universities are cutting the liberal arts to pay for nonsense or offset mismanagement.
It's great that schools like St. John's & Ralston are AI-free. But this is key: The good at stake in teaching & learning *as a human (not robot) activity* is not a niche thing for "quirky" schools. It's a universal good for all liberal education, from R1 to SLAC & all in between.
When historians in the next century attempt to study the present era, they won’t be able to access our internet. A quarter of all the sites that existed from 2013 to 2023 are gone. There are well-funded efforts to destroy the Internet Archive. All that knowledge will be lost.